Appendix A Community Partners and Case Study Sites

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. List of Illustrations ix
4. Acknowledgements xi
5. 1 Connecting Canadians? 1
6. Part I Context
7. 2 Toward a Conceptual Framework for a Community Informatics 35
8. 3 Keeping in Touch 61
9. 4 Canadian and US Broadband Policies 90
10. Part II Conceptual Frameworks
11. 5 Information Technology as Political Catalyst 105
12. 6 “The Researcher Is a Girl” 117
13. 7 What Are Community Networks an Example Of? 133
14. Part III Community Innovation I: Participation and Inclusion
15. 8 Systems Development in a Community-Based Organization 143
16. 9 Vancouver Community Network as a Site of Digital and Social Inclusion 162
17. Part IV Community Innovation II: Wireless Networking
18. 10 Community and Municipal Wi-Fi Initiatives in Canada 183
19. 11 Wi-Fi Publics 202
20. 12 Wireless Broadband from Individual Backhaul to Community Service 218
21. Part V Rural and Remote Broadband
22. 13 “We Were on the Outside Looking In” 237
23. 14 A Historical Account of the Kuh-ke-nah Network 255
24. 15 Atlantic Canadian Community Informatics 283
25. 16 Reverse English 306
26. Part VI Libraries and Community Networks
27. 17 Community Networks and Local Libraries 341
28. 18 The Library Ideal and the Community Network 367
29. Part VII Public Policy
30. 19 Community Networking Experiences with Government Funding Programs 393
31. 20 Communautique 418
32. 21 There and Back to the Future Again 439
33. Appendix A Community Partners and Case Study Sites 473
34. Appendix B A Brief History of the Community Access Program: From Community Economic Development to Social Cohesion to Digital Divide 485
35. Appendix C The Federal Connecting Canadians Initiative, 1995–2007: A Brief Overview 491
36. Glossary 497
37. Publication Credits 502
38. List of Contributors 503