Journal of Community Informatics launches

The Journal of Community Informatics has just announced its inaugural issue. What is the journal? Anything with a name as daunting probably deserves some introduction. The journal site notes:

"Community Informatics (CI) is the study and the practice of enabling communities with Information and Communications Technologies (ICTs). CI seeks to work with communities towards the effective use of ICTs to improve their processes, achieve their objectives, overcome the "digital divides" that exist both within and between communities, and empower communities and citizens in the range of areas of ICT application including for health, cultural production, civic management, e-governance among others. The Journal of Community Informatics brings together a global range of academics, CI practitioners and national and multi-lateral policy makers. Each issue of the Journal of Community Informatics will contain double blind peer-reviewed research articles as well as commentaries by leading CI practitioners and policy makers."

I was intrigued to discover that this first issue includes articles about such ideas in India, Latin America, Russia and Canada, and that other articles touch on women and technology, and social transformation. There may be a digital divide, but this journal looks to be working to ease it.