1. A human-centred approach to community informatics research: Building sustainable ties between community & research Dr. Peter Day & Richard Cupidi CNA Project Team SEAKE Centre University of Brighton, UK

2. The human-centred approach to research “The human-centred tradition is best understood as a normative framework that facilitates a multi-level approach to observation rather than a set of scientific statements or principles.” Qvortrup, 1996 four core concepts Human purpose Cultural diversity Social cohesion Technology as tool (practice )

3. H-C Community Informatics Research Participatory Action Research … involves all relevant parties in actively examining together current action … in order to change and improve it. … tries to be a genuinely democratic or non-coercive process whereby those to be helped determine the purpose & outcomes of their own enquiry. Wadsworth, 1998 dialogue - collaborative shaping - communicative action

4. community informatics process

5. human purpose cultural diversity social cohesion technology as tool an ecology of community informatics

6. Issues Whose reality is it anyway? Who owns the output? Who decides? / Who benefits? Who decides who benefits? Qualities Transparency Fairness Commitment Reciprocity a charter for community researchers

7. Thanks for listening If you would like to know more about the CNA project or the human-centred research network and its relationship to community informatics, please contact us at: p.day @ cna.org.uk richard @ cna.org.uk