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The “Community Information/Informatics Sector” (CIS) is the broad framework which includes the range of community based information and communications technology (ICT) initiatives and the research, development, voluntary and employed participants, commercial suppliers, training and certification agencies, local infrastructure, and funding sources.
The sector also can be seen as including the range of such community based ICT enabled application areas as local economic development and locally based e-commerce, community based e-health initiatives, locally controlled ICT environmental and resource management activities, ICT enabled local multi-media as applied to information and cultural production, local ICT enabled civic participation and social justice activism, community based ICT enabled education and training, among others
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