Ethics for Community Informatics
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Community informatics combines information and communication technologies, community development, and community-based research with the aim of improving community life, especially in communities excluded from access to power and wealth. This requires a Community Informatics Ethics that ensures that community members can find, use, and control information tools while building relationships among themselves in the process. This can result in stronger, more self-sufficient and engaged communities. |
Written by Randy Stoecker. Licence: cc-by-sa. Image by Peter Ellis (uploaded the image to Wikipedia) |
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