[wsfii-discuss] Journal of Community Informatics

Mon Apr 2 14:49:59 UTC 2007

Hi Fred ,
     Community Informatics ( CI ) are a wonderful group of as passionate
people as in WSFII  who care for the community  & are taking the trouble of
setting up practise area in systematically diessiminating Information on
research, development and training in support of the range of Community
Information system .
Its origin  lie in here  http://www3.fis.utoronto.ca/research/iprp/cracin/
& currently migrating to http://www.communityinformatics.net/index.htm .

I am an equal fan of CI & WSFII.   lets put it this way for the world
community  WSFII is the plumber , then CI is the community's MIS manager .
:) .
 CI is more theoretical than  WSFII complements beautifully  in its
pragmatic  action plan.  & both are working in their own way to bridge the
digital divide. B
But lets see if we can cross this small  Atlantic ocean in community
understanding .

cheerio

Ashish Saboo

Association of Public ICT Tools Access Provider
URL : http://www.apiap.org

On 3/30/07, Fred Pook <fredpook at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hi Alison, All,
>
> The site (http://www.ci-journal.net/index.php/ciej) looks very nice
> but i am not entirely sure what it is about. Also the last entry is 1
> year old. Are you and Sascha trying to revive the journal?
>
> Please explain in simple English for us EU hackers what it is about.
> Also I would like to know if Community Informatics is about real
> practical cases, like actually building networks or some academic sky
> watching club.
>
> Thanks Freddy
>
>
> On 3/30/07, l annison <l.annison at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > > Hi everyone,
> > >
> > > Sascha Meinrath from CuWin and I are putting together a special issue
> of
> > the
> > > Journal of Community Informatics (
> > http://www.ci-journal.net/index.php/ciej)
> > > on Community Wi-Fi.  We are especially looking for 500 to 1000 word
> "Field
> > > Notes" that describe community Wi-Fi projects in different contexts. I
> > hope
> > > people on this list will contribute to help share their projects with
> a
> > > wider audience, and exchange best practices.  We would love to see
> short
> > > summaries by around April 15 and final writing by June 1. More details
> > > below.
> > >
> > > Alison Powell
> > > Île Sans Fil, Montreal
> > >
> > >
> > This post, combined with the previous one about creating video footage
> about
> > wsfii type projects, are of great interest to me personally as they have
> > cropped up in UK conversations for several years, and particularly
> recently.
> >
> > It has always seemed to be one area where community wi-fi/broadband
> networks
> > haven't always hit the mark - whether with governments, funders, local
> > authorities, establishing credibility with consumers etc. Mainly, it has
> > seemed, cos we are so busy trying to get the solutions to work, that
> there
> > is little time for self-promotion.
> >
> > In each community, and globally, we have a mix of skills. Techies,
> support,
> > coders, promoters, grant seekers etc.
> >
> > I would like to propose, in light of the posts about case studies and
> video
> > footage, that we get together those who are very interested in the
> marketing
> > and promotion side of community broadband networks, and talk amongst
> > ourselves. Just from last week's talks with Freifunk and Funkfeuer for
> some
> > EU research for the rural broadband conference in Brussels in May, we
> have
> > found that we have contacts between us covering most of the EU, and then
> > some in US, Asia and Australia. Errr... in fact, global contacts!! After
> > all, this community broadband world is not very big, yet. ;o)
> >
> > If everyone could decide which event to go to this summer in EU (!),
> perhaps
> > we could have one track for those of us interested in promoting
> community
> > broadband activity, and tie it in with the amazing work coming from the
> > other side of the Atlantic through Sasha, Alison etc, and in Asia, and
> start
> > making a much bigger impact by working together.
> >
> > Or just start it all online through a separate list about promotional
> > activity to get the word out about the grassroots' efforts ongoing
> across
> > the world?
> >
> > I'm happy to be amongst the UK/EU contacts more than happy to get
> involved
> > in that type of work, and push to get together TV/video footage, and
> > publicise the case studies etc created by us all wherever we are.
> >
> > Let's JFDI?!
> >
> > ATB
> > Lindsey Annison
> > l.annisonatgmail.com
> > Co-founder, Access to Broadband Campaign
> > http://www.ABCampaign.org
> > Founder member, Community Broadband Network
> > http://www.broadband-uk.coop
> > Author: JFDI Community Broadband: Wennington
> > http://www.lulu.com/content/488550
> >
> >
> >
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