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Ann Peterson Bishop ([email protected])
GSLIS, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
CITES Brown Bag Series, March 30, 2005
Acknowledgements: NSF, IMLS
Making Softwareas Community Inquiry:
iLabs @ UIUC
Presentation Overview
iLabs in context: Community Informatics Initiative at GSLIS
CI: Study and practice of enabling communities with information and communications technologies (ICTs)
Research, service-learning, public engagement In the creation of community information systems Through creating and nurturing collaborative inquiry/learning
communities
iLabs as community inquiry
Participatory “design through use” strategy Across wide range of settings
CII: Hub for Community Informatics Enabling communities with ICTs
SONIC
Community Inquiry
Collaborative activity around creating knowledge that is connected to people's values, history, and lived experiences
Open-ended, democratic, participatory engagement
Bringing theory and action together in an experimental and critical manner
How should we live together?
“…the desire to make the entire social organism democratic, to extend democracy beyond its political expression.” --Jane Addams
How do we learn together?
”It is the democratic faith that [intelligence] is sufficiently general so that each individual has something to contribute, and the value of each contribution can be assessed only as it entered into the final pooled intelligence constituted by the contributions
of all."
--John Dewey
The CII Challenge
How do communities work to address their problems in actual practice?
What theory adequately accounts for the complexity and diversity of (distributed) collective practice?
What tools are needed to mediate work on concrete tasks within communities?
What is the most effective process for developing shared capacity in the form of knowledge, skills, & tools?
iLabs System Design
Design through use aims to respond to human needs by democratic processes. Through creation of content, contributions to interactive elements, and incorporation into practice, users are notmerely recipients of technology, but participate actively in its ongoing development.
“Every individual must be consulted in such a way, actively not passively, that he himself becomes a part of the process of authority.” --John Dewey, Democracy & Education
Community Inquiry Labs (iLabs)
Version 2http://inquiry.uiuc.edu/ilabs
Version 3http://ilabs.inquiry.uiuc.edu
Suite of open source software applications freely available (BB, blog, document center, syllabus, etc.) for people to create own interactive websites
350 site visits a day; 50 iLab sessions a day
6 GB of data transfer a month
302 iLabs created since Nov. 2003
Serving groups ranging in size from an individual to 68 members
iLabs in Action
Paseo Boricua Community Library Project
Ethnography of the University BeeSpace LIS course Finnish iLabs Community Informatics Initiative
Paseo BoricuaCommunity Library Project
Puerto Rican Cultural Center
http://www.prcc-chgo.org
PBCL Project
http://ilabs.inquiry.uiuc.edu/ilab/pbcl
Ethnography of the University
Cross Campus initiative
http://www.eotu.uiuc.edu/http://inquiry.uiuc.edu/cil/index.php?category=12#EOTU
Customization and heavy use of “Inquiry Units”http://www.inquiry.uiuc.edu/bin/unit_update.cgi?command=select&xmlfile=u13991.xml
BeeSpace
BeeSpace bricks
http://ilabs.inquiry.uiuc.edu/ilab/beespacebricks
LIS 491:Literacy in the Information Age
Course website
http://www.inquiry.uiuc.edu/ilabs/out.php?cilid=822
Finnish iLabs
Active Citizenship groups
http://www.ilab.fi/
Sami Serola’s Collaborative Authoring Tools
http://ilabs.inquiry.uiuc.edu/ilab/cats/
Community Informatics Initiative
http://ilabs.inquiry.uiuc.edu/ilab/cii
Summary
Participate! Use iLabs at will Open source and freely available Weekly meetings on Mondays, noon-2:00 in LIS 52, 501 E.
Daniel (1:00-2:00 is open lab time)
Discussion Design through use: Chaos and control Institutionalization: How incorporate into UIUC support
structures?