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FINAL -23 January 2006 Special Issue Community e-Health Initiatives Journal of Community Informatics http://www.ci-journal.net Publication Date: Winter 2006 The Community e-Health Initiatives Special Issue will focus on the use of communitydriven e-Health services, systems and technologies, highlighting applications in less developed countries (LDCs) and indigenous settings. Specifically, the Journal of Community Informatics (JoCI) will focus on e-Health initiatives that engage communities and/or their mandated health organizations in a partnership to plan, implement, deliver and/or evaluate e-Health tools, systems, products and processes. Preference will be given to collaborative projects that employ comparative research designs, i.e. papers that adopt inter-disciplinary approaches and/or international perspectives. The Editors anticipate that the Special Issue will be widely distributed to e- Health principals in LDCs and Indigenous organizations and will place heavy emphasis on clarity of presentation as a criterion for inclusion. Preference may also be given to innovative approaches that address important and/or emergent e-Health issues related to Indigenous community, regional and cultural development and for research that compares and contrasts anticipated community-based project participation with the level of engagement which actually took place. Abstracts of 500 or fewer words will be accepted until 30 April 2006 and should be addressed to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Definitions Community-Driven Initiative: A project or program that has been initiated, partnered or owned by community-based groups or mandated organizations and demonstrates direct engagement with the communities. Engagement/Participation: Engagement refers to the process used to facilitate an informed discussion among individuals or organizations and encourage participants to express world views, share visions or goals, debate the means to achieve those ideas or options, in other words, to undertake collaborative decision-making. Indigenous: First people who have a longstanding - pre-colonial - relationship with a land base and who assert or have secured territorial, cultural, social and economic rights. e-Health: Encompasses the use of information and communications technologies - ranging from radio and phones to the Internet and broadband - to support care givers, inform health system users, improve evidence-based practice and deliver health, health education and wellness services. _______________________________________________ DIGITALDIVIDE mailing list [email protected] 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.
