Community Technology Institute is a national non-profit that develops and promotes telecommunications and other innovative technologies to relieve human suffering and facilitate the delivery of social services. Our Community Voice Mail program won a Harvard-Ford Foundation Innovations Award in 1993 and has been named one of the top ten innovations in the history of the award. This area of Educational Partners provides links to Action Plans for Starting Community Networks. Starts with 17 questions that every non-profit should ask themselves to assess their strengths and weaknesses and then examines some of them in more detail. Virtual Forums on Community Networks Virtual Community Center Electric Minds hosted community forum.
Folks come and go and leave helpful insights about community networks.
Communet Popular Community and Civic Network discussion list. This is a chapter of his SFU masters thesis. He presents the history of Community Memory from the 1970s and 1980s in Berkeley, California, USA, the Cleveland FreeNet and the NPTN, and the rise of community networking in Canada. As technical experts, CPSR members provide the public and policymakers with realistic assessments of the power, promise, and limitations of computer technology. As concerned citizens, we direct public attention to critical choices concerning the applications of computing and how those choices affect society.