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A better focus on applications from the learning
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A wider network of relationships in weak tie networks that have been demonstrated to
provide increased understanding and community benefit
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A mechanism for participative change in the content and process of service delivery
to keep it temporally and situationally relevant
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A means to extend learning into a community development context
From the foregoing, it is clear that the delivery of useful Community Informatics
outcomes for DE requires centers and models to ensure that the community is engaged across
all of its components to support lifelong learning and to develop learning communities. The
experiences discussed in this chapter need to be further refined through more formal
evaluation. The authors are involved with the Rockhampton-based community informatics
center, the COIN (Community Informatics) Internet Academy, that has the development of
evaluative models and the definition of impediments to their adoption as its major objectives.
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