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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>Since one of the dominant rationales and underlying themes concerning the current discussions/structures of global Internet Governance is concerned with issues of "Innovation" this special issue of the Journal of Community Informatics is perhaps of particular interest from several perspectives. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>The special issue presents an alternative/expanded view of the meaning and nature of innovation, where those who are generally seen as the object of innovation in fact, become the subject of innovation (innovators) and where innovation is seen as a bottom up rather than top down process. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>It does I think, further suggest the need/opportunity for an expanded understanding of the nature and significance of innovation and including who could/should be understood as "stakeholders" in the multi-stakeholder processes where innovations including or especially technical (informatics) applications are framed and undertaken. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>Finally, the special issue also includes a number of alternative approaches and conceptions of "innovation" and suggests that just as with multi-stakeholderism, the conventional approach to the determination/definition of "innovation" would merit significant scrutiny and extension to include those at the grassroots often overlooked in such processes and analyses. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'>M<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #B5C4DF 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> michael gurstein [mailto:gurstein@gmail.com] <br><b>Sent:</b> Thursday, May 02, 2013 8:55 AM<br><b>To:</b> air-l@listserv.aoir.org<br><b>Subject:</b> RE: [JoCI] New Special Issue: Community Informatics and Co-Creation of Innovation<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>The Journal of Community Informatics has just published its latest issue at <a href="http://www.ci-journal.net/index.php/ciej">http://www.ci-journal.net/index.php/ciej</a>.<b><i> </i></b><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>We invite you to review the Table of Contents here and then visit our web site to review articles and items of interest.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText>Thanks for the continuing interest in our work, Michael Gurstein Editor in Chief: Journal of Community Informatics, Vancouver CANADA Phone 604-602-0624 <a href="mailto:gurstein@gmail.com"><span style='color:windowtext;text-decoration:none'>gurstein@gmail.com</span></a><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><u>The Journal of Community Informatics<span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p></o:p></span></u></p><p class=MsoPlainText>Vol 9, No 3 (2013): Special Issue: CI and the Co-Creation of Innovation Table of Contents<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><span style='color:#1F497D'><a href="http://www.ci-journal.net/index.php/ciej/issue/view/47">http://www.ci-journal.net/index.php/ciej/issue/view/47</a></span><span class=MsoHyperlink><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoPlainText><b><i><span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></i></b></p><p class=MsoPlainText><b><span style='color:#1F497D'>Editorial<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><table class=MsoNormalTable border=0 cellpadding=0 width="100%" style='width:100.0%'><tr><td valign=top style='padding:.75pt .75pt .75pt .75pt'><p class=MsoPlainText><span style='color:#1F497D'><a href="http://www.ci-journal.net/index.php/ciej/article/view/953">Introduction</a><o:p></o:p></span></p></td><td valign=top style='padding:.75pt .75pt .75pt .75pt'><p class=MsoPlainText><span style='color:#1F497D'><a href="http://www.ci-journal.net/index.php/ciej/article/view/953/1029">HTML</a> <o:p></o:p></span></p></td></tr><tr><td style='padding:.75pt .75pt .75pt .75pt'><p class=MsoPlainText><span style='color:#1F497D'>Susana Finquelievich, Mariana Salgado <o:p></o:p></span></p></td><td style='padding:.75pt .75pt .75pt .75pt'></td></tr></table><p class=MsoPlainText><span style='color:#1F497D;display:none'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><table class=MsoNormalTable border=0 cellpadding=0 width="100%" style='width:100.0%'><tr><td valign=top style='padding:.75pt .75pt .75pt .75pt'><p class=MsoPlainText><span style='color:#1F497D'><a href="http://www.ci-journal.net/index.php/ciej/article/view/1038">Community Innovation and Community Informatics</a><o:p></o:p></span></p></td><td valign=top style='padding:.75pt .75pt .75pt .75pt'><p class=MsoPlainText><span style='color:#1F497D'><a href="http://www.ci-journal.net/index.php/ciej/article/view/1038/1022">HTML</a> <o:p></o:p></span></p></td></tr><tr><td style='padding:.75pt .75pt .75pt .75pt'><p class=MsoPlainText><span style='color:#1F497D'>Michael Gurstein <o:p></o:p></span></p></td><td style='padding:.75pt .75pt .75pt .75pt'></td></tr></table><p class=MsoPlainText><b><span style='color:#1F497D'>Articles<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><table class=MsoNormalTable border=0 cellpadding=0 width="100%" 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