List of Illustrations

Acknowledgements

1 Connecting Canadians? Community Informatics Perspectives on Community Networking Initiatives / Graham Longford, Andrew Clement, Michael Gurstein, Leslie Regan Shade

Part I Context

2 Toward a Conceptual Framework for a Community Informatics  / Michael Gurstein

3 Keeping in Touch: A Snapshot of Canadian Community Networks and Their Users — Report on the CRACIN Survey of Community Network Users / Marita Moll, Melissa Fritz

4 Canadian and US Broadband Policies: A Comparative Analysis / Heather E. Hudson

Part II Conceptual Frameworks

5 Information Technology as Political Catalyst: From Technological Innovation to the Promotion of Social Change / Serge Proulx

6 “The Researcher Is a Girl”: Tales of Bringing Feminist Labour Perspectives into Community Informatics Practice and Evaluation / Katrina Peddle, Alison Powell, Leslie Regan Shade

7 What Are Community Networks an Example Of? A Response I / Christian Sandvig

Part III Community Innovation I: Participation and Inclusion

8 Systems Development in a Community-Based Organization: Lessons from the St. Christopher House Community Learning Network / Susan MacDonald, Andrew Clement

9 Vancouver Community Network as a Site of Digital and Social Inclusion / Diane Dechief

Part IV Community Innovation II: Wireless Networking

10 Community and Municipal Wi-Fi Initiatives in Canada: Evolutions in Community Participat