1. Community Network Analysis (CNA) Project Team Dr Peter Day, Dr Jon Don, Richard Cupidi & Mark Walker

2. What is the CNA project? Nationally funded research project based on principals of community participation and mutuality Community information flows & communication patterns/behaviour If and how ICT can be or are used to build active, healthy communities

3. Community Network Analysis (CNA) Project Map information & communication resources Map assetsNeeds analysis 1) Profiling the community 4) Community communications space 3) Learning workshops 2) Social network analysis

4. Community Profiling Build rich pictures of community life Mapping Community information & communications Locating resources Identifying assets Understanding needs

5. Social Network Analysis Focuses on community as a network of relationships (e.g. COIN) Identifies structure, organisation and nature of relationships within network Where, how and why information flows within network. Communication behaviour and patterns? Role, function and impact of ICT?

6. Participatory Learning Workshops ICT Training plus Plus = training is contextualised to meet information & communication needs of community Reflect on how skills being learnt might be applied within a community context How can ICT benefit your community, group, or network?

7. Community Communication Space Build a technology space (server) for community communications & knowledge archiving What technologies are useful to communities (interest & place)? Provide an online space to test a range of applications Participatory design – partnership between communities & researchers in which the knowledge and skills of each contribute to and benefit the other