Community Informatics

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.\n\nAreas such as SMEs and electronic commerce, community and civic networks, electronic democracy and online participation are among a few of the areas affected. Community Informatics: Enabling Communities with Information and Communications Technologies 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.Community Informatics is written by Michael Gurstein and published by Idea Group Publishing. ISBNs for Community Informatics are 9781930708495, 1930708491 and the print ISBNs are 9781878289698, 1878289691.