Welcome
Welcome! The University of Michigan School of Information has been a leader in ensuring that innovations in information science and technology are brought to bear in service of the public good. The Community Information Corps (CIC) is at the heart of that effort. CIC serves as focal point for students, faculty, alumni and community members from across disciplines to explore the changing role of information and technology in civil society.
Seminar News
The schedule for MESA's panel of alumni and professionals speaking
about "Social Justice after Graduation" has already started but here
are the upcoming events:
All events are from 11:30-1 at the MSA Chambers room, 3rd Floor of the Michigan Union
Mesa's website is www.mesa.umich.edu; phone: 734 763 9044
Want to learn more about social entrepreneurship or are you looking for a way to make a difference in the world. Check out the following links:
See the attached PDF Reading list.
It looks like the folks at the University of Illinois-Urbana Champaign have taken steps to really define CI and craft an academic program around it. Check out the website links below for more information. This might be good background information for the upcoming CIC vision session.
http://www.cii.uiuc.edu/index.php
http://www.lis.uiuc.edu/programs/ms/cic.html
Community News
This is just a reminder that there will be a Community Informatics meeting on Friday at 5pm in 311 West Hall.
I recently came across a new ebook, Occupation: Change the World (http://www.myoccupation.org/), that has a wealth of information that might be of interest to community informatics folks.
This book includes community informatics-related things such as:
Job Resources (e.g. www.netimpact.org)
Organizations and Networks (e.g. www.ashoka.org)
Next Sunday, November 23rd, Dan Atkins will be hosting a
get together for the Community Information Corps at his home on the
west side of Ann Arbor. The event will run from 5:30-7:30 pm and will
be catered by Shalimar, a great local Indian restaurant. Vegetarian
options will be provided. Partners are welcome. I would be happy to
CI peer advisement is now available through the CIC website. If you
have questions about courses for next semester and beyond, please feel
free to post them here: http://cic.si.umich.edu/node/936. Advanced CI students are eager to share their sage advice and feedback!
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