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Bieber, M., McFall, B., Rice, R.E. & Gurstein, M. (2007). Towards
systems
design for supporting enabling communities. Journal of
Community
Informatics, 3(1). http://ci-journal.net/index.php/ciej/article/view/281/313
“Enabling
Communities” enable participants to
work effectively towards conducting both collective and individual
activities
and towards achieving collaboratively identified goals. Our focus is on
designing the “systems” that support community members in undertaking
the tasks
or activities they need or want to do. These systems include processes,
technology, information and people. We provide a framework for Supporting
Enabling Communities (SEComm) with two
major components: (1) Participant Support Systems (PaSS) and (2) Community Participation
Levels (CPaL). The proposed framework
provides an initial model for thinking about community support for
interactions, goals and purposes, at all levels of an Enabling
Community. It
provides new insight by helping community and ICT designers to focus on
people’s tasks, and to understand the environmental influences and
constraints
that hinder or facilitate support for enabling community participants.
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