Dension, T., L. Stillman and G. Johanson (2007). "The Australian non–profit sector and the challenge of ICT." First Monday 12(5).

Abstract

In recent years, the Australian Government has been encouraging the adoption of Information and Communications Technologies (ICT) by non-profit organisations. In 2006, as a part of that process, the Government initiated a project to develop a possible model and business plan for a National Non-profit ICT Coalition (NNIC), conceived of as a coalition of leading non-profit organisations and social enterprises that would assist the sector in making more effective use of ICT. This paper draws on data collected during an extensive consultation process conducted to inform that model, and examines the data in terms of the response of non-profit organisations to the challenge of ICT within an Australian context. It then considers the implications for both the management of non-profit organisations and government policy.

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Stillman, Larry & Stoecker, Randy (2004). A participant action research project for Building & Bridging Community Networks. University of Brighton, UK, 31 March 2004.

Stillman, Larry & Stoecker, Randy (2004). CIRN 2004 Colloquium and Conference, Prato, Italy, 29 Sept-1 Oct 2004.

Stillman, Larry (2003). A Search conference report, edited by Larry Stillman, December 2003.

Information and Communications Technology, Capacity Building and Meeting Community Needs:

A search conference about the impact of ICT on the social, community and non-profit sectors took place in October 2002. The Search Conference aimed to explore the following issues:

What are the aspirations that we have for the way in which ICT can change society in ways that were not previously available?

Schauder, Don, Stillman, Larry, Johanson, Graeme (2004). CIRN 2004 Colloquium and Conference, Prato, Italy, 29 Sept-1 Oct 2004.

Tom Denison, Larry Stillman, Graeme Johanson, Don Schauder (2003). Many Voices, Many Places - Electronically Enabling Communities for An Information Society: A Colloquium. Research Results, Lessons Learned, Policy Recommendations, Prato, Italy 15-16 September, 2003.

Prato Conference proceedings

Johanson, G, Hardy, G, Stillman, L, Schauder, D. and Denison, T. (2002). In Electronic networking 2002 - building community: Conference proceedings, Melbourne, Australia, 3-5 July 2002. (Published on CD-ROM)

It is easy to become confused by the enormous breadth of literature that is being published about theoretical, practical, and policy-oriented understandings and evaluations of community networking.

Tom Denison, Graeme Johanson, Larry Stillman, Don Schauder

Refereed paper at Many Voices, Many Places - Electronically Enabling Communities for An Information Society: A Colloquium, Monash Centre, Prato Italy, 15-16 October, 2003
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Theory, practice, social capital, and information and communications technologies in Australia (peer reviewed paper)

This paper discusses connections between community informatics and social capital in theory Australia. It is argued that an adequate theoretical analysis of the character of community informatics as a recognizable form of social institution or practice has not occurred. A theoretical location can be found in Giddens' structuration theory and more recent derivative work concerned with information and communications technology (Giddens 1984). Some speculative comments about community-based organisations are presented to demonstrate the usefulness of structuration theory. To appreciate the recursive significance of contemporary Australian cases of community uses of information and communication technologies (ICTs), under the aegis of Giddens, we argue that communities and ICTs interact and potentially sustain each other in a range of newly-identified ways.