[Asis-l] Fwd: [CI] Register for Sustainability and Community Technology', 29 Sept - 1 Oct 2004, Prato, Italy

[Michel J. Menou]

Best regards,

Michel J. Menou             mailto:Michel.Menou at wanadoo.fr 

This is a forwarded message
From: Larry Stillman <larrys01 at optusnet.com.au>
To: ciresearchers at vancouvercommunity.net
Date: Thursday, August 12, 2004, 4:10:30 AM
Subject: [CI] Register for Sustainability and Community Technology',
29 Sept - 1 Oct 2004, Prato, Italy 

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Dear Colleague:

Over the last decade hundreds of millions of dollars have been invested in 
Information and Communications Technologies directed towards enabling 
communities for economic and social development, for bridging the Digital 
Divide, for responding to the local needs for cost effective education, 
life long learning, health care, resource management and others.  The 2003 
Geneva World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) provided a framework 
for beginning the process of assessing the
effectiveness of these investments and for launching a re-examination of 
where these investments should go in the future so as to achieve the 
desired outcomes.

A key question from the perspective not only of funders but also of 
communities and policy makers and of private sector suppliers is what the 
long term future for these investments might be and thus how these 
technology initiatives might become or achieve local "sustainability". As 
attention turns toward the 2005 WSIS in Tunis these issues become of
even greater urgency and significance.

The Community Informatics Research Network (CIRN) would like to invite 
researchers, practitioners and policy makers with an interest in these 
matters to join us for reviewing the current state of research knowledge in 
these areas and for collaboratively identifying how these questions can 
frame Community Informatics Research and practice into the future.
CIRN's Inaugural Symposium and Conference 'Sustainability and Community 
Technology', will be held 29 Sept - 1 Oct 2004, at the Monash Centre, Prato 
(near Florence), Italy. The registration fee of 190 euros includes 
conference meals and the conference dinner.  Registration forms, details of 
proposed papers,  and accommodation and travel information are available at 
http://www.ciresearch.net/conferences/index.php?cf=4.

In addition to the full conference program and workshop, there will also be 
a PhD doctoral colloquium, as well as numerous social and networking 
opportunities.  The conference will also feature plenaries aimed to develop 
a joint perspective and statement on sustainability issues.

Highlights of the conference include keynotes by Fiorella De Cindio, 
University of Milan and the Milan Civic Network; Michael Gurstein, NJIT; 
and Tony Salvador of Intel Research.  Practitioner workshops will include 
on Community Informatics Curriculum and Education;  Multisite, Multistate 
research; and Sustainability in Practice and Community 
Informatics.  research papers addressing the theme of "sustainability and 
community technology" among other areas will be presented by some 40 
researchers and practitioners including presentations on experiences in 
Australia, Bangladesh, Canada, Chile, India, Kenya, Mexico, the 
Netherlands, Senegal, New Zealand, South Africa, the Ukraine, 
Zimbabwe,  Sweden, Sri Lanka, and elsewhere.

The conference is being supported with the sponsorship of

Monash University,  Claremont Graduate University,  National Research 
Council Canada - Institute for Information Technology,  Queensland 
University of Technology,  Victoria University of Wellington,  Intel and 
The Canadian Research Alliance For Community Innovation And Networking 
(CRACIN).

We look forward to your attendance & please circulate this email to colleagues.


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Larry Stillman
Centre for Community Networking Research, Monash 
University  www.ccnr.net    www.webstylus.net
  03 9903 1801 fax 9903 2564  

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