CALL FOR PAPERS: Digital Divide to Digital Literacy, Equity and Inclusion Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS) January 6-9, 2026 Hyatt Regency Maui The ever-changing landscape of information and communication technologies (ICTs) and their increasing importance in life are widely recognized as integral to academic, economic, and civic advancement in society. However, the digital divide…
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Digital Inclusion Research Forum on Oct. 12-13
The Federal Reserve Banks of Atlanta, Dallas, Kansas City and Philadelphia seek proposals for presentation at the Digital Inclusion Research Forum, to be held in Dallas, Texas, Oct. 12-13. The proposal deadline is July 21. I am honored to serve on the advisory committee for the research forum. Feel free to share this call for…
Digital Equity Ecosystems Measurement Project
https://vimeo.com/722600985 On June 10th, my colleague Dr. Rafi Santo and I participated in the New York State Library’s Digital Equity Roundtable conversation with the following speakers: Nuha Saho, Vicky Yuki, and Alexis Bhagat, Work of the Friends & Foundation of Albany Public Library (FFAPL), funded by the New York Digital Inclusion Fund and Mike Rogers,…
20th Community Informatics Research Network Conference
20 YEARS OF CIRNExamining the past, present, and future of communities and technologyConference | 9 – 11 November 2022, Monash University, Prato, Italy. The theme of the 2022 conference, 20 years of CIRN: Examining the past, present and future of communities and technology aims to both look back at 20 years of the Prato conferences…
19th Annual CIRN Conference: 8-12 November 2021
Registration is open for the 19th Annual Community Informatics Research Network Conference, “Communities, Technology and This Moment“: 8-12 November 2021 co-sponsored by Monash University and Simmons University. REGISTRATION Please see the registration information: https://sites.google.com/view/cirn2021/programs-and-registration?authuser=0 PROGRAM Browse the virtual conference program at https://www.conftool.net/prato2021/sessions.php. Note that all times are in UTC/GMT. The theme of the 2021 conference,…
Speakers Announced for ASIS&T Research Symposium
The Planning Committee for The 17th Annual Social Informatics Research Symposium and the 3rd Annual Information Ethics and Policy Workshop: Sociotechnical Perspectives on Equity, Inclusion, and Justice (SIG-SI and SIG-IEP) are excited to share the speakers and schedule for the joint SIG-SI and SIG-IEP Workshop on Sociotechnical Perspectives on Equity, Inclusion, and Justice on Friday,…
TPRC49 Presentation on MLBN Research
Chris Ritzo (M-Lab) and I presented our paper, titled “Measuring Library Broadband Networks to Address Knowledge Gaps and Data Caps” to the attendees at the 49th Annual Research Conference on Communications, Information, and Internet Policy, which was virtual again this year. The paper presents findings from our U.S Institute of Museum and Library Services funded research…
National Tribal Broadband Summit
I am honored to participate today in the National Tribal Broadband Summit hosted by the U.S. Department of the Interior. On behalf of our team, I am presenting an overview of our participatory action research project, titled “Improving Digital Inclusion and Broadband Infrastructure in Native Communities” funded by a grant from the U.S Institute of…
Next Century Cities Presentation
Next Century Cities‘ Brittany-Rae Gregory organized an amazing group of scholars to participate in their Academic Pre-Conference event on July 20. I was incredibly honored to be part of this panel, which consisted of the following folks: Mike Conlow (Blue State Digital); Darrah Blackwater (Indigenous Law & Policy Fellow); Brian Whitacre (Oklahoma State University) and…
Call for Proposals: Sociotechnical Perspectives on Equity, Inclusion, and Justice
The 17th Annual Social Informatics Research Symposium and the 3rd Annual Information Ethics and Policy Workshop (Half-Day Workshop) Conference website https://www.asist.org/sig/sigsi/sigsi-symposiums/ Submission link https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=sigsiiep2021 Early bird deadline July 21, 2021 Submission deadline August 16, 2021 Sociotechnical Perspectives on Equity, Inclusion, and Justice The Association for Information Science and Technology’s Special Interest Group for Social Informatics…