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Journal of Community Informatics

Special issue on Latin America and Community Informatics
Guest editors: Eduardo Villanueva Mansilla and Christoph Roessner

September 15, 2006.

The Journal of Community Informatics http://ci-journal.net brings together a global range of academics, CI practitioners and national and multi-lateral policy makers. This issue of the Journal of Community Informatics will contain double blind peer-reviewed research articles as well as commentaries by leading CI practitioners and policy makers.

A forthcoming special edition of the Journal will focus on Latin America and community informatics. It is intended as a forum for the specialists of the region to systematize the issues currently being faced both by practitioners and academics. This issue will also integrate the regional discussion with the academic research in community informatics world wide. It should cover both the work of practitioners in the field, together with theoretical and methodological proposals directly and indirectly related with community informatics.

We invite original, non published articles on the general subject, as well as related ones. Comparative and analytical exercises, based on original research or secondary sources, are welcome.

The following is a non exhaustive list of topics. If you feel that there is any subject related to Community Informatics and Latin America worth including, please feel free to submit a paper or to consult with the guest editors.

General outlook of the issues of CI in the region
Country Case Studies, including comparative studies with countries outside the region subject of this special issue. Discussion of specific issues, among them: New analytical and methodological approaches to address, research or drafting of public policies regarding imbalances of access and usage of ICTs in the region. Multilingual, multiethnic communities The role of Community Based Telecenters and Cyber Cafes Infrastructure development and regulation IP regulation and its consequences for CI in the region ICTs and Education in communities ICTs and Health in communities Strategic use of ICTs in communities Approaches to sustainability of CI related projects Small and Medium Business support within communities Community based Business Models Usability and Communities - Problems and Innovations in Human-Computer-Interaction


It is expected that potential authors will submit both full articles, for peer-review, as well as short pieces, commenting on specific experiences and / or policy / regulatory issues, to be reviewed by the guest editors. Books and reports authors are invited to send them for comment on the books reviewed section of the special edition.

This edition of the Journal will accept submissions in English, Spanish, Portuguese, and French, it is our intention to have a fully bilingual issue, with English versions of all papers. Unless preferred otherwise by the authors, the Journal will provide translations into English of any article needing it.

For information about submission requirements, please visit: http://ci-journal.net/submissions.php

Please, submit papers on RTF or ODT (open document) formats. Deadline for
submissions: January 31st, 2007. Publication date to be announced to the writers after consideration of translation requirements.

For further information, clarifications, comments or suggestions, and to send papers for consideration, please contact any one of the guest editors:

Eduardo Villanueva Mansilla
Associate Professor, Department of Communications, Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú evillan(at)gmail(dot)com, evillan(at)pucp(dot)edu(dot)pe Christoph Roessner Program officer ChasquiNet Fundación, Quito, Ecuado and acting secretary of Covitalc - Somos at Telecentros (the virtual research consortium of
Somos at Telecentros) (christoph (at)chasquinet(dot)org)

NOTE: For the purposes of this issue, Latin America includes all countries south of the Rio Grande with Spanish or Portuguese as the predominant language. _______________________________________________
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