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PLPPP$PL#Community InformaticsEnabling Communities with Information and Communications Technologies Delivery: Community based technologies, telecentres, community networking Problem: Digital Divide, enabling, empowering communities, regional and rural networking Local economic development, local e-health, local ICT enabled resource management, local e-participation/e-democracy Sustainability of initiatives, local innovation, capacity building Concerned with practice, research and policy Communities of place and communities of interest BWhy Community Based Technology? Technology is technology why worry who  owns it Innovation as a social process Social Learning and Human Capital Development Social Equity, Inclusion and the Digital Divide Social Efficiency/Social Effectiveness Effective UseB1ZZZ1 Community InnovationpWhy innovation matters Increasing belief that innovation is less an individual process than a social and community one National, regional and community innovation Community innovation process and product innovation at the community level  well it s new for around here Innovation built on a technology platform *88 -Social Learning and Human Capital Development..Communities as the focal points for learning, for skill development for network building, for life long knowledge resilience Community learning as Human Capital Development Community learning and Community Technology building the learning platform Community Informatics as enabling the use of the platform Learning and especially learning for life as a  Social Process rZr   MIS and the dramatic restructuring of Corporations and Governments on a Digital Platform enormous gains in efficiency, new products and in the  effectiveness of existing products, new  business (government) models That process is only starting for communities and for civil society in general But there are dramatic gains/benefits to be found in both efficiencies and in effectiveness for communities and for society as a whole in Effective Use/Community Informatics applications  e.g. Community based e-health, community based resource management, community governance and locally based community watch/security programs E.g. program for an aging population providing technology supports for community participation, community response to emergency and routine health/monitoring activities for seniors, information programs to support care givers and semi-independent seniors and so on& B'V'1  ICTs are the production tools of the Information Society Those without effective access to those tools i.e. the means and the opportunity to use those tools in productive and useful ways are relegated to being unable to participate in the fastest growing, best paid sectors of the economy ICTs are the learning tools of the Information Society Those without effective access to those tools i.e. the means and the opportunity to use those tools in support of learning are relegated to being unable to participate in the most intensive social learning processes and networks ICTs are increasingly the decision-making tools of the Information Society Those without effective access to those tools i.e. the means and the opportunity to use those tools in support of participation in decision making processes are relegated to being unable to be active citizens in contemporary democratic processes9ZZ8ZZLZZ98L  ( Community Informatics and Effective Use )(The Digital Divide and  access Access saturation and the  access strategy The limits of  access Not just access for whom, but access for what Effective use as the capacity and opportunity to apply ICTs in pursuit of self- or collaboratively identified and meaningful goals The elements of effective use: Infrastructure Input/output devices Software and control Content Social context Organization of social context/animation/leadership Policy/funding context Community Informatics as the Methodology for  Effective Use cP/PPP=PPc/=   Issues Practice, Policy, Research ICTs and human capital development ICTs and innovation/community innovation Evaluation/sustainability Linking research (outcomes) back to practice and into policy ICTs and Community/Civil Society development ICTs and increasing social efficiency/effectiveness health care, caring for the elderly, social exclusion, local economic development, poverty reduction *"k"k,World Summit on the Information Society WSIS-- - xOutcomes Reports Cities Summit World Summit Civil Society Report of Civil Society The future (and Community Informatics)<)?)? y  TCIRN formed at Monash Centre in Prato 2003 Representation from 20 countries Regional networks in Canada, Latin America & the Caribbean, Former Soviet Union Networks being planned or formed in AU, US, UK and EU Links to national and multilateral policy/programming agencies Links to private sector Links to Foundations Current research CRACIN (Can.), PACCIT (UK) CI Journal on-line open source CI  text -- on-line open source B+Z?ZAZ+?A,  900K (CDN) funding Cdn Social Science and Humanities Research Council 7 case studies of successful Community Technology/Networking initiatives cross-cutting thematic research in areas such as models, evaluation frameworks, sustainability, ethnicity, children Partners 3 major Fed. Govt. Depts. (major funders of Community Tech projects) 7 community organization partners Additional growing Telecommunities Canada, Prov. Of British Columbia Objectives Community Informatics research questions role of technology in achieving community objectives, utilization issues, technology issues, cultural issues Lessons learned to support on-going community tech practice Providing systematic results as element in policy discussions, outcome assessments of significance of public investment\ ZZ ZJZ  JP b k Research graduate students, community partners defining issues On-going strategic support to CN organizations Thematic workshops sponsored by policy partners addressing policy oriented questions sustainability, evaluation. 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