>September 15, 2006.
>
>The Journal of Community Informatics http://ci-journal.net brings
>together a global range of academics, CI practitioners and national
>and multi-lateral policy makers. This 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.
>
>A forthcoming special edition of the Journal will focus on Latin
>America and community informatics. It is intended as a forum for
>the specialists of the region to systematize the issues currently
>being faced both by practitioners and academics. This issue will
>also integrate the regional discussion with the academic research
>in community informatics world wide. It should cover both the
>work of practitioners in the field, together with theoretical
>and methodological proposals directly and indirectly related
>with community informatics.
>
>We invite original, non published articles on the general subject,
>as well as related ones. Comparative and analytical exercises,
>based on original research or secondary sources, are welcome.
>
>The following is a non exhaustive list of topics. If you feel
>that there is any subject related to Community Informatics and
>Latin America worth including, please feel free to submit a
>paper or to consult with the guest editors.
>
>General outlook of the issues of CI in the region
>Country Case Studies, including comparative studies with
>countries outside the region subject of this special issue.
>Discussion of specific issues, among them:
>New analytical and methodological approaches to address, research
>or drafting of public policies regarding imbalances of access and
>usage of ICTs in the region.
>Multilingual, multiethnic communities
>The role of Community Based Telecenters and Cyber Cafes
>Infrastructure development and regulation
>IP regulation and its consequences for CI in the region
>ICTs and Education in communities
>ICTs and Health in communities
>Strategic use of ICTs in communities
>Approaches to sustainability of CI related projects
>Small and Medium Business support within communities
>Community based Business Models
>Usability and Communities ­ Problems and Innovations in
>Human-Computer-Interaction
>
>
>It is expected that potential authors will submit both full
>articles, for peer-review, as well as short pieces, commenting
>on specific experiences and / or policy / regulatory issues, to
>be reviewed by the guest editors. Books and reports authors are
>invited to send them for comment on the books reviewed section
>of the special edition.
>
>This edition of the Journal will accept submissions in English,
>Spanish, Portuguese, and French, it is our intention to have a
>fully bilingual issue, with English versions of all papers.
>Unless preferred otherwise by the authors, the Journal will
>provide translations into English of any article needing it.
>
>For information about submission requirements, please visit:
>http://ci-journal.net/submissions.php
>
>Please, submit papers on RTF or ODT (open document) formats.
>Deadline for submissions: January 31st, 2007. Publication date
>to be announced to the writers after consideration of translation
>requirements.
>
>For further information, clarifications, comments or suggestions,
>and to send papers for consideration, please contact any one of
>the guest editors:
>
>Eduardo Villanueva Mansilla
>Associate Professor, Department of Communications, Pontificia
>Universidad Católica del Perú evillan(at)gmail(dot)com,
>evillan(at)pucp(dot)edu(dot)pe Christoph Roessner
>Program officer ChasquiNet Fundación, Quito, Ecuado and acting
>secretary of Covitalc - Somos@Telecentros (the virtual research
>consortium of Somos@Telecentros) (christoph (at)chasquinet(dot)org)
>
>NOTE: For the purposes of this issue, Latin America includes all
>countries south of the Rio Grande with Spanish or Portuguese as
>the predominant language.
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