Community Informatics: Enabling Communities with Information and Communications Technologies

• #1. Community Informatics: Enabling Community Uses of Information and Communications Technology
• #2. The Access Rainbow: Conceptualizing Universal Access to the Information/Communications Infrastructure
• #3. Requirements for a Regional Information Infrastructure for Sustainable Communities-The Case for Community Informatics
• #4. Embedding the Net: Community Empowerment in the Age of Information
• #5. The Role of Community Information in the Virtual Metropolis: The Co-Existence of Virtual and Proximate Terrains
• #6. Differential IT Access and Use Patterns in Rural and Small-Town Atlantic Canada
• #7. Building the Information Society from the Bottom Up? EU Public Policy and Community Informatics in North West England
• #8. New Communities and New Community Networks
• #9. CTCNet, the Community Technology Movement, and the Prospects for Democracy in America
• #10. Community Networks for Reinventing Citizenship and Democracy
• #11. ICT and Local Governance: A View from the South
• #12. Community Informatics for Electronic Democracy: Social Shaping of the Digital City in Antwerp (DMA)
• #13. Internet-Based Neighborhood Information Systems: A Comparative Analysis
• #14. Community Impact of Telebased Information Centers
• #15. Cafematics: The Cybercafe and the Community
• #16. Facilitating Community Processes through Culturally Appropriate Informatics: An Australian Indigenous Community Information Systems Case Study
• #17. On-Line Discussion Forums in a Swedish Local Government Context
• #18. Reinforcing and Opening Communities through Innovative Technologies
• #19. Academic-Community Partnerships for Advanced Information Processing in Low Technology Support Settings
• #20. Communication Shops and Telecenters in Developing Nations
• #21. Virtual Communities, Real Struggles: Seeking Alternatives for Democratic Networking
• #22. Linking Communities to Global Policymaking: A New Electronic Window on the United Nations
• #23. Community and Technology: Social Learning in CCIS
• #24. Community Participation in the Design of the Seattle Public Schools' Budget Builder Web Site
• #25. Discussions and Decisions: Enabling Participation in Design in Geographical Communities
• #26. Radio B-92 in Belgrade Harnesses the Power of a Media Activist Community During the War to Keep Broadcasting Despite Terrestrial Ban
• #27. The Economics of Community Networking: Case Studies from the Association for Progressive Communications (APC)

Michael Gurstein, Ph.D completed a B.A. at the University of Saskatchewan and a Ph.D. in the Sociology at the University of Cambridge. Dr. Gurstein was a senior public servant in the Provinces of British Columbia and Saskatchewan. For a number of years Dr. Gurstein was the president of the consulting firm Socioscope Inc. in Ottawa, Canada which specialized in the human aspects of advanced technologies. From 1992-95 Dr. Gurstein was a management advisor with the United Nations Secretariat in New York. From 1995-99 Dr. Gurstein was the ECBC/NSERC/SSHRC Associate Chair in the Management of Technological Change at the University College of Cape Breton and the Founder Director of the Centre for Community and Enterprise Networking (C\CEN) of that institution. C\CEN specialized in the application of information and communications technology to local economic development, particularly rural development. Dr. Gurstein has published widely and in addition to this book has authored the book "Burying Coal: Research and Development in a Marginal Community" by Collective Press. Dr. Gurstein is currently an Associate Professor of Management and Technology at the Technical University of British Columbia, in Vancouver Canada and the Director of the Centre for Community Informatics.