The SHARC framework:utilizing personal dropbox accounts to provide a scalable solution to the storage and sharing of community generated locative media

The emergence of personal cloud storage services provides a new paradigm for storing and sharing data. In this paper we present the design of the SHARC framework and in particular focus on the utilization of personal Dropbox accounts to provide a scalable solution to the storage and sharing of community generated locative media relating to a community's Cultural Heritage. In addition to scalability issues, the utilization of personal Dropbox storage also supports 'sense of ownership' (relating to community media) which has arisen as an important requirement during our on-going 'research-in-the-wild' working with the rural village community of Wray and involving public display deployments to support the display and sharing of community photos and stories. While the framework presented here is currently being tested with a particular place-based community (Wray), it has been designed to provide a general solution that should support other place-based communities

Community Informatics and Systems Design

Community Informatics and Systems Desig

Tsunami Warning Systems and the Last Mile

Tsunami Warning Systems and the Last Mil

Is There A Wireless Community Informatics?

Is There A Wireless Community Informatics

Q: Where is the Wealth of Nations? A: In Communities.

Q: Where is the Wealth of Nations? A: In Communitie

Repurposing Post Offices as Community Innovation Hubs: Digital Inclusion, Equity and De-concentration

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A Note on these "Notes from the Field"

A Note on these "Notes from the Field

Editorial: Welcome to the Journal of Community Informatics

Welcome to the Journal of Community Informatic

Editorial: Community Informatics in Brazil

Editoria

IS Relevance: Are Communities the Business Beyond Business?

The advent of very low cost Personal Computing and Internet- based digital communication presents the opportunity and requirement for universally usable and community or end-user derived Information Systems. Community Informatics is both a theoretical and practical approach to this area and includes a response to the Digital Divide and ways of developing community based and universally accessible IS applications. In this way IS systems can be developed which are derived from internal models of community process and consensus, alongside Management Information Systems that incorporate models based on organizational hierarchy and command and control processes