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From: Raisa Urribarrí ([email protected])
Date: sáb mar 06 2004 - 03:34:58 AST

>From: larry Stillman
>To: cirnadmin ; [email protected] ;
>[email protected]
>Sent: Saturday, March 06, 2004 11:34 AM
>Subject: [CI] Reminder -- call for papers 'Sustainability and Community
>Technology', Prato, Italy Sep 29- 1 Oct
>
>
>The 2004 CIRN Inaugural Conference and Colloquium, 'Sustainability and
>Community Technology: What Does this Mean for Community Informatics? ', is
>being held at the Monash Centre, Prato, Italy, 29 September - 1 October, 2004.
>
>Please forward this notice to relevant lists.
>
>Further details about the conference, its committee and registration
>information can be found at www.ciresearch.net/prato2004. Please also join
>the Community Informatics Research Network. Members will receive a
>discount. Registration will be up and running soon.
>
>Papers (full length for blind peer review and discussion, or position
>papers) from researchers and practitioners are invited. Research students
>are encouraged to attend and present work in progress in the doctoral
>colloquium. Possible topics include:
> a.. Defining 'sustainability' in a community technology context: is it
> an adequate concept? What are its meanings and how are they relevant?
> b.. Are there alternate concepts which are more practicable and how are
> they linked to the life of communities and community networking?
> c.. Sustainability and the Digital Divide: Friend or Foe?
> d.. The political economy of community technology sustainability:
> dependency on government, and funders' understanding of 'sustainability'
> e.. Community Technology Sustainability in different spheres:
> developed, developing countries: Are there universal principles?
> f.. The sustainability criteria of national and international financial
> institutions and donors: Explanations and Critiques
> g.. Indigenous and first nations people and the sustainability of
> community networks
> h.. Gendered technology and the sustainability of community networks
> i.. Is there a connection between sustainability and 'social capital'?
> j.. Time, virtual space, geography and network sustainability
> k.. Power relationships in networking and their impact on sustainability
> l.. The policy dimensions (dementia) of sustainability
> m.. Evaluating 'sustainability'
> n.. Case studies of 'sustainability' in different community informatics
> settings
> o.. Case studies of the policy frameworks and applications of
> 'sustainability'
>A special issue of Community Informatics: A Global E-Journal will be
>prepared as part of this event and contributors to the event will be
>encouraged to submit their papers for either the peer-reviewed or the
>commentary section of the journal.
>
>Interim Committee
> a.. Michael Gurstein, New Jersey Institute of Technology, USA
> b.. Don Schauder, Monash University, Australia
> c.. Graeme Johanson, Monash University, Australia
> d.. Wal Taylor, Central Queensland University, Australia
> e.. Peter Day, University of Brighton, UK
> f.. Michel Menou, CoVITALC (Virtual Latin American and Caribbean
> Consortium for Telecentres Research),
> g.. Larry Stillman, Monash University, Australia
> h.. Scott Robinson, Universidad Metropolitana, México
> i.. Sergei Stafeev , Centre for Community Networking and Information
> Society Policy Studies St. Petersburg, Russia
> j.. Beris Gwynn, Foundation for Community Development
> k.. Barbara Craig, Victoria University of Wellington, NZ
> l.. Lyn Simpson, Queensland University of Technology
> m.. Roger Harris, Roger Harris Associates, Hong Kong
> n.. Marcus Foth, Queensland University of Technology, Australia
> o.. Fiorella de Cindio, Rete Civica di Milano, University of Milan
> p.. Tom Horan, Claremont Graduate University
>Sponsors include the Centre for Community Networking Research, Monash
>University, Claremont Information and Technology Institute, Queensland
>Institute of Technology.
>
>--------------------------------
>Larry Stillman
>CCNR, Monash University
>www. ciresearch.net www.ccnr.net www.webstylus.net

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