Connecting Canadians (eBook, ePUB)

Investigations in Community Informatics
Redaktion: Clement, Andrew

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Connecting Canadians represents the work of the Community Research Alliance for Community Innovation and Networking (CRACIN), the largest national and international research effort to examine the burgeoning field of community informatics, a cross-disciplinary approach to the mobilization of information and communications technologies (ICT) for community change.

Funded for four years by the SSHRC's Initiative for the New Economy, CRACIN systematically studied a wide variety of Canadian community ICT initiatives, bringing perspectives from sociology, computer science, critical theory, women's studies, library and information sciences, and management studies to bear on networking technologies. A comprehensive thematic account of this in-depth research, Connecting Canadians will be an essential resource for NGOs, governments, the private sector, and multilateral agencies across the globe.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Athabasca University Press
• Seitenzahl: 518
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Juli 2012
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781926836423
• Artikelnr.: 37989400

Autorenporträt

Andrew Clement is a professor in the Faculty ofInformation at the University of Toronto, with a status appointment inthe Department of Computer Science. Michael Gursteinis the director of the Center for Community Informatics Research,Training, and Development in Vancouver. GrahamLongford has been a research fellow and coinvestigator forCRACIN and the Community Wireless Infrastructure Research Project.Marita Moll is a lecturer at Carleton University and aresearch associate with the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives.Leslie Regan Shade is an associate professor in theDepartment of Communication Studies at Concordia University.

Inhaltsangabe

List of Illustrations
Acknowledgements
 
1 Connecting Canadians? Community Informatics Perspectives onCommunity
Networking Initiatives / Graham Longford, Andrew Clement,Michael Gurstein,
Leslie Regan Shade
 
Part I Context
2 Toward a Conceptual Framework for a Community Informatics  /Michael
Gurstein
3 Keeping in Touch: A Snapshot of Canadian Community Networks andTheir
Users - Report on the CRACIN Survey of Community NetworkUsers / Marita
Moll, Melissa Fritz
4 Canadian and US Broadband Policies: A Comparative Analysis /Heather E.
Hudson
 
Part II Conceptual Frameworks
5 Information Technology as Political Catalyst: From
TechnologicalInnovation to the Promotion of Social Change / SergeProulx
6 "The Researcher Is a Girl": Tales of Bringing FeministLabour Perspectives
into Community Informatics Practice and Evaluation/ Katrina Peddle, Alison
Powell, Leslie Regan Shade
7 What Are Community Networks an Example Of? A Response I /Christian
Sandvig
 
Part III Community Innovation I: Participation andInclusion
8 Systems Development in a Community-Based Organization: Lessonsfrom the
St. Christopher House Community Learning Network / SusanMacDonald, Andrew
Clement
9 Vancouver Community Network as a Site of Digital and SocialInclusion /
Diane Dechief
 
Part IV Community Innovation II: WirelessNetworking
10 Community and Municipal Wi-Fi Initiatives in Canada: Evolutionsin
Community Participation I / Alison Powell, Leslie ReganShade
11 Wi-Fi Publics: Defining Community and Technology atMontréal's Île Sans
Fil / Alison Powell
12 Wireless Broadband from Individual Backhaul to Community
Service:Co-operative Provision and Related Models of Local Signal Access /
Matthew Wong
 
Part V Rural and Remote Broadband
13 "We Were on the Outside Looking In": MyKnet.org- A First Nations Online
Social Environment in Northern Ontario /Brandi L. Bell, Philipp Budka, Adam
Fiser
14 A Historical Account of the Kuh-ke-nah Network: BroadbandDeployment in a
Remote Canadian Aboriginal Telecommunications Context /Adam Fiser, Andrew
Clement
15 Atlantic Canadian Community Informatics: The Case of the WVDA
andSmartLabrador / Katrina Peddle
16 Reverse English: Strategies of the Keewatin Career
DevelopmentCorporation in Discourse Surrounding the Knowledge-Based Economy
andSociety / Frank Winter
 
Part VI Libraries and Community Networks
17 Community Networks and Local Libraries: Strengthening Ties
withCommunities / Nadia Caidi, Susan MacDonald, Elise Chien
18 The Library Ideal and the Community Network: Prospects for
NewTechnologies in the Public Library I / Marco Adria
 
Part VII Public Policy
19 Community Networking Experiences with Government Funding ProgramsService
Delivery Model or Sustainable Social Innovation? / SusanMacDonald, Graham
Longford, Andrew Clement
20 Communautique: Action and Advocacy for Universal Digital Access /
Nicolas Lecomte, Serge Proulx
21 There and Back to the Future Again: Community Networks andTelecom Policy
Reform in Canada, 1995-2010 / Graham Longford,Marita Moll, Leslie Regan
Shade
 
Appendix A: Community Partners and Case Study Sites/ Graham Longford
Appendix B: A Brief History of the Community AccessProgram: From Community
Economic Development to Social Cohesion toDigital Divide / Marita Moll
Appendix C: The Federal Connecting CanadiansInitiative, 1995-2007: A Brief
Overview / Graham Longford,Marita Moll
 
Glossary
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List of Contributors