CommunitySense
Does your community, organization, or network have a problem that stands to be solved if you can find a way to improve the flow of communication between your stakeholders? Are you looking for somebody with the expertise to create solutions using state-of-the-art Web 2.0 tools and to provide the hands-on training so that your stakeholders understand how to actually use them? Then CommunitySense may be of assistance to you.CommunitySense is the research consultancy firm owned and run by Aldo de Moor. My mission is to be a linking pin between academic researchers and practitioners in the rapidly advancing field of community informatics, and to translate state-of-the-art insights into practical solutions for clients.
Community informatics, also known as community networking, electronic community networking, community-based technologies or community technology refers to an emerging set of principles and practices concerned with the use of information and communication technology (ICT) for personal, social, cultural or economic development of and within communities (see Wikipedia and the Community Informatics Research Network site for a more in-depth introduction of this rapidly evolving area).To give you a flavour of my interests and expertise, this site contains an overview of my research background and the consultancy services I provide to develop innovative collaborative systems and services for (online) communities. It also provides pointers to applications and a set of information resources on the theory and practice of community informatics that I am developing as a public service.
Please contact me if you would like to know how I could help your the members of your community, organization, or network to collaborate more effectively and efficiently through the wise use of the vast potential of the Internet.