1. Community Informatics and Distance Education Ann Peterson Bishop (abishop@uiuc.edu)abishop@uiuc.edu Co-Director, Community Informatics Initiative Graduate School of Library and Information Science University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign ADEC 2006 May 3, 2006

2. Community Informatics Community informatics is the subordination of ICTs to building healthy, empowered, active communities. [Day & Schuler, 2004] A rich variety of social experiments … giving community-activists, policy- makers and citizens a new set of possibilities for fostering social cohesion, strengthening neighborhood ties, overcoming cultural isolation and combatting social exclusion and deprivation. [Keeble and Loader, 2001]

3. Youth Social Entrepreneurship Symposium @ UI New alliances to revitalize communities and expand educational horizons Youth Media WorkshopLlano Grande Center for Research & Development

4. Community Informatics Corps Students combine classroom activities and 80 hours practical engagement with nonprofit organizations Create website for Refugee CenterRefugee Center Start afterschool program for Hispanicafterschool program immigrants Establish Korean Cultural CenterKorean Cultural Center

5. Community Inquiry Lab (iLab) Software Development Through class projects, students collaborate with community groups in ongoing enduser software creation SisterNet Puerto Rican Cultural Center Finnish iLabs

6. Core Teaching Content: Social Action and Change Social entrepreneurship Books to Prisoners Community inquiry: knowledge is both understanding and action…collective, democratic, situated in everyday life, experimental Action research Reflective practice Civic engagement

7. Infrastructure and Sustainability: Building Success with Blended Learning Building relationships and trust with marginalized communities East St. Louis Action Research Project GSLIS/Paseo Boricua masters program Communityware based in ongoing initiatives Inquiry Group (iLabs) Prairienet Community Network Courses don’t stand alone Symposia: Community as Intellectual Space,Community as Intellectual Space Youth Social Entrepreneurship Not Enough Space: Political prisoners’ exhibit Student research

8. Resources Addams, J. (1910). Twenty years at Hull-House: With autobiographical notes. New York: Macmillan. http://digital.library.upenn.edu/women/addams/hullhouse/hullhou se.html. http://digital.library.upenn.edu/women/addams/hullhouse/hullhou se.html Bishop, et al. (2004). Supporting community inquiry with digital resources. Journal of Digital Information, 5(3). http://jodi.ecs.soton.ac.uk/Articles/v05/i03/Bishop/ http://jodi.ecs.soton.ac.uk/Articles/v05/i03/Bishop/ Day, P., & Schuler, D. (Eds.) (2004). Community practice in the network society: Local action/global interaction. London: Routledge. Dewey, J. (1938). Experience and education. New York: Collier Books.

9. Resources Elshtain, J. B. (Ed.) (2002). The Jane Addams reader. NY: Basic Books. Flores-Gonzalez, N. (2001). Paseo Boricua: Claiming a Puerto Rican space in Chicago. CENTRO Journal, 13 (3), 7-21. Hickman, L. A. (1990). John Dewey's pragmatic technology. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press. Keeble, L., & Loader, B. D. (Eds.) (2001). Community Informatics: Shaping computer-mediated social relations. London: Routledge. Menand, L. (2001). The metaphysical club. NY: Farrar, Straus and Giroux. Rinaldi, R. (2002). Space of resistance: The Puerto Rican Cultural Center and Humboldt Park. Cultural Critique, 50, 135-174.

10. Two senses of “pragmatic technology” The common language notion of how to design tools to meet real human needs, accommodate to users, and situations A conception of design from pragmatist theory, which sees technologies as developed within a community of inquiry and embodying both means of action and forms of understanding. Technology is an end result of, as well as a means to accomplish, community work.

11. Community Informatics Initiative http://www.cii.uiuc.edu http://www.cii.uiuc.edu Community as Intellectual Space 2006 http://ilabs.inquiry.uiuc.edu/ilab/secondcis Youth Social Entrepreneurship Symposium http://www.conferences.uiuc.edu/ Prairienet Community Network http://www.prairienet.org Journal of Community Informatics http://www.ci-journal.net/