Editorial: Welcome to the Journal of Community Informatics

Welcome to the Journal of Community Informatic

Editorial: Putting Our Work in Context

Editorial: Putting Our Work in Contex

Community Informatics and the World Summit on the Information Society

Community Informatics and the World Summit on the Information Societ

Enabling the Local as a Fundamental Development Strategy

Enabling the Local as a Fundamental Development Strateg

Open data: Empowering the empowered or effective data use for everyone?

This paper takes a supportive but critical look at “open data” from the perspective of its possible impact on the poor and marginalized and concludes that there may be cause for concern in the absence of specific measures being taken to ensure that there are supports for ensuring a wide basis of opportunity for “effective data use”. The paper concludes by providing a seven element model for how effective data use can be achieved

The Journal of

Submissions are welcome through the Journal’s website. The Journal of Community Informatics is sponsored by the Community Informatics Research Network (CIRN) The Journal of Community Informatics wishes to thank the following organizations for their support