[WSIS CS-Plenary] The Journal of Community Informatics: The"Sustainability of Community ICTs" Issue

[Dianne Davis]

Dear mike:

Many thanks...could be have an announcement of the ICT Competition in April 
issue!  also, let's try to catch-up soon...Dee


At 3/3/05 08:44 AM, you wrote:

>(apologies in advance for any duplication)
>
>The second issue of the on-line peer reviewed Journal of Community
>Informatics http://ci-journal.net is now available.  This issue takes as
>its theme the "Sustainability of Community ICTs".
>
>Simpson provides a thorough and wide-ranging analysis of the
>relationship between "Sustainability" and "Social Capital" and a very
>useful theoretical introduction to both sets of concepts.
>
>Hearn et al  discuss the variety of organizational, and contextual
>issues  as well as larger technical and industry issues which all impact
>on "sustainability".
>
>Rideout and Reddick  present how, within the Canadian  context
>sustainability has to be understood as evolving within a broad policy
>(and government funding) framework.
>
>Tanner adds a most interesting and provocative discussion of the role of
>"emotion" in (ICT-enabled) community "sustainability".
>
>Ripamonti, de Cindio and Benassi  provide a broad-based set of
>observations and analyses exploring the sustainability issues which
>cross-cut between on-line community networking and the physical presence
>and organization of community networks .
>
>Van Belle and Trusler present an analytic case study of an on-going
>community ICT project in a Developing Country context, warts and all,
>and provide very useful insights into the "real world" of development
>and community ICT .
>
>Musgrave approaches these same issues but at a portal and e-Government
>level within a Developed Country context but interestingly reveals
>somewhat similar institutional constraints on community ICT initiatives.
>
>
>Schauder and his colleagues provide a most useful discussion of the
>broader challenges and difficulties of "sustainability" of a government
>funded ICT program in the Australian context.
>
>The case studies presented from Merkel et al  (faith based organizations
>in the USA) and Thompson  (universities and communities in Australia)
>further our knowledge of how these issues are being handled in quite
>specific institutional and economic contexts while the happy conjuncture
>of the documents presented in the "Notes from the Field",  (including
>WiFi in the Amazonian jungle, First Nations and Broadband in Canada, and
>a WiFi Manifesto from the USA) indicates some of the dimensions and
>broadly perceived significance of the applications and strategies we are
>discussing.
>
>Points of View presented by Day and Gurstein address Community
>Infromatics and Community Research and Community Informatics and
>Disaster Management resepectively.
>
>Articles are still being accepted for the April issue of the Journal
>(until March 7) and for the July issue (until May 15) which will have
>the theme of "Community ICT's: Assessment, Evaluation and Knowledge
>Aggregation".
>
>Michael Gurstein, Ph.D.
>Editor in Chief: Journal of Community Informatics
>http://ci-journal.net
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