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== Introduction/Definition == | |||
Community Informatics is an emerging discipline and social movement concerned with the design, purpose, and access to information technology, especially in relation to communities of place and the developing world. | Community Informatics is an emerging discipline and social movement concerned with the design, purpose, and access to information technology, especially in relation to communities of place and the developing world. | ||
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Community informatics (CI), also known as community networking, electronic community networking, community-based technologies or community technology refers to an emerging field of investigation and practice concerned with information and communication technology (ICT) in relation to communities and their social, cultural, service development, economic and other dimensions. It is formally located as an academic discipline within a variety of academic faculties including Information Science, Information Systems, Computer Science, Planning, Development Studies, and Library Science among others and draws on insights on community development from a range of backgrounds and disciplines. It is a cross- or interdisciplinary approach interested in the utilization of ICTs for different forms of community action, as distinct from pure academic study or research about ICT effects. | Community informatics (CI), also known as community networking, electronic community networking, community-based technologies or community technology refers to an emerging field of investigation and practice concerned with information and communication technology (ICT) in relation to communities and their social, cultural, service development, economic and other dimensions. It is formally located as an academic discipline within a variety of academic faculties including Information Science, Information Systems, Computer Science, Planning, Development Studies, and Library Science among others and draws on insights on community development from a range of backgrounds and disciplines. It is a cross- or interdisciplinary approach interested in the utilization of ICTs for different forms of community action, as distinct from pure academic study or research about ICT effects. | ||
See also | == See also == | ||
* Community Informatics Research Network wiki: http://cirn.wikispaces.com/ | * Community Informatics Research Network wiki: http://cirn.wikispaces.com/ | ||
* Center for Community Informatics Research, Development & Training: http://www.communityinformatics.net/ | * Center for Community Informatics Research, Development & Training: http://www.communityinformatics.net/ | ||
[[Category:Information technology]][[Category:Community informatics]] | [[Category:Information technology]][[Category:Community informatics]] | ||
Revision as of 12:48, 18 July 2013
Introduction/Definition
Community Informatics is an emerging discipline and social movement concerned with the design, purpose, and access to information technology, especially in relation to communities of place and the developing world.
On Wikipedia, wikipedia:Community Informatics is defined as:
Community informatics (CI), also known as community networking, electronic community networking, community-based technologies or community technology refers to an emerging field of investigation and practice concerned with information and communication technology (ICT) in relation to communities and their social, cultural, service development, economic and other dimensions. It is formally located as an academic discipline within a variety of academic faculties including Information Science, Information Systems, Computer Science, Planning, Development Studies, and Library Science among others and draws on insights on community development from a range of backgrounds and disciplines. It is a cross- or interdisciplinary approach interested in the utilization of ICTs for different forms of community action, as distinct from pure academic study or research about ICT effects.
See also
- Community Informatics Research Network wiki: http://cirn.wikispaces.com/
- Center for Community Informatics Research, Development & Training: http://www.communityinformatics.net/