Community Informatics and Sustainability: Why Social Capital Matters

Never Waste a Good Crisis: Towards Social Sustainable Development

The report by the Stiglitz Commission on the Measurement of Economic Performance and Social Progress highlighted the idea that sustainability in essence is about quality of life. This paper discusses and elaborates this notion. It argues that sustainable development should be seen as a process which does not focus on economic development alone, but which also includes well-balanced ecological a...

Social Networks and Social Capital: Rethinking Theory in Community Informatics

Sustaining Community Access to Technology: Who Should Pay and Why

Based on research on several national, regional, local projects, and on an analysis of the Canadian federal governments’ main Internet public access programs, the authors argue that as the digital divide has evolved and changed, changes in a conception of this and approaches to sustainability are required. This requires defining sustainability in terms of supporting community organizations that...

Digital Cultural Heritage and Social Sustainability

This research investigated factors that were perceived to contribute to the social sustainability of cultural heritage information services. Semistructured interviews were conducted with sixteen users, guided by three broad questions: 1. What factors they consider are important for DCH services to be socially sustainable or to achieve social sustainability? 2. What indicators they perceive from...

Building Community Social Capital: The Potential and Promise of Information and Communications Technologies

Increasing community social capital is widely viewed as one of the benefits of the deployment of information and communications technologies. A meta-analysis of the literature related to social capital and ICTs is completed. Using the five elements of social capital generally described in the research literature, the meta-analysis examines the empirical findings related to each of these five el...