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MISTICA: "Community Informatics Researchers.Org"

From: Daniel Pimienta ([email protected])
Date: Fri Oct 10 2003 - 08:38:42 AST

>From: "Michael Gurstein" <[email protected]>
>To: <[email protected]>
>Subject: [gcnp] Formation of "Community Informatics Researchers.Org"
>Date: Thu, 9 Oct 2003 11:50:12 -0400
>
>Community Informatics: Enabling Communities With Information and
>Communications Technologies
>
>At the Many Voices, Many Places - Electronically Enabling Communities
>for An Information Society Colloquium http://www.ccnr.net/prato2003/
>held at the Monash University Centre in Prato, Italy a group of
>participants from some 7 countries and representing a variety of
>universities and research networks agreed to proceed to the creation of
>a formal Community Informatics Research Network (.Org) (CIRN).
>
>There was an agreement by the CIRN Interim Committee of the Whole that
>the organization would be open to participation and membership by
>individuals, institutions, for profit and not for profit enterprises and
>networks, with an active interest and involvement in Community
>Informatics Research and particularly those from Developing Countries.
>The approach agreed to was also that this organisation would seek to
>build a network of the related organizations that for subject, language
>or other reasons feel more comfortable operating on their own. In other
>words it would be pro-actively facilitating the formation of a
>structured open network among CI research groups.
>
>An interim executive steering committee consisting of Michael Gurstein,
>NJIT; Peter Day, U. of Brighton; and Don Schauder, Monash U./Wal Taylor,
>Central Queensland U., and Larry Stillman of Monash U. as the Interim
>Secretary/webmaster was formed to work towards the timely incorporation
>of the group as a not for profit society under the Australian
>corporations act.
>
>In addition, an invitation was extended by Dr. Peter Day and Brighton
>University to host CIRN's first research conference in the spring of
>2004. The Founding conference of CIRN it was agreed, would be hosted by
>Monash University at the Prato Centre in late September 2004.
>
>It was also agreed that the CI Researchers list
>http://vancouvercommunity.net/lists/ciresearchers would be the e-list
>for the organization and that a website based on the design developed by
>CQU would go on line as soon as possible and hosted by Monash U. in
>conjunction with CQU.
>
>Michael Gurstein agreed to provide an interim linkage with the newly
>created CI Research Network of the Commonwealth of Independent States
>formed in conjunction with the St. Petersburg (BIC) conference
>http://communities.org.ru/conference/
>
>Several members of the Interim Committee of the Whole agreed to liase
>with a variety of other CI research networks and specifically the CRACIN
>network in Canada and the network which is currently being created in
>the United States.
>
>It was further agreed that efforts would be undertaken to find resources
>to move forward with the continued development of the Open Archive
>Community Informatics Text Book building on the work of Sergei Stafeev,
>Mike Gurstein and Michel Menou in the publication in English and Russian
>of Community Networking and Community Informatics: Prospects,
>Approaches, Instruments Part 1 of a CI Text book (St. Petersburg, 2003)
>And the website http://www.ci-text.dr.ag/ ....
>
>A statement to be forwarded to the World Summit on the Information
>Society on behalf of CIRN was adopted and will be circulated in a
>subsequent message.
>
>Those with an interest in either affiliating with the Network or
>learning more about it are invited to subscribe to the Research list or
>to the more general Community Informatics interest list.
>
>To subscribe send a message To: [email protected]
>Message: Subscribe CIResearchers
>And/or Communityinformatics
>
>Best,
>
>Peter Day, U. of Brighton
>Michael Gurstein, NJIT
>Don Schauder, Monash U./Wal Taylor, Central Queensland U.

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