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From perlman@turing.acm.org Tue Nov 13 08:39:00 2001 -0500 Status: R X-Status: A X-Keywords: Return-Path: Received: from mailer.acm.org (IDENT:root@turing2.acm.org [199.222.69.120]) by turing.acm.org (8.11.2/8.8.7) with ESMTP id fADDcuO32564 for ; Tue, 13 Nov 2001 08:38:59 -0500 Received: from envoy.cs.umd.edu (envoy.cs.umd.edu [128.8.130.251]) by mailer.acm.org (8.12.1/8.12.1) with ESMTP id fADEkLTk013151 for ; Tue, 13 Nov 2001 09:46:21 -0500 Received: by envoy.cs.umd.edu with Internet Mail Service (5.5.2653.19) id ; Tue, 13 Nov 2001 08:46:55 -0500 Message-ID: From: "Shneiderman, Ben" To: "'Paul Resnick'" Cc: "'preece@umbc.edu'" , "Shneiderman, Ben" , "'perlman@oclc.org'" , "'perlman@acm.org'" , "'novick@cs.utep.edu'" Subject: start on strengthening communities Date: Tue, 13 Nov 2001 08:46:53 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Internet Mail Service (5.5.2653.19) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Hi Paul (and Jenny), Good to hear from you... things are developing rapidly... and it seems we will be able to go ahead with doing a session at CHI2002. Jenny Preece will coordinate this effort --> we need to get a proposal together by the end of the month. I hope you would work with her and take on the the responsibility to build a web site on this topic... you and Putnam already have elements that I think are appropriate. I see this a directly responding to Putnam's social capital concerns and I know you have been closely tied with him in the Saguro group. The specific issues are how online communities (and technology in general) can be used to create stronger communities... what evidence do we have, what success stories can we tell???? We do have to take the SIGCHI point of view and focus on design issues that would be most appealing to SIGCHI members, but I have a broad conception of what SIGCHI should address. I think it would be very helpful in promoting discussion if you created a website that could eventually wind up at SIGCHI like their other topics (Accessibility, Kids, or Intercultural). Can you take my starter list and add your favorites, then organize it into a useful format... (I've included Gary Perlman in the copy list so he can participate or guide this effort, and David Novick who was also offering help). Thanks for your offer to contribute - I hope this will be an influential and importnant effort... Ben S ======================================================= *** Strengthening Communities *** (starter list for website) (proposed vision statement - please revise as you like) This website is a resource for those interested in using information and commmunication technologies to strengthen communities. In developed countries, such an effort could restore the lost social capital (willingness of neighbors/citizens to help each other and work together) by building more effective social networks. We believe that improved designs could better support social networks, restore trust, increase reciprocity, support economic development, promote civil society, and make for happier citizens. In developing countries the ravages of famine, wars, natural disasters, and oppressive rulers make the need to build strong communities greater, but the resources smaller. This website contains data about communities, reports on existing online projects, organizations, and bibliographic resources. --- from Putnam's web site ------------- Bowling Alone: The Collapse and Revival of American Community http://www.bowlingalone.com/ http://www.bettertogether.org/ http://www.ksg.harvard.edu/saguaro/ Community Foundation Silicon Valley http://www.cfsv.org/ The Social Capital Community Survey http://www.cfsv.org/communitysurvey/ The Morino Institute http://www.morino.org/ Community@Work: Rethinking How We Help Young People http://www.morino.org/under_sp_pre.asp >From Access to Outcomes: Raising the Aspirations for Technology Initiatives in Low-Income Communities http://morino.org/divides/report.htm -------- from Jenny's website --------------- Online Communities: Designing Usability, Supporting Sociability http://www.ifsm.umbc.edu/onlinecommunities http://forumone.com is a company that provides consultancy about online communities. It also provides http://www.OnlineCommunityReport.com which issues regular reports of events, reviews, and news about online communities. Networked communities are design to support the local physical communities. They deliberately acknowledge physical, political and communal aspects of the local community and build virtual facilities. For example, local political events are usually marked. They may also provide a strong basis for rallying political opinion or voting. http://www.bev.net/ This is the site of networked Blacksberg village in Virginia. There are discussion forums, advertisements for local stores and restaurants, broadcasts telling of local events etc. http://www.scn.gov The Seattle community Network was started by Doug Schuler and others. It has a strong activist character. http://www.scn.org/cpsr/diac-00/vcoal.html Global 2000 Virtual Community Coalition of members who support community activism and want to make online communities widely available to all citizens. ---- from my writing for Leonardo's Laptop -------------- Shulman, S., Zavestoski, S., Scholsberg, D, Courard-Hauri, D, and Richards, D., May 2001. Citizen agenda-setting: The electronic collection and synthesis of public commentary in the regulatory rulemaking process, Proc. National Conference on Digital Government Research, http://www.isi.edu/dgrc/dgo2001/program.html On the web at http://www.isi.edu/dgrc/dgo2001/papers/session-3/shulman.pdf Wilhelm, Anthony G., 2000. Democracy in the Digital Age: Challenges to Political Life in Cyberspace, Routledge, New York and London. Levine, Peter, Fall 2000. The Internet and civil society, Report from the Institute for Philosophy & Public Policy 20, 4, http://www.puaf.umd.edu/IPPP/reports/vol20fall00/vol20.html Van Tassel, Joan, January 1994. Yakety-Yak, Do Talk Back! Wired Magazine, http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/2.01/pen.html Varley, Pamela, November 1991. Electronic democracy, Technology Review 94, 42-51. City of Santa Monica Official Homepage, http://pen.ci.santa-monica.ca.us/cm/ Seattle Community Network, http://www.scn.org/ Schuler, Doug, 1996. New Community Networks:Wired for Change, Addison-Wesley Publishing Company, Reading, MA. --------- organizations ------------- The National Urban League http://www.nul.org/ PowerUP is a national initiative that provides underserved youth with access to technology and guidance to use computers and the Internet most effectively. PowerUP and the National Urban League have created a partnership to launch PowerUP sites within National Urban League affiliates nationwide. http://www.powerup.org/index.shtml Americorps: Bridge The Digital Divide: Start the new millennium by bringing the advantage of technology to some of our neediest communities http://www.americorps.org/vista_tech/index.html The Benton Foundation works to realize the social benefits made possible by the public interest use of communications. http://www.benton.org/ Digital Divide Network http://www.digitaldividenetwork.org/ US National Telecommunications and Information Administration http://www.ntia.doc.gov/ critical infrastructure assurance http://www.ntia.doc.gov/osmhome/cip/ Falling Through the Net http://www.digitaldivide.gov/ ---- international efforts -------- The United Nations Information Technology Service http://www.unites.org/ United Nations Development Program http://www.undp.org/ * Democratic Governance * Poverty Reduction * Crisis Prevention and Recovery * Energy and Environment * Information and Communications Technology * HIV/AIDS Volunteers in Technical Assistance (VITA) http://www.vita.org/ and a British bunch: Partnerships Online: Creating Online Communities for neighbourhoods and networks http://www.partnerships.org.uk/ ------------------------------------------------- I'd be happy to join an email discussion with a couple other people around "strengthening communities", with an eye toward proposing a panel or SIG. Let me know if anyone else is interested in that topic. ------------------------------------------------------------ Paul Resnick presnick@umich.edu Associate Professor (fax) 734-764-2475 The University of Michigan http://www.si.umich.edu/~presnick School of Information (voice) 734-647-9458 314 West Hall Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1092 From perlman@turing.acm.org Tue Nov 13 10:33:28 2001 -0500 Status: R X-Status: X-Keywords: Return-Path: Received: from mail.acm.org (mail.acm.org [199.222.69.4]) by turing.acm.org (8.11.2/8.8.7) with ESMTP id fADFXSO01403 for ; Tue, 13 Nov 2001 10:33:28 -0500 Received: from mx3out.umbc.edu (mx3out.umbc.edu [130.85.253.53]) by mail.acm.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id KAA31386 for ; Tue, 13 Nov 2001 10:41:29 -0500 Received: from jenny (flex-grad.ifsm.umbc.edu [130.85.130.71]) by mx3out.umbc.edu (8.12.0/8.12.0) with SMTP id fADFfGlB021068; Tue, 13 Nov 2001 10:41:16 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <007601c16c59$97e41180$47825582@ifsm.umbc.edu> From: "Jennifer Preece" To: "Shneiderman, Ben" , "'Paul Resnick'" Cc: "Shneiderman, Ben" , , , , "Jennifer Preece" References: Subject: Re: start on strengthening communities Date: Tue, 13 Nov 2001 10:40:55 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2919.6600 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2919.6600 Hi Paul (Ben, Gary and David), It would be terrific to work with you on this project. I've kept up with your work from afar and will enjoy working more closely with you and learning about your projects as we work on Ben's suggested initiative. I have a busy day full of meetings with students and teaching but I'll have more time to look at the URLs Ben has circulated later in the week and perhaps we can chat by phone on Friday, as I think it would be good to have an initial brainstorm as soon as possible? What do you think? Hopefully by then Gary and David may be on board too. best wishes jenny ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Jennifer Preece Tel: (410) 455 6238 Chair and Professor Fax: (410) 455 1217 Information Systems Dept. E-Mail: preece@umbc.edu University of Maryland Baltimore County http://www.ifsm.umbc.edu/~preece 1000 Hilltop Circle Baltimore, MD 21250 ----- Original Message ----- From: "Shneiderman, Ben" To: "'Paul Resnick'" Cc: ; "Shneiderman, Ben" ; ; ; Sent: Tuesday, November 13, 2001 8:46 AM Subject: start on strengthening communities > Hi Paul (and Jenny), > > Good to hear from you... things are developing rapidly... and it > seems we will be able to go ahead with doing a session at CHI2002. > Jenny Preece will coordinate this effort --> we need to get a > proposal together by the end of the month. > > I hope you would work with her and take on the the responsibility > to build a web site on this topic... > you and Putnam already have elements that I think are appropriate. > I see this a directly responding to Putnam's social capital concerns > and I know you have been closely tied with him in the Saguro group. > The specific issues are how online communities (and technology in > general) can be used to create stronger communities... what > evidence do we have, what success stories can we tell???? > > We do have to take the SIGCHI point of view and focus on design > issues that would be most appealing to SIGCHI members, but I have > a broad conception of what SIGCHI should address. > > I think it would be very helpful in promoting discussion if you > created a website that could eventually wind up at SIGCHI like their > other topics (Accessibility, Kids, or Intercultural). Can you take > my starter list and add your favorites, then organize > it into a useful format... (I've included Gary Perlman in the > copy list so he can participate or guide this effort, and David > Novick who was also offering help). > > Thanks for your offer to contribute - I hope this will > be an influential and importnant effort... Ben S > > > ======================================================= > *** Strengthening Communities *** > > (starter list for website) > (proposed vision statement - please revise as you like) > > This website is a resource for those interested in > using information and commmunication technologies to > strengthen communities. In developed countries, such > an effort could restore the lost social capital > (willingness of neighbors/citizens to help each other > and work together) by building more effective social networks. > We believe that improved designs could better support social > networks, restore trust, increase reciprocity, support economic > development, promote civil society, and make for happier citizens. > > In developing countries the ravages of famine, wars, natural > disasters, and oppressive rulers make the need to build > strong communities greater, but the resources smaller. > > This website contains data about communities, reports on > existing online projects, organizations, and bibliographic resources. > > > > --- from Putnam's web site ------------- > Bowling Alone: The Collapse and Revival of American Community > http://www.bowlingalone.com/ > > http://www.bettertogether.org/ > > http://www.ksg.harvard.edu/saguaro/ > > > Community Foundation Silicon Valley > http://www.cfsv.org/ > > The Social Capital Community Survey > http://www.cfsv.org/communitysurvey/ > > The Morino Institute > http://www.morino.org/ > Community@Work: Rethinking How We Help Young People > http://www.morino.org/under_sp_pre.asp > >From Access to Outcomes: Raising the Aspirations for > Technology Initiatives in Low-Income Communities > http://morino.org/divides/report.htm > > > -------- from Jenny's website --------------- > Online Communities: Designing Usability, Supporting Sociability > http://www.ifsm.umbc.edu/onlinecommunities > > http://forumone.com > is a company that provides consultancy about online communities. It also > provides http://www.OnlineCommunityReport.com which issues regular reports of > events, reviews, and news about online communities. > > Networked communities are design to support the local physical communities. They > deliberately acknowledge physical, political and communal aspects of the local > community and build virtual facilities. For example, local political events are > usually marked. They may also provide a strong basis for rallying political > opinion or voting. > > http://www.bev.net/ > This is the site of networked Blacksberg village in Virginia. There are > discussion forums, advertisements for local stores and restaurants, broadcasts > telling of local events etc. > http://www.scn.gov > The Seattle community Network was started by Doug Schuler and others. It has a > strong activist character. > http://www.scn.org/cpsr/diac-00/vcoal.html > Global 2000 Virtual Community Coalition of members who support community > activism and want to make online communities widely available to all citizens. > > > ---- from my writing for Leonardo's Laptop -------------- > Shulman, S., Zavestoski, S., Scholsberg, D, Courard-Hauri, D, and Richards, D., > May 2001. Citizen agenda-setting: The electronic collection and synthesis of > public commentary in the regulatory rulemaking process, Proc. National > Conference on Digital Government Research, > http://www.isi.edu/dgrc/dgo2001/program.html On the web at > http://www.isi.edu/dgrc/dgo2001/papers/session-3/shulman.pdf > > Wilhelm, Anthony G., 2000. Democracy in the Digital Age: Challenges to Political > Life in Cyberspace, Routledge, New York and London. > > Levine, Peter, Fall 2000. The Internet and civil society, Report from the > Institute for Philosophy & Public Policy 20, 4, > http://www.puaf.umd.edu/IPPP/reports/vol20fall00/vol20.html > > Van Tassel, Joan, January 1994. Yakety-Yak, Do Talk Back! Wired Magazine, > http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/2.01/pen.html > > Varley, Pamela, November 1991. Electronic democracy, Technology Review 94, > 42-51. > City of Santa Monica Official Homepage, http://pen.ci.santa-monica.ca.us/cm/ > > Seattle Community Network, http://www.scn.org/ > Schuler, Doug, 1996. New Community Networks:Wired for Change, Addison-Wesley > Publishing Company, Reading, MA. > > --------- organizations ------------- > The National Urban League > http://www.nul.org/ > PowerUP is a national initiative that provides underserved youth with access to > technology and guidance to use computers and the Internet most effectively. > PowerUP and the National Urban League have created a partnership to launch > PowerUP sites within National Urban League affiliates nationwide. > http://www.powerup.org/index.shtml > > > Americorps: Bridge The Digital Divide: > Start the new millennium by bringing the advantage of technology to some of our > neediest communities > http://www.americorps.org/vista_tech/index.html > > > The Benton Foundation works to realize the social benefits made possible by the > public interest use of communications. > http://www.benton.org/ > > > Digital Divide Network > http://www.digitaldividenetwork.org/ > > US National Telecommunications and Information Administration > http://www.ntia.doc.gov/ > critical infrastructure assurance > http://www.ntia.doc.gov/osmhome/cip/ > Falling Through the Net > http://www.digitaldivide.gov/ > > > > ---- international efforts -------- > The United Nations Information Technology Service > http://www.unites.org/ > > United Nations Development Program > http://www.undp.org/ > * Democratic Governance > * Poverty Reduction > * Crisis Prevention and Recovery > * Energy and Environment > * Information and Communications Technology > * HIV/AIDS > > Volunteers in Technical Assistance (VITA) > http://www.vita.org/ > > > and a British bunch: > Partnerships Online: Creating Online Communities for neighbourhoods and networks > http://www.partnerships.org.uk/ > > > > > ------------------------------------------------- > I'd be happy to join an email discussion with a couple other people around > "strengthening communities", with an eye toward proposing a panel or SIG. > Let me know if anyone else is interested in that topic. > > ------------------------------------------------------------ > Paul Resnick presnick@umich.edu > Associate Professor (fax) 734-764-2475 > The University of Michigan http://www.si.umich.edu/~presnick > School of Information (voice) 734-647-9458 > 314 West Hall > Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1092 > From perlman@turing.acm.org Tue Nov 13 22:27:34 2001 -0500 Status: R X-Status: X-Keywords: Return-Path: Received: from envoy.cs.umd.edu (envoy.cs.umd.edu [128.8.130.251]) by turing.acm.org (8.11.2/8.8.7) with ESMTP id fAE3RYO12877 for ; Tue, 13 Nov 2001 22:27:34 -0500 Received: by envoy.cs.umd.edu with Internet Mail Service (5.5.2653.19) id ; Tue, 13 Nov 2001 22:35:39 -0500 Message-ID: From: "Shneiderman, Ben" To: "'Jenny Preece'" , Gary PERLMAN , "Shneiderman, Ben" Cc: "'Paul Resnick'" , perlman@oclc.org, novick@cs.utep.edu, "'douglas@scn.org'" Subject: RE: start on strengthening communities Date: Tue, 13 Nov 2001 22:35:34 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Internet Mail Service (5.5.2653.19) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" YES indeed... amazing amazing amazing!!! and great to see this web site come to life. I'll let Jenny, Paul and Doug Schuler decide how to evolve this website. My own preference is to try to keep the focus narrow - dealing with how information and communications technologies helps build stronger real-world communities. I am particularly interested in solid research that identifies how and how much it helps. So additional items might be in a category of 'Research' that included relevant Pew Internet studies, Bob Kraut's work, Norman Nie's studies, Jeff Cole's work (UCLA),.... I'll get the other groups started on collecting web sites, so when you get back from DisneyWorld we can do a few more...let us know when you are back... thanks again.... Ben S -----Original Message----- From: Jenny Preece [mailto:preece@umbc.edu] Sent: Tuesday, November 13, 2001 8:50 PM To: Gary PERLMAN; Shneiderman, Ben Cc: 'Paul Resnick'; perlman@oclc.org; novick@cs.utep.edu Subject: RE: start on strengthening communities Gary - you're amazing - thanks for getting us started. Enjoy Disney World. Jenny -----Original Message----- From: Gary PERLMAN [mailto:perlman@turing.acm.org] Sent: Tuesday, November 13, 2001 9:33 PM To: Shneiderman, Ben Cc: 'Paul Resnick'; 'preece@umbc.edu'; 'perlman@oclc.org'; 'novick@cs.utep.edu' Subject: Re: start on strengthening communities Hi Ben and all, I am, per presidential instructions, on my way to Disney World to boost the U.S. economy. I think I'll need a sedative to fly. I am not very active in this area, but if I can contribute to your infrastructure, that would be great. The pages like kids intercultural, and accessibility moved off the SIGCHI site some time ago, and the SIGCHI site now links to the HCI Webliography. Here is an HCI Webliography page I made from the links below: http://hcibib.org/communities/ There could be more categories and more multiple listings, but you get the idea. Click on Suggest-a-Link to add new links (I review these, so they won't show up for a few days). Or, you might have had something entirely different in mind. Or you might have suggestions about how to improve the page above (and perhaps help out the other HCI Webliography pages). Peace, Gary On Tue, 13 Nov 2001, Shneiderman, Ben wrote: > Hi Paul (and Jenny), > > Good to hear from you... things are developing rapidly... and it > seems we will be able to go ahead with doing a session at CHI2002. > Jenny Preece will coordinate this effort --> we need to get a > proposal together by the end of the month. > > I hope you would work with her and take on the the responsibility > to build a web site on this topic... > you and Putnam already have elements that I think are appropriate. > I see this a directly responding to Putnam's social capital concerns > and I know you have been closely tied with him in the Saguro group. > The specific issues are how online communities (and technology in > general) can be used to create stronger communities... what > evidence do we have, what success stories can we tell???? > > We do have to take the SIGCHI point of view and focus on design > issues that would be most appealing to SIGCHI members, but I have > a broad conception of what SIGCHI should address. > > I think it would be very helpful in promoting discussion if you > created a website that could eventually wind up at SIGCHI like their > other topics (Accessibility, Kids, or Intercultural). Can you take > my starter list and add your favorites, then organize > it into a useful format... (I've included Gary Perlman in the > copy list so he can participate or guide this effort, and David > Novick who was also offering help). > > Thanks for your offer to contribute - I hope this will > be an influential and importnant effort... Ben S > > > ======================================================= > *** Strengthening Communities *** > > (starter list for website) > (proposed vision statement - please revise as you like) > > This website is a resource for those interested in > using information and commmunication technologies to > strengthen communities. In developed countries, such > an effort could restore the lost social capital > (willingness of neighbors/citizens to help each other > and work together) by building more effective social networks. > We believe that improved designs could better support social > networks, restore trust, increase reciprocity, support economic > development, promote civil society, and make for happier citizens. > > In developing countries the ravages of famine, wars, natural > disasters, and oppressive rulers make the need to build > strong communities greater, but the resources smaller. > > This website contains data about communities, reports on > existing online projects, organizations, and bibliographic resources. > > > > --- from Putnam's web site ------------- > Bowling Alone: The Collapse and Revival of American Community > http://www.bowlingalone.com/ > > http://www.bettertogether.org/ > > http://www.ksg.harvard.edu/saguaro/ > > > Community Foundation Silicon Valley > http://www.cfsv.org/ > > The Social Capital Community Survey > http://www.cfsv.org/communitysurvey/ > > The Morino Institute > http://www.morino.org/ > Community@Work: Rethinking How We Help Young People > http://www.morino.org/under_sp_pre.asp > >From Access to Outcomes: Raising the Aspirations for > Technology Initiatives in Low-Income Communities > http://morino.org/divides/report.htm > > > -------- from Jenny's website --------------- > Online Communities: Designing Usability, Supporting Sociability > http://www.ifsm.umbc.edu/onlinecommunities > > http://forumone.com > is a company that provides consultancy about online communities. It also > provides http://www.OnlineCommunityReport.com which issues regular reports of > events, reviews, and news about online communities. > > Networked communities are design to support the local physical communities. They > deliberately acknowledge physical, political and communal aspects of the local > community and build virtual facilities. For example, local political events are > usually marked. They may also provide a strong basis for rallying political > opinion or voting. > > http://www.bev.net/ > This is the site of networked Blacksberg village in Virginia. There are > discussion forums, advertisements for local stores and restaurants, broadcasts > telling of local events etc. > http://www.scn.gov > The Seattle community Network was started by Doug Schuler and others. It has a > strong activist character. > http://www.scn.org/cpsr/diac-00/vcoal.html > Global 2000 Virtual Community Coalition of members who support community > activism and want to make online communities widely available to all citizens. > > > ---- from my writing for Leonardo's Laptop -------------- > Shulman, S., Zavestoski, S., Scholsberg, D, Courard-Hauri, D, and Richards, D., > May 2001. Citizen agenda-setting: The electronic collection and synthesis of > public commentary in the regulatory rulemaking process, Proc. National > Conference on Digital Government Research, > http://www.isi.edu/dgrc/dgo2001/program.html On the web at > http://www.isi.edu/dgrc/dgo2001/papers/session-3/shulman.pdf > > Wilhelm, Anthony G., 2000. Democracy in the Digital Age: Challenges to Political > Life in Cyberspace, Routledge, New York and London. > > Levine, Peter, Fall 2000. The Internet and civil society, Report from the > Institute for Philosophy & Public Policy 20, 4, > http://www.puaf.umd.edu/IPPP/reports/vol20fall00/vol20.html > > Van Tassel, Joan, January 1994. Yakety-Yak, Do Talk Back! Wired Magazine, > http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/2.01/pen.html > > Varley, Pamela, November 1991. Electronic democracy, Technology Review 94, > 42-51. > City of Santa Monica Official Homepage, http://pen.ci.santa-monica.ca.us/cm/ > > Seattle Community Network, http://www.scn.org/ > Schuler, Doug, 1996. New Community Networks:Wired for Change, Addison-Wesley > Publishing Company, Reading, MA. > > --------- organizations ------------- > The National Urban League > http://www.nul.org/ > PowerUP is a national initiative that provides underserved youth with access to > technology and guidance to use computers and the Internet most effectively. > PowerUP and the National Urban League have created a partnership to launch > PowerUP sites within National Urban League affiliates nationwide. > http://www.powerup.org/index.shtml > > > Americorps: Bridge The Digital Divide: > Start the new millennium by bringing the advantage of technology to some of our > neediest communities > http://www.americorps.org/vista_tech/index.html > > > The Benton Foundation works to realize the social benefits made possible by the > public interest use of communications. > http://www.benton.org/ > > > Digital Divide Network > http://www.digitaldividenetwork.org/ > > US National Telecommunications and Information Administration > http://www.ntia.doc.gov/ > critical infrastructure assurance > http://www.ntia.doc.gov/osmhome/cip/ > Falling Through the Net > http://www.digitaldivide.gov/ > > > > ---- international efforts -------- > The United Nations Information Technology Service > http://www.unites.org/ > > United Nations Development Program > http://www.undp.org/ > * Democratic Governance > * Poverty Reduction > * Crisis Prevention and Recovery > * Energy and Environment > * Information and Communications Technology > * HIV/AIDS > > Volunteers in Technical Assistance (VITA) > http://www.vita.org/ > > > and a British bunch: > Partnerships Online: Creating Online Communities for neighbourhoods and networks > http://www.partnerships.org.uk/ > > > > > ------------------------------------------------- > I'd be happy to join an email discussion with a couple other people around > "strengthening communities", with an eye toward proposing a panel or SIG. > Let me know if anyone else is interested in that topic. > > ------------------------------------------------------------ > Paul Resnick presnick@umich.edu > Associate Professor (fax) 734-764-2475 > The University of Michigan http://www.si.umich.edu/~presnick > School of Information (voice) 734-647-9458 > 314 West Hall > Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1092 >