[bestbits] Best Bits MAG nominations for your approval - URGENT

[michael gurstein]

Hi Pranesh,

Those are some of the people, but no I'm referring to the group around here http://vancouvercommunity.net/lists/info/ciresearchers and here http://vancouvercommunity.net/lists/info/cracin-canada and here http://vancouvercommunity.net/lists/info/ci-research-sa and 3 or 4 more, of which the group you are pointing to would be a subset who have been involved in one way or another in a Community Informatics conference which has been held for the last ten years or so annually in Prato, Italy... The organizational dynamics are a bit complicated as the community has grown quite considerably and rhyzomatically and taken a number of directions and organizational forms over the last 10-15 years... The best overall perspective probably can be found here http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Community_informatics... 

I try to give a bit of an overview and introduction at a talk I gave at the U. of British Columbia a couple of year ago.. here... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YWpFiebFRDI

Hope this helps,

M

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michael gurstein [2013-12-02 10:28]:
> As of now the Community Informatics network as aligned around an 
> “Internet Justice” platform is sufficiently “formalized” that I can 
> speak on its behalf as a global network of community/grassroots and 
> community/grassroots oriented practitioners, researchers, and 
> activists and make representations including to Inet and the Brazilian 
> authorities on its behalf.

When you talk of the "community informatics network", are you referring to this group of people?

http://cirn.wikispaces.com/people

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