The International Journal of Community Informatics is inviting papers for a special issue, community informatics and older persons. An effort is being made to obtain submissions internationally. Ideas are welcome. Enclosed is the Call for Papers:

Community Informatics and Older People:

A Call for Papers

If you have an article (or an idea for one) contact
Geneloeb Aronin, Ph.D. by July 15th geneloeb@gmail.com.

The peer-reviewed Journal of Community Informatics (www.ci-journal.net) is inviting submissions of articles for a special issue on community informatics and elderly. Community
Informatics is concerned with the use of Information and Communications
Technologies (ICTs) to enable and empower local communities including for personal,
social, cultural or economic development of and within communities."

There has been a recent a surge in the use of ICTs involving the geriatric community, elderly and those associated with their care or needs. This activity has taken several forms, including: the elderly communicating with others by
computers and other technologies; technical devices used to monitor needs or
send warnings; information from governments is now available online including
training programs for older people to access such information; and the use of
ICTs to support community caregivers for the elderly, self-help and self-care
for the elderly, and as an infrastructure for the development of virtual
community connections among the elderly and between the elderly and others are
burgeoning areas of community care and in some places part of the public health
system. We would very much welcome
explorations and systematic (and other) accounts of these processes and others.

Now is the opportunity to examine model practices of ICT to benefit communities of older persons and their families, to support their care and their caregivers within communities and to
suggest new ways in which ICTs can be used to maximize community based
initiatives and opportunities.

Articles in the planned issue will focus on the use of ICTs for personal, social, cultural or economic development of, and within, communities for the elderly. We would look to include paradigms for reaching out to elderly people
who can not yet access ICTs for these benefits; demonstrate improved technical
frameworks for community based ICT applications; show the effectiveness of
applications and new ways technology may be applied. Examples of activities
using ICTs for support of the elderly in Less Developed Countries are
particularly encouraged.

What other ideas and suggestions do you have? Email the co-ordinator for this issue, Geneloeb: geneloeb@gmail.com