Connecting Canadians

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Acknowledgements



1 Connecting Canadians? Community Informatics Perspectives onCommunity Networking Initiatives / Graham Longford, Andrew Clement,Michael Gurstein, Leslie Regan Shade



Part I Context

2 Toward a Conceptual Framework for a Community Informatics /Michael Gurstein

3 Keeping in Touch: A Snapshot of Canadian Community Networks andTheir Users - Report on the CRACIN Survey of Community NetworkUsers / Marita Moll, Melissa Fritz

4 Canadian and US Broadband Policies: A Comparative Analysis /Heather E. Hudson



Part II Conceptual Frameworks

5 Information Technology as Political Catalyst: From TechnologicalInnovation to the Promotion of Social Change / SergeProulx

6 "The Researcher Is a Girl": Tales of Bringing FeministLabour Perspectives into Community Informatics Practice and Evaluation/ Katrina Peddle, Alison Powell, Leslie Regan Shade

7 What Are Community Networks an Example Of? A Response I /Christian Sandvig



Part III Community Innovation I: Participation andInclusion

8 Systems Development in a Community-Based Organization: Lessonsfrom the St. Christopher House Community Learning Network / SusanMacDonald, Andrew Clement

9 Vancouver Community Network as a Site of Digital and SocialInclusion / Diane Dechief



Part IV Community Innovation II: WirelessNetworking

10 Community and Municipal Wi-Fi Initiatives in Canada: Evolutionsin Community Participation I / Alison Powell, Leslie ReganShade

11 Wi-Fi Publics: Defining Community and Technology atMontreal's Ile Sans Fil / Alison Powell

12 Wireless Broadband from Individual Backhaul to Community Service:Co-operative Provision and Related Models of Local Signal Access /Matthew Wong



Part V Rural and Remote Broadband

13 "We Were on the Outside Looking In": MyKnet.org- A First Nations Online Social Environment in Northern Ontario /Brandi L. Bell, Philipp Budka, Adam Fiser

14 A Historical Account of the Kuh-ke-nah Network: BroadbandDeployment in a Remote Canadian Aboriginal Telecommunications Context /Adam Fiser, Andrew Clement

15 Atlantic Canadian Community Informatics: The Case of the WVDA andSmartLabrador / Katrina Peddle

16 Reverse English: Strategies of the Keewatin Career DevelopmentCorporation in Discourse Surrounding the Knowledge-Based Economy andSociety / Frank Winter



Part VI Libraries and Community Networks

17 Community Networks and Local Libraries: Strengthening Ties withCommunities / Nadia Caidi, Susan MacDonald, Elise Chien

18 The Library Ideal and the Community Network: Prospects for NewTechnologies in the Public Library I / Marco Adria



Part VII Public Policy

19 Community Networking Experiences with Government Funding ProgramsService Delivery Model or Sustainable Social Innovation? / SusanMacDonald, Graham Longford, Andrew Clement

20 Communautique: Action and Advocacy for Universal Digital Access /Nicolas Lecomte, Serge Proulx

21 There and Back to the Future Again: Community Networks andTelecom Policy Reform in Canada, 1995 - 2010 / Graham Longford,Marita Moll, Leslie Regan Shade



Appendix A: Community Partners and Case Study Sites/ Graham Longford

Appendix B: A Brief History of the Community AccessProgram: From Community Economic Development to Social Cohesion toDigital Divide / Marita Moll

Appendix C: The Federal Connecting CanadiansInitiative, 1995 - 2007: A Brief Overview / Graham Longford,Marita Moll



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