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INFORMATION POLICY:
Community Networking Documents and Resources


IN THIS DOCUMENT:

Directories/Indices
Conferences
Organizations
Documents/Speeches
Newsletters/Digests
Other Collections

SEE ALSO:

Information Policy: General Resources
Information Policy: Copyright and Intellectual Property
Internet And Networking: General Resources
Library And Information Science: Policy Statements

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DIRECTORIES AND INDICES

Community Networks: an On-line Guide to Resources
Paul Baker.
URL: http://mason.gmu.edu/~pbaker/1cnindex.html

Community Network Guide.
URL: http://databases.si.umich.edu/cfdocs/community/index.cfm

Community Computer Networks & Free-Net{R} Web Sites
URL: http://victoria.tc.ca/Resources/freenets.html

Community Computer Network Surveys.
Doug Schuler.
URL: http://www.cs.washington.edu/research/community-networks/

Community Networking.
Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility.
URL: http://www.cpsr.org/program/community-nets/cnwg/cnwg.htm

Directory of Public Access Networks.
Morino Institute.
URL: http://www.clir.org/pand/pandhome.htm

Freenets and Community Networks Page.
Peter Scot.t
URL: http://www.lights.com/freenet/

Neighbourhoods Online.
City of Philadelphia, LibertyNet and the Institute for the Study of Civic Values.
URL: http://www.libertynet.com/rol/default.asp


CONFERENCES

Community Access to the Information Highway.
Ottawa, May 7-9, 1995.
URL: http://www.ncf.carleton.ca:12345/freeport/freenet/conferences/access95/menu

Community Networking Conference, August 1994.
Ottawa, Ontario.
URL: http://www.ncf.carleton.ca:12345/freeport/freenet/conferences/com-net94/menu

Community Networking Conference, August 1993.
Ottawa, Ontario.
URL: http://www.ncf.carleton.ca:12345/freeport/freenet/conferences/com-net93/menu

Telecommunities Canada Conference Archives.
URL: http://www.tc.ca/archives.html

People, Networks and Communication 1995.
Honolulu, Hawaii, October 30 - November 3, 1995
URL: http://maxwell.uhh.hawaii.edu/pnc.html


ORGANIZATIONS

The Center for Civic Networking.
URL: http://www.civic.net:2401/

Morino Institute.
URL: http://www.morino.org

National Public Telecomputing Network.
NPTN serves as the parent organization for "Free-Net" community computer network systems world wide.
URL: http://www.nptn.org/

Select Nonprofit Organizations on the Internet.
URL: http://www.ai.mit.edu/people/ellens/non.html

TeleCommons Development Group (TDG).
URL: http://www.tdg.ca/


SELECTED DOCUMENTS AND SPEECHES

Avis, Andrew. Public Spaces on the Information Highway: The Role of Community Networks.
Thesis. University of Calgary, August 1995
URL: http://www.ucalgary.ca/UofC/faculties/GNST/theses/avis/thesis.html

Beamish, Anne. Communities On-Line: Community-Based Computer Networks.
Submitted to the Department of Urban Studies and Planning in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Master in City Planning at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, February 1995.
URL: http://sap.mit.edu/anneb/cn-thesis/

Canada. Industry Canada. Free-Net Sustainability Study: Free-Net Strategic and Marketing Plan (R643).
Prepared for: Victoria Freenet Association. Prepared by: Teleconsult Ltd. April 28,1994.
URL: http://www.ifla.org/documents/infopol/community_networks/sustain.txt

Cisler, Steve. Can We Keep Community Networks Running?
Computer-Mediated Communication Magazine. Volume 2, Number 1, January 1, 1995.
URL: http://www.ifla.org/documents/infopol/community_networks/cisler01.htm

Cisler, Steve. Community Computer Networks: Building Electronic Greenbelts.
June 20, 1994. version 1.1.1
URL: http://www.ifla.org/documents/infopol/community_networks/cisler01.txt

Communications as Engagement: The Millennium Report to the Rockefeller Foundation.
Marcia Sharp and Ann Beaudry, October 1994
URL: http://www.cdinet.com/Millenium/

Graham, Garth. A Domain Where Thought Is Free To Roam: The Social Purpose of Community Networks.
Telecommunities Canada Brief to CRTC Information Highway Hearings, March 29, 1995.
URL: http://www.ncf.carleton.ca/freenet/rootdir/menus/freenet/conferences/com-net94/crtc.txt

Graham, Garth. Freenets and the Politics of Community in Electronic Networks."
Government Information in Canada, 1, No. 1.6 (1994)
URL: http://www.ifla.org/documents/infopol/community_networks/graham01.txt

Morino, Mario. Assessment and Evolution of Community Networking.
URL: http://www.ifla.org/documents/infopol/community_networks/morino01.txt

Morino Institute. The Promise and Challenge of a New Communications Age.
May 1995.
URL: http://www.ifla.org/documents/infopol/community_networks/morino02.txt

Schalken, Kees and Tops, Pieter. The Digital City, A study into the backgrounds and opinions of its residents.
Community Networking Conference, 1994.
URL: http://www.vcn.bc.ca/sig/comm-nets/digital-city.txt

Schuler, Doug. How to kill community networks.
URL: http://www.scn.org/ip/commnet/kill-commnets.html

Weston, Jay. Old Freedoms and New Technologies:The Evolution of Community Networking.
Delivered as a talk at the FREE SPEECH AND PRIVACY IN THE INFORMATION AGE Symposium, University of Waterloo, Canada, November 26, 1994
URL: gopher://insight.mcmaster.ca/0R0-24760-/org/efc/doc/sfsp/weston.txt


NEWSLETTERS AND DIGESTS

COM NET NEWS.
Richard Bryant.
URL: gopher://gopher.well.sf.ca.us/11/Community/communets/com.net.news

Networks and Community
Sam Sternberg/Steve Covington.
URL: gopher://gopher.well.sf.ca.us/11s/Community/communets/net.com


OTHER RESOURCES OF NOTE

Community Television System Technology.
URL: http://www.frl.com/frlcatv1.htm

Computers, Freedom and Privacy Video Library
URL: http://www.forests.com/cfpvideo/

The Public Involvement Network.
URL: http://www.pin.org/

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