Table of Contents


Seattle Community Network Case Study

• 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

Community and Civic Society

• Community is Important
• What is a Community?
• Community Variables
• Core Values (chart)
• Core values (list)
• Three Major Forces
• What is Civic Society?
• New Community Preferences
• What is a Community Network?
• Developers' Hopes
• Comnets support Democracy
• Core Services (1)
• Core Services (2)
• Core Services (3)
• Core Services (4)
• Core Services (5)
• Core Services (6)
• civic society Conclusions {DRAFT}

Community Network Movement

• Possible Community Network Roles (hecker)
• Digital City
• RavalNet
• Blacksburg Electronic Village
• Charlotte's Web
• Greater New Orleans Freenet
• Kootenet
• Liberty Net
• Austin Free-Net
• Metronet (St. Paul)
• The_Network (research + activism)
• CN Movement - bad news
• CN Movement - good news
• Three Bricklayers
• Three community networkers

Towards Sustainability

• Information and Communication
• Ecology of democratic technology
Influencing Technology
• Evaluation
• Commercial CNS?
• Funding Models
• Possible strategic partners
• Sustainability Recommendations
• force or fad?

Governance: Policy and Procedures

• Governance issues
• SCN Policy
• SCN Governance
• Policy Issues

CN Discussion

• Towards a new ecology
• Seven Key Observations
• Proactive Government
• Recommendations
• What should we do?

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
• Community Connector
• New Community
  Networks


(c) Douglas Schuler