More than wires, pipes and ducts: Some lessons from grassroots networked communities and master-planned neighbourhoods

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 4277 LNCS - I, Issue , 2006, Pages 171-180

  Gaved, Mark ^a   Foth, Marcus ^b  

^a OPEN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b QUEENSLAND UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Community informatics; Community information systems; Community networks; Grassroots communities; ICT; Master planned communities; Networked communities; Urban neighbourhoods

Indexed keywords

ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL EFFECTS; INFORMATION SCIENCE; PROJECT MANAGEMENT; TECHNICAL PRESENTATIONS;

COMMUNITY INFORMATICS; COMMUNITY INFORMATION SYSTEMS; COMMUNITY NETWORKS; GRASSROOTS COMMUNITIES; MASTER PLANNED COMMUNITIES; NETWORKED COMMUNITIES; URBAN NEIGHBORHOODS;

INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY;

EID: 33845387065     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/11915034_40     Document Type: Conference Paper

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