Virtual CivicNet, a three week long conference on community and civic networking held on the World Wide Web.

Project CIRCE (Community Information Research resource) hold a workshop on January 15, 1999 devoted to the problems of local libraries participation in community networks and community information systems. Workshops presentations are available on http://www.gloscc.gov.uk/circe/wrkshop2.htm

Papers from Soros International Internet Conference (St. Peterburg, February, 1999) address, in Russian only, issues such as the usage of the Internet within the social sphere, and the influence of the Internet on the development of regional information infrastructure, education, medicine, and non-profit organizations. Examples of the development of regional networks and participation in these networks by governmental bodies and non-profit organizations are also examined.

Several presentations and conference reports written by Steve Cisler can be found on this page. You can find information about Texas Community Networking Conference, Annenberg Center for Communication conference and many others

The conference, held in Sankt-Peterburg, June 1999, addressed the issue of computer networking development in Russia including regional networking. The abstracts of presented papers are available on the conference web-site.

Doug Schuler's presentation for US-Russian Civic Networking Workshop in Knoxville (December, 1998) is available on this web page. His other papers, articles and presentations are also available on http://www.scn.org/ip/commnet/home.html