(apologies in advance for any duplication) The second issue of the on-line peer reviewed Journal of Community Informatics <http://ci-journal.net> http://ci-journal.net is now available. This issue takes as its theme the "Sustainability of Community ICTs". <http://ci-journal.net/viewarticle.php?id=47&layout=html> Simpson provides a thorough and wide-ranging analysis of the relationship between "Sustainability" and "Social Capital" and a very useful theoretical introduction to both sets of concepts. <http://www.ci-journal.net/viewarticle.php?id=38&layout=html> Hearn et al discuss the variety of organizational, and contextual issues as well as larger technical and industry issues which all impact on "sustainability". <http://www.ci-journal.net/viewarticle.php?id=39&layout=html> Rideout and Reddick present how, within the Canadian context sustainability has to be understood as evolving within a broad policy (and government funding) framework. <http://www.ci-journal.net/viewarticle.php?id=45&layout=html> Tanner adds a most interesting and provocative discussion of the role of "emotion" in (ICT-enabled) community "sustainability". <http://www.ci-journal.net/viewarticle.php?id=63&layout=html> Ripamonti, de Cindio and Benassi provide a broad-based set of observations and analyses exploring the sustainability issues which cross-cut between on-line community networking and the physical presence and organization of community networks . <http://www.ci-journal.net/viewarticle.php?id=74&layout=html> Van Belle and Trusler present an analytic case study of an on-going community ICT project in a Developing Country context, warts and all, and provide very useful insights into the "real world" of development and community ICT .
<http://www.ci-journal.net/viewarticle.php?id=13&layout=html> Musgrave approaches these same issues but at a portal and e-Government level within a Developed Country context but interestingly reveals somewhat similar institutional constraints on community ICT initiatives. <http://ci-journal.net/viewarticle.php?id=82&layout=abstract> Schauder and his colleagues provide a most useful discussion of the broader challenges and difficulties of "sustainability" of a government funded ICT program in the Australian context. The case studies presented from <http://www.ci-journal.net/viewarticle.php?id=53&layout=html> Merkel et al (faith based organizations in the USA) and <http://www.ci-journal.net/viewarticle.php?id=46&layout=html> Thompson (universities and communities in Australia) further our knowledge of how these issues are being handled in quite specific institutional and economic contexts while the happy conjuncture of the documents presented in the " <http://www.ci-journal.net/viewarticle.php?id=79&layout=html> Notes from the Field", (including WiFi in the Amazonian jungle, First Nations and Broadband in Canada, and a WiFi Manifesto from the USA) indicates some of the dimensions and broadly perceived significance of the applications and strategies we are discussing. Points of View presented by Day and Gurstein address <http://ci-journal.net/viewarticle.php?id=56&layout=html> Community Infromatics and Community Research and <http://ci-journal.net/viewarticle.php?id=72&layout=html> Community Informatics and Disaster Management resepectively. Articles are still being accepted for the April issue of the Journal (until March 7) and for the July issue (until May 15) which will have the theme of "Community ICT's: Assessment, Evaluation and Knowledge Aggregation". Michael Gurstein, Ph.D. Editor in Chief: Journal of Community Informatics http://ci-journal.net _______________________________________________ DIGITALDIVIDE mailing list DIGITALDIVIDE@mailman.edc.org http://mailman.edc.org/mailman/listinfo/digitaldivide To unsubscribe, send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word UNSUBSCRIBE in the body of the message.
