| Description |
1 online resource (electronic texts (xv, 302 pages : illustrations)) |
| Contents |
Community Informatics in Perspective / Wal Taylor -- Community (Information and Communication) Technology: Policy, Partnership and Practice / Peter Day -- Digital Storytelling: Culture, Media and Community / Kevin W. Tharp, Liz Hills -- Rethinking Schools and Community: The Knowledge Producing School / Chris Bigum -- The Role of Place: Tasmanian Insights on ICT and Regional Development / Dean Steer, Paul Turner -- The Design and Implementation of Rural Communication Technology Initiatives: Issues and Strategies for Project Planners / Lyn Simpson, Leonie Daws, Leanne Wood -- Information and Communication Technologies Provision to Rural Communities: The Case of Gutu World Links Telecenter in Zimbabwe / Shirley Chikowore-Kabwato, Isola Ajiferuke -- E Bario Project: In Search of a Methodology to Provide Access to Information Communication Technologies for Rural Communities in Malaysia / Poline Bala, Roger W. Harris, Peter Songan -- Creating and Sustaining Online Communities: Web-Based Services Meeting the Diverse Needs of Regional and Rural Australia / Helen Thompson -- Information Access in Rural Communities: Bridging the Digital Divide / V.S. Venkatesan, Robyn Eversole, Ken Robinson -- Social Organization through the Internet: Citizens Assemblies in Argentina / Susana Finquelievich -- Measuring the Effectiveness of Training to Improve Electronic Information Literacy / Nicole Fahey, Wal Taylor |
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Wired High Rise: Using Technology to Combat Social Isolation on an Inner City Public Housing Estate / Denise Meredyth [and others] -- Portals for Older People in Regional Areas: The Greypath Virtual Community / Jerzy Lepa, Arthur Tatnall -- Hervey Bay in Transition: The Role of Community-Based Information Technology in Overcoming the Great Digital Divide / Wayne Pease, Lauretta Wright, Malcolm Cooper -- Using the Internet in a Physical Activity Health Promotion Campaign: The 10,000 Steps Rockhampton Project / Grant Schofield [and others] -- E-News: Community Interaction through Journalism / Matthew Simpson, Jay Burmeister, Michael Docherty -- Regional Tourism and the Internet: E-Business Structures for Regional Tourism Organisations / Dean Carson, Pramod Sharma, Iain Waller |
| Summary |
In many international settings, regional economies are declining resulting in lowered opportunities for these communities. This result attacks the very fabric of cohesion and purpose for these regional societies, and increases social, health, economic and sustainability problems. Community informatics research, education and practice is an emerging area in many countries, which seeks to address these issues. The primary objective of this book is to provide leaders, policy developers, researchers, students and community workers with successful strategies and principles of Community Informatics to transform regions. It embraces an integrative cross-sectoral approach in the use of Community Informatics to increase both social and cultural capital as a means to increased sustainability for regional communities |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Community development.
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Regional economics.
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Information technology -- Economic aspects
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Information technology -- Social aspects
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Digital divide.
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Community development.
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Digital divide.
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Information technology -- Economic aspects.
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Information technology -- Social aspects.
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Regional economics.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Marshall, Stewart
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Taylor, Wallace, 1944-
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Yu, Xing Huo
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IGI Global.
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| ISBN |
159140133X |
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9781591401339 |
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9781591402787 |
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1591402786 |
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