(Sorry for any duplication. Please forward as appropriate.) The Journal of Community Informatics http://www.ci-journal.net/ (JoCI) is pleased to announce the online availability of its Inaugural Issue http://ci-journal.net/viewissue.php . JoCI is a peer-reviewed Open Archive on-line quarterly journal for and by the Community Informatics research community and produced under the auspices of the Community Informatics Research Network (CIRN) http://www.ci-research.net This Inaugural Issue of JoCI is an invitational response by members of the Editorial Group to give a context to our enterprise through position papers, scholarly papers and other materials. The issue includes: An introduction (in part through video) to the work of K-Net, an aboriginal group in Northern Canada which is innovating in the use of ICT for education, for administration, for health and perhaps most importantly, is demonstrating the way in which ICT truly can enable AND empower communities to move beyond traditional barriers and impediments to find a new and more equitable role in the Information Society. (Beaton) A description of an ambitious current research project examining the impacts and outcomes of government support for community technology in Canada with an overall objective of providing insight toward the future of such programs and their impact on the larger society (Clement, Gurstein, Longford, Luke, Moll, and Shade) A presentation of a most important rural ICT initiative whose current success is transforming large areas of rural India (Jhunjhunwala, Ramachandran, and Bandyopadhyay) An analysis and plan for using a major university in a Less Developed Country (South Africa) as a base for a highly innovative program of CI for community transformation (Erwin and Taylor) A highly significant analysis of the current state of the art with respect to Telecentre development in Latin America and where it might go from here by three key actors in these developments. (Menou, Delgadillo and Stoll) A fine paper examining the theoretical background to community use of ICT in the context of Human Capital development and giving most useful directions for future research as well as community practice towards this end. (Pigg and Crank) A most original and insightful critique of current thinking and approaches to ICT for Development (Robinson) A path breaking approach to applying an analysis drawn from the methods and insights of Social Anthropology to ICT design and development as a response to rural poverty (Salvador) A brave and insightful analysis of the opportunities and risks that are attendant to ICT in a most important but largely unknown part of the world. (Stafeev) and A document presenting the current "state of play" for a leader in supporting ICT use by women in local communities (Webb and Jones) . The second issue which will appear January 1, 2006, will consist of peer reviewed papers on "Sustainability and Community Technology" presented at the recent CIRN Prato conference http://www.ciresearch.net/conferences on this subject. The papers will be revised and edited as per conference feedback and a second round of peer reviews. The third issue scheduled for April 1, 2006 is currently soliciting articles http://ci-journal.net/submissions.php . The fourth issue, scheduled for July 1, 2006 has the tentative theme "Gender and Community Informatics" and will be edited by Lesle Reagen Shade of Concordia University. Each issue will include, in addition to peer reviewed articles, a Review section, documents and reports of CI significance, and commentaries on peer reviewed papers by leading CI practitioners and those with a policy interest in CI and related matters. The Editorial Board (for the Inaugural Issue) Editor-in-Chief Michael B. Gurstein, New Jersey Institute of Technology, Newark, NJ, USA Editor: Reviews Peter Day, University of Brighton, Brighton, UK Editor: Latin America and the Caribbean Michel J. Menou, France Editor: Information Systems Research Donald Schauder, Monash University, Melbourne, Australia Editor: Rural and Remote Wallace Taylor, Cape Technikon Peninsular University, Cape Town, South Africa Editor: Layout and Design Sergei Stafeev, CCNS, St. Petersburg, Russia Editorial Board ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -------- Michael Gurstein, New Jersey Institute of Technology, Newark, NJ, USA Lishan Adam, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia Carlos Afonso, Rede de Informacoes Para o Terceiro Setor, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil Andrew Clement, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada Barbara Craig, Victoria University of Wellington, Wellington, New Zealand Peter Day, University of Brighton, Brighton, UK Fiorella De Cindio, University of Milan, Milan, Italy Joan Durrance, University of Michigan School of Information, Ann Arbor, USA Susana Finquelievich, University of Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires, Argentina Heather Hudson, University of San Francisco, San Francisco, USA Ashok Jhunjhunwala, Indian Institute of Technology, Chennai, India Herbert Kubicek, University of Bremen, Germany Brian Loader, University of Teeside, Middlesborough, UK Stewart Marshall, The University of the West Indies, Barbados Michel Menou, France Kenneth Pigg, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO, USA Madanmohan Rao, Asian Media Information and Communication Centre (AMIC), Singapore Scott Robinson, Universidad Metropolitana, Mexico DF Tony Salvador, Intel Corporation, Portland, OR, USA Donald Schauder, Monash University, Melbourne, Australia Doug Schuler, Evergreen State College, Olympia, WA, USA Leslie Shade, Concordia University, Dept. of Communication Studies, Montreal, Canada Yero Sylla, University of Senegal, SAFEFOD, Dakar Senegal Wallace Taylor, Cape Technikon Peninsular University, Cape Town, South Africa Victor Tischenko, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia Peter van den Besselaar, NIWI, Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Science, Amsterdam, the Netherlands Review Board ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -------- Brian Beaton, Keewaytinook Okimakanak (K-Net), Sioux Lookout, ON, Canada Donald Cameron, Australia Richard Fuchs, International Development Research Centre, Ottawa, Canada Beris Gwynne, Foundation for Development Cooperation, Brisbane, Australia Sergei Stafeev, CCNS, St. Petersburg, Russia Klaus Stoll, President, Fundacion Chasquinet, Ecuador Susan Webb, Community Development Foundation, London, UK