Connecting Canadians
Investigations in Community Informatics
Distributed for Athabasca University Press
Connecting Canadians
Investigations in Community Informatics
Table of Contents
List of Illustrations
Acknowledgements
1 Connecting Canadians? Community Informatics Perspectives on Community 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 and Their Users — Report on the CRACIN Survey of Community Network Users / 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 Technological Innovation to the Promotion of Social Change / Serge Proulx
6 “The Researcher Is a Girl”: Tales of Bringing Feminist Labour 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 and Inclusion
8 Systems Development in a Community-Based Organization: Lessons from the St. Christopher House Community Learning Network / Susan MacDonald, Andrew Clement
9 Vancouver Community Network as a Site of Digital and Social Inclusion / Diane Dechief
Part IV Community Innovation II: Wireless Networking
10 Community and Municipal Wi-Fi Initiatives in Canada: Evolutions in Community Participat
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