[Air-L] Online launch of First Mile Special Edition of JoCI - April 4 at 3:30pm Atlantic time

[michael gurstein]

Hello colleagues,

You are invited to an online gathering with participants from Canada, the
USA including Hawaii and Alaska, Australia and France. The event will take
place on Friday, April 4 for two hours, starting at 15:30 Atlantic Canada
time. The agenda is below.

The occasion is the launch of the special issue of the Journal of Community
Informatics (JoCI) on the First Mile of broadband connectivity - communities
doing it for themselves. Authors of the article will speak about their
research and the communities they are working with. We will also launch the
Community Informatics declaration: An Internet for the Common Good.

Please join us for this exciting and informative event by watching the live
stream and participating in the chat, at this link that will go live at the
start time of 15:30 Atlantic Canada time on April 4:
http://live.knet.ca/fni

The JoCI special issue will be launched April 4 at this link:
http://ci-journal.net/index.php/ciej

An Internet for the Common Good: A Community Informatics Declaration
http://tinyurl.com/kfaacqn

Visit the First Mile web site at
http://meeting.knet.ca/mp19/mod/book/view.php?id=4339 for additional
information.

Agenda - April 4, 2014 - Atlantic Canada times shown

15:30-15:40: Susan O'Donnell
*Welcome and introductions
*Purpose of the gathering
*Context of JoCI issue (and editorial)

15:40-15:45: Aljona Zorina 
*Assistant Professor, Information & Operation Management Department ESCP
Europe, Paris, France
*Building Broadband Infrastructure from the Grassroots:  the Case of Home
LANs in Belarus

15:45-15:50: Allan Bly
*Vitel, Edmonton, Canada
*Rural Communications: What is a Rural Municipality's Role?

15:50-15:55: Brian Beaton
*Graduate Student, Faculty of Education, University of New Brunswick,
Fredericton, Canada
*The First Mile Approach to Community Services in Fort Severn First Nation

15:55-16:00: Rob McMahon
*Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Sociology, University of New Brunswick
Vancouver, Canada
*From the First Mile to Outer Space: Tamaani Satellite Internet in Northern
Quebec

16:00-16:05: Susan O'Donnell
*Researcher and Adjunct Professor, Department of Sociology, University of
New Brunswick, Fredericton, Canada
*Developing an e-Community Approach to Community Services in Kitigan Zibi
Anishinabeg First Nation

16:05-16:10: Michael Karanicolas
*Legal Officer for the Centre for Law and Democracy, Halifax, Canada
*Bridging the Divide: Understanding and Implementing Access to the Internet
as a Human Right

16:10 - 16:15: Nadine I. Kozak
*Assistant Professor at the School of Information Studies, University of
Wisconsin, Milwaukee, USA
*Local Communities and Home Rule: Extending the Alberta SuperNet to Unserved
Areas

16:15-16:20: Heather Hudson 
*Professor, Institute of Social and Economic Research, University of Alaska
Anchorage, USA
*The First Mile Connectivity Consortium and Digital Regulation in Canada
(#1106)

16:20-16:25: Jenifer Sunrise Winter, Assistant Professor 
Wayne Buente Assistant Professor
Patricia Amaral Buskirk Assistant Professor
*School of Communications, University of Hawaii, Honolulu, USA
*Opportunities and Challenges for First-mile Development in Rural Hawaiian
Communities

16:25-16:30: Helena Grunfeld 
*Research Scholar at the Centre for Strategic Economic Studies, Victoria
University, Melbourne, Australia
*ICT for sustainable development: an example from Cambodia

16:30-16:35 Michael Gurstein
*Managing Director, Centre for Community Informatics Research, Development
and Training, Vancouver, Canada
*Introduction to "An internet for the common good - a Community Informatics
declaration" (http://tinyurl.com/kfaacqn) 

17:15-17:30: Susan O'Donnell
*Discussion/questions
*Thanks and wrap-up

 

Brian Beaton

Research Associate, Keewaytinook Okimakanak Research Institute

Researcher, First Nations Innovation Project

Graduate Student, Faculty of Education, Critical Studies, University of New
Brunswick

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