Community Informatics

Community informatics is the field of scholarship, policy, and practice that helps communities use information technologies to improve healthcare, foster civic engagement, preserve cultural heritage, inspire and educate youth, improve economic development, and achieve other goals related to social change.

CICers at NTEN?

Submitted by elizk on February 24, 2006 - 2:22pm

I'm a 2004 CIC alum and will be a panelist in the "Creating and Sustaining Successful Online Collaboration" session at the 2006 NTEN conference in Seattle in March. Are any other current or former CICers planning to attend? If anyone is interested in getting together for dinner or a drink after-hours, or just to compare notes on the conference, give me a shout here or at elizk@umich.edu. … Read more »

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CICers return from RecentChangesCamp

Submitted by Lev Rickards on February 17, 2006 - 12:25pm
Brian Kerr and I recently got back from RecentChangesCamp, a conference for wiki developers and other parties interested in "Building Communities Worth Having." We've written up a small wiki to talk about our experiences, including a few CIC concepts. Check it out below! http://www-personal.umich.edu/~bkerr/asset/rcc-report.html
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NetSquared

Submitted by Paul Resnick on February 16, 2006 - 11:51am

May 30-31. Details here.

vibrant, action-oriented dialogue among five communities (broadly defined):

  1. Cutting edge futurists, innovators, developers, and mediastes
  2. Leaders from both core technology and social web tool companies and from venture capital firms
  3. Philanthropists
  4. Public Interest Technology practitioners and supporters
  5. Nonprofits and NGOs- large and small -- from the U.S. and the World - early adopting and on the cusp - united by a vibrant interest in understanding the potential of the social web and realizing that potential to accomplish their missions.

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Reuters Digital Vision Program

Announcement 
The Reuters Digital Vision Program (RDVP) at Stanford University is accepting applications for the 2006-07 academic year (September 2006 - June 2007). The deadline is April 3, 2006. Fellowships will be awarded at the end of May, 2006.
 
The Program
 
The Digital Vision Program supports social entrepreneurs who seek to leverage technology-based solutions in the interest of humanitarian, educational, and sustainable development goals. The Program fosters interdisciplinary projects and prototyping efforts that address real needs in underserved communities. For the 2006-07 academic year, the program will focus on the following broad categories:
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2006 Nonprofit Technology Conference

Submitted by bradjensen68 on January 19, 2006 - 8:40am

March 22-24 http://nten.org/ntc

What is the 2006 Nonprofit Technology Conference?

It's the premier conference for the sector and the best opportunity for anyone with an interest in helping nonprofits use technology more effectively to meet colleagues, collaborators, and clients; learn from each other and from leaders in the field; and share information and resources. … Read more »

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