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.

Benetech.org

Benetech.org A deliberately nonprofit, high technology company, Benetech develops tools to help solve social problems with sustainable enterprises. Benetech is a non-profit venture that combines the impact of technological solutions with the social entrepreneurship business model to help disadvantaged communities in our society and across the world.
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First International Conference on ICT and Development 2006

First International Conference on Information and Communication Technologies and Development (ICTD2006) May 25-26, 2006 Berkeley, California, U.S.A. http://sims.berkeley.edu/ictd2006 The past decade has witnessed an explosion in projects that apply information and communication technologies (ICT) to support socio-economic development. Every sector is involved – governments, academia,
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Challenging the digital divide?

Challenging the digital divide?
A literature review of community informatics initiatives
Brian D. Loader and Leigh Keeble

This paper is available at this web link and as an attachment to this post (see below).

From the Joseph Rowntree Foundation website:
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Community Informatics Research Network iLab

Community Informatics Research Network iLab

http://ilabs.inquiry.uiuc.edu/ilab/cirn/

Message from Ann Bishop:

"I created this iLab to help CIRN members share ideas, readings, syllabi, news and events.

If you are looking for CIRN's main website, go to http://www.ciresearch.net/

to start using this iLab...

To upload a file or post to the Bulletin Board, you first need to create your iLab login (click on the login button above). Then email me (abishop@uiuc.edu) to tell me you've completed your login and i'll add you as a member of the CIRN iLab. Once I've done that, you can start posting.

the fine print...

iLab software can't promise 24/7 100% service, but we've been using it for courses, research groups and community projects for several years now. iLabs is a collaborative project created by people from all walks of life; it is maintained as a research and learning activity of the Graduate School of Library and Information Science at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

Hope this helps. Let me know if you have any questions." … Read more »

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Podcasting

Submitted by jbaugh on April 16, 2005 - 10:19am
Here is a brief paper I wrote covering the podcasting phenomenon and how it relates to CIC-type concerns. Please read it and post your comments. I am pretty convinced that it applies to the issues of social capital that we have been talking about, but feel free to challenge me on that!
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