community informatics

Community Informatics and Sustainability: Why Social Capital Matters

The article makes a point to connect the sustainability of ICT projects to social capital. “Social capital is used to describe beneficial outcomes that can be derived from multiplaying existing community assets, such as trust, reciprocity and cooperation, shared values and norms, pro-activity and leadership, and a strong sens of community that can result from interaction and participation in strong social networks in a community”.

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Submitted by dani matielo on Tue, 01/13/2009 - 15:10

The Challenge of “Sustainability” in ICT4D – Is Bricolage the Answer?

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Submitted by dani matielo on Mon, 01/12/2009 - 18:53

The concept of community and the character of networks

The article proposes a theorical framework on how to undestand Community Networks, understanding that it is relevant to understand it as a hybrid of binary concepts than as the combination of different concepts such as social or technical, community or network, heterachical(or bottom-up) or hiearchical (top-down).

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Submitted by dani matielo on Mon, 01/12/2009 - 18:03

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