new book on community informatics

[colist at comm-org.utoledo.edu]

From: gard at gard.spb.org (Sergei Stafeev)

The Community Informatics Research Network (http://www.ciresearch.net),
held its 2004 Inaugural Conference and Colloquium with the theme,
'Sustainability
and Community Technology: What Does this Mean for Community
Informatics?', at the
Monash Centre, Prato, Italy, 29 September - 1 October, 2004.

Proceedings are now available for purchase.

The CIRN 2004 Prato Conference proceedings (ISBN 0-9581058-3-9) include
all the refereed and non-refereed papers from the academic, practitioner,
and
PhD streams.

There are 48 papers in the two volumes coming to more than 600 pages of
text
and graphics, with contributions from many countries. The Proceedings are
an
excellent resource for your organisation's research, teaching, and
practical activity
in community informatics.

Additional information (including the table of contents, list of authors
and introduction) available at http://www.communities.org.ru/prato/

Proceedings CD:

In addition to the all the conference papers being reproduced as
bookmarked PDFs, the proceedings CD contains:

-- MP3 sound files of the Conference Opening and keynotes from Don
Schauder, Laura Ripamonti, Erica Rosalen and Mike Gurstein, as well as
their accompanying powerpoints.

-- 200+ Prato photos taken by participants

-- Inaugural Issue of the Journal of Community Informatics

-- CIRN Brochure

-- CIRN Cape Town 2005 Announcement.

Publishers of the book are the Centre for Community Networking
Research, School of Information Management & Systems Monash
University and  Community Informatics Research Network, Inc.

The book has been desk-published in Russia by the Centre of Community
Networking and Information Policy Studies (CCNS).

To order and purchase a copy of the proceedings please go to
www.ciresearch.net/proc2004.htm.

We invite you to purchase additional copies for your institution, and
to distribute the information below to colleagues. As there are only a
limited number of copies available for purchase, please encourage them to
do so quickly!

Best regards,

Sergei Stafeev

: Centre of Community Networking and Information Policy Studies (CCNS)
: St. Petersburg, Russia
: http://www.communities.org.ru