Spring-Branch School District
Houston, Texas

Table of Contents


Context

Community Networks Build Public Space

+ Internet is Different
+ Information and Communication
+ Internet Choices
+ Three Major Forces
+ More major trends
+ Media Strategies
+ New (Meta) Medium
+ New Community Preferences
+ Communication Technology
Influencing Technology
+ Forms of Tech Support

Democracy

+ Democracy
+ Internet not democratic
+ And Things are Getting Worse
+ Invigorating Democracy
+ Some Conclusions
+ Democracy doesn't just happen
+ Support Internet Democracy
+ Ecology of democratic technology

Education

+ Why educate?
+ Education and the Net
+ Education is a core value

Community Neworks

+ Community is Important
+ What is a Community?
+ Core Values (chart)
+ Core values (list)
+ What is a Community Network?
+ Developers' Hopes
+ Core Services (1)
+ Core Services (2)
+ Core Services (3)
+ Core Services (4)
+ Core Services (5)
+ Core Services (6)

Seattle Community Nework

+ SCN Information
+ SCN Itself
+ SCN Principles
+ SCN Policy
+ SCN Activism
+ SCN SeaZine
+ SCN Neighborhoods
+ SCN Education
+ SCN Health
+ SCN Marketplace
+ Actual SCN Incidents
+ SCN Successes

CN Discussion

+ CNS and education
+ CNS Help Education
+ Evaluation
+ Commercial CNS?
+ Funding Models
+ Policy Issues
+ Possible strategic partners
+ CN Movement - bad news
+ CN Movement - good news
+ CN Movement

Conclusions

+ Towards a new ecology
+ Seven Key Observations
+ Proactive Government
+ Recommendations
+ What should we do?
+ Three Bricklayers
+ Three community networkers

Quotes

+ Without Struggle
+ Struggle for Community
+ Without popular information
+ Struggle over new medium
+ What we do for ourselves
+ Designing for the Future

Resources

+ CN Movement
+ New Community Networks


(c) Douglas Schuler