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 2008: ICTs for Social Inclusion: What is the Reality?

Visa of Prato © Ma. Theresa Rivera

5th Prato Community Informatics & Development Informatics Conference 2008: ICTs for Social Inclusion: What is the Reality?

27 OCTOBER-30 OCTOBER 2008, MONASH CENTRE, PRATO ITALY.

Draft Program

Details of the draft program, including an evaluation workshop, keynotes, PhD colloquium, and over 40 presentations from many countries will be posted shortly.

REGISTRATION

Earlybird registration is now available. Please log into the website if you already have a user account, or set up an account to make a payment.

Major earlybird prices are:

Regular Registration $AUD560
Student Registration $AUD480
Developing Country Registration $AUD480
Conference banquet: $AUD60

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CCNR Develops Research Relationships in South Africa

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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

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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

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'Building Bridges: The Chinese in Melbourne and Prato'

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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

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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.

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