Subject: [CivilSoc] Telecentres and Community Development
From: Center for Civil Society International (ccsi@u.washington.edu)
Date: Wed Jul 19 2000 - 20:14:43 EDT
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CALL FOR PAPERS
TELECENTRES, COMMUNITY INFORMATICS AND DEVELOPMENT:
WHAT DO WE KNOW NOW?
The Electronic Journal on Information Systems in Developing Countries
(EJISDC) (http://www.unimas.my/fit/roger/EJISDC/EJISDC.htm)
A special edition of the EJISDC on Telecentres will be guest edited
by Michael Gurstein, Ph.D., Gurstein and Associates, Vancouver BC,
Canada [(Ed.) Community Informatics: Enabling Communities with
Information and Communications Technologies
http://www.idea-group.com/books.html] and Roger Harris, Ph.D.
University of Malaysia Sarawak, Malaysia.
Telecentres (also known as Community Communication Centres,
Infoshops, Telecottages, Community Access Centres and others) have
emerged in the last ten years as the primary means for providing
"public" access to the range of telecommunications services and
particularly the Internet. Beginning in Northern Europe, the approach
has spread quickly throughout the world with current estimates as to
total numbers ranging (depending on the definition) into the tens if
not low hundreds of thousands.
Telecentres are currently being developed as community hubs for
linking the range of opportunities presented by Information and
Communications Technologies (ICT's) with economic and social
development efforts at the local level. Submissions thus could
include discussions in such areas as telecentres and community
access; community informatics and "telecentre theory"; the technology
of telecentres; telecentres and community oriented on-line health and
wellness initiatives; the role of telecentres in cultural
preservation and exchange and in the collection and recording of
indigenous knowledge; telecentres and rural and agricultural
development; telecentres, electronic commerce and SME's; and business
models for telecentre sustainability.
Submission procedure: Researchers and practitioners are invited to
submit previously unpublished manuscripts on or before 15 August
2000. All submitted papers will be "blind" peer reviewed. Other forms
of submission are also welcome, such as position papers, commentaries
and book reviews. The edition is scheduled to appear by 1October
2000. Negotiations are currently underway for the publication in book
form of an extended version of this edition.
ENQUIRIES: Roger Harris, PhD, Head of the Information Systems Core
Group, Faculty of Information Technology, University Malaysia Sarawak
E-mail: roger@mailhost.fit.unimas.my
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