Virtual teams: reaching across space, time, and organizations with technology
Virtual teams: reaching across space, time, and organizations with technology
End of Millennium: The Information Age: Economy, Society and Culture
End of Millennium: The Information Age: Economy, Society and Culture
The Power of Identity
Being Digital
Towards Computation over Communities
Community Computing and Support Systems, Social Interaction in Networked Communities [the book is based on the Kyoto Meeting on Social Interaction and Communityware, held in Kyoto, Japan, in June 1998]
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This paper describes evolving notions and expressions of community and networks in the context of educational culture which is engaged in the process of discovering the opportunities and challenges presented by Communications and Information Technologies (CITs). Supporting this focus is a brief analysis of socio-cultural change providing a context for presenting a case-study overview of Education Network Australia (EdNA), a government-sponsored 'meta-network' formally launched in Australia in 1997 primarily as an online Information Directory Service. In its current stage of development EdNA has firmed as a framework geared toward fostering collaboration and cooperation throughout the various education and training systems and sectors. As such, it is an exemplar of 'Community Computing and Support Systems' which extend collaborative computing beyond the conventional limits of groupware. A key success factor in its development has been the convergence of the structural opportunity inherent within any growing network with the need for strengthening and developing identity within and among related communities.