Prato Colloquium, 2004

CIRN held its 2004 Inaugural Conference and Colloquium with the theme, 'Sustainability and Community Technology: What Does this Mean for Community Informatics?', at the Monash Centre , Prato, Italy, 29 September - 1 October, 2004.

A media release about the conference can be accessed here. The proceedings (see attachment, zip file, 4.2 megs) can now be downloaded as pdf files. Unzip the file and click on the index.htm file.

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Photos taken by some of the conference delegates are here

PROCEEDINGS TABLE OF CONTENTS

Papers were submitted as refereed (R), PhD colloquium (Phd), or non-refereed (NR).

Introduction

Hannah Beardon
What is sustainability? The Balangir Example (NR) [ * ]

Mario Benassi, Fiorella de Cindio, Laura Anna Ripamonti
Online communities sustainability: some economic issues (R)

Gaela Bernini
Knowledge workers' communities of practice in an organisation: handle with care? (PhD)

Gunilla Bradley
Towards Global Villages. Networks in Action (R)

Fiona Brady
Needs and numbers: A micro community approach to the problem of sustainability (R)

E. Jayne Cardno
Community Health Informatics; a case study in the U.K. (PhD)

Royal D. Colle, Raul Roman, Benjamin Addom, Harvey Scott
Dimensions of Telecenter Sustainability (R)

Peter Day, Richard Cupidi
Building and Sustaining Healthy Communities: The symbiosis between community technology and community research (R)

Aldo de Moor, Jaap Wagenvoort
Conflict Management in an Online Gaming Community (R)

Maureen Doody
Social Capital and Community Networking: Ethno-cultural Use of Community Networking Initiatives in Canada (Phase I) (R)

Carol Erikson
Advocacy and Sustainability: The Case of Chile's Public Library Technology Network (NR)

GJ Erwin, WJ Taylor
Assimilation by Communities of Internet Technologies (R)

Shannon Faulkhead
Indigenous Groups and Archives Working Together (PhD)

Jesse Fiddler
Walking the talk: Connecting remote Indigenous communities globally (NR)

Marcus Foth
Designing networks for sustainable neighbourhoods: A case study of a student apartment complex (R)

Adam Fiser
ICTs for Education in Ontario First Nations (PhD)

Mark Gaved
Promoting sustained use of ICT through grassroots initiated networked communities and social software (PhD)

Andrew Gordon, Margaret Gordon
Sustainability and Community Technology: The Role of Public Libraries and Gates Library Initiative (R)

Anikar M. Haseloff
Public Network Access Points in Developing Countries (PhD)

Greg Hearn, Lyn Simpson, June Lennie, Megan Kimber
ICTs and regional sustainability: A critique and way forward (R)

Tom Horan, Arguelles Lourdes, Richard Worthington
Communities of Practice and Local Sustainability: Case Application in Using Service Learning and Community Building for Informatics Solutions (R)

Peter Hyland, Lejla Vrazalic
Towards a Conceptual Framework for Measuring Social Capital in Online Communities (R)

Eva Jansson, Gunilla Bradley
Sustainability in Collaborative Network Structures - with focus on the Psychosocial Work Environment in Distributed Teams (R)

Graeme Johanson, Tom Denison, Nancy Otis
Building Sustainable Learning Communities in Vietnam (R)

Laurence Lock Lee
Social Capital Links between Management Decision-making, Intellectual Capital and Market Performance (R)

Alexander Makarenko
Sustainable Development - General Principles and Networks, Regions and Cities Applications (R)

Anna Malina, Ian Ball
ICTs and community and suggestions for further research: Lessons learned in Scotland (R)

Olinca Marino
ICT skills to improve young people: a Mexican training experience (R)

William J. McIver, Jr.
Software support for multi-lingual legislative drafting (R)

Cecelia Merkel, Mike Clitherow, John Carroll, Mary Beth Rosson
Sustaining computer use and learning in community computing contexts: Making technology part of "who they are and what they do" (R)

Stephen Musgrave
Community portals - The UK experience: A false dawn over the field of dreams (R)

Stephen Musgrave
Telematics in the Context of Community Portals (PhD)

Celene Navarette, Esperanza Huerta, Tom Horan
Using the Internet to Strengthen Community Ties: A Study of the Use of Web Technologies by Mexican Hometown Associations in the U.S. (PhD)

Kate Ni Chionnaith
Power/ knowledge and identity in ICT for development initiatives (R)

Alison Norris
A framework to support community portal financial sustainability (R)

Susan O'Donnell, Giancarlo Ramioli
Sustaining an online information network for non-profit organizations: The case of community exchange (R)

Christina Prell, Teresa Harrison, James Zappen, Klaus Hubacek
Sustainability and social capital: The case of connected kids (R)

Vanda Rideout, Andrew Reddick
Sustaining community access to technology: Who should pay and why! (R)

Charlotte Scarf
Knowledge networks for development: A new conceptual framework (PhD)

Don Schauder, Larry Stillman, Graeme Johanson
Sustaining and transforming a community network. The Information Continuum Model and the Case of VICNET (R)

Lyn Simpson
Community informatics and sustainability: Why social capital matters (R)

Elisa Soncini
Negotiation of Mayan cultural identity between new and traditional media (PhD)

Larry Stillman, Randy Stoecker
Structuration, ICTs, and community work (R)

Marinus Swanepoel
Lethbridge community network: a case study of a sustainable community information infrastructure (R)

Kerry Tanner
Emotion, gender and the sustainability of communities (R)

Helen Thompson
A role for universities in sustaining regional ICT initiatives? exploring the case of the University of Ballarat (R)

Elena Vuolo
La sostenibilità dei progetti grass-root based di e-health: analisi del caso studio del progetto EHAS (PhD)