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
SRI is pleased to announce the availability of the following documents
written by Maria Papadakis of James Madison University, as a consultant
to SRI International's Science and Technology Policy Program. This work
was funded by the National Science Foundation.
1) Computer-Mediated Communities: The Implications of Information,
Only a few days left, but something CIC folks might be interested in knowing of and, perhaps, participating in:
From the flier:
Tomorrow, Tuesday, from 5:30-9PM, in the SI North 2nd floor conference room, a few people will be meeting at SI North with Michael Brennan, CEO of United Way of Southeast MI. <!--break-->
This is just a reminder that there will be a Community Informatics meeting on Friday at 5pm in 311 West Hall.
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