Call For Papers - HICSS 35 Minitrack: COMMUNITY INFORMATICS Part of the Organizational Systems & Technology Track At the Thirty-fifth Annual HAWAI'I INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON SYSTEM SCIENCES, on the Big Island of Hawaii January 7 - 10, 2002 http://www.hicss.hawaii.edu. This mini-track provides one of the key international platforms relating to issues concerned with community informatics (CI), the study of the application of Information and Communications Technologies (ICT) to the social, economic, political or cultural goals of communities. CI as an approach begins with the perspective that ICT can provide a set of resources and tools that individuals and communities can use, initially to provide "access" to information management and processing and thus with "access", to pursue their goals in such areas as local economic development, cultural affairs, civic activism, and community based health and environmental initiatives. CI pays attention to the needs and objectives of communities and looks at how technology can support the achievement of those objectives. Thus, a CI approach is concerned with both the technology and the "user" (and the "uses"); and with community processes, user access and technology usability as well as systems analysis and hardware or software design. CI takes into account the design of the social system and culture within which the technology resides, as well as the technology system with which it interacts. We take a wide view of community informatics so as to include relevance to developing as well as developed countries and rural as well as urban communities. As such CI is a technology strategy or discipline which links economic and social development efforts at the community level with emerging opportunities in such areas as electronic commerce, community and civic networks and telecentres, electronic democracy and on-line participation, self-help and virtual health communities, advocacy, cultural enhancement and others. We welcome papers that contain original ideas and examples of practical application and implementation of information technology in CI contexts. As the CI approach is integrating the insights of Sociology, Social Psychology and Anthropology with the broader understanding of applied systems, there is a considerable interest in linking these understandings into the remarkably parallel processes of "virtual" communities. The dialogue between those with an interest in "geo-communities" and those concerned with "virtual communities" proved to be an exceptionally rich one at HICSS-34 and it is proposed to extend and deepen that dialogue at HICSS-35. In that context we have included as co-Chairs for our Mini-track those with an interest in both geo and virtual communities. Mintrack Co-Chairs: Michael Bieber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Michael Gurstein: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Roger Harris: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (co-ordinator) Wal Taylor: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Doug Vogel: [EMAIL PROTECTED] IMPORTANT DEADLINES Now: Abstracts submitted to minitrack chairs for guidance and indication of appropriate content. June 1, 2001 Full papers submitted to Minitrack Chairs. August 31, 2001 Notice of accepted papers sent to Authors. October 1, 2001 Accepted manuscripts sent electronically to the publisher. Authors must be registered for the conference by this date. INSTRUCTIONS FOR PAPER SUBMISSION 1. Contact the Minitrack Chair in advance for specific submission instructions. Otherwise, submit six (6) copies of the full paper, consisting of 22-26 double- spaced pages, including diagrams, directly to the appropriate Minitrack Chair. (NOTE: The final paper will be 10 pages, double-column, single spaced.) 2. Do not submit the manuscript to more than one Minitrack Chair. Papers should contain original material and not be previously published, or currently submitted for consideration elsewhere. 3. Each paper must have a title page to include title of the paper, full name of all authors, and complete addresses including affiliation(s), telephone number(s), and e-mail address(es). 4. The first page of the manuscript should include only the title and a 300-word abstract of the paper. HICSS conferences are devoted to advances in the information, computer, and system sciences, and encompass developments in both theory and practice. Invited papers may be theoretical, conceptual, tutorial or descriptive in nature. Submissions undergo a peer referee process and those selected for presentation will be published in the Conference Proceedings. Submissions must not have been previously published. 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