F***ing yeah!!!!!
This is what I want to do my grad work in!!!
CI brings together the practices of community development and organization, and insights from fields such as sociology, planning, computer science, critical theory, women's studies, library and information sciences, management information systems, and management studies. Its outcomes - community networks and community-based ICT-enabled service applications - are of increasing interest to grassroots organizations, NGOs and civil society, governments, the private sector, and multilateral agencies among others. Self-organized community initiatives of all varieties, from different countries, are concerned with ways to harness ICT for social capital, poverty alleviation and for the empowerment of the "local" in relation to its larger economic, political and social environments. Some claim it is potentially a form of 'radical practice'[4]
from the Wikipedia page on Community Informatics. You can get a degree in this stuff!
From first reading the bullet points on the SI website, I thought it sounded cool, but the more in-depth WP page has all but convinced me.
wee,
jaya
P.S. boring update about moving sure to come soon.
P.P.S. graduation pictures here!
CI brings together the practices of community development and organization, and insights from fields such as sociology, planning, computer science, critical theory, women's studies, library and information sciences, management information systems, and management studies. Its outcomes - community networks and community-based ICT-enabled service applications - are of increasing interest to grassroots organizations, NGOs and civil society, governments, the private sector, and multilateral agencies among others. Self-organized community initiatives of all varieties, from different countries, are concerned with ways to harness ICT for social capital, poverty alleviation and for the empowerment of the "local" in relation to its larger economic, political and social environments. Some claim it is potentially a form of 'radical practice'[4]
from the Wikipedia page on Community Informatics. You can get a degree in this stuff!
From first reading the bullet points on the SI website, I thought it sounded cool, but the more in-depth WP page has all but convinced me.
wee,
jaya
P.S. boring update about moving sure to come soon.
P.P.S. graduation pictures here!