More Than Wires, Pipes and Ducts: Some Lessons from Grassroots Networked Communities and Master-Planned Neighbourhoods
Gaved, Mark B. & Foth, Marcus (2006) More Than Wires, Pipes and Ducts: Some Lessons from Grassroots Networked Communities and Master-Planned Neighbourhoods. In Meersman, Robert, Tari, Zahir, & Herrero, Pilar (Eds.) OTM 2006 Workshops, October 29 - November 3, 2006, Montpellier, France.
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DOI: 10.1007/11915034_40
Abstract
Community informatics research has found that the provision of technical connectivity in local neighbourhoods alone does not ensure community interaction. Externally initiated projects applied to communities by government or commercial bodies have encountered difficulties where the project’s goals do not correspond to the host community’s. Differing expectations can lead to disillusionment or rejection. Self-organised initiatives developed from within communities appear to be more aligned with residents’ goals and purposes and may not face these issues. However, such initiatives have also encountered difficulties in maintaining volunteer input and achieving technological sustainability. Valuable insights can be drawn from both cases. In this paper we review examples of each type of initiative and consider lessons that can be taken forward into new networked neighbourhood initiatives currently being developed. We consider one specific example, an inner-city master-planned residential development in Australia seeking to establish a community association to support socio-economic sustainability and governance of the local ICT infrastructure. We offer recommendations drawn from existing projects that may be applied to this site and to a wider context, and consider some implications for the future selection, deployment and maintenance of community information systems.
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| ID Code: | 4845 |
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| Item Type: | Conference Paper |
| Keywords: | community informatics, community information systems, community networks, grassroots communities, networked communities, master, planned communities, urban neighbourhoods, ICT |
| ISBN: | 9783540482697 |
| ISSN: | 1611-3349 |
| Subjects: | Australian and New Zealand Standard Research Classification > LANGUAGES COMMUNICATION AND CULTURE (200000) > COMMUNICATION AND MEDIA STUDIES (200100) > Communication and Media Studies not elsewhere classified (200199) Australian and New Zealand Standard Research Classification > INFORMATION AND COMPUTING SCIENCES (080000) > INFORMATION SYSTEMS (080600) > Information Systems not elsewhere classified (080699) Australian and New Zealand Standard Research Classification > STUDIES IN HUMAN SOCIETY (160000) > SOCIOLOGY (160800) > Urban Sociology and Community Studies (160810) Australian and New Zealand Standard Research Classification > STUDIES IN HUMAN SOCIETY (160000) > HUMAN GEOGRAPHY (160400) > Urban and Regional Studies (excl. Planning) (160404) |
| Divisions: | Current > QUT Faculties and Divisions > Creative Industries Faculty Past > QUT Faculties & Divisions > Faculty of Science and Technology Past > QUT Faculties & Divisions > QUT Carseldine - Humanities & Human Services |
| Copyright Owner: | Copyright 2006 Springer |
| Copyright Statement: | This is the author-version of the work. Conference proceedings published, by Springer Verlag, will be available via SpringerLink. http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/ Lecture Notes in Computer Science |
| Deposited On: | 21 Dec 2006 |
| Last Modified: | 02 Feb 2012 20:05 |
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