Digital Cities III. Information Technologies for Social Capital: Cross-cultural Perspectives: Third International Digital Cities Workshop, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, September 18-19, 2003. Revised Selected Papers

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Local Information and Communication Infrastructures: An Introduction....Pages 1-16
The Seattle Community Network: Anomaly or Replicable Model?....Pages 17-42
The Blacksburg Electronic Village: A Study in Community Computing....Pages 43-65
The Life and Death of the Great Amsterdam Digital City....Pages 66-96
Urban Cyberspace as a Social Construction: Non-technological Factors in the Shaping of Digital Bristol....Pages 97-112
Virtual Helsinki: Enabling the Citizen, Linking the Physical and Virtual....Pages 113-140
Digital City Shanghai: Concepts, Foundations, and Current State....Pages 141-165
Activities and Technologies in Digital City Kyoto....Pages 166-187
World Digital Cities: Beyond Heterogeneity....Pages 188-203
Virtual Cities for Real-World Crisis Management....Pages 204-216
Virtuose, a VIRTual CommUnity Open Source Engine for Integrating Civic Networks and Digital Cities....Pages 217-232
Talking Digital Cities: Connecting Heterogeneous Digital Cities Via the Universal Mobile Interface....Pages 233-246
Town Digitizing: Omnidirectional Image-Based Virtual Space....Pages 247-258
Articulating the Digital Environment Via Community-Generated Ontologies....Pages 259-273
Map-Based Range Query Processing for Geographic Web Search Systems....Pages 274-283
Recognizing Buildings Using a Mobile System and a Reference City Model....Pages 284-298
Querying Multiple Video Streams and Hypermedia Objects of a Video-Based Virtual Space System....Pages 299-309
Cultural User Experience Issues in E-government: Designing for a Multi-cultural Society....Pages 310-324
Visualizing Social Patterns in Virtual Environments on a Local and Global Scale....Pages 325-340
Participation in Community Systems: Indications for Design....Pages 341-353
Intention and Motive in Information-System Design: Toward a Theory and Method for Assessing Users’ Needs....Pages 354-368
The Perfections of Sustainability and Imperfections in the Digital Community: Paradoxes of Connection and Disconnection....Pages 369-379
The Promises and Perils of Integrated Community Learning Environments....Pages 380-390
Effects of ICT on Social Cohesion: The Cyburg Case....Pages 391-406
Citizenship and Digital Media Management....Pages 407-416
Digital Cities and the Opportunities for Mobilizing the Information Society: Case Studies from Portugal....Pages 417-436
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