CIRN Prato Community Informatics Conference

19/06/2023

Extended call for Papers! Please send us your paper abstract or session idea!

https://sites.google.com/monash.edu/cirn2023/
Thinking Writing, Dialoguing. A hybrid conference for the future
An Open Call for Papers. papers in the peer-reviewed and non-peer-reviewed streams, including graduate student presentations and papers across any topic in community informatics, ICT4D, archives and memory studies, and the arts. Papers from this part of the conference will be published in Conference Proceedings. Preference in the selection of papers will be given to people who can physically attend the conference.
In keeping with the long tradition of this conference as a place for strategic interdisciplinary dialogue within a global context, we also invite proposals for workshops and events that don’t fit specifically within, may be a sub- component of, or may bridge between the CI and cousins vision statement, or Environmental Informatics workshop components (see the site for details) . Beyond more traditional workshops, events can also include demonstrations and exhibits.
A hybrid event. Depending on time zone differences, we aim to make a number of sessions open for international participation as far as is practicable.

19/05/2023

https://sites.google.com/monash.edu/cirn2023/
Thinking Writing, Dialoguing. A hybrid conference for the future
An Open Call for Papers. papers in the peer-reviewed and non-peer-reviewed streams, including graduate student presentations and papers across any topic in community informatics, ICT4D, archives and memory studies, and the arts. Papers from this part of the conference will be published in Conference Proceedings. Preference in the selection of papers will be given to people who can physically attend the conference.
In keeping with the long tradition of this conference as a place for strategic interdisciplinary dialogue within a global context, we also invite proposals for workshops and events that don’t fit specifically within, may be a sub- component of, or may bridge between the CI and cousins vision statement, or Environmental Informatics workshop components (see the site for details) . Beyond more traditional workshops, events can also include demonstrations and exhibits.

A hybrid event. Depending on time zone differences, we aim to make a number of sessions open for international participation as far as is practicable.

Thinking Writing, Dialoguing. A hybrid conference for the future

18/04/2022

At last after some years of pretty depressing isolation, the Prato conference is on again!

20 YEARS OF CIRN
Examining the past, present, and future of communities and technology
Conference | 9 - 11 November 2022, Monash University, Prato, Italy.

The theme of the 2022 conference, 20 years of CIRN: Examining the past, present and future of communities and technology aims to both look back at 20 years of the Prato conferences and the rich knowledge, and experience that have emerged from them, but as well, look at new emerging themes and challenges in a very different world. The conference may well be unique as an international long-term reflective event concerned with the internet.

We invite referred and non-referred papers and presentations and workshop or panel proposals that can take into account the changes that have occurred with communities and technologies since the earliest days of the internet, as well as accounts of contemporary innovation and challenges across the full range of community informatics interests: libraries, community action and engagement, international development, archives and memory, dis/ability, gender, race & class, identity, and the creative arts. And now, we add environmental informatics.

For more details, please see https://sites.google.com/monash.edu/cirn2022/.

20th Annual Community Informatics Research Network Conference

13/04/2022

Yes- we are coming together this year--at last!

Please submit an abstract!

https://sites.google.com/monash.edu/cirn2022/

The theme of the 2022 conference, “20 years of CIRN: Examining the past, present and future of communities and technology” aims to both look back at 20 years of the Prato conferences and the rich knowledge, and experience that have emerged from them, but as well, look at new emerging themes and challenges in a very different world. The conference may well be unique as an international long-term reflective event concerned with the internet.

We invite referred and non-referred papers and presentations and workshop proposals that can take into account the changes that have occurred with communities and technologies since the earliest days of the internet, as well as accounts of contemporary innovation and challenges across the full range of community informatics interests: libraries, community action and engagement, international development, archives and memory, dis/ability, gender, race & class, identity, and the creative arts. And now, we add environmental informatics.

CIRN is an annual conference that normally takes place in the wonderful atmosphere at Monash University's campus in Prato, Italy, about 30 minutes by train from Florence.

07/10/2021

There is a great program for the Virtual CIRN conference that will be taking place from 8-12 November on zoom, with speakers from around the world. Many of the papers and presentations concern ICT4D.
Go to https:// sites .google. com/ view/ cirn2021 for the registration information and the conference program. Since Facebook doesn't like Google docs , please remove the spaces for the URL. Registration is free, but we asking for a voluntary donation to an international development project in Myanmar.

When you register, you will be sent the zoom link.

21/06/2021

Just a reminder! The call for papers closes 30 June,so please submit an abstract. See the previous post for details.

29/04/2021

Yes, we are now live! For researchers, including research students in the word of communities, practitioners and activists, in the world of technology and people, here's an opportunity to take part in a great international virtual conference, across time zones organised, (for the 19th time), by us at Monash in the Digital Equity and Digital Transformation (DEDT) group, in conjunction with colleagues at Simmons University. Please submit an expression of interest by June 30th.

The theme of the 2021 conference, “Communities, Technology and this moment” aims to bring together the rich knowledge, experience, and practice of Community Informatics, Community Archives, and Development Informatics with a focus on data justice, digital equity, and community informatics response to this moment in history. We are also interested in climate and environment and their interaction with people and ICTs. The 2021 CIRN conference will provide a virtual space to explore how researchers and practitioners ethically collect information, including what happens when community information is intentionally left uncollected, and how information systems can be designed in harmony with communities.

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26/04/2021

CIRN/Prato 2021 Virtual Conference November 2021. Details to be posted shortly.

01/10/2020

There is a great series of online seminars from October 16, 2021 onwards on ICT4D and beyond, community power globalisation and ICTs in the age of globalisation, Indigenous archives, ICT4D, the informatics of mutual aid & memorialization, digital power and the state.

Speakers are from around the globe. Registration is free.

https: // sites. google. com/ view/ community-informatics/events

Hosted by the Community Informatics Research Network.

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31/05/2019

Keywords from abstracts for the conference...

14/03/2019

Yes folks, the call for the 2019 conference is out. https://sites.google.com/monash.edu/cirn-prato-2019/home

27/10/2017

The sign of a good talk, this one by Amalia Sabiescu, is people taking notes.