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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