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30.11.2004
Building and Using Community Information Systems: Inventory of Available Tools and Guides (Draft)
By G. Thomas Kinsley, The Urban Institute
This paper develops an organizational framework and catalogues tools supporting community information systems (CIS) in the following areas: building and using CISs, assembling and using data sources, developing indicators, using CISs for
change, developing CIS technology, building user capacity, and building institutional capacity. Although a variety of resources already exist to support the CIS movement, the paper finds needs for creating or updating resources in areas.