Naslov
Tourism and Community Informatics

Autori
Valčić, Marija ; Nježić, Zoran

Vrsta, podvrsta i kategorija rada
Radovi u zbornicima skupova, cjeloviti rad (in extenso), znanstveni

Izvornik
19th International Conference on Systems Research, Informatics and Cybernetics (InterSymp-2007) : Pre-conference proceedings of the Special Focus Symposium on 2nd Communication and Information Sciences in the Knowledge Society (CISKS) / Šimović, Vladimir ; Bakić-Tomić, Ljubica ; Hubinkova, Zuzana - Zagreb : Učiteljski fakultet Sveučilišta u Zagrebu, 2007, 142-149

ISBN
978-953-7210-04-5

Skup
International Conference on Systems Research, Informatics and Cybernetics (19 ; 2007)

Mjesto i datum
Baden-Baden, Njemačka, 30.07.2007. - 04.08.2007

Vrsta sudjelovanja
Predavanje

Vrsta recenzije
Međunarodna recenzija

Ključne riječi
community informatics ; ICT ; local economic development

Sažetak
This article examines the role that information and communication technologies (ICT) play in influ-encing the shape and nature of local economic development. It is argued that the emerging field of community informatics (CI) can add an important dimension to our attempts to cope with the com¬ ; plex issues that characterize the tourism and development nexus. A review of the literature on applied community informatics is presented and we review some of the reasons why attempts to empower local people through the web have often failed. We then outline the implementation of a CI strategy to support tourism and local economic development on the coast of Croatia to make a web-based virtual community of businesses and communities who are defining their own Internet presence through a process called "web-raising, " and the use of open-source web devel¬ ; opment software. We conclude with a reflection on the problems that face the sustainability of com¬ ; munity informatics projects.

Izvorni jezik
Engleski

Znanstvena područja
Informacijske i komunikacijske znanosti

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