Friends, Upon my return from recent travels I was very excited to find waiting in my bushel of mail: "Community Development: the Journal of the Community Development Society, vol 36, No 1, special issue on "Community Informatics and Community Development" with Kenneth Pigg as Guest Editor. Unfortunately the abstracts are not available online (yet?)… but I hope that the titles and authors I will list will prompt you to consider how we in the broader Community ICT field can work more closely together with organizations such as the Community Development Society: http://www.comm-dev.org Their conference will be next June in St. Louis, and is themed "Communities that Click" … unfortunately their site indicates that the call for abstracts closed Oct 31… but I am sure that committed and interested parties can be accomodated… it would be really great for Community Informatics, Community Networking, CTC and Community Development folks to connect there. We really are in an era of a convergences. Titles and authors in this special issue: Introduction: Community Informatics and community Development …. Kenneth E. Pigg Bowling Alone and Online Together: Social Capital in E-Communities …. James K. Scott & Thomas G. Johnson Library and Information Science (LIS) and Community Development: The Use of Community ICT towards a Social Equity Agenda …. Bharat Mehra Information Technology and Community-Level Socio-Economic Development … Greg Laudeman Internet Purchases by Rural Residents: Implications for Community Development … Norman Walzer & Justin Colavito Do Information and Communication Technologies Promote Rural Economic Development? .… Kenneth E Pigg & Laura D. Crank Participatory Action Research for Electronic Community Networking Projects … Larry Stillman Bulding Knowledge, Buidling Community: Integrating Internet Access to Secondary Data as Part of the Commity Development Process … Julie N. Zimmerman and Alissa Meyer The Technology Opportunities Program (TOP): Networking our Nation -- A Decade of Lessons Learned … Amy Borgstrom, Don Druker & Judith Sparrow A good number of recognizable names! The Journal is avialble with membership in CDS, but I can't find info at the moment as to ordering individual copies by other means…. Regards, MM ____________________________________________________________________________ Michael Maranda President, The Association For Community Networking (AFCN) http://www.afcn.org Executive Director, CTCNet Chicago Chapter http://www.ctcnetchicago.org Co-Chair, Illinois Community Technology Coalition (ilCTC) http://www.ilctc.org Vice President, CAAELII http://www.caaelii.org Vice President, NPOTechs http://www.npotechs.org Attend the Illinois Community Technology Conference, November 16-17, 2005. http://www.ctcnetchicago.org/conference