TEXTBOOK, Part 1

Russian-English textbook

Russian-English textbook
"Community Networking and Community Informatics: Prospects, Approaches and Instruments".

This edition is prepared within the framework of the preparatory process to the International Conference "Building the Information Commonwealth: Information Technologies and Prospects for the Development of Civil Society Institutions in the CIS Countries", (June, 30 - July, 2, 2003, Saint Petersburg, Russia).
Authors of this edited collection brings together leading exponents of Community Networking and Community Informatics from around the world.

EDITORS

Michael Gurstein

Michel Menou

Sergei Stafeev

Contents

Contributors

Foreword

Introduction:
Building the Information Commonwealth in the Countries of the Former Soviet Union: ICTs and Community-based Approaches. Developing Perspectives, Methodology, Tools by Michael Gurstein and Sergei Stafeev

PART 1: Global Experience

Don Cameron. ISPs, CTCs and Community Networking

Fiorella de Cindio. Why Community Networks are still important in the Information Society and how to sustain them

Royal D. Colle. ICTs, telecentres and community development

Peter Day. Community Practise in the Networked society

Ricardo Gomez, Karin Delgadillo, Klaus Stoll. Telecentres: For What? Excepts from "Community Telecentres For Development"

Michael Gurstein. Community Informatics

Roger Harris . A Framework for Poverty Alleviation with ICTs

Michel Menou, Klaus Stoll. Community Development Telecentres.

Michel Menoul, Klaus Stoll. Basic Principles of Community Public Internet Access Point's Sustainability

Merridy Wilson. Building life-learning community. Thinking globally, acting locally. Doug Schuler. Digital Cities and Digital Citizens

Doug Schuler. Seattle Community Network: A Digital City for the People

Sergei Stafeev. Community Informatics in Russia

Sergei Stafeev. Russian e-Policy: a Civil Society View

Sergei Stafeev. Community Networking in Post-Soviet Russia

Appendix

Glossary of Terms

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