CENTRE OF COMMUNITY NETWORKING AND INFORMATION POLICY STUDIES

Independent R & D Center

CCNS is an independent research center (NGO) based in St. Petersburg, Russian Federation. The overall mission of CCNS is twofold:
to help people in the CIS countries use ICTs to improve their lives, and
to develop civil society through research,networks, information and scientific/professional events.
CCNS is also involved in studying the effects of policy decisions and international development activities in the field of ICTs use.

Using of Information and Communication Technologies for development of Civil Society in Russia and CIS

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Inaugural Issue

The Journal of Community Informatics (JoCI) is pleased to announce the online availability of its Inaugural Issue JoCI is a peer-reviewed Open Archive on-line quarterly journal for and by the Community Informatics research community and produced under the auspices of the Community Informatics Research Network (CIRN)
This Inaugural Issue of JoCI is an invitational response by members of the Editorial Group to give a context to our enterprise through position papers, scholarly papers and other materials.

The Second part of the Textbook "Community Networking and Community Informatics: Prospects. Approaches. Instruments" : Theory and Practice of Community Informatics in the CIS was published in March 2006. This edition is in large part present a wide range of theoretical and practical experience, which has been accumulated in CIS countries in the area of Community Informatics.

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BIC2003: Final Report

A final report for the Conference: "Building the Information Commonwealth: Information Technologies and Building Prospects for Development of Civil Society Institutions in the CIS Countries (BIC2003)" is now available online at the CCNS website

RUSSIAN	NEWS HEADLINES·············April 2006

Russia & NIS

International Conference
.... Internet and Modern Society
....(IST/IMS-2006)
.... St. Petersburg, Russia

Control + Shift. Public and Private
... Usages of the Russian Internet

Round table "Who Governs Russian
... Internet and How?"

More Russians get online

Worldwide

Conference on Cities and Media -
... Cultural Perspectives on Urban
... Identities in a Mediatized World

International Symposium on
... Public Participation in
... Internet Governance

Community Contentbank website

Developing Digital Diversity
... Conference

Global Alliance for ICT and Development Related Activities

Global Alliance for ICT
... and Development Launched

Principles and elements of a Global
... Alliance for ICT and Development

WSIS: The World Summit on
... the Information Society (Part II)
...Final Report

CCNS is a regional hub of the CIRN.

The Community Informatics Research Network (CIRN) is an international network of researchers, practitioners and policy makers concerned with enabling communities through the use of Information and Communications Technologies (ICTs) and specifically with research and practice in Community Informatics and Community Networking.
Visit CIRN website for more about our activities.

CCNS is a Founding Member of CRIS.
Communications Rights in the Information Society (CRIS) is a campaign to ensure that communication rights are central to the information society and to the upcoming
World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) . Visit CRIS website in Russian
Our vision of the ‘Information Society’ is grounded in the Right to Communicate, as a means to enhance human rights and to strengthen the social, economic and cultural lives of people and communities ... JOIN US !

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Last updated: 29 April, 2006