List of Illustrations

Acknowledgements

1 Connecting Canadians? Community Informatics Perspectives on
Community Networking Initiatives / Graham Longford, Andrew Clement,
Michael Gurstein, Leslie Regan Shade

Part I Context

2 Toward a Conceptual Framework for a Community Informatics  /
Michael Gurstein

3 Keeping in Touch: A Snapshot of Canadian Community Networks and
Their Users — Report on the CRACIN Survey of Community Network
Users / Marita Moll, Melissa Fritz

4 Canadian and US Broadband Policies: A Comparative Analysis /
Heather E. Hudson

Part II Conceptual Frameworks

5 Information Technology as Political Catalyst: From Technological
Innovation to the Promotion of Social Change / Serge
Proulx

6 “The Researcher Is a Girl”: Tales of Bringing Feminist
Labour Perspectives into Community Informatics Practice and Evaluation
/ Katrina Peddle, Alison Powell, Leslie Regan Shade

7 What Are Community Networks an Example Of? A Response I /
Christian Sandvig

Part III Community Innovation I: Participation and
Inclusion

8 Systems Development in a Community-Based Organization: Lessons
from the St. Christopher House Community Learning Network / Susan
MacDonald, Andrew Clement

9 Vancouver Community Network as a Site of Digital and Social
Inclusion / Diane Dechief

Part IV Community Innovation II: Wireless
Networking

10 Community and Municipal Wi-Fi Initiatives in Canada: Evolutions
in Community Participation I / Alison Powell, Leslie Regan
Shade

11 Wi-Fi Publics: Defining Community and Technology at
Montréal’s Île Sans Fil / Alison Powell

12 Wireless Broadband from Individual Backhaul to Community Service:
Co-operative Provision and Related Models of Local Signal Access /
Matthew Wong

Part V Rural and Remote Broadband

13 “We Were on the Outside Looking In”: MyKnet. org
— A First Nations Online Social Environment in Northern Ontario /
Brandi L. Bell, Philipp Budka, Adam Fiser

14 A Historical Account of the Kuh-ke-nah Network: Broadband
Deployment in a Remote Canadian Aboriginal Telecommunications Context /
Adam Fiser, Andrew Clement

15 Atlantic Canadian Community Informatics: The Case of the WVDA and
SmartLabrador / Katrina Peddle

16 Reverse English: Strategies of the Keewatin Career Development
Corporation in Discourse Surrounding the Knowledge-Based Economy and
Society / Frank Winter

Part VI Libraries and Community Networks

17 Community Networks and Local Libraries: Strengthening Ties with
Communities / Nadia Caidi, Susan MacDonald, Elise Chien

18 The Library Ideal and the Community Network: Prospects for New
Technologies in the Public Library I / Marco Adria

Part VII Public Policy

19 Community Networking Experiences with Government Funding Programs
Service Delivery Model or Sustainable Social Innovation? / Susan
MacDonald, Graham Longford, Andrew Clement

20 Communautique: Action and Advocacy for Universal Digital Access /
Nicolas Lecomte, Serge Proulx

21 There and Back to the Future Again: Community Networks and
Telecom Policy Reform in Canada, 1995–2010 / Graham Longford,
Marita Moll, Leslie Regan Shade

Appendix A: Community Partners and Case Study Sites
/ Graham Longford

Appendix B: A Brief History of the Community Access
Program: From Community Economic Development to Social Cohesion to
Digital Divide / Marita Moll

Appendix C: The Federal Connecting Canadians
Initiative, 1995–2007: A Brief Overview / Graham Longford,
Marita Moll

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