Por Susana Finquelievich y Graciela Kisilevsky
A telecommunications community cooperative (TCC) is an autonomous association of individuals, who join forces to respond to common economic, social, and cultural needs and aspirations through a jointly owned enterprise, democratically governed and managed. In Argentina, TCCs were created by community-conscious members to fill in for the State when it was the State was unable to provide telephone service in remote areas.

Por Lyn Simpson Queensland
This paper adopts a holistic approach to explain why social capital matters for effective implementation, widespread uptak

Por Ann Peterson Bishop and Bertram (Chip) Bruce

Information and communication technologies (ICTs), from the Internet to the latest personal computing devices, are often credited with improving international understanding. They are also supposed to support collaboration, creativity, learning, and new forms of expression and social action. Yet the world seems engulfed in divides--of age, race, culture, language, beliefs, income, gender, knowledge, and nationality--which are creating classes and identities that threaten the basic fabric of community life.

Por Maria Bakardjieva y  Andrew Feenberg
The objective of this paper is to explore questions of human agency and democratic process in the technical sphere through the example of “virtual community.” The formation of relatively stable long-term group associations—community in the broad sense of the term—is the scene on which a large share of human development occurs. As such it is a fundamental human value mobilizing diverse ideologies and sensitivities.