The Community Informatics Initiative works with people to develop information and communication technologies to achieve their goals. It fosters collaborations across campus, local, national and international communities. Together we build innovative community networks, community technology centers, software, and library services.

The core of the CII is community inquiry: collaborative action to create knowledge and technology connected to people's values, history, and lived experiences; the development of models of engagement that are just, democratic, participatory, and open-ended; and the integration of theory and practice in an experimental and critical manner.

For further information:

Ann P. Bishop
abishop@uiuc.edu

Bertram (Chip) Bruce
chip@uiuc.edu

Graduate School of Library and Information Science
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

501 E. Daniel St.
Champaign, IL 61820

217.333.3280 (V), 217.244.3302 (F)