Midterm: Community Informatics: Integrating Action, Research and Learning.

• What is “Community Informatics”? What does it hope to accomplish?
• CI is a multidisciplinary field for the investigation and development of the social and cultural factors shaping the development of the social and cultural factors shaping the development and diffusion of new ICTs and its effects upon community development, regeneration, and sustainability . (p6)
• CI is making efforts to promote a positive role for computers and the Internet in society. (p7)
  
• Define “pragmatic technology.”
• Pragmatic technology encompasses the common language notion of how to design tools to meet real human needs and accommodate users in their lived situations. (p8)