[Olpc-open] Fwd: [bytesforall_readers] FW: CfP Call For Papers: JoCI Special Issue Community Wireless Networking and Social Justice

[Edward Cherlin]

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From: Michael Gurstein <mgurst at vcn.bc.ca>
Date: Mar 26, 2007 11:37 PM
Subject: [bytesforall_readers] FW: CfP Call For Papers: JoCI Special
Issue Community Wireless Networking and Social Justice
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> *From:* Alison Powell [mailto:a_powell at alcor.concordia.ca]
> *Sent:* March 21, 2007 12:27 PM
> *To:* cracin-canada at vancouvercommunity.net
> *Subject:* [cracin-discussion] Call For Papers: Community Wireless
> Networking and Social Justice
>
>     Hi all --
>
>     Sascha Meinrath and I are co-editing a special issue of the
Journal
>     of Community Informatics http://ci-journal.net on Community
Wireless.  Please circulate
>     this call widely among your various networks.
>
>     alison
>     _______
>
>     Wireless Networking and Social Justice: CALL FOR PAPERS.
>
>     New wireless networking breakthroughs have inspired communities to
>     build their own communications infrastructures and develop
>     innovative applications and services. Around the world, these
>     projects have developed, appropriated, and integrated emerging
>     wireless technologies to provide access to local media, promote
>     digital inclusion, solve communication problems, and promote civic
>     engagement. In India community-based wireless projects are
>     "leapfrogging" over expensive wired communication infrastructure.
In
>     the United States, community wireless networking (CWN) projects
have
>     demonstrated that local telecommunications networks can be
produced
>     and provisioned inexpensively at the local level. These success
>     stories are contributing to the global explosion in the number of
>     municipal WiFi projects and are having important impacts on the
>     social fabric of civil society.
>
>     Yet these local projects are rarely discussed in their wider
>     context. This special issue of the Journal of Community
Informatics
>     http://ci-journal.net  takes a global perspective on Community
>     Wireless projects, aiming to broaden our understanding of the
>     technologies, organizational structures, and policy implications
of
>     projects developed by communities around the world. This issue
>     assembles reflections, works in progress, and analysis of CWN
>     projects. In addition to academic articles that describe and
analyze
>     the political and social implications of community wireless, we
>     welcome "Field Notes" from practitioners that introduce local
>     projects to a new and interested audience.
>
>     This special issue broadens the discussion of Community Wireless
in
>     two ways: first, by opening a space to exchange "best practices"
and
>     "instructive failures" between practitioners; and, second, by
>     soliciting academic articles that empirically or theoretically
>     discuss the cultural, social, economic, and policy impacts of
>     Community Wireless projects. Academic discussion of these projects
>     has evolved over the past several years, along with the projects
>     themselves, and Community Wireless Networking has arguably become
>     accepted as a form of community networking. Yet what are the
>     long-term impacts of community wireless projects? How do they fit
>     into the wireless industry now that governments at various levels
>     are investing in connectivity via WiFi? What is the relationship
>     between community wireless networks and wireless markets in
>     different locations? Where do CWNs contribute to the policy-making
>     process? What are the policy decisions that effect them -- and how
>     do policies differ?
>
>     500 word abstracts of submissions to this special issue (both
>     academic papers and field notes) should be sent to
>     joci at saschameinrath.com by April 15, 2007 and include the author's
>     affiliation and contact information. Full paper submissions are
due
>     by June 1, 2007.
>
>     Full Paper Details:
>
>     Field notes should be between 500 and 1500 words, written for an
>     informed but non-technical audience and describing community
>     wireless projects in progress (project descriptions, technical
>     specifications, etc).
>
>     Academic papers should be no longer than 8000 words, and include a
>     100 word abstract and a 25-word biography of the author including
>     affiliation and e-mail address. They should treat a social,
>     cultural, or economic aspect of Community Wireless Networking. The
>     Journal of Community Informatics uses the APA reference style.
>
>     Alison Powell Department of Communications Concordia University
>     Montreal, Canada
>
>     Sascha Meinrath Institute for Communications Research University
of
>     Illinois Urbana-Champaign, USA








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