Book details of 'Community Networks: Lessons From Blacksburg, Virginia'

Title	Community Networks: Lessons From Blacksburg, Virginia
Author(s)	Andrew Michael Cohill, Andrea L. Kavanaugh
ISBN	1580530303
Language	English
Published	February 2000
Publisher	Artech House

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Reviewer Rob Slade wrote:
In the last chapter, analyzing success factors of the Blacksburg Electronic Village (BEV), one of the points is to "Show, do not tell, community members how to use the technology as a way of increasing use of the network in the community." Applying the same point to the book, it succeeds, where many other books on similar topics failed, primarily because it shows the actual workings of a functional, and functioning, electronic village. This puts it far ahead of blue-sky proposals of what might (or might not) become possible in the future. An introduction and historical background leads into discussion of architecture, evaluation, use and impact, community dynamics and seniors, families, education, technology (now a much expanded chapter), information management (which duplicates some of the material in the architecture section), history database, the aforementioned success factors, and a look to the future of community networks in general. Economics are touched on in various articles, but, even though the evaluation has a larger look at businesses, it is a pity that an overview treatment is not included. Still, any such flaws are far outweighed by the value of the reality and experience that the various authors bring to the task. Blacksburg has validated certain promises of the information age -- and challenged others. Planners of information infrastructures, national or otherwise, ignore it at their peril. copyright Robert M. Slade, 1997
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