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- 1. Community Informatics: Bottom Up (and Top Down) Towards Digital Transformation ISTD: Porto, Portugal July 2010 Michael Gurstein, Ph.D. Centre for Community Informatics Research, Development and Training Vancouver, BC, CANADA [email_address] 26.07.10
- 2. Community Informatics Enabling (empowering) “communities” with information and communications technologies (ICT’s) CI is of equal interest to practitioners, researchers, and policy makers CI for practitioners—how to do what they do
- 3. CI for researchers—how to make the work of practitioners more effective
- 4. CI for policy makers/funders—the DD, development, community centred policies(
- 5. (Multi)Stakeholder Approach Communities/NGO’s Researchers Funders/Policy Makers
- 6. The Stakeholders Communities Have the need
- 8. Are there for the long term Governments/Private Sector Regulatory authority/responsibility
- 9. Knowledge
- 11. Networking
- 12. Evaluating
- 13. Community Informatics Approach to ICTs Access Adoption Applicatn/Implementn Effective Use
- 14. Top Down Telecentres, PIAP's, etc.
- 15. Top down
- 19. Narrow focus-structural rigidity (“programmes”)
- 20. Top Down Resources/Processes Broadband Infrastructure for development Additional resources Training and skills development
- 21. Capital
- 24. Bottom Up Various names—community networks, “telecentres”,
- 27. Highly local
- 31. Respond to local needs/problems/opportunities
- 32. Bottom Up Resources/Processes Human capital
- 33. Social capital
- 37. Bottom up/Top Down To scale (for Digital Transformation)-need both
- 38. “ Bottom up” can (and should) mean mobilization at the grassroots in support of “digital empowerment”
- 39. “ Top down” can (and should) mean a supportive enabling regulatory/funding/policy framework
- 40. Original community networking “vision” De-centralized (peer to peer)
- 41. Democratic
- 42. Egalitarian
- 43. ICTs/Mobiles Mobiles pros Ubiquitous
- 44. Low cost
- 45. Engaging young people Cons Physical limitations
- 48. ICTs/Mobiles ICTs pros “ Information elaboration”
- 49. Links to off-line programs Cons Limited dispersal
- 50. Cost
- 51. Can be community based
- 52. ICTs/Mobiles-->Development? Integration? Design “developmental programs” offline based on computers with integration of mobiles
- 53. Mobiles become input/output devices
- 55. Community site/telecentre as organizing/mobilizing focal point
- 56. Broad design process linking back to overall programs
- 58. Community/collective processes—use for collective mobilization
- 59. Success Stories K-Net – First Nations in remote Northern Canada—job creation, e-health, e-administration
- 60. CB Music—e-culture, e-socio-economic development
- 61. E-Bario—Sarawak—e-learning, e-tourism, e-socio-economic development
- 63. Now Where To Go… Where not to go is to develop stand alone services -- these fail and are unsustainable
- 64. Where to go is to build the demand and expectation for effective and efficient service delivery from/to and with the users/communities –
- 65. Enable existing processes/activities using ICTs to make processes more efficient and effective
- 66. Build the ICT component as a facilitator/extender to other activities
- 67. Because… The Real Power of ICTs comes when communities are enabled with Community Based ICTs and where a Community Informatics approach empowers local communities to use ICTs for… Local development
- 72. Effective Use The elements of effective use: Infrastructure
- 75. Content
- 76. Social context
- 77. Organization of social context/animation/leadership
- 79. Lessons Learned for Community ICTs Only bottom up community based strategies work
- 80. Policy plays a key role
- 81. Research plays a significant role
- 82. Partnerships are essential--with governments, private sector, existing institutions,
- 83. Significance of networking for scaling up
- 84. Technology does matter (but not that much)
- 85. Digital Transformation/ Social Transformation The default position for “digital transformation” is “networked individualism”--e.g. Facebook etc.
- 86. Networked individualism is essentially politically disempowering for “social transformation”
- 87. “ Social transformation” is a collective/collaborative phenomenon
- 88. In a digitally enabled society (a “digital society”) the necessary bases for social transformation are communities—physical and virtual
- 89. Community Informatics Resources CI Researchers e-list http://vancouvercommunity.net/lists/info/ciresearchers Journal of Community Informatics
- 90. http://www.ci-journal.net (CI in Brazil: Portugese and English—Dec. 2010) Blog http://gurstein.wordpress.com CRACIN Book—Eds. Clement, Gurstein, Longworth, Shade Connecting Canadians (Jan. 2011?) Prato (Italy) Community Informatics Conference-Oct.
- 91. Michael Gurstein, Ph.D. Centre for Community Informatics Research, Development and Training Vancouver, BC, CANADA http://www.communityinformatics.net [email_address]