Community Informatics/Community Networking Research Mini-Conference Montreal, Canada, Oct. 8, 2002 (Second Call: Note Revisions) At the recent 'Shaping the Network Society' Conference in Seattle sponsored by CPSR (Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility, http://www.cpsr.org, it was agreed to organize a day long Mini-Conference on Community Informatics/Community Networking Research on Oct. 8 in Montreal, Canada in conjunction with the World Forum on Community Networks (Oct.7- 12 ) <http://globalcn2002.ca> This is a follow-on to a successful series of research panels organized in conjunction with the Global Congress of Community Networks held in Buenos Aires, Argentina, <http://globalcn2001.org> in December 2001. Interested researchers are invited to submit proposals, short position statements, posters, panel sessions, project reports,and/or completed papers for peer review for presentation at the conference and for possible future publication as proceedings or as a special issue of an appropriate journal (remembering that space and time for this event is severely limited). As appropriate, research panels, workshops, and other presentation/discussion formats will be made available. It is also the intention to work initiate a more formalized research CI/CN research network at this meeting. "Community Informatics" is understood as being the study of the use of Information and Communications Technologies to enable community processes and "Community Networking" is understood as the study of community networks, their development, operation and their influence in support of community processes and community empowerment. Among the topics which will be included are: 1. Theoretical background to CI/CN a. Computer Supported Collaborative Work b. Human Computer Interface Studies c. Social Informatics d. Social Shaping of Technology/Actor Network Theory 2. Review of Existing Research a. Meta-analysis of CI/CN oriented project/program research b. Meta-evaluation and evaluation strategies for CI/CN project research c. Methodologies for research 3. Community based E-health initiatives 4. Community networks, community technology centers, telecentres and public access facilities 5. Community based E-enabled environmental and resource management and advocacy initiatives 6. Locally based E-Commerce and E-enabled local/community economic development 7. E-enabled neighborhood management and advocacy initiatives (GIS) 8. Community based E-advocacy initiatives 9. CI/CN and civic authorities/civic development 10. CI/CN oriented software and hardware R&D 11. CI/CN and Open Source 12. CI/CN and public policy including global ICT for development initiatives 13. CI/CN and development in Less Developed Countries 14. CI/CN and national (information infrastructure) policies and programs" 15. CI/CN possibilities, principles and liberatory visions. Travel funding will not be available for participation in this conference. Local arrangements will be provided through a grant from the U.S. National Science Foundation. Proposals should be received no later than July 15 and are to be sent to: Dra. Susana Finquelievich Secretaria de Investigacion Facultad de Ciencias Sociales Universidad de Buenos Aires sfinquel@mail.fsoc.uba.ar Michael Gurstein, Ph.D. (Visiting) Professor: School of Management New Jersey Institute of Technology Newark, NJ gurstein@njit.edu Additional information can be obtained from the (ad hoc) steering group for this mini-conference: Michael Bieber, NJIT, USA -- bieber@homer.njit.edu Fiorella de Cindio, U. of Milan, Italy -- fiorella.de.cindio@rcm.dsi.unimi.it Andrew Clement, U. of Toronto, Canada -- clement@fis.utoronto.ca Peter Day, U. of Brighton, UK -- P.Day@btinternet.com Peter Mambrey, Germany -- mambrey@fit.fraunhofer.de Michel Menou, City Univerity London, UK -- Michel.Menou@wanadoo.fr Ken Pigg, U. of Missouri, USA -- PiggK@missouri.edu <mailto:PiggK@missouri.edu> Doug Schuler, The Evergreen State College, USA -- Douglas@scn.org Wal Taylor, Central Queensland U., Australia -- w.taylor@cqu.edu.au