Peter van den Besselaar |
His research program covers the following two areas:
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Current activities:
Endre Dányi
Sociologist,
research fellow at the Center for Media and Communication Studies at the Central
European University of Budapest.
BA/MA in Sociology and Media Studies, ELTE Institute of Sociology and ELTE Media Centre, 2002;
MA in Politics and Political Economy of the Post-Communist Transition, Central European University, 2003;
MSc candidate - New Media, Information and Society (research), London School of Economics and Political Science, 2004.
His research focuses on political communication, and the political significance of information and communication technologies. Dányi is section editor of the academic quarterly Médiakutató (Media Researcher); founding member of Center for Information Society and Network Research (ELTE-Ithaka).
Peter
Day
B.A.
(Hons) 1st Class, University of Brighton
PhD in Community Informatics, Brighton University
Honorary Senior fellow at the University of Queensland, Australia
Peter Day is a Senior Lecturer at the School of Computing, Mathematical and Information Sciences at the University of Brighton.
Beyond his teaching position at Brighton University, Peter Day is a director of the Sussex Community Internet Project (SCIP), a not for profit community technology organization that raises awareness of the potential of ICTs to support and underpin the social networks upon which community life is based.
He is project manager for the Community Network Analysis (CNA) & ICT: Bridging & Building Community Ties project. A joint venture between the University of Brighton and SCIP, the project is funded through the ESRC as part of the ESRC-DTI-EPSRC People at the Centre of Communication and Information Technologies (PACCIT) LINK Research Programme.
Dr. Day was a Steering Group member of the recent Brighton & Hove City Council funded 'Information and Communication Development' (ICD) pilot project. ICD project was a 12 month pilot established to provide ICT training and identify the needs of the community and voluntary sector as a precursor to the development of a city-wide community information network (CIN).
Active in the international field of community informatics, Dr. Day is currently co-editing two books intended to inform and influence policy and practice on the challenges and opportunities facing local community attempts to utilise ICTs. Peter's emerging international reputation is underlined by a recent Open Society Institute (OSI) community informatics consultancy in Hungary.
Peter is also a member of Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility (CSPR) and a founder member of the UK Telecottage Association.
Susana Finquelievich
Director,
Research Program on Information Society, Instituto de Investigaciones Gino
Germani, Faculty of Social
Sciences, University of Buenos Aires, Argentina.
President of LINKS, Civil Association for the Development of Information Society.
Honorary Professor, University of Central Queensland, Rockhampton, Australia.
Senior Researcher in the Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas, CONICET (National Council of Scientific and Technical Research).
Direction of scientific research on technological innovation in Latin America; technical and scientific policies for developing countries; privatization of urban services; citizen participation in urban affairs.
Currently Director of the research team "INFOPOLIS". Coordinator, Urban Research Area. Direction of postgraduate thesis. Contacts and agreements with Universities, local governments, ONGs, and enterprises.
Professor of the Seminar "Introduction to Information Society",
Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Buenos Aires.
Michael Gurstein
Dr.
Gurstein is currently a Visiting Professor in the School of Management at
the New Jersey Institute of Technology and a Principal with Michael Gurstein
& Associates, Vancouver BC specializing in community based technology
applications. He is an Honorary Professor at Central Queensland University
in Australia. A Canadian, he completed a B.A. at the University of Saskatchewan
in Canada and a Ph.D. at the University of Cambridge and was a senior public
servant in the Provinces of British Columbia and Saskatchewan. From 1992-95
Dr. Gurstein was a Management Advisor with the United Nations Secretariat
in New York.
His publications include "Community Informatics: Enabling Communities with Information and Communications Technologies" (Idea Group, 2000); and "Burying Coal: Research and Development in a Marginal Community" Collective Press, Vancouver. Dr. Gurstein has served on the Board of the Vancouver Community Network, the British Columbia Community Networking Association, Telecommunities Canada, and was a Charter Member of the Steering Committee of the Global Community Networking Partnership. Dr. Gurstein is receiving wide recognition for his work as a pioneer in the burgeoning area of Community Informatics. He has recently been invited to give Keynote addresses at the J.F. Kennedy School at Harvard University, at the United Nations-International Year of the Aged, the Institute of Advanced Studies--UCLA, the University of Missouri, Renselaar Polytechnic and in Australia, Italy, Argentina, and the UK and guest lectures at Claremont Graduate University and the University of Michigan among others.
He was the international co-Chair of a major conference on ICT's and Civil
Society held in Russia in 2003. In late 2002, Dr. Gurstein was awarded a substantial
grant from the Ford Foundation to support his research work in the area of
Community Informatics in addition to research grants from the Canadian Social
Science and Humanities Research Council and the US National Science Foundation.
He is currently the Chair of the (Global) Community Informatics Research Network
and the Editor of Community Informatics: a Global Journal whose first edition
will appear in September, 2004.
Ilpo Koskikallio
Ilpo
Koskikallio holds a MS degree (Economics) from the University of Helsinki.
He has worked as a research scientist (1973-88) and after that as a lecturer and project manager specializing to the question how to apply information society for the benefit of periferic regions.
From the year 1976 he has been living and working himself in a small rural town in the eastern part of Finland.
Glocal Ltd. is a company (est. 2000) specialized to the locally based intranet systems (technical maintenance, marketing and further development). This locally oriented intranet concept was developed during the "Learning Upper North Karelia" project which was carried out in Upper North Karelia during 1998-2000.
Doug Schuler
Doug
Schuler is a former chair of Computer
Professionals for Social Responsibility (CPSR) and a founding member of
the Seattle Community Network
(SCN). Doug has written several books and articles, including New
Community Networks: Wired for Change.
His new books co-edited with Peter Day are Shaping the Network Society: The New Role of Civil Society in Cyberspace (MIT Press) and Community Practice in the Network Society: Local Action/Global Interaction (Routledge). He also co-edited Cyberculture: The Key Concepts with David Bell, Brian Loader, and Nicholas Pleace.
For over nearly 20 years Doug has been engaged with issues relating to society and computing, mostly as an activist with CPSR. He has worked on many CPSR projects including all eight of CPSR's biannual symposia on the "Directions and Implications of Advanced Computing" (DIAC) conferences, which provide a public forum for social implications of computers. Currently, he is a faculty member (Evening and Weekend Studies) of The Evergreen State College where he teaches and learns about technology and social implications of the the network society. Doug is currently the program director for CPSR's Public Sphere Project where he is helping to construct a large Pattern Language for Participation, Action, and Change.
Doug has given presentations in Africa, Asia, Europe, and South America and North America on democratic technology issues. Please see his presentations page for a more extensive listing.
Sergei Stafeev
Sergei
Stafeev is a Director of the Centre
of Community Networking and Information Policy Studies (CCNS) non-governmental
research organisation, located in St. Petersburg, Russia.
CCNS is one of the leading think-tanks in Russia in the area of community-based ICTs.
In the last four years he led several R&D projects on using ICTs for community development in Russia and CIS, funded by US, Canada and UK Foundations.
Stafeev's primary research interests are concerned how Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) can be used to support community development and civil society building in the CIS (exSoviet) region, including areas of e-policy, soft-security, innovation policy etc.
Larry Stillman
Senior
Research Fellow, Centre for Community Networking Research (CCNR),
Monash University,
Victoria, Australia.
Larry is currently undertaking PhD research about technology in community-based non-profit organisations, integrating structuration theory and theories of knowledge and technology.
He has been closely involved with all of CCNR's projects, and has a particular interest in evaluative methodologies, including program logic methodologies applied to action research for community informatics and community technology projects.
He has a background of research and development in community networking and has worked in non-profit organisations, as well as VICNET, with particular involvement in online services for people with disabilities and non-English speakers, including the Open Road website. He had played a leading role in community networking conferences and events in Australia, as well as building contacts with colleagues internationally, including the Community Informatics Research Network (CIRN). Follow this link for details of Larry's research and community development work, including papers (some overly speculative) and presentations.
Wallace Taylor
Dr.
Taylor's research interests are predominantly in the social appropriation of
Information Communication Technologies with a particular emphasis on its interface
with public agency service delivery.
He is author and co-editor of 2 books, 4 conference proceedings, 10 book chapters and 45 papers on Community Informatics.
He has more than 34 years public sector experience in rural and regional development in Australia and more than 35 papers in agricultural research and rural development.
He sits on the executive of a number of international community informatics organizations including being co-chair of Community Informatics Research Network (CIRN) which involves researchers and practitioners from more than 20 countries.
He is an international research adviser on the Canadian Research Alliance for Community and Innovative Networks program (CRACIN) and a leader for the Cape Technikon (Capetown, South Africa) community informatics initiative.
He was a key note speaker at the Salzburg Seminar on Digital Inclusion in September 2003 and since 2001 he has been an invited keynote speaker and presenter at a number of Community Informatics international conferences in Australia, France, Austria, Italy, Russia, United Kingdom, United States and Canada.