Sustainability and Community Technology: What Does this Mean for Community Informatics?

The CIRN 2004 Prato Conference was held September 29 - October 1 2004 in Italy and was meant to "provide an opportunity for researchers, practitioners, and policy makers to present findings and reflect in a convivial atmosphere on key issues of concern for the future of enabling communities with Information and Communication Technology".

The Proceedings include all the refereed and non-refereed papers from the academic, practitioner, and PhD video streams.

There are 48 papers in the two volumes coming to more than 600 pages of text and graphics, with contributions from many countries.

Click here for more information including the table of contents, list of authors and introduction.

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.

This resource is published by 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).

Click here to purchase a copy of the proceedings.