海外社区信息学的专业教育与研究现状

The Review of Education & Research of Community Informatics at Abroad

社区信息学是研究利用信息与通讯技术(ICTs)促进社区发展的相关问题的学科。自20世纪90年代末成为一个独立的研究领域,社区信息学在世界各地,尤其是在发展中国家弱势社区的社会经济发展支持方面得到广泛应用。随着实践案例积累的日益丰富,社区信息学的教育和研究不断发展,从专业教育、专著、期刊及机构网站等方面,可看到其学科建设正在逐步完善。

Community informatics is a research field with focus on the research and practice of utilizing ICTs to promote the communities. After being set up at the later 1990s, community informatics has contributed to community development around world, especially benefited the disadvantaged community. While the practical cases piled up, the theories of community informatics also accumulated. The disciplinebuilding of community informatics is ongoing all around the world, which embodied by professional education, special institutes and organization websites, monographs, and related journals.