Community Informatics: Integrating Action, Research and Learning

摘要

Information and communication technologies (ICTs), from the Internet to the latest personal computing devices, are often credited with improving international understanding. They are also supposed to support collaboration, creativity, learning and new forms of expression and social action. Yet the world seems engulfed in divides - of age, race, culture, language, beliefs, income, gender, knowledge and nationality - which are creating classes and identities that threaten the basic fabric of community life.