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Community Informatics and Human Development

Author(s) -

William J. McIver

Publication year - 2006

Publication title -

lecture notes in computer science

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Book series

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.249

H-Index - 400

eISSN - 1611-3349

pISSN - 0302-9743

ISBN - 3-540-48269-5

DOI - 10.1007/11915034_38

Subject(s) - summit , functional illiteracy , prosperity , millennium development goals , poverty , human development (humanity) , informatics , information society , blueprint , economic growth , political science , computer science , development economics , geography , cartography , economics , engineering , mechanical engineering , law

A global crisis in human development and prosperity exists. Its constituents include extreme poverty, illiteracy, gender imbalances, and armed conflict. One response has been the creation of the Millennium Development Goals. The recent United Nations World Summit on the Information Society affirmed support for linking the further development of the global information society to these goals. This paper argues that community informatics has a specific role to play in contributing to the realization of the Millennium Development goals and the improvement of human development in general.

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