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Title: What is Community Informatics


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What is Community Informatics?
  • Community Informatics (CI) enabling communities
    with Information and Communications Technologies
    (ICT) is a very new development in the academic
    world, but in reality a very old one in the daily
    life of communities.
  • Michael Gurstein. (2004). Editorial Welcome to
  • the Journal of Community Informatics 1(1)

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What is Community Informatics?
  • A rich variety of social experiments in what we
    term community informatics (CI) are giving
    community-activists, policy-makers and citizens a
    new set
  • of possibilities for fostering social cohesion,
    strengthening neighborhood ties, overcoming
    cultural isolation and combatting social
    exclusion and deprivation.
  • Keeble and Loader, 2001

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What is Community Informatics?
  • The field of research, practice and policy
    devoted to understanding
  • how knowledge is created and mobilized in
    geographic communities.
  • CI pays special attention to how information
    technologies help and hinder Knowledge processes.
    CI looks at an entire geographic community as its
    unit of analysis. CI is grounded in social
    justice and civic engagement.
  • Anns definition

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What Do We Do?
  • Work with communities to create community
    networks, community tech centers, libraries,
    archives, learning and youth development
    services, software applications.

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