Supporting cities, neighborhoods, and local communities with information and communication technologies

Elizabeth Daly, Sheena Erete, Rosta Farzan, Gary Hsieh, Cliff Lampe, Claudia Lopez, Andres Monroy-Hernandez, Daniele Quercia, Raz Schwartz, Amy Voida

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Abstract

Challenges of the local context such as encouraging civic engagement and facilitating collaboration to address local issues have motivated researchers and practitioners to explore the role of technologies in supporting life in cities, neighborhoods, and local communities. The goal of this workshop is to open a discussion on how to design, build and study ICT infrastructures and infrastructuring processes that contributes to this effort. We aim to create a publicly accessible repository of infrastructuring tools and to facilitate the cross-pollination of ideas about technology in local contexts among the researchers, practitioners, and residents interested in this area. At the workshop, participants will collaborate with Vancouver's residents and technology practitioners in order to explore the past, present, and future of research in this space; co-construct an infrastructuring tools repository; discuss key information challenges of local communities; and brainstorm solutions and opportunities to address them. Discussion and ideas generated will be archived online to be available to the larger research community and to local community advocates and activists.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Title of host publicationCSCW 2015 Companion - Proceedings of the 18th ACM Conference Companion on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing
PublisherAssociation for Computing Machinery
Pages277-281
Number of pages5
ISBN (Electronic)9781450329224
ISBN (Print)9781450329460
DOIs
StatePublished - Feb 28 2015
Externally publishedYes
Event18th ACM Conference Companion on Computer Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing, CSCW 2015 Companion - Vancouver, Canada
Duration: Mar 14 2015Mar 18 2015

Publication series

NameProceedings of the ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work, CSCW
Volume2015-January

Conference

Conference18th ACM Conference Companion on Computer Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing, CSCW 2015 Companion
Country/TerritoryCanada
CityVancouver
Period3/14/153/18/15

All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes

  • Software
  • Human-Computer Interaction
  • Computer Networks and Communications

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