[Sigiii-l] Fwd: [ciresearchers] Reminder -- Deadline 11 May for CIRN Prato 2018 abstracts is approaching!

[Michel Menou]

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Subject: 	[ciresearchers] Reminder -- Deadline 11 May for CIRN Prato 
2018 abstracts is approaching!
Date: 	Mon, 7 May 2018 13:11:40 +1000
From: 	Larry Stillman <larry.stillman at monash.edu>
Reply-To: 	ciresearchers at vancouvercommunity.net, Larry Stillman 
<larry.stillman at monash.edu>
To: 	ciresearchers at vancouvercommunity.net



Dear Colleagues,

Abstracts for the conference are arriving, but don't be late. The 
deadline for abstracts is 11 May 2018.

Please also forward to colleagues.

THIS YEAR'S THEME: RESEARCH, PRACTICE AND CREATIVE ENDEAVOUR THAT AIM TO 
SHAPE AND INFLUENCE POLICY AND PROGRAMS"

Most often, we want our work to have influence.

Whether in Community Informatics, Development Informatics, Community 
Archives, or Art, and Archives Memories and ICTs projects involving 
ICTs, we aim for activity that influences not just future projects or 
research programs, but also government policy. However, the interests of 
different audiences (the academy, communities on the ground, NGOs, 
funders, policy makers) are not necessarily congruent when it comes to 
being influenced by the impacts, outcomes, value and worth of a project 
program, or more abstract research. Choices need to be made.

The attempt to shape and influence on the basis of research and practice 
is sometimes expressed as utilization-focussed evaluation "The focus in 
utilization-focused evaluation is on supporting intended use by intended 
users. The essence of this approach is a continual examination of and 
adaptation to how real people in the real world apply evaluation 
findings and how they experience the evaluation process" (Michael Quinn 
Patton). But who are the users here? And what is the real world? Who has 
control?

     Just what do "shape and influence mean?" For what purposes? Do we 
become too constrained by trying to "shape and influence" institutions?
     What about the general space of public discourse, policy, and 
influence particularly via new media as an alternate means of shaping 
and influencing?
     What are good (and bad) examples of shaping and influencing?
     What are the opportunities and constraints with attempting to shape 
and influence policies and programs? Can it stifle free inquiry and 
discourse when there are findings that surprise or raise controversy?
     Even if the utilization of research and practice are not the key 
purpose of project or program activity, what assumptions are made about 
what counts as important or will have influence in reporting to funders, 
policy-makers and others, including communities themselves?
     Can the focus on future utilization result in hindering innovation 
or experimentation? What forms of research and practice are most useful 
in meeting this challenge? Are they a help or hindrance?
     What is the place of community-based research in such an 
orientation? Who leads? Who follows? Whose voices count?
     How is research/practice messaged to different audiences for impact?
     Is seeking to influence in a neoliberal environment turning 
scholarship and practice into commodities for selection? Are there novel 
perspectives/approaches/methodologies that help expose underlying 
assumptions implicit in neoliberal approaches to ICT-related contexts? 
What are innovative solutions to these persistent challenges?
     What are the alignments and discontinuities between bottom-up 
ideals that are often process driven and the demands of funders and 
policy-makers for "useful" and "accountable research and practice? What 
has worked or not worked for you? Can the imposition of requirements be 
used as a form of power and control? What forms of reporting have been 
or could be most useful to different audiences?
     We are particularly interest in papers that can report on and 
theorize these problems in community informatics, development 
informatics, community archives the arts/archives community.


We welcome papers (referred, work-in-progress, non- refereed), 
presentations and papers (including Graduate student presentations) 
related to any aspect of Community Informatics Community Archiving, or 
Development Informatics, or the Art, and Archives Memories and ICTs 
space. We are particularly interested in papers from researchers and 
practitioners that can address the challenges of locating 
community-focussed research within wider theoretical and practice 
frameworks.


More information: https://sites.google.com/monash.edu/cirnprato2018/ 
<https://sites.google.com/monash.edu/cirnprato2018/>

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Larry Stillman, PhD

Senior Research Fellow, Faculty of IT
Lead Researcher, PROTIC Monash-Oxfam Project for Information Empowerment 
in Bangladesh
Monash University

http://bit.do/lsmonashprofile
www.webstylus.net <http://www.webstylus.net>

61 3 9903 1801
Not of the Academy of Lagado
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Larry Stillman, PhD
Senior Research Fellow, Faculty of IT
Lead Researcher, PROTIC Monash-Oxfam Project for Information Empowerment 
in Bangladesh
Monash University



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Larry Stillman, PhD

Senior Research Fellow, Faculty of IT
Lead Researcher, PROTIC Monash-Oxfam Project for Information Empowerment 
in Bangladesh
Monash University

http://bit.do/lsmonashprofile
www.webstylus.net <http://www.webstylus.net>

61 3 9903 1801
Not of the Academy of Lagado

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