Community Networking

Professor Andrew Clement
Director, Collaborative Graduate Program in Knowledge Media Design
Knowledge Media Design Institute
University of Toronto

*** NOTE SPECIAL TIME AND PLACE***
JRCASE Conference Room, Building E6A
Macquarie University, North Ryde
(Upstairs from the usual location)

Friday 2nd May 2003 at 11am

Abstract

This talk will be about the development of community networking in Canada. Andrew has research work in progress with an urban community and social service agency that offers public access facilities and that is currently developing a "community portal". Andrew will also talk about the proposal underway to develop a national and international research alliance to study community networking initiatives.

Short resume

Andrew Clement is a Professor in the Faculty of Information Studies at the University of Toronto, where he coordinates the Information Policy Research Program. He is the Director of the Collaborative Graduate Program in Knowledge Media Design, and also holds a cross-appointment (status-only) in the Department of Computer Science, from where he received his PhD in 1986.

Andrew's research, teaching and consulting interests are in the social implications of information technology and human-centred systems development. He has written papers and co-edited books in such areas as: computer supported cooperative work; participatory design; workplace surveillance; privacy; women, work and computerization; end user computing; and the 'information society' more generally.

His recent research has focussed on public information policy, internet use in everyday life, digital identity constructions, public participation in information/communication infrastructures development, and community networking.