Community ICT research

This page links to research on the use of Information and Communications Technologies in communities, computer literacy, the Digital Divide, Digital Opportunities etc.  See also the Connecting Communities: Research and Publications page (in the left index.) 

• The Community Informatics* Research Network runs listservs, organises an annual conference and publishes the quarterly:
  • Journal of Community Informatics; contains blind peer-reviewed research articles, and commentaries by leading CI practitioners and policy makers. The journal aims to provide its readership with useful, clearly-written, insightful and innovative content.
    (Community Informatics (CI) is the study and the practice of enabling communities with Information and Communications Technologies (ICTs).)
• Visit the The Smith Family foundation in Australia for research on:
  • From the digital divide to social inclusion: Connecting Communities with CTLCs
  • The new economy revisited: an initial analysis of the digital divide among financially disadvantaged families.

• A literature review of community informatics initiatives (Joseph Rowntree Foundation)
  This research explores the evidence for how 'community informatics' initiatives can help challenge social inequalities surrounding the growing use of information technology.