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<div><font color="#000000"><b>CALL FOR PAPERS</b></font></div>
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<div><font color="#000000"><b>Community Informatics Minitrack</b>
(http://www.cis.njit.edu/~bieber/hicss02-cfp.html)</font></div>
<div><font color="#000000">general topics: Community Informatics
and Virtual Communities</font></div>
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<div><font color="#000000">at the</font> 35th Hawaii International
Conference on Systems Sciences
(http://www.hicss.org/HICSS_35/apahome35.htm)<br>
Hilton Waikoloa Village, Kona, Hawaii (Big Island)<br>
January 7-10, 2002</div>
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<div>Extended Deadline for Submissions: June 19, 2001</div>
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<div><font color="#000000"><b>(Virtual) Community
Informatics</b></font></div>
<div><font size="-1" color="#000000">This mini-track provides one of
the key international platforms relating to issues concerned with
community informatics (CI), the study of the application of
Information and Communications Technologies (ICT) to the social,
economic, political or cultural goals of communities. We take a
wide view of community informatics so as to include relevance to
developing as well as developed countries and rural as well as urban
communities. As such CI is a technology strategy or discipline which
links economic and social development efforts at the community level
with emerging opportunities in numerous business, societal and
personal domains.</font></div>
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<div><font size="-1" color="#000000">There is a considerable interest
in linking CI with the remarkably parallel processes of "virtual"
communities. The dialogue between those with an interest in
"geo-communities" and those concerned with "virtual communities"
proved to be an exceptionally rich one at HICSS-34 and it is proposed
to extend and deepen that dialogue at HICSS-35.</font></div>
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<div><font size="-1" color="#000000">For further information,
see</font><font size="-1">
http://www.hicss.org/HICSS_35/apahome35.htm</font></div>
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</font><font size="-1" color="#000000"><b>Minitrack
Chairs:</b></font></div>
<div><font size="-2" color="#000000"><b>Roger Harris</b>, Universiti
Malaysia Sarawak,</font><font size="-2" color="#0000FF"><u>
Roger@fit.unimas.my</u></font><font size="-2"
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<div><font size="-2" color="#000000"><b>Doug Vogel</b>, City
University of Hong Kong,</font><font size="-2" color="#0000FF"><u>
isdoug@is.cityu.edu.hk</u></font></div>
<div><font size="-2" color="#000000"><b>Michael Bieber</b>, New Jersey
Institute of Technology,</font><font size="-2" color="#0000FF"><u>
bieber@njit.edu</u></font></div>
<div><font size="-2" color="#000000"><b>Wal Taylor</b>, Central
Queensland University,</font><font size="-2" color="#0000FF"><u>
w.taylor@cqu.edu.au</u></font></div>
<div><font size="-2" color="#000000"><b>Michael Gurstein</b>,
Technical University of British Columbia,</font><font size="-2"
color="#0000FF"><u> gurstein@techbc.ca</u></font></div>
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