The Gilbert Center: Journal of Information Technology in Social Change, Spring 2007

Journal of Information Technology in Social Change, Spring 2007

New Journal - Spring 2007 Issue Now Available!

We are proud to announce the inaugural issue of the Journal of Information Technology in Social Change, the first of the new quarterly, peer-reviewed, theme-based Journals of the Gilbert Center.

We are proud of the communities that brought this publication together: the practitioners and academics who have come together to push the edges of our understanding of technology and social change, the broad range of reviewers who took seriously our challenge to them to help us select the papers that would most advance our mission to support civil society, the staff of NTEN and The Gilbert Center who, at first awkwardly and then more smoothly, collaborated to make this happen, and everyone who helped us through the learning curve of producing our first peer reviewed publication.

Papers were selected from a large pool of remarkably visionary submissions, with the goal of helping us learn about the emerging tranformation of civil society in the new world of networks. Even papers which were turned down for this issue are in excellent company and made for fascinating reading. Our inaugural issue includes papers on ICT in the global south, lessons learned reporting in humanitarian work, civil society in online Australia, modernizing the aid relief supply chain, the challenge of data integration, coordination of ICT, and online volunteers. There are also over 100 annotated resources from Nonprofit Online News.

Table of Contents

6 - About the Journal
7 - Guidelines for the Journal

Letters From the Editors
10 - Michael C. Gilbert
11 - Katrin Verclas

12 - The Editors
13 - The Authors
16 - The Reviewers

Articles:

19 - Leapfrogging Borders: Social Change Technology in the Global South and its Implications for American NTAPs
By Mary Joyce

26 - An Examination of the Effectiveness of Lessons-Learned Reporting within the Humanitarian Sector
By Michael E. Ontko, Sally Williamson, Dr. Mark P. Haselkorn, and Randall B. Kemp

47 - Seeking Community in Civil Society Online - An Australian Perspective
By Hilary Yerbury

63 - Modernizing the Aid Relief Supply Chain through Information and Communication Technology
By Yvonne D. Harrison, Ph.D. & Russell M. Lidman, Ph.D.

84 - Can We Talk? Innovative Responses to the Data Integration Challenge
By Dahna Goldstein, & Jennifer Bagnell Stuart

123 - Coordinated ICTs for Effective Use in Humanitarian Assistance
By Carleen Maitland, and Andrea Hoplight Tapia

136 - Online Volunteers: Knowledge Managers in Nonprofits
By Ismael Pena-Lopez

153 - Annotated Resources from Nonprofit Online News
Gathered and Annotated by Michael C. Gilbert

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