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