-----Original Message----- From: Michael Gurstein [mailto:gurstein@gmail.com] Sent: Friday, April 04, 2014 9:24 AM To: Michael Gurstein Subject: [JoCI] Special Issue: Building the First Mile of Broadband Connectivity - Commun + Invitation to Online Launch Readers: The Journal of Community Informatics has just published its latest issue at http://ci-journal.net/index.php/ciej. We invite you to review the Table of Contents here and then visit our web site to review articles and items of interest. We also invite you to an online launch of the special issue of the Journal of Community Informatics (JoCI) on the First Mile of Broadband Connectivity - Communities Doing It for Themselves. Authors will speak about their research and the communities they are working with. We will also launch the Community Informatics declaration: An Internet for the Common Good. Please join us for this exciting and informative event by watching the live stream and participating in the chat. The event will go live at 15:30 Atlantic Canada time on April 4: http://live.knet.ca/fni Thanks for the continuing interest in our work, Michael Gurstein Ph.D. Editor in Chief: Journal of Community Informatics, Vancouver CANADA Phone 604-602-0624 gurstein@gmail.com The Journal of Community Informatics Vol 10, No 2 (2014): Special Issue: Building the First Mile Table of Contents http://ci-journal.net/index.php/ciej/issue/view/43 Editorial -------- The First Mile of Brodband Connectivity in Communities: Introduction to the Special Issue Rob McMahon, Duncan Philpot, Susan O'Donnell, Brian Beaton, Tim Whiteduck, Kevin Burton, Michael Gurstein The Multistakeholder Model, Neo-liberalism and Global (Internet) Governance Michael Gurstein Points of View -------- The Ecology of Community Networking Richard Lowenberg Articles -------- The First Mile Approach to Community Services in Fort Severn First Nation Matthew Kakekaspan, Susan O'Donnell, Brian Beaton, Brian Walmark, Kerri Gibson Bridging the Divide: Understanding and Implementing Access to the Internet as a Human Right Michael Karanicolas Understanding Broadband Infrastructure Development in Remote and Rural Communities – a Staged and Reflexive Approach Ingjerd Skogseid, Ivar Petter Grøtte, Geir Liavåg Strand First Mile Challenges to Last Mile Rhetoric: Exploring the Discourse between Remote and Rural First Nations and the Telecom Industry Duncan Philpot, Brian Beaton, Tim Whiteduck ICT for sustainable development: an example from Cambodia Helena Grunfeld

From the First Mile to Outer Space: Tamaani Satellite Internet in Northern Quebec Rob McMahon, Thomassie Mangiok

Opportunities and Challenges for First-mile Development in Rural Hawaiian Communities Jenifer Sunrise Winter, Wayne Buente, Patricia Amaral Buskirk Developing an e-Community Approach to Community Services in Kitigan Zibi Anishinabeg First Nation Gilbert Whiteduck, Anita Tenasco, Susan O'Donnell, Tim Whiteduck, Emily Lockhart Local Communities and Home Rule: Extending the Alberta SuperNet to Unserved Areas Nadine I Kozak The Cancellation of the Community Access Program and the Digital Divide(s) in Canada: Lessons Learned and Future Prospects Chris Blanton An African Rural Internet Network, and its interactions with Academics Gertjan van Stam, Darelle van Greunen Notes from the field -------- Building Broadband Infrastructure from the Grassroots: the Case of Home LANs in Belarus Aljona Zorina, William H. Dutton GoFred: Municipally-Owned ICT Utilities in Fredericton, New Brunswick Mike Richard, Duncan Philpot Rural Communications – What is a Rural Municipality’s Role? Allan Bly Building First Nation Owned and Managed Fibre Networks across Quebec Tim Whiteduck, Brian Beaton Settler Colonialism and First Nations e-Communities in Northwestern Ontario Brian Beaton, Peter Campbell Information and Communication Technology for Education in an Algonquin First Nation in Quebec Emily Lockhart, Anita Tenasco, Tim Whiteduck, Susan O'Donnell The First Mile Connectivity Consortium and Digital Regulation in Canada Rob McMahon, Heather Hudson, Lyle Fabian ________________________________________________________________________ The Journal of Community Informatics http://www.ci-journal.net