[Themaintainers] The Journal of Community Informatics - now accepting submissions

[Jordan Hale]

What a neat coincidence! For those Maintainers who joined us in November for Open Journal Systems superstar Kaitlin Newson's Information Maintainers talk on documentation<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q4FtwtmMdig>, let it be known that the relaunch of JoCI couldn't have been done without the collective labour and documentation referenced in that talk, and it likely would not have been possible without a commitment to open-access publication and open-source systems by all of their managing editors. Without showing the cards of the JoCI team too much, it's a classic Maintainers story with a happy ending, a lovely collaboration to rescue a thankfully-not-too-old database with a not-too-outdated OJS schema and bringing it to a new home, an SSL certificate, and a new upgrade path :)

My best,
Jordan
Information Maintainers Co-Facilitator
and the person facilitating the journal's migration!

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Jordan Hale (they/them/theirs)
Digital Repositories Librarian, University of Waterloo
jordan.hale at uwaterloo.ca<mailto:jordan.hale at uwaterloo.ca>
519 888 4567 x40135

I am working from home, so please email me to set up an appointment to speak on the phone. I live on the traditional territories of the Anishinaabeg, Haudenosaunee, and Wendat peoples, and most recently the Mississaugas of the Credit. The University of Waterloo is located on the Haldimand Tract, the land promised to the Six Nations that includes ten kilometres on either side of the Grand River.

On Jan 6, 2021, at 10:39 AM, Peter Johnson <peter.johnson at uwaterloo.ca<mailto:peter.johnson at uwaterloo.ca>> wrote:

Dear colleagues,

After a brief hiatus, the Journal of Community Informatics (JoCI) is back, and reinvigorated. Building on the 16-year history of JoCI, the editorial board is now accepting submissions in all areas of Community Informatics and related topics, particularly with how ICT can be useful to the range of traditionally excluded populations and communities, and how it can support local economic development, social justice and political empowerment using the Internet. CI is a point of convergence concerning the use of ICTs for diverse stakeholders, including community activists, nonprofit groups, policymakers, users/citizens, and the range of academics working across (and integrating) disciplines as diverse as Information Studies, Management, Computer Science, Social Work, Planning, and Development Studies. Emerging issues within the CI field include: community access to the internet, community information, online civic participation and community service delivery, community and local economic development, training networks, telework, social cohesion, learning, e-health, and e-governance.

Please check out the most recent issue of the Journal of Community Informatics online:

https://openjournals.uwaterloo.ca/index.php/JoCI/index

DOI: https://doi.org/10.15353/joci.v16i0

Editorial

A legacy to continue
Colin Rhinesmith

Articles

Actionable Open Data: Connecting City Data to Local Actions
Lucia Lupi, Alessio Antonini, Anna De Liddo, and Enrico Motta

Refugees and social media in a digital society: How young refugees are using social media and the capabilities it offers in their lives in Norway
Sasha Anderson and Marguerite Daniel

ICT Framework to Support a Patient-Centric approach in Public Healthcare: A Case Study of Malawi
Richard Pankomera and Darelle van Greunen

Bridging Digital Divide in a Remote Elementary School: A Teacher's Reflection on Invisible Work
Kenzen Chen

An analysis of the policies of Information and Communication Technologies for Agriculture in Mali
Macire Kante and Patrick Ndayizigamiye

Digital Justice: Reflections on a Community-Based Research Project
Suguna Chundur

Notes from the field

Lessons from the field: What researchers learned from evaluating ICT platforms for rural development and education
Thato Emmanuel Foko, Nare Joyce Mahwai, and Charles Acheson Phiri

The Journal of Community Informatics is sponsored by the Simmons University School of Library and Information Science (iSchool) and is hosted at the University of Waterloo Library.

Best


Peter



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Dr. Peter A. Johnson (he/him)
Associate Professor
Department of Geography and Environmental Management
University of Waterloo
EV1-236, 200 University Ave West, Waterloo, ON, Canada, N2L 3G1
519-888-4567 x33078
https://uwaterloo.ca/civic-map-lab/

I acknowledge that I live and work on the traditional territory of ?the Neutral, Anishinaabeg and Haudenosaunee peoples. The University of Waterloo is situated on the Haldimand Tract, the land promised to the Six Nations that includes ten kilometers on each side of the Grand River. For maps describing this territory, please see: http://www.sixnations.ca/LandsResources/HaldProc.htm

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