International Workshop on (01)
Community Informatics (COMINF 2006) (02)
http://www.cs.rmit.edu.au/fedconf/cominf2006cfp.html (03)
November 2, 2006
Montpellier, France (04)
In conjunction with OnTheMove Federated Conferences (OTM'06)
http://www.cs.rmit.edu.au/fedconf (05)
In association with the Community Informatics Research Network
(CIRN)
http://www.ciresearch.net/ (06)
Proceedings will be published by Springer LNCS (07)
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BACKGROUND (09)
Community Informatics, also known as community networking, electronic
community networking, community-based technologies or community
technology refers to an emerging set of principles and practices
concerned with the use of Information and Communications Technologies
for personal, social, cultural or economic development within
communities, for enabling the achievement of collaboratively determined
community goals, and for invigorating and empowering communities in
relation to their larger social, economic, cultural and political
environments. (010)
As an academic discipline Community Informatics can be seen as a field
of practice in applied Information and Communications Technology (ICT).
It brings together the practices of community development and
organization, and insights from fields such as sociology, planning,
development studies, women's studies, library and information sciences,
management information systems, and management sciences. Its outcomes --
community networks and community-based ICT-enabled service applications
-- are of increasing interest to grassroots organizations, NGOs and
civil society, governments, the private sector, and multi-lateral
agencies, among others.Self-organized community initiatives of all
varieties, from different countries, are concerned with ways to harness
ICTs for social capital, poverty alleviation and for the empowerment of
the "local" in relation to its larger economic, political and social
environments. Collaborative communities help bridge organizational
boundaries, ensuring more effective and efficient forms of collaboration
in and between stakeholders from business, government, education, and
civil society. (011)
ICTs play a key role in enabling many types of virtual or hybrid
communities. The resulting socio-technical systems, however, are very
complex and continuously evolving. The intricate interactions between
community requirements and their enabling technologies, however, are
still ill understood. In particular, there is a huge gap between those
who understand the complexities of community requirements and dynamics,
and the information technologists who can build the technologies and
systems that can catalyze and enable communities into more effective action. (012)
GOALS AND TOPICS (013)
We want to gather researchers and practitioners interested in the
modeling and analysis of community requirements, the design and
implementation of community based ICTs and community information
systems, and the evaluation of these technologies in order to determine
their effective use. (014)
Topics of interest to this workshop include, but are not limited to: (015)
- Community requirements modeling and analysis
- Enabling technologies (weblogs, discussion fora, portals, etc.)
- Social computing
- Collaborative working environments
- Community ontologies
- Community context modeling and meaning negotiation
- Community IS development methodologies
- Evaluation methods
- Pragmatic Web
- Mobile computing and local development
- ICT4D (ICT for Development)
- Community Planning and Community Technology
- Locally significant broadband applications (016)
SUBMISSION REQUIREMENTS (017)
We are looking for articles on current or recently finished research
projects as well as articles from practitioners. Papers should be in the
3000 - 5000 words range and should be submitted in PDF format. (018)
Submissions must be laid out according to the final camera-ready
formatting instructions which can be found at: (019)
http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html (020)
The paper submission site is located at: (021)
http://www.cs.rmit.edu.au/fedconf/cominf/2006/papers (022)
Accepted papers will be published along with the OTM 2006 Workshop
Proceedings on Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Failure to
commit to presentation at the workshop automatically excludes a paper
from the proceedings. (023)
IMPORTANT DATES (024)
- Abstract Submission Deadline June 30, 2006 (extended)
- Paper Submission Deadline July 10, 2006 (extended)
- Acceptance Notification August 10, 2006
- Camera Ready Due August 20, 2006
- Workshop November 2, 2006 (025)
ORGANISATION COMMITTEE (026)
* Program Co-Chairs (027)
- Aldo de Moor (ademoor@vub.ac.be)
VUB STARLab
Belgium (028)
- Michael Gurstein (mgurst@vcn.bc.ca)
Community Informatics Research Network
Canada (029)
* Program Committee (030)
- Mark Aakhus - Rutgers University, USA
- Mark Ackerman - University of Michigan, USA
- Anjo Anjewierden - University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands
- Michael Bieber - New Jersey Institute of Technology, USA
- Andy Bytheway - Cape Peninsula University of Technology, South Africa
- Tanguy Coenen - Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium
- Fiorella De Cindio - University of Milan, Italy
- Peter Day - University of Brighton, UK
- Dan Dixon - Headshift, UK
- Lilia Efimova - Telematica Instituut, The Netherlands
- Hamid Ekbia - University of Redlands, USA
- Marcus Foth - Queensland University of Technology, Australia
- Mark Gaved - The Open University, UK
- Tom Horan - Claremont Graduate University, USA
- Driss Ketani - Alakhawayn University in Ifrane, Morocco
- Rolf Kleef - Drostan.org, The Netherlands
- Ulrike Lechner - Universit?t der Bundeswehr, Germany
- Peter Mambrey - Fraunhofer FIT, Germany
- Dave Newman - Queens University Belfast, UK
- Jack Park - SRI International, USA
- Larry Stillman - Monash University, Australia
- Beverly Trayner - Escola Superior de Ciencias Empresariais, IPS
Setúbal, Portugal
- Bartel Van de Walle - Tilburg University, The Netherlands
- Brian Whitworth - Massey University, New Zealand (031)
* Invited Speaker (032)
- William McIver, Jr., National Research Council Canada (033)
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