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Ennis Information Age Town: Virtuality Rooted in Reality

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Digital Cities II: Computational and Sociological Approaches (Digital Cities 2001)

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This paper describes the progress of Ennis, Ireland’s Information Age Town, in its bid to become ‘The Largest Community Technology Project in the World’. An overview of the project outlines the goals, organization, participation and evaluation of the Information Age Town project - confirming the town’s ‘digital’ status. Four key initiatives are examined in detail: the creation of the town’s ICT infrastructure; investment in education and training; the development of public sector projects aimed at increasing civic participation and the evolution of the Ennis website as the community’s premier communication medium. In conclusion, the paper highlights the potential of a virtual community to enhance social cohesion within a community which has an existing, strong physical community and a collective pride in its history, culture and technology.

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  1. Research Dept. eircom Ennis Information Age Town, Ennis, Co., Clare, Ireland

    Helen McQuillan

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  1. Helen McQuillan
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  1. Ube National College of Technology, Tokiwadai, Ube City, Yamaguchi Pref., 755-8555, Japan

    Makoto Tanabe

  2. Department of Social Sciences Netherlands Institute of Scientific Information NIWI, Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences, Joan Muyskenweg 25, PO Box 95110, 1090 HC, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

    Peter van den Besselaar

  3. Social Informatics Program, Faculty of Social and Behavioral Sciences, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

    Peter van den Besselaar

  4. Department of Social Informatics Laboratory for Global Information Network, Kyoto University, Yoshida-honmachi, Sakyo-ku, 606-8501, Kyoto, Japan

    Toru Ishida

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McQuillan, H. (2002). Ennis Information Age Town: Virtuality Rooted in Reality. In: Tanabe, M., van den Besselaar, P., Ishida, T. (eds) Digital Cities II: Computational and Sociological Approaches. Digital Cities 2001. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 2362. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-45636-8_11

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