Analysing Urban Community Informatics from a Resilience Perspective
Analysing Urban Community Informatics from a Resilience Perspective
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从韧性角度分析城市社区信息学
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2015
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A. V. Ospina
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Richard Heeks;A. V. Ospina
复原力的概念- -在变化和不确定性中应付、调整和可能转变的能力- -在社区发展中受到越来越多的关注和越来越多的活动。因此，它提出了一个新的视角，可以用来理解和指导社区信息学。然而，弹性这个概念经常被很好地理解，但应用得很差，或者在应用时，理解得很差。因此，本文的目的是开发一个概念化的复原力模型，该模型可以应用于社区信息学研究和实践。这里展示的模型将社区视为系统，将弹性视为一组基础的和启用的系统子属性。它被用作分析城市社区信息和通信技术干预措施的基础；显示了信息通信技术如何在很大程度上增强了社区的复原力，但也可能削弱某些方面。本文论证了开发的弹性模型在理解和评估社区信息学干预方面的可行性，并认为这比其他观点提供了更广泛和更深入的理解这些干预措施。然而，该模型还需要进一步的实际应用。
The concept of resilience – the capacity to cope with, adjust to and potentially transform amid change and uncertainty – is of increasing interest and activity within community development. It therefore presents a new lens that may be used to understand and guide community informatics. Yet resilience is a concept that has often been well-understood but poorly-applied or, when applied, has been poorly-understood. The purpose of this paper is therefore to develop a well-conceptualised model of resilience that can be applied in both community informatics research and practice. The model presented here sees communities as systems and resilience as a set of foundational and enabling system sub-properties. It is used as the basis for analysing ICT interventions in urban communities; showing how ICTs largely strengthen community resilience but may also weaken some aspects. The paper demonstrates the viability of the developed resilience model to both understand and evaluate community informatics interventions, and it argues that this provides a broader and deeper understanding of those interventions than other perspectives can offer. Further practical application of the model is, however, required.