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<P>I am delighted and honoured as editor of the <A
style="COLOR: #0088cc; TEXT-DECORATION: none"
href="http://ci-journal.net">Journal of Community Informatics</A> to publish a
special double issue on <A style="COLOR: #0088cc; TEXT-DECORATION: none"
href="http://ci-journal.net/index.php/ciej/issue/current">The Internet and
Community Informatics in Brazil</A>. The issue itself is a very strong one
and I think it both represents and solidifies the very strong Community
Informatics range of activities and traditions in Brazil while pointing to
certain characteristics of Community Informatics in Brazil that are potentially
of interest and importance for the rest of the world.</P>
<P>The special issue editors, Suely Fragoso and Gilda Olinto in <A
style="COLOR: #0088cc; TEXT-DECORATION: none"
href="http://ci-journal.net/index.php/ciej/article/view/835">their introduction
to the issue</A> have provided a very useful introduction to the range of issues
that are of interest from a broad CI perspective but there are a few other items
which an outsider might identify which someone closer to the scene such as they
might overlook.</P>
<P>A first observation and this comes out very strongly in the Fragoso and
Olinto overview as well as a number of the papers is the strong recognition in
Brazil of the social determinants of Internet use, and the need by government
through policy and programmes to respond to this so as to not have the Internet
exacerbate already significant social and economic divisions. As a Less
Developed Country rapidly moving to becoming a middle income country, a regional
power, and a member of a global group of similar regional middle income powers
Brazil very well recognizes the drag that significant digital inequality can
present to its aspirations for development and equally the opportunities that
are available as these inequalities are being addressed.</P>
<P>There is a clear recognition on the part of the national and even state
governments in Brazil that responding to digital inequality is a responsibility
of the State and the result has been the assignment of considerable public
resources to responding including through the range of programs and initiatives
that Suely and Gilda and others have noted in their papers. From the papers in
this issue it is clear that the governments of Brazil are making extraordinary
efforts to broaden the base of Internet access and use. In addition, again
from the information presented in this issue the efforts towards digital
inclusion are being done with a considerable measure of creativity and
imagination reflecting in considerable degree Brazils unique multi-ethnic and
multi-cultural heritage and building on this through linking Internet access and
use to cultural production particularly in music but also in graphics and the
visual arts.</P>
<P>Regrettably most of these initiatives are little known outside of Brazil or
beyond Latin America or others in the Portuguese speaking world and it is one
intention of this special issue to help in a small way to overcome these
gaps.</P>
<P>One additional observation comes from a closer reading of the articles in
this issue and that is the close connections between the digital inclusion
efforts and programmes and Brazils long and effective experience with community
based processes and particularly community based education. Brazil has
contributed a very great deal to the practice but especially and notably the
theory of community based initiatives and community development overall and it
is of special interest and with some excitement that I note that this issue is
making a very strong set of conceptual and theoretical connections between this
tradition most notably through the work of the Brazilian educator <A
style="COLOR: #0088cc; TEXT-DECORATION: none"
href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paulo_Freire">Paulo Freire</A>.</P>
<P>For me this was an unexpected discovery and I have been particularly
delighted to see the ways in which this community-based approach to education
and especially literacy education is being applied to processes of digital
inclusion in various regions of Brazil and with various of the more marginalized
populations. As well, and of particular note is the way in which the
theorizing in this area of the observed processes and emergent formations of
community development fits so directly into my understanding of an emerging
community informatics theory while deepening and extending these somewhat
tentative and still partial developments.</P>
<P>Community Informatics for many is a linking of the processes of community
development with the content, affordances and historical and technological
dynamics of Information and Communications Technologies. In the English speaking
context, and particularly through work coming from Information Sciences and
Science and Technology Studies there has been considerable advance in
understanding and to a degree in conceptualizing the processes of technology
change and the ways in which technology and particularly the Internet provides
opportunities to communities and individuals for advancement and change.
We now know quite a lot about networking, about management at a distance, about
identity in a digital environment to point to only a few. However, from a CI
perspective there has been much less theorizing and a much shallower pool of
conceptualization to draw upon when one is looking at the community development
side of the CI equation. What are the processes and dynamics which can be
enabled at the community level which in turn can result in the absorption and
effective utilization of ICTs.</P>
<P>The links to the work conceptualizing community development and community
processes in Brazil goes some way, I believe towards providing a deepening of
understanding of the dynamics of communities and through certain of the articles
in this special issue we begin to see examples in practice of how these
conceptualizations can inform CI practice as well. While only two of the
articles in this issue (<A style="COLOR: #0088cc; TEXT-DECORATION: none"
href="http://ci-journal.net/index.php/ciej/article/view/658">Alvear et al
</A>and <A style="COLOR: #0088cc; TEXT-DECORATION: none"
href="http://ci-journal.net/index.php/ciej/article/view/673">Maia et al</A>)
point specifically to Freire as influences, several of the other articles
clearly are linked into a similar set of concerns linking technology to
processes of community enablement, recognizing community enablement and
technology training and development as a process of coming into a position of
self recognition and understanding, linking education into processes of the
creation of a self-understanding of economic and social contexts, and overall a
strong sense that in community development including for technology skills and
understanding can be most effective when understood as an emergent process of
communities and individuals coming into self-awareness. In this external
formal community supports have to be seen and introduced simply as tools
and enablers of these processes but as not the fundamental structures by means
of which these processes occur.</P>
<P>This linking of community process, emergent self-awareness, self and
community empowerment, with ICTs particularly for marginalized populations is at
the very core of a community informatics and thus this issue and the
practice of community informatics in Brazil has much to teach all of those with
an interest in or activities to support Community Informatics anywhere in the
world.</P>
<P>---------------------------------------------------</P>
<P>The Journal of Community Informatics has just published its latest issue
at<BR><A style="COLOR: #0088cc; TEXT-DECORATION: none"
href="http://ci-journal.net/index.php/ciej">http://ci-journal.net/index.php/ciej</A>.
We invite you to review the Table of<BR>Contents here and then visit our web
site to review articles and items of<BR>interest.</P>
<P>Thanks for the continuing interest in our work,<BR>Special issue Editors:
Suely Fragoso and Gilda Olinto<BR>Editor in Chief: Michael Gurstein<BR>Journal
of Community Informatics, Centre for Community Informatics
Research,<BR>Development and Training, Vancouver CANADA Phone 604-602-0624
Fax<BR>604-602-0624 <A style="COLOR: #0088cc; TEXT-DECORATION: none"
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<P>The</P>
<P>Journal of Community Informatics<BR>Special Double Issue: The Internet and
Community Informatics in Brazil Table<BR>of Contents <A
style="COLOR: #0088cc; TEXT-DECORATION: none"
href="http://ci-journal.net/index.php/ciej/issue/view/29Editorial">http://ci-journal.net/index.php/ciej/issue/view/29</A></P>
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<H4>Editorial</H4>
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<TD><A style="COLOR: #0088cc; TEXT-DECORATION: none"
href="http://ci-journal.net/index.php/ciej/article/view/834">Special
Double Issue: The Internet and Community Informatics in Brazil</A></TD>
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Community Informatics in Brazil</A></TD>
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href="http://ci-journal.net/index.php/ciej/article/view/835">Internet use
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<TD><A style="COLOR: #0088cc; TEXT-DECORATION: none"
href="http://ci-journal.net/index.php/ciej/article/view/654">Participation
and Deliberation on the Internet: A Case Study of Digital Participatory
Budgeting in Belo Horizonte</A></TD>
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Development of Technologies as a Way to Increase Community Participation:
the Cidade de Deus Web Portal Case</A></TD>
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href="http://ci-journal.net/index.php/ciej/article/view/667">Mastering Of
Hypermedia Resources By Virtual Learning Communities: Possibilities And
Constraints For Interaction, Communication And Construction Of Network
Knowledge.</A></TD>
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href="http://ci-journal.net/index.php/ciej/article/view/657">Situating
Learning for Digital Inclusion in the Social Context of Communities</A></TD>
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href="http://ci-journal.net/index.php/ciej/article/view/673">Garden of
Literacies: ICDT Contributing to the Construction of New Realities for
Digitally-Excluded Senior Citizens</A></TD>
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href="http://ci-journal.net/index.php/ciej/article/view/663">Evaluating
ICT Adoption in Rural Brazil: A Quantitative Analysis of Telecenters as
Agents of Social Change</A></TD>
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href="http://ci-journal.net/index.php/ciej/article/view/646">The School of
the Future / USP: Twenty Years of Vanguard in Social Networks</A></TD>
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href="http://ci-journal.net/index.php/ciej/article/view/655">The Rede
Brasil De Bibliotecas Comunitárias: A Space For Sharing Information And
Building New Knowledge</A></TD>
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<TD>Elisa Campos Machado, Geraldo Moreira Prado, Abraão Antunes da Silva,
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Movement</A></TD>
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<TD>Alan Freihof Tygel, Celso Alexandre Souza de
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