Gender in Community Informatics: New Special Double Issue of Journal of...
Issues of gender are at the very heart of community informatics just as they are at the very heart of community and communities. Gender-based differences in opportunities for access, differences in...
View ArticleThe Ethical Responsibility of Researchers in Community Informatics
As both an academic (and research) discipline and a community (and policy) practice, Community Informatics links a variety of communities and many with a widely varying degree of resources and...
View ArticleThe Dead Hand of (Western) Academe: Community Informatics in a Less Developed...
I’m just back from a variety of recent travels–lecturing, workshopping, seminaring, meeting with academics and researchers in various parts of the Asian less developed countries (LDCs). Specifically I...
View ArticleLouder Voices and Learning Networks
There is a stream of contemporary thought (with which I generally agree) which sees knowledge as being largely produced and disseminated by and through networks. That is, networks—social, technical,...
View ArticleAre Mobiles a Capitalist Plot to Keep the Poor Poor?
I was moved to ask the question in the title after spending the good part of a week going in and out of a conference in Johannesburg on ICT4RD (Rural Development) where much of the discussion and most...
View ArticleWorld Summit on the Information Society: Looking Back and Looking Forward: My...
These were the comments I made as an invited speaker on behalf of Civil Society at a review meeting for the World Summit on the Information Society. The meeting, the WSIS +10 Review was held in Paris,...
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