Special Issue on Biological Information and Communication Technology

2011 ◽  
Vol 2 (2-3) ◽  
pp. 85-87
Author(s):  
Tadashi Nakano ◽  
Junichi Suzuki
Keyword(s):  
Information And Communication Technology ◽  
Communication Technology ◽  
Biological Information ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Information And Communication

ICTs for Community Development: Bridging Conceptual, Theoretical, and Methodological Boundaries

2020 ◽  
Vol 64 (13) ◽  
pp. 1803-1817 ◽  
Author(s):  
Francesca Comunello ◽  
Simone Mulargia ◽  
Mauro Sarrica
Keyword(s):  
Community Development ◽  
Information And Communication Technology ◽  
Communication Technology ◽  
Sociocultural Factors ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Technological Artifacts ◽  
Information And Communication ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Ict For Development ◽  
Shed Light

The aim of this special issue is to collect and put into dialogue theoretical, methodological, critical, and applied contributions dealing with the variety of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) uses in community development. In this introduction to the special issue, we first provide the readers with a quick overview of the field, conducted by analyzing the lexicon of titles and abstracts published in the past few years in information and communication technology for development journals. We will then briefly elaborate on the concept of “users” as a pivotal dimension that can shed light on the complex interlinkages between technological artifacts and sociocultural factors involved in ICT usage. The focus on user, in fact, highlights some relevant issues concerning the relation between ICT, people and communities. Drawing on these premises, the papers collected in the special issue will then be briefly described. These contributions come from a variety of theoretical and methodological approaches, include the uptake of innovative technologies as well as top-down interventions, and focus on different regions of the world. The cross-fertilization and the range of disciplines included in this special issue result in a kaleidoscope in which different facets can be mixed, showing the individual, community, and societal aspects of community use of ICT for development.

scholarly journals Introduction

2013 ◽  
Vol 9 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Susana Finquelievich ◽  
Mariana Salgado
Keyword(s):  
Social Networks ◽  
Information And Communication Technologies ◽  
Information And Communication Technology ◽  
Technological Innovation ◽  
Communication Technology ◽  
Technological Development ◽  
Technical Innovation ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Information And Communication ◽  
Living Labs

Launching our Call for papers on the role of users in socio-technical innovation has been similar to throwing a bottle with a message into the sea.  Who would find it, and how many researchers, in the vast shores of social studies on Information Society, would answer it? What would be the “catch”, in terms of research results, of understanding about the routes in which individuals and groups appropriate and turn information and communication technology useful for their own specific practices? The Call for Papers itself turned into a kind of practical research on how users are relevant regarding socio-technical innovation. A number of colleagues have answered this Call, proving the deep interest which exists in the Community Informatics world about the analysis of the processes through which specialists observe the innovations carried on by communities or individuals and integrate them into new products. In the last decades studies and experience have shown that users matter in regards to technological innovation. Books such as "The Co-Construction of Users and Technology[1]” analyse the creative capacity of users to shape technology in all phases, from design to implementation. Lately, citizen´s labs are also trying to integrate individuals and communities to technological innovation. They try to combine the old “collaboratory” concept launched in the 1990s in academic environments, or virtual laboratories, where scientists collaborate though networking, with the concept of citizens´ networks, in which citizens collaborate in a digital environment for various uses, and that have become freshly popular through social networks such as Facebook or Twitter. Individuals, groups and community have actively participated in the process of technological innovation and are increasingly aware of their capacity for making and changing technologies. Internet - based social networks, open source software, content creation, redesign by use, citizens ´participation in living labs, are just a few examples of people actively enlarging the original uses of information and communication technologies (ICT). The goal of this special issue is to examine, using a variety of multidisciplinary approaches, the mutual interaction between ICT and users. The authors have reflected on the hypothesis that any understanding of users must take into consideration the multiplicity of roles they play, and that the conventional distinction between users and producers is largely formal and artificial. Contributing knowledge about the process in which individuals and communities appropriate and makes information and communication technology functional for their own specific purposes is the goal of this special issue of JOCI. The objective is to advance on the subject of how communities utilize technology, meanwhile creating innovative uses. The papers published in this issue consider how users consume, modify, domesticate, design, reconfigure, and resist technological development, as well as in which ways users are changed by ICT. The papers may be classified into three main categories: Social and Technological Networks, Technological and organizational tools for innovation, Living labs experiences. Some of the key issues that are reflected upon are: - Case studies about technology appropriation and modification of ICT changes by communities. - Alternative-use hunters: analysis of the processes through which experts perceive the changes by communities or individuals and incorporate them into the goods or services. - The follow-up and analysis of the framework of technological relationships between human and non-human agents [1] [1] http://mitpress.mit.edu/catalog/item/default.asp?ttype=2&tid=10755  

scholarly journals Special Double Issue: The Internet and Community Informatics in Brazil

2011 ◽  
Vol 7 (1-2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Gilda Olinto ◽  
Suely Fragoso
Keyword(s):  
Information And Communication Technology ◽  
Communication Technology ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Community Informatics ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Information And Communication

Journal of Community Informatics Special Issue: Information and Communication Technology in Brazil

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