This paper discusses the growing interest in the role of the civil society in addressing issues of inequities in access and use of ICT for local community benefit. It proposes a new framework within a construct of the Information Society for the development of a Community Informatics Systems (CIS) approach for research, teaching and practice which runs parallel to Management Information Systems...

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This paper discusses the relation between eParticipation and civil society in Germany using a theoretical framework based on three arenas of political communication: the traditional political system, the mass-media system, and the civil society public space. Currently in Germany the traditional political system prevails and funds research about representative oriented eParticipation activities....

Since human soul seeks excellence, he continuously hunts for answers to his questions. Therefore, he works towards tools to help him achieve a better life, create a dream world (Armanshahr) or utopia; a nowhere; his desired world. The Sufis has been more attentive to the local realities of their society, and they saw the society full of shortcomings and sought to lead their people into a desira...

Abstract Data from a recent survey on pastoral care consultations (PCC) in Norway (N=408) is presented, showing that PCC service priests and deacons provide for people the municipality, independent of faith affiliation. The most common themes regarded mental social distress, such as grief, conflicts, loneliness. Furthermore, illness-related were prominent, specter religious moral issues. We dis...