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2003
ACM
15 years 8 months ago
Communities Collaborating to Bridge the Digital Divide: The Tribal Virtual Network
The Digital Divide has become a catch phrase and political banner that defines the divide between the “have and have-nots” of internet-based technologies.1 Many rural and Nati...
Maria Williams, Vernon Lujan, Ron Solimon, Lorene ...
CANDT
2009
15 years 7 months ago
wConnect: a facebook-based developmental learning community to support women in information technology
The under-representation of women in computer and information science (CIS) has created a crisis in availability of qualified CIS professionals and diversity of perspectives. Many...
Mary Beth Rosson, John M. Carroll, Dejin Zhao, Tim...
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GROUP
2007
ACM
15 years 7 months ago
Community, consensus, coercion, control: cs*w or how policy mediates mass participation
When large groups cooperate, issues of conflict and control surface because of differences in perspective. Managing such diverse views is a persistent problem in cooperative group...
Travis Kriplean, Ivan Beschastnikh, David W. McDon...
ACMDIS
2008
ACM
15 years 5 months ago
"Narrowcast yourself": designing for community storytelling in a rural Indian context
The StoryBank project is examining technologies and practices to allow digitally impoverished communities to take part in the user-generated content revolution. The approach invol...
Matt Jones, Will Harwood, David Bainbridge, George...
TGC
2010
Springer
15 years 1 months ago
CarPal: Interconnecting Overlay Networks for a Community-Driven Shared Mobility
Car sharing and car pooling have proven to be an effective solution to reduce the amount of running vehicles by increasing the number of passengers per car amongst medium/big commu...
Vincenzo Dezani-Ciancaglini, Luigi Liquori, Lauren...