According to the authors, community informatics (CI) research, education and practice seeks to address the effects of declining economies on the sustainability of social, health, and economic programmes.

"Using Community Informatics to Transform Regions" aims to provide leaders, policy developers, researchers, students and community workers with successful strategies and principles of community informatics to transform regional economies. This book attempts to embrace an integrative cross-sectoral approach in the use of community informatics to increase both social and cultural capital as a means to increased sustainability for regional communities.

Table Of Contents
Section I: Perspectives, Policy and Practice

• Preface
• Chapter I. Community Informatics in Perspective
• Chapter II. Community (Information and Communication) Technology: Policy, Partnership and Practice
• Chapter III. Digital Storytelling: Culture, Media and Community
• Chapter IV. Rethinking Schools and Community: The Knowledge Producing School
• Chapter V. The Role of Place: Tasmanian Insights on ICT and Regional Development

SECTION II: CI in Rural and Remote Communities

• Chapter VI. The Design and Implementation of Rural Communication Technology Initiatives: Issues and Strategies for Project Planners
• Chapter VII. Information and Communication Technologies Provision to Rural Communities: The Case of Gutu World Links Telecenter in Zimbabwe
• Chapter VIII. E Bario Project: In Search of a Methodology to Provide Access to Information Communication Technologies for Rural Communities in Malaysia
• Chapter IX. Creating and Sustaining Online Communities: Web-Based Services Meeting the Diverse Needs of Regional and Rural Australia
• Chapter X. Information Access in Rural Communities: Bridging the Digital Divide

SECTION III: Community Informatics for Specific Issues

• Chapter XI. Social Organization through the Internet: Citizens Assemblies in Argentina
• Chapter XII. Measuring the Effectiveness of Training to Improve Electronic Information Literacy
• Chapter XIII. Wired High Rise: Using Technology to Combat Social Isolation on an Inner City Public Housing Estate
• Chapter XIV. Portals for Older People in Regional Areas: The Greypath Virtual Community
• Chapter XV. Hervey Bay in Transition: The Role of Community-Based Information Technology in Overcoming the Great Digital Divide
• Chapter XVI. Using the Internet in a Physical Activity Health Promotion Campaign: The 10,000 Steps Rockhampton Project
• Chapter XVII. E-News: Community Interaction through Journalism
• Chapter XVIII. Regional Tourism and the Internet: E-Business Structures for Regional Tourism Organisations

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