The Journal of Community Informatics (http://www.ci-journal.net/)
(JoCI) is pleased to announce the online availability of its
Inaugural Issue http://ci-journal.net/viewissue.php

JoCI is a peer-reviewed Open Archive on-line quarterly journal for
and by the Community Informatics research community and produced
under the auspices of the Community Informatics Research Network
(CIRN)
http://www.ci-research.net

This Inaugural Issue of JoCI is an invitational response by members of
the Editorial Group to give a context to our enterprise through
position papers, scholarly papers and other materials.

The issue includes:

An introduction (in part through video) to the work of K-Net, an
aboriginal group in Northern Canada which is innovating in the use of
ICT for education, for administration, for health and perhaps most
importantly, is demonstrating the way in which ICT truly can enable
AND empower communities to move beyond traditional barriers and
impediments to find a new and more equitable role in the Information
Society. (Beaton)

A description of an ambitious current research project examining the
impacts and outcomes of government support for community technology in
Canada with an overall objective of providing insight toward the
future of such programs and their impact on the larger society
(Clement, Gurstein, Longford, Luke, Moll, and Shade)

A presentation of a most important rural ICT initiative whose current
success is transforming large areas of rural India (Jhunjhunwala,
Ramachandran, and Bandyopadhyay)

An analysis and plan for using a major university in a Less Developed
Country (South Africa) as a base for a highly innovative program of CI
for community transformation (Erwin and Taylor)

A highly significant analysis of the current state of the art with
respect to Telecentre development in Latin America and where it might
go from here by three key actors in these developments. (Menou,
Delgadillo and Stoll)

A fine paper examining the theoretical background to community use of
ICT in the context of Human Capital development and giving most useful
directions for future research as well as community practice towards
this end. (Pigg and Crank)

A most original and insightful critique of current thinking and
approaches to ICT for Development (Robinson)

A path breaking approach to applying an analysis drawn from the
methods and insights of Social Anthropology to ICT design and
development as a response to rural poverty (Salvador)

A brave and insightful analysis of the opportunities and risks that
are attendant to ICT in a most important but largely unknown part of
the world. (Stafeev) and

A document presenting the current "state of play" for a leader in
supporting ICT use by women in local communities (Webb and Jones) .

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The second issue which will appear January 1, 2006, will consist of
peer reviewed papers on "Sustainability and Community Technology"
presented at the recent CIRN Prato conference
(http://www.ciresearch.net/conferences) on this subject. The papers
will be revised and edited as per conference feedback and a second
round of peer reviews.

The third issue scheduled for April 1, 2006 is currently soliciting
articles
http://ci-journal.net/submissions.php

The fourth issue, scheduled for July 1, 2006 has the tentative
theme "Gender and Community Informatics" and will be edited by Lesle
Reagen Shade of Concordia University.

Each issue will include, in addition to peer reviewed articles, a
Review section, documents and reports of CI significance, and
commentaries on peer reviewed papers by leading CI practitioners and
those with a policy interest in CI and related matters.

The Editorial Board (for the Inaugural Issue)

Editor-in-Chief
Michael B. Gurstein, New Jersey Institute of Technology, Newark, NJ,
USA


Editor: Reviews
Peter Day, University of Brighton, Brighton, UK
Editor: Latin America and the Caribbean
Michel J. Menou, France
Editor: Information Systems Research
Donald Schauder, Monash University, Melbourne, Australia
Editor: Rural and Remote
Wallace Taylor, Cape Technikon Peninsular University, Cape Town, South
Africa
Editor: Layout and Design
Sergei Stafeev, CCNS, St. Petersburg, Russia

Editorial Board
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Michael Gurstein, New Jersey Institute of Technology, Newark, NJ, USA
Lishan Adam, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
Carlos Afonso, Rede de Informacoes Para o Terceiro Setor, Rio de
Janeiro, Brazil
Andrew Clement, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada
Barbara Craig, Victoria University of Wellington, Wellington, New
Zealand
Peter Day, University of Brighton, Brighton, UK
Fiorella De Cindio, University of Milan, Milan, Italy
Joan Durrance, University of Michigan School of Information, Ann
Arbor, USA
Susana Finquelievich, University of Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires,
Argentina
Heather Hudson, University of San Francisco, San Francisco, USA
Ashok Jhunjhunwala, Indian Institute of Technology, Chennai, India
Herbert Kubicek, University of Bremen, Germany
Brian Loader, University of Teeside, Middlesborough, UK
Stewart Marshall, The University of the West Indies, Barbados
Michel Menou, France
Kenneth Pigg, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO, USA
Madanmohan Rao, Asian Media Information and Communication Centre
(AMIC), Singapore
Scott Robinson, Universidad Metropolitana, Mexico DF
Tony Salvador, Intel Corporation, Portland, OR, USA
Donald Schauder, Monash University, Melbourne, Australia
Doug Schuler, Evergreen State College, Olympia, WA, USA
Leslie Shade, Concordia University, Dept. of Communication Studies,
Montreal, Canada
Yero Sylla, University of Senegal, SAFEFOD, Dakar Senegal
Wallace Taylor, Cape Technikon Peninsular University, Cape Town, South
Africa Victor Tischenko, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia
Peter van den Besselaar, NIWI, Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and
Science, Amsterdam, the Netherlands


Review Board
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Brian Beaton, Keewaytinook Okimakanak (K-Net), Sioux Lookout, ON,
Canada

Donald Cameron, Australia
Richard Fuchs, International Development Research Centre, Ottawa,
Canada

Beris Gwynne, Foundation for Development Cooperation, Brisbane,
Australia
Sergei Stafeev, CCNS, St. Petersburg, Russia
Klaus Stoll, President, Fundacion Chasquinet, Ecuador
Susan Webb, Community Development Foundation, London, UK