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Call For Chapters: Community Informatics
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Michael Gurstein)
Thu Jan 21 20:10:30 1999
Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1999 13:52:57 -0500
From: Michael Gurstein <mgurst@ccen.uccb.ns.ca>
To: PACS-L@LISTSERV.UH.EDU
Reply-To: Public-Access Computer Systems Forum <PACS-L@LISTSERV.UH.EDU>
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CALL FOR CHAPTERS
(Submission deadline February 15, 1999)
Community Informatics: Enabling the Community Use of Information and
Communications Technologies
A book edited by Dr. Michael Gurstein, University College of Cape Breton
(Canada)
"Community Informatics" (CI) is an approach for linking the opportunities
which Information and Communications Technologies (ICT's) present, with
economic and social development efforts at the community level in such
areas as support for SME's and electronic commerce, community and civic
networks, electronic democracy and on-line participation, self-help
health communities, on-line advocacy, and cultural and linguistic
regeneration among other areas.
The book will be an introduction and elaboration of the "Community
Informatics" approach, a series of overview presentations of CI
developments in particular subject areas, and a set of case studies of CI
in action in selected communities. The book will include invited papers
and contributed chapters by researchers and practitioners addressing
issues, trends, controversies, challenges and opportunities facing the
community application of ICT's into the millenium. Among the areas that
will be addressed are community access, the role of telecentres, community
oriented on-line health and wellness initiatives, local use of GIS/GPS,
public service networking and so on. The volume will include discussions
and cases from North America and elsewhere in the developed and developing
worlds.
Representative topics include but are not limited to the following:
Towards a Theory of Community Informatics
Research Methodologies for CI
Technology Issues for CI
Universal Access and Other CI Public Policy Issues
CI and Social Theory
CI and Gender Issues
CI and Community Networking
CI and Community Renewal and Development
CI and Local Economic Development
Community Use of GIS/GPS
CI and Marginal Communities
Putting the Community into E-Commerce
CI and Voluntary Action
CI and the Digital City
CI and Digital Democracy
CI in the Asia Pacific Region
CI and Civic Participation/Civic Activism
CI and Community Health & Wellness
CI and Civic Networking in Europe
ICT & Government Services to Local Communities
CI in a Third World Context-Telecentres and Beyond
CI and the Evolving Role of Libraries
Culture, Language, Ethnicity and CI
CI and Distance Education/Training
CI and K-12
SUBMISSION PROCEDURE
Researchers and practitioners are invited to submit a 2-3 page manuscript
proposal clearly explaining the missions and concerns of the proposed
chapter on or before February 15, 1999. Authors of accepted proposals will
be notified by March 15, 1999 about the status of their proposals and will
be sent chapter organizational guidelines. Full chapters are expected to
be submitted by May 15, 1999. All submitted chapters will be reviewed on
a blind review basis. The book is scheduled to be published by Idea Group
Publishing in December 1999.
Inquiries and Submissions can be forwarded to:
Michael Gurstein, Ph.D.
ECBC/NSERC/SSHRC Associate Chair in the Management of Technological Change
Director, Centre for Community and Enterprise Networking
University College of Cape Breton
P.O. Box 5300
Sydney, Nova Scotia
CANADA B1P 6L2
Tel: 902-563-1369 ~ Fax: 902-562-0119 ~ Email: mgurst@ccen.uccb.ns.ca
