Call for Abstracts: JoCI Special Issue on Urban Planning & Community Informatics due 16 August 2013 http://www.urbaninformatics.net/joci/ A forthcoming Special Issue of the Journal of Community Informatics (http://ci-journal.net) will be devoted to ‘Urban Planning and Community Informatics.’ This Special Issue will be guest-edited by an international team of researchers whose urban scholarship intersects with community informatics. For this Special Issue of JoCI, we are inviting the submission of original, unpublished articles. The focus will be on community informatics practices that relate to the following types of urban research areas: urban informatics; urban planning and design; urban studies; urban geography; urban sociology; urban anthropology; and urban technologies. The Journal of Community Informatics (JoCI) is a platform for research of interest to a global network of academics, practitioners, national and multi-lateral policy makers. Community informatics explores applications of ICTs in economic, ecological and socio-cultural development. A community informatics focus seeks to ensure that individuals and communities can take advantage of the opportunities that ICTs can provide, while remaining in control of these technologies and their management. We welcome research articles with themes at the intersections of urban research and community informatics—from a diversity of themes and geographical scales. Articles may be theoretical or practical in nature, but should conform to the scholarly standards as outlined in JoCI’s writing guidelines. Research notes or case studies from the field are also encouraged—including insights or analyses from practitioners and policy makers. This Special Issue will be guest-edited by an international team of scholars with interests in urban studies and community informatics including: Liisa Horelli (Finland), Geisa Bugs (Brazil), Jennifer Cowley (USA), Marcus Foth (Australia), Reinout Kleinhans (The Netherlands), Joanna Saad-Sulonen (Finland/Lebanon/France), David Sadoway (Canada/India/East Asia), Carlos Nunes Silva (Portugal/Africa), and Patrick Sunter (Australia). All research articles will be double blind peer-reviewed. Additional details can be found in the full call for papers at: http://www.urbaninformatics.net/joci/ · Deadline for submission of preliminary abstracts: 16 August 2013 · Deadline for final paper or technical note submissions: 20 October 2013 · Publication target date: Spring 2014 For information about submission requirements, including author guidelines, please visit: http://www.ci-journal.net/index.php/ciej/about/submissions#onlineSubmissions For further information, clarifications, or suggestions, and for submitting short abstracts of papers for consideration, please contact the Special Issue’s Coordinating Editor: Dr Liisa Horelli YTK – Land Use Planning and Urban Studies Group Department of Real Estate, Planning and Geoinformatics Aalto University, Finland liisa.horelli [at] aalto.fi -- Associate Professor Marcus Foth Director, Urban Informatics Research Lab Principal Research Fellow and A/Research Leader, School of Design Queensland University of Technology (CRICOS No. 00213J) 130 Victoria Park Road, Brisbane QLD 4059, Australia m.foth@qut.edu.au – @sunday9pm – http://www.urbaninformatics.net/