The Journal of Community Informatics, Volume 3

Volume 3, Number 1, 2007

Special Issue: Community Informatics and System Design
Editorial

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  Michael Gurstein:
  Community Informatics and Systems Design.
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  Aldo de Moor, Fiorella de Cindio:
  Beyond Users to Communities - Designing Systems As Though Communities Matter - An Introduction to the Special Issue.

Articles

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  Michael Bieber, Barbara S. McFall, Ronald E. Rice, Michael Gurstein:
  Towards Systems Design for Supporting Enabling Communities.
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  David T. Bourgeois, Thomas A. Horan:
  A Design Theory Approach to Community Informatics: Community-Centered Development and Action Research Testing of Online Social Networking Prototype.
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  Fiorella de Cindio, Laura Anna Ripamonti, Cristian Peraboni:
  Community Networks as lead users in online public services design.
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  Roderick L. Lee, Craig H. Ganoe, Wendy A. Schafer, Cecelia Merkel, John M. Carroll, Mary Beth Rosson:
  Making Use of Scenarios for Achieving Effective Use in Community Computing Contexts.
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  Aldo de Moor:
  Using System Dynamics to Construct Design Theory for Community Information Systems.
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  Nkechi Nnadi, Michael Gurstein:
  Towards Supporting Community Information Seeking and Use.

Reports

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  Vanda N. Rideout, Andrew Reddick, Susan O'Donnell, William J. McIver Jr., Sandy Kitchen, Mary Milliken:
  Community Organizations in the Information Age: A study of community intermediaries in Canada.

Points of View

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  Udo Richard Averweg, Susan O'Donnell:
  Code of Ethics for Community Informatics Researchers.

Volume 3, Number 2, 2007

Editorial

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  Michael Gurstein:
  Q: Where is the Wealth of Nations? A: In Communities.

Articles

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  Michael Victor Arnold:
  The concept of community and the character of networks.
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  Esharenana E. Adomi:
  Overnight Internet Browsing Among Cyber Café users in Abraka, Nigeria.
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  Tom Denison, Graeme Johanson:
  Surveys of the use of information and communications technologies by community-based organisations.
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  Bjørn Furuholt, Stein Kristiansen:
  Internet Cafés in Asia and Africa - Venues for Education and Learning?
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  Olivia Kwapong:
  Factors Influencing Information Delivery Technology Choice in Deprived Regions in Ghana.

Notes from the field

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  Virginia E. Eubanks:
  Trapped in the Digital Divide: The Distributive Paradigm in Community Informatics.

Points of View

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  Manuel Acevedo:
  Network Capital: an expression of social capital in the Network Society.
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  Garth Graham:
  A Comment Prompted by Andy Williamson's "A Review of New Zealand's Digital Strategy".

Volume 3, Number 3, 2007

Special issue: Community Informatics in Latin America and the Caribbean
A bilingual issue (Spanish / Portuguese and English) written by practitioners, academics and officials from the countries of the region.
Editorial

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  Michael Gurstein:
  Editorial: Community Informatics with a Latin American Accent.
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  Eduardo Villanueva, Christoph Roessner:
  Introducción: TIC y América Latina: una revision desde las bases hasta la torre de marfil.

Articles

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  Juan Fernando Bossio:
  Sostenibilidad de proyectos de desarrollo con nuevas tecnologías: el caso de la organización de regantes y su sistema de información en Huaral.
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  Susana Finquelievich, Daniel Gustavo Finquelievich:
  Sistemas comunitarios de satisfacción a necesidades de conectividad en la sociedad de la información: el caso de Argentina.
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  Víctor M. González, Luís A. Castro:
  Manteniendo lazos vía Web: El Caso de las Comunidades Mexicanas de Emigrantes en los EUA.
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  Sofía Irene Medellin Urquiaga, Erick Huerta Velázquez:
  La Promoción de las TIC para el Desarrollo en Pueblos Indígenas: Extensión o Comunicación.
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  Laura Helena Porras, Bertha Salinas, José Manuel Ramos, Guadalupe Huerta:
  La piedra angular: sujetos y contextos locales en la implementación de las políticas de inclusión digital-.

Notes and cases from the field (practitioners)

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  Luis Caceres:
  El rol de las TIC en la educacion: Experencia del programa escolar de monitoreo ambiemental de la subcuenca del Cotahuasi, Perú.
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  Oscar Maeso:
  Programa de Intercambio entre operadores de telecentros. Una nueva generación de redes en el movimiento de telecentros panamericano.
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  Vilma Tuy:
  El rol de los telecentros comunitarios en las comunidades indígenas de Sololà, Guatemala.
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  Eugenia Vallejo Montoya:
  Telecentros comunitarios: un espacio para la participación y formación ciudadana. La experiencia de Manizales, Colombia.

Notes from the field

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  Cristina Kiomi Mori, Rodrigo Ortiz Assumpção:
  Brazilian Digital Inclusion Public Policy: achievements and challenges.

Reviews

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  Alejandra Davidziuk:
  Apropiación de las tecnologías móviles desde un espejo lejano: infiltración barroca, creolización y canibalismo.

Points of View

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  Eduardo Villanueva:
  Políticas y clivajes: algunas ideas a propósito de una revisión de políticas.

Volume 3, Number 4, 2007

Editorial

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  Michael Gurstein:
  Some Thoughts on ICT in a Developing World Context.

Articles

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  Adeyinka Tella:
  Stakeholders' Perceptions of the Impact of the Global System for Mobile Communications on Nigeria Rural Economy: Implications for an Emerging Communications Industry.
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  Michael Victor Arnold, Christopher J. Shepherd, Martin R. Gibbs:
  Trouble at Kookaburra Hollow: how media mediate.
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  Md. Mahfuz Ashraf, Paul A. Swatman, Jo Hanisch:
  Some perspectives on understanding the adoption and implementation of ICT interventions in developing countries.
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  Christopher Bodnar:
  The Vancouver Community Network, Social Investing and Public Good Models of ICT development.
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  David W. Bruce, Victoria Hagens, Katrina Ellis:
  Technology Mediated Learning: Building Capacity in Rural Communities.
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  Matthew A. Wong:
  Community Wireless: Policy and Regulation Perspectives.

Reports

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  Gisèle Gagnon:
  Innovations in Microfinance technologies.