Community informatics enabling communities with information and communications technologies /

• Corporate Author: IGI Global.
• Other Authors: Gurstein, Michael.
• Format: Electronic
• Language: English
• Published: Hershey, Pa. : IGI Global (701 E. Chocolate Avenue, Hershey, Pennsylvania, 17033, USA), c2000.
• Subjects: Community life > Technological innovations.; Computer networks > Social aspects.; Electronic villages (Computer networks); Information society.
• Online Access: View fulltext via EzAccess
• Physical Description: electronic texts (iii, 596 p. : ill.) : digital files.; Also available in print.
• Format: Mode of access: World Wide Web.
• Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• ISBN: 9781930708495 (ebook); 9781878289698 (hardcover)
• Access: Restricted to subscribers or individual electronic text purchasers.

Community Informatics is developing as an approach for linking economic and social development efforts at the community level to the opportunities that information and communication's technologies present. Areas such as SMEs and electronic commerce, community and civic networks, electronic democracy and online participation are among a few of the areas affected. This books is an introduction to the discipline of community informatics. Issues such as trends, controversies, challenges and opportunities facing the community application of information and communications technologies into the millennium are studied.