[Telecentres] CfP: Journal of Community Informatics: Special Issue on Latin America and Community Informatics]

[Christoph Roessner]

Hi,
I'd like to remind you that the deadline for the submission of articles for the Special Issue
on Latin America and Community Informatics ends on the 31st of January 2007.
If you have questions, please don't hesitate to contact me.

Greetings from Quito,
Christoph Roessner

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Journal of Community Informatics

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

October 11, 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.