The Centre for Community Networking Research, Caulfield School of Information Technology, at Monash University, aims to understand how communities and community organisations are using new technologies. We are interested in the practicalities of information and technology usage and broader issues of community and institutional culture and memory as they are shaped through different understandings and uses of technologies. We are involved in 21 current projects and have 10 local and international PhD students.

Prato Community CIRN Conference 2009: Empowering communities: learning from community informatics practice

CONFERENCE ANNOUNCEMENT

CIRN 2009: Empowering communities: learning from community informatics practice. 4-6 November 2009 Monash University Prato Centre, Italy

Conference Program now available

The (draft) conference program, subject to updates is now available. Registered delegates can also download conference papers.

Registration includes the registration fee and all teas, coffees and lunches during the conference. The catering is excellent. The banquet is an additional charge but well worth the money! Please register via the conference registration link.

Student prices have been substantially discounted and the price for regular delegates raised slightly to provide assistance to them and other delegates.

We cannot charge directly in Euros this year. For currency conversion, please see xe.com.

LATE ABSTRACTS

If you are late, please send in an abstract as soon as possible. Depending on the total number of abstracts, we may be able to add an extra stream to the conference.

We are seeking abstracts and proposals from academics, practitioners and PhD students for a conference and workshop event at the Monash University Centre, Prato Italy (near Florence). We are also seeking proposals for workshops of up to 90 minutes. The Centre for Community Networking Research, Monash , in conjunction with the Community Informatics Research Network, has held highly successful events in 2003, 2004, 2006, and 2007 and 2008 in Prato, as well as associated workshops over the years, in the UK, France, and Portugal. The conference has an increasing representation of delegates from Francophone and Spanish-speaking countries, and we welcome your attendance. While the official conference language is English, if there are sufficient papers for either language, specific sessions will be arranged...

CCNR Develops Research Relationships in South Africa

Meraka, the African Institute for Advanced Computing, of the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (South Africa) recently hosted Larry Stillman to help develop research relationships in the development of social technologies for disadvantaged communities through their innovative Digital Doorways project.

The story can be seen on their website.

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Social inclusion: the Chinese and Italian communities in Prato

27 October 2008, Monash Centre, Prato, Italy

This will be a one-day academic conference where we will be joined by our European colleagues and community practitioners. The conference will be funded in part by a strategic initiatives grant that we were successful in securing for 2008.

For further information, please see the

'Building Bridges: The Chinese in Melbourne and Prato'

Friday 11 July 2008.

A workshop jointly sponsored by the Asian Business and Economics
Research Unit in the Business and Economics Faculty and the Centre for
Community Networking Research in the Faculty of Information Technology.

The workshop will be at the Monash city premises 30 Collins Street.

The morning will be an academic workshop where researchers will
present papers about their projects, and in the afternoon community

DoingITBetter Project

The DoingIT Better project is a three-year social justice and action research partnership with the Victorian Council of Social Service, generously funded by a donor. It is led by Dr Larry Stillman of CCNR.