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• Introduction to Community Networking

  A community network is a locally-based, locally-driven communication and information system designed to enhance community and enrich lives (from The Community Connector, University of Michigan).

  • AFCN's Working Description of Community Networking
  • Usual Initiators and Supporters of Community Networks
  • Primary Aspects of Community Networks
  • Community Networking's Social Goals
  • Community Networking's Contributions
  • Stories
  • Strength-Weakness-Opportunity-Threat (SWOT) Analysis for Community Networking
  • Historical: Community Network Lists

• Books
  • Community Networks: Lessons from Blacksburg, Virginia, ISBN 1-58053-030-3
  • New Community Networks: Wired for Change, ISBN: 0-201-59553-2, Doug Schuler
  • BEV Community Network Briefing Book (free)

• Community Toolkits and Community Building Resources
  • Community Building Resource Exchange
  • Community Tool Box, Department of Human Development and the Schiefelbusch Institute for Life Span Studies, University of Kansas
  • Good Neighbor's Guide to Community Networking (by Frank Odasz)
  • Online Community Toolkit, Full Circle Associates

• Directories:
  • AFCN Community Network Database, provided by Blacksburg Electronic Village
  • Blacksburg Electronic Village Digital Library
  • Community Networks and Community Information Systems, provided by the University of Michigan

• Grants
  • National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA), an agency of the U.S. Department of Commerce
  • Department of Education Community Technology Center Grants

• Community Networking Around the World

• Electronic Democracy
  • Democracies Online
  • The Knowledge Democracy Center
  • Communities of the Future
  • Minnesota E-Democracy
    
    

• Community Assets Mapping
  • Asset-Based Community Development Institute (ABCD Institute)
  • Prairienet

• Information About the Internet, including statistics and history
• Internet Archive Repository of Web sites dating back to 1996

• Related Organizations and Sites

• Software
• Grant Bowman's Open Source list of collaboration tools
• Hardware
  • Wireless notes (Steve Cisler)
  • Wireless report from Nebraska (Steve Cisler)
  • A wireless CN
  • Another wireless CN in New York City
  • An article that indicates wireless CNs are growing rapidly
  • Review of a good wireless (802.11) book
  • Texas State Library Wireless how-to
  • Newbury Open.net Wireless how-to document
    
    

• Training Materials

• Special Needs: IBM Products

• Translators
  • AltaVista Translations
  • Spanish Glossaries
    • CallSoft Glosario B·sico Inform·tico
    • Ciber-Lexico Comparativo, English - Spanish computer glossary
    • Diccionario de tÈrminos de computaciÛn
    • MCI Tecnoguia, shows both the English-Spanish pairings and the definitions, in both languages

• Additional Resources
  • Best of Benton's Best Practices Toolkit - 1999, tools aimed at helping nonprofits use communications technology
  • Community Connector Resources
    The Community Connector, School of Information, University of Michigan, provides a wealth of information about community networking.
  • Digital Divide Network
  • Lone Eagle Resources (by Frank Odasz)
    • Articles and Grant Templates, published articles on building learning communities
    • Good Neighbor's Guide to Community Networking
    • Self-directed Learner's Internet Guide
    • Web Tour of community education, health care, and business models and resources
  • PowerUP