Apologies for cross-postings Best regards, Michel J. Menou mailto:Michel.Menou@wanadoo.fr This is a forwarded message From: Michael Bieber <bieber@homer.njit.edu> To: Mike Gurstein <mgurst@vcn.bc.ca>, Michel Menou <Michel.Menou@wanadoo.fr> Date: Monday, June 23, 2003, 5:25:28 PM Subject: CFP: Cmty & Tech 2003 Workshop - (Virtual) Community Informatics ===8<==============Original message text=============== Call for Participation (Virtual) Community Informatics Workshop held in conjunction with the International Conference on Communities and Technologies (C&T 2003) Amsterdam, the Netherlands Friday September 19, 2003 http://is.njit.edu/ci-workshop-ct2003/ We cordially invite you to participate in the (Virtual) Community Informatics Workshop, to be held the first day of the C&T 2003 Conference. Researchers, students and practitioners interested in the areas of community informatics, virtual communities and communities of practice are welcome to submit either a position statement or a full paper for presentation. People are also welcome to attend without a position paper. (Virtual) Community Informatics lies at two cross-roads: bringing together people concerned with electronically enabling communities: local, virtual and Communities of Practice; and structuring collaborations between researchers and practitioners, including industry, in these three domains. (Virtual) Community Informatics promotes the cross-fertilization of ideas and experience found at this cross-roads, bringing together researchers and practitioners from many varied disciplines. Workshop Agenda We expect the discussion during the workshop to address the following questions, among others: - What interests should researchers and practitioners jointly have in community-support technologies? - How should we best to apply ICTs to support communities? - Which technologies best satisfy a community's tasks and needs (and the tasks and needs of individual members, for knowledge sharing and learning, etc.)? - What tasks and needs cannot be met with current technologies, and thus indicate new technologies that need to be developed? - How do we evaluate community technologies and their use? In general we are concerned with what researchers and practitioners in Virtual and Local communities can learn from the other regarding community technology. We shall look for collaboration opportunities that exist for both to come together regarding community technological support. Workshop Program Overview - keynote address - overview of and current issues in Community Informatics - paper presentations - panel of practitioners and researchers from both virtual communities and local communities - general discussion The workshop's focus will be on opportunities for technological support of both virtual and local communities. Deadlines: Full Papers are due July 15 Position Papers are due August 18 For further information and submission details, please see the workshop Web site: http://is.njit.edu/ci-workshop-ct2003/ --- Stay Informed on (Virtual) Community Informatics If you would be interested in further developments concerning (Virtual) Community Informatics, please email Michael Bieber (bieber@oak.njit.edu) or Michael Gurstein (gurstein@njit.edu). ===8<===========End of original message text===========