Editorial Advisory Board - Mission Statement & Members
For mission statement, see
http://sandbox.cpcs.umb.edu/twiki/bin/view/Documents/CTREditorialAdvisoryBoardMissionStatement
Joe Baker, NTEN
Richard Civille, Rural Telecommunications Congress (RTC)
Gene Crick, Association for Community Networking (AFCN)
Reebee Garofalo, Community Media and Technology Program, College of Public and Community Service, UMass/Boston
Michael Gurstein, Journal of Community Informatics
Lauren-Glenn Davitian, Alliance for Community Media (AFCN)/Community Media Review (CMR)
Michael Maranda, Association for Community Networking (AFCN)
Karen Michaelson (TINCAN)
Doug Schuler, the Public Sphere Project, Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility (CPSR)
Kavita Singh, CTCNet
Ryan Turner, CTCNet
Dear ComTechReview Editorial Advisory Board,
I’m writing to let you know about our ideas for the 2005-06 issues of the ComTechReview, seek feedback from you on the themes, and begin discussions around the future of the publication. Here's the story about where we're going for the upcoming year:
Fall 2005 Issue
Dan Schackman, one of our CTC VISTA leaders, is undertaking major coordination of this issue. The Fall issue will be a culmination of his three years as a CTC VISTA (two with CTCNet, one at project HQ as a VISTA Leader and Assistant Editor of the CTR). The issue will focus on the CTC VISTA Project itself and will highlight other community media and technology programs with related missions also supported by the Corporation for National and Community Service.
The Corporation's historical support of community technology initiatives includes Power-Up, Teaming for Technology, and Project First as well as the CTC VISTA Project. If you go to the Corporation's database of programs--at (https://recruit.cns.gov/quicksearchform.asp) and put in "technology," you get 371 entries with descriptions and contacts. Dan winnowed out the duplications and programs that were simply looking for VISTAs with technology skills and came up with 100 programs, a startling indication of just how wide and deep the Corporation's support and involvement is and has been. We want the Fall issue of the CTR to give some picture of that.
The Fall issue will also provide a more extensive introduction to the community media and technology VISTA project priority areas -- community networking, community organizing, technology support to NPOs, and at-risk youth using digital media. These areas were first announced along with the organization of this year's project (www.cpcs.umb.edu/vista/projectbasics.htm). The four coordinators for our priority areas were featured as one of the cover stories in our June 2005 issue of the Review (www.comtechreview.org/spring-summer-2005/000337.html). We'll be developing special resources for VISTA projects, all of which will work in at least one of these areas, including curriculum to supplement the Community Media and Technology Program.
Danielle Martin (www.cpcs.umb.edu/vista/daniellemartin.pdf) will be joining the VISTA project in the capacities of curriculum coordinator and Assistant Editor of the Review.
Spring and Fall 2006 Issues
Coverage of and resources from the four project priority areas will provide themes for the two copies of the Review coming out in 2006. We're inviting our priority area coordinators to provide editorial advice to their respective sections in these issues.
ComTechReview: the Future Publication
We would also like to work with our partners, CTCNet & AFCN, to develop appropriate and strategic content and perspectives so that the Review is helpful in developing the directions they wish to pursue, and with all of our editorial advisors we'd like to consider what directions the ComTechReview should pursue on a longer-range perspective.
With the ongoing changes at our lead partner organizations CTCNet and AFCN — and with other related publications and organizations such as ACM/the Community Media Review, the Journal of Community Informatics, NTEN/the NonProfit Quarterly, we will begin discussing the future of the ComTechReview. Having developed a sophisticated online delivery / distribution system and with on-demand publishing, the Review is in a good position to respond to the opportunities at hand with flexibility and a range of options -- from expanding -- to pursuing pinpointed pathways -- to drawing to a close.
If you have any specific feedback on the three issues for the coming year, please reply to this email to the Editorial Advisory Board, post on the blog at (www.cpcs.umb.edu/vista/blog/project_basics/archives/000573.html) where you'll find this statement, or otherwise communicate in the most helpful way.
In the near future, we’ll circulate more targeted questions for you to contemplate regarding the future of the ComTechReview and schedule a follow up conference call to discuss suggested directions and next steps. Since a number of you will be coming to Boston next month for the VISTA and supervisor orientation, we should have some opportunity to discuss these things further then. best, ----peter