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March 2000 1878289691 978-1878289698 1
Community informatics is developing as an approach for linking economic and social development efforts at the community level into the opportunities that information and communication's technologies present. Areas such as SMEs and electronic commerce, community and civic networks, electronic democracy and online participation are among a few of the areas affected.

Community Informatics: Enabling Communities with Information and Communications Technologies is an introduction to the discipline of community informatics. Issues such as trends, controversies, challenges and opportunities facing the community application of information and communications technologies into the new millennium are studied.


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This is a very useful, informative guide to the discipline, trends, challenges and opportunties in the field of community informatics. -- EM-Wire Book Review, November 2001

“This is a landmark book for this emerging discipline.” -- Online Information Review, Volume 25, Number 1, 2001

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A prime impetus for the discussion of universal access is the rapid incorporation of digital networking into the information/communication infrastructure (ICI) for conducting a widening range of social, economic, educational, and political activities. Read the first page
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quarter instigators, community technology movement, social shaping process, electronic community networks, community access centre, community informatics, regional information infrastructure, informatics initiatives, government homepage, virtual metropolis, rainbow model, community computing center, virtual inhabitants, user constituencies, cultural heritage information, reinventing citizenship, local government context, informatics projects, user constituency, information technology course, community technology centers, community information systems, digital city, civic networks, community information service
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Budget Builder, New York, North West, European Commission, Buenos Aires, United States, Web Networks, World Wide Web, South Africa, Los Angeles, Social Summit, World Bank, Seattle Schools, United Nations, North America, Atlantic Canada, Oxford University Press, Seattle Public Schools, European Union, Latin America, Northern Virginia, Open Text, Fauquier County, Ngurra Wangkamagayi, Western Australia
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