[Air-l] summary of responses about community-networks

[Steven Clift]

I would also take a peak at:

http://onlinedemocracy.winona.org/startup.html
http://www.e-democracy.org/mpls

Traditional CNs from the Free-Net era never recovered from the web.  
Once they shifted into content or the provision of online services to 
local organizations from bulletin board interactivity among local 
people they pretty much died.

A growing trend (outside the U.S.) is the notion of community portals 
or gateways which are often funded by government.  It is within this 
context that local online interactivity could be built.

More on local interactivity:

http://www.publicus.net/articles/future.html#Local

Other e-lists on this topic (you'll have to search for the subscribe 
pages): 

Globalcn2000 at yahoogroups.com, conet at ukco.org.uk, members at afcn.org, 
COMMUNET at LIST.UVM.EDU, eacn at ukco.org.uk


Cheers,

Steven Clift
http://www.publicus.net


On 16 Jan 2002 at 1:53, Mete Yildiz wrote:

> 
> Hi,
> 
> I would like to thank everyone who responded to my inquiry about community
> networks. I would like to share the summary of the responses with the
> group so that future inquirers about the subject might use the archive as
> AIR-L's collective memory.
> 
> Some of these e-mails were personal correspondance. I hope it is Ok to
> share the information portion with the group. I edited the e-mails
> slightly. I hope others will benefit from them as I did.
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Mete
> 
> ---------------------------------------------									
> Mete Yildiz
> 
> Ph.D. Student, Public Affairs
> School of Public and Environmental Affairs
> Indiana University Bloomington
> 
> ---------------------------------------------
> 
> Original Question:
> 
> All kinds of resources about (online) community networks.
> 
> Responses:
> 
> 1. from Sergey Veselovsky
> 
> You may want to look at some surveys like the following and search "online
> communities" at amazon.com. Probably it's worth to subscribe for a
> discussion group of online community professionals at
> http://www.e-mint.org.uk
> 
> - Barry Wellman et al,"Does the Internet Increase, Decrease or
>  Supplement Social Capital? Social Networks,
>  Participation and Community Commitment"
>  Revised Version American Behavioral
>  Scientist, 45, 3 (November 2001), pp. 437-56.
> available via
> http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~wellman/publications/index.html
> 
> - Pew Internet & American Life Project, "Online Communities: Networks that
> nurture
> long-distance relationships and local ties",
> http://www.pewinternet.org/reports/toc.asp?Report=47
> 
> - UCLA, "Surveying the Digital Future",
> http://www.ccp.ucla.edu/pages/internet-report.asp
> 
> 2. From Christina Courtright
> 
> There's Michael Gurstein's mailing list on community informatics:
> write to
>         Majordomo at vcn.bc.ca
> and in the body write
>         subscribe communityinformatics
> Or you can visit the Web site that hosts the list
>         http://www.vcn.bc.ca/groups/
> 
> 3. From Valdis Krebs
> 
> IMHO, the most advanced thinking in community networking is done by June
> Holley
> and her organization: Appalachian Center for Economic Networks in Athens,
> OH --
> http://www.acenetworks.org
> 
> They have even mapped out the small business/resource networks in the SE
> Ohio
> area [> 200 organizations and individuals] and are keeping network metrics
> as
> the networks evolve and change.  They are concentrating on three specific
> relationships/networks:
> 1) Collaboration -- who works with whom
> 2) Expertise -- who seeks out whom for expert advice and mentoring
> 3) Innovation -- who gets ideas from whom, and who do they, in turn, share
> them
> with
> 
> 4. From Kim Gregson
> 
> virtual communities annotated bibliography:
> http://php.indiana.edu/~kgregson/virtual_communities.html
> 
> community networking annotated bib:
> http://php.indiana.edu/~kgregson/main_menu.html
> 
> bibliography and online links for a papr i did with another SLIS grad
> student (Charlotte Ford) on evaluating community nets
> http://php.indiana.edu/~kgregson/eval_bib.html
> 
> I think there's a new book or a new version of his classic, by Howard
> Rheingold on community networks
> 
> 5. From Nick Jankowski
> 
> 
> See the following URL for information on a upcoming conference concerning,
> in part, community networks: http://baserv.uci.kun.nl/~jankow/Euricom
> 
> 6. From David Silver
> 
> 
> Thorsten Lohbeck compiled a massive bibliography focusing on community
> networks.  It can be found here:
> 
>   http://orgwis.gmd.de/%7emambrey/cn_bibliogr.html
> 
> 7. From Tomoaki Watanabe
> 
> The definite book on the subject is (still) Doug Schler's "New Community
> Networks: Wired for change" ACM Press, 1996. 
> 
> "Cyberdemocracy: Technology, cities, and civic networks" Eds. by
> Rosa Tsagarousianou, Damian Tambini and Cathy Bryan. Routledge, 1998.
> This book includes interesting chapters on e-government, participatory
> democracy side of comnets.
> 
> Journal articles:
> check
> php.indiana.edu/~twatanab/citations.rtf
> 
> Some good conferences:
> I would recommend to check out TPRC's archive section, too.
> www.tprc.org -> archive
> in 2001 and 2000, at least, they had some papers on community networks.
> Maybe other years as well.
> 
> INET in the last year had a session on community networks, too. The papers
> were interesting.
> 
> http://www.isoc.org/isoc/conferences/inet/01/
> 
> Other famous conferences include DIAC (organized by Doug Shuler, the
> authoer of the definite book I mentioned first), and Global Community
> Networking (GCN). 
> 
> Web sites:
> 
> Blacksburg Electronic Village's web site has some usage analysis and other
> reports. This and Canada's National Capital Net, Amsterdam's Digital City
> are the most well-documented case studies. These are
> published both online and on paper - some are only on paper. 
> 
> U Michigan's school of information has a good project called Community
> Connector. 
> 
> Benton Foundation, a non-profit telecom-policy watchdog, has a page on
> community networking, as well. Their home page is www.benton.org. They are
> more interested in digital divide issue.
> 
> 
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