CALL FOR PAPERS Community Informatics Minitrack (http://www.cis.njit.edu/~bieber/hicss02-cfp.html) general topics: Community Informatics and Virtual Communities at the 35th Hawaii International Conference on Systems Sciences (http://www.hicss.org/HICSS_35/apahome35.htm) Hilton Waikoloa Village, Kona, Hawaii (Big Island) January 7-10, 2002 Extended Deadline for Submissions: June 19, 2001 (Virtual) Community Informatics 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. 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. For further information, see http://www.hicss.org/HICSS_35/apahome35.htm Minitrack Chairs: Roger Harris, Universiti Malaysia Sarawak, Roger@fit.unimas.my Doug Vogel, City University of Hong Kong, isdoug@is.cityu.edu.hk Michael Bieber, New Jersey Institute of Technology, bieber@njit.edu Wal Taylor, Central Queensland University, w.taylor@cqu.edu.au Michael Gurstein, Technical University of British Columbia, gurstein@techbc.ca