Meeting these challenges is crucial as we work to address community
aspirations, capabilities, and problems. We are contributing to this effort
through our current research and development on Community Inquiry Labs
(CILs). A CIL is most importantly a concept, although we are developing webbased
tools that are freely available to anyone wishing to support community
inquiry online (http://inquiry.uiuc.edu/cil). Our ultimate aim is to empower
communities by supporting the development of the next generation of
creative ICT ideas, people, tools, and designs.unpublishedis peer reviewe
