CFP: Making Links Sydney 14/15 Nov 2005 - Putting Technology to Work in the Community Sector
Putting Technology to Work in the Community Sector Sydney, 14th - 15th November 2005 http://communityweb.ngogeeks.com/Abstracts2005.html A conference for community and non-government workers will show it's not only corporate giants and dotcoms that can successfully harness the power of the World Wide Web. Representatives from community agencies and NGOs around the country will come together in Sydney in November to share their experiences of employing information and communication technologies (ICTs) for community building and improved service delivery. Making Links 2005 - "Putting technology to work in the community sector"' will be held on 14 and 15 November 2005 at the University of Technology Sydney (UTS). Participating NGO and community workers will gain an understanding of the application of ICTs in community work, as well as the fundamental tools for website development. Call for papers Papers are invited from community sector or NGO workers with ICT successes - or lessons - to share within the themes: NGOs and IT; Community Building and Social Capital; Web Development; and hands-on technical workshops. Registrations: Open 27 July 2005 Jill Sergeant Website Officer Australian Federation of AIDS Organisations (AFAO) PO Box 51 King St Newtown NSW 2042 Ph: 02 8568 1106 Fax: 02 9557 9867 Switchboard: 02 9557 9399 www.afao.org.au -- Marcus Foth MA(DigitalMedia) BCompSc(Hons) BMultimedia m.foth@qut.edu.au - http://www.vrolik.de/ Research Associate Creative Industries Research and Applications Centre Queensland University of Technology (CRICOS No. 00213J) Creative Industries Precinct, Brisbane QLD 4059, Australia Phone +61 7 3864 3800 - Fax +61 7 3864 3723 http://www.creativeindustries.qut.edu.au/
*** CALL FOR PARTICIPATION (Please forward as appropriate) *** Group 2005 Workshop on: "Sustaining Community: The role and design of incentive mechanisms in online systems" At Group 05: International Conference on Supporting Group Work 6-9 November 2005, Sanibel Island, Florida, USA * THE TOPIC * What makes communities grow and prosper, or wither and die? In this workshop we'll explore this question by taking a close look at how incentive structures interact with short and long term viability. We'll address questions such as "What motivates participants to contribute?" "What social and technical mechanisms support (or deter) contribution?" and "How and to what extent can designers design sustainable communities?" * THE CONTENT * We are interested in open source communities, community-managed discussion spaces like Slashdot, social network-based communities such as Orkut, open content communities like Wikipedia, group blogs, "real world" communities, and other similar environments. * THE PARTICIPANTS * Our hope is to attract participants from a wide range of disciplines including anthropology, computer science, economics, interaction design, psychology, sociology, and so on. * THE FORMAT * Our goal is to raise questions and begin answering them from the divers directions supplied by the approaches of the attendees. The workshop will be highly interactive with minimal presentation of the position papers. * TO SUBMIT * See http://www.acm.org/sigs/siggroup/conferences/group05/SC.html for a complete description and submission information * IMPORTANT DATES * 12 September - Position papers due 24 September - Accept/Reject decisions made 06 November - Workshop Note: The first two dates are provisional; and may change once the early registration deadline is announced. * THE ORGANIZERS * Jason Ellis, Christine Halverson, Tom Erickson IBM T. J. Watson Research Center * FOR MORE INFORMATION * - Full description and information on submission requirements see http://www.acm.org/sigs/siggroup/conferences/group05/SC.html - General information about the Group 2005 conference see http://www.acm.org/sigs/siggroup/conferences/group05/ - To contact the organizers write to group-incentives@jellis.net _______________________________________________ group-incentives mailing list group-incentives@jellis.net http://jellis.net/mailman/listinfo/group-incentives_jellis.net -- ------------------------------------------ Tom Erickson IBM T.J. Watson Research Center Email: snowfall@acm.org (preferred); snowfall@us.ibm.com(IBM confidential) http://www.visi.com/~snowfall/
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Tom Erickson