Overview
The outcome of a major research initiative, ConnectingCanadians examines the role of community informatics, orcommunity-based ICT initiatives, in this process of transition. TheCommunity Research Alliance for Community Innovation and Networking(CRACIN) set out to study how civil society groups—in locationsranging from Vancouver to Labrador and from remote Northern communitiesto Toronto and Montréal—sought to enable local communities todevelop on their own terms within the broader context of federal andprovincial policies and programs. Drawing on diverse theoreticalperspectives, from sociology to library and information sciences towomen’s studies, the essays not only document specific localinitiatives but analyze the overall trajectory of thegovernment’s vision of a digitally inclusive Canada. The lessonslearned in the course of this comprehensive research offer valuableguidance to community groups, NGOs, and others in the private sector,but they are also of critical importance to those who presently shapepublic policy.
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Author: Andrew Clement , Michael Gurstein , Graham Longford , Marita Moll
Publisher: AU Press
Imprint: AU Press
Dimensions:
Width: 15.20cm
, Height: 2.80cm
, Length: 22.90cm
Weight: 0.660kg
ISBN: 9781926836041
ISBN 10: 1926836049
Pages: 520
Publication Date: 01 June 2012
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Format: Paperback
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Table of Contents
List of Illustrations Acknowledgements 1 Connecting Canadians? Community Informatics Perspectives onCommunity Networking Initiatives / Graham Longford, Andrew Clement,Michael Gurstein, Leslie Regan Shade Part I Context 2 Toward a Conceptual Framework for a Community Informatics /Michael Gurstein 3 Keeping in Touch: A Snapshot of Canadian Community Networks andTheir Users - Report on the CRACIN Survey of Community NetworkUsers / Marita Moll, Melissa Fritz 4 Canadian and US Broadband Policies: A Comparative Analysis /Heather E. Hudson Part II Conceptual Frameworks 5 Information Technology as Political Catalyst: From TechnologicalInnovation to the Promotion of Social Change / SergeProulx 6 The Researcher Is a Girl : Tales of Bringing FeministLabour Perspectives into Community Informatics Practice and Evaluation/ Katrina Peddle, Alison Powell, Leslie Regan Shade 7 What Are Community Networks an Example Of? A Response I /Christian Sandvig Part III Community Innovation I: Participation andInclusion 8 Systems Development in a Community-Based Organization: Lessonsfrom the St. Christopher House Community Learning Network / SusanMacDonald, Andrew Clement 9 Vancouver Community Network as a Site of Digital and SocialInclusion / Diane Dechief Part IV Community Innovation II: WirelessNetworking 10 Community and Municipal Wi-Fi Initiatives in Canada: Evolutionsin Community Participation I / Alison Powell, Leslie ReganShade 11 Wi-Fi Publics: Defining Community and Technology atMontreal's Ile Sans Fil / Alison Powell 12 Wireless Broadband from Individual Backhaul to Community Service:Co-operative Provision and Related Models of Local Signal Access /Matthew Wong Part V Rural and Remote Broadband 13 We Were on the Outside Looking In : MyKnet.org- A First Nations Online Social Environment in Northern Ontario /Brandi L. Bell, Philipp Budka, Adam Fiser 14 A Historical Account of the Kuh-ke-nah Network: BroadbandDeployment in a Remote Canadian Aboriginal Telecommunications Context /Adam Fiser, Andrew Clement 15 Atlantic Canadian Community Informatics: The Case of the WVDA andSmartLabrador / Katrina Peddle 16 Reverse English: Strategies of the Keewatin Career DevelopmentCorporation in Discourse Surrounding the Knowledge-Based Economy andSociety / Frank Winter Part VI Libraries and Community Networks 17 Community Networks and Local Libraries: Strengthening Ties withCommunities / Nadia Caidi, Susan MacDonald, Elise Chien 18 The Library Ideal and the Community Network: Prospects for NewTechnologies in the Public Library I / Marco Adria Part VII Public Policy 19 Community Networking Experiences with Government Funding ProgramsService Delivery Model or Sustainable Social Innovation? / SusanMacDonald, Graham Longford, Andrew Clement 20 Communautique: Action and Advocacy for Universal Digital Access /Nicolas Lecomte, Serge Proulx 21 There and Back to the Future Again: Community Networks andTelecom Policy Reform in Canada, 1995-2010 / Graham Longford,Marita Moll, Leslie Regan Shade Appendix A: Community Partners and Case Study Sites/ Graham Longford Appendix B: A Brief History of the Community AccessProgram: From Community Economic Development to Social Cohesion toDigital Divide / Marita Moll Appendix C: The Federal Connecting CanadiansInitiative, 1995-2007: A Brief Overview / Graham Longford,Marita Moll Glossary Publication Credits List of Contributors
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Andrew Clement is a professor in the Faculty ofInformation at the University of Toronto, with a status appointment inthe Department of Computer Science. Michael Gursteinis the director of the Center for Community Informatics Research,Training, and Development in Vancouver. GrahamLongford has been a research fellow and coinvestigator forCRACIN and the Community Wireless Infrastructure Research Project.Marita Moll is a lecturer at Carleton University and aresearch associate with the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives.Leslie Regan Shade is an associate professor in theDepartment of Communication Studies at Concordia University.
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