The Journal of Community Informatics
November 18th, 2004I just spotted a great resource over at the Social Software Weblog. The Journal of Community Informatics:
“Community Informatics (CI) is the study and the practice of enabling communities with Information and Communications Technologies (ICTs). CI seeks to work with communities towards the effective use of ICTs to improve their processes, achieve their objectives, overcome the “digital divides” that exist both within and between communities, and empower communities and citizens in the range of areas of ICT application including for health, cultural production, civic management, e-governance among others. The Journal of Community Informatics brings together a global range of academics, CI practitioners and national and multi-lateral policy makers. Each issue of the Journal of Community Informatics will contain double blind peer-reviewed research articles as well as commentaries by leading CI practitioners and policy makers.”
Like Judith Meskill, I’m going to take a gander at Building Community Social Capital: The Potential and Promise of Information and Communications Technologies [PDF]. I’m also looking forward to the next issue (Due in January of 2005) which will include papers from The CIRN Inaugual Conference and Colloquium 2004.