Digital Cities III. Information Technologies for Social Capital: Cross-Cultural Perspectives: Third International Digital Cities Workshop, Amsterdam, (Paperback, 2005)

Local Information and Communication Infrastructures: An Introduction.- Local Information and Communication Infrastructures: An Introduction.- I Digital Cities Around the World: Case Studies.- The Seattle Community Network: Anomaly or Replicable Model?.- The Blacksburg Electronic Village: A Study in Community Computing.- The Life and Death of the Great Amsterdam Digital City.- Urban Cyberspace as a Social Construction: Non-technological Factors in the Shaping of Digital Bristol.- Virtual Helsinki: Enabling the Citizen, Linking the Physical and Virtual.- Digital City Shanghai: Concepts, Foundations, and Current State.- Activities and Technologies in Digital City Kyoto.- World Digital Cities: Beyond Heterogeneity.- II Virtual Community Platforms.- Virtual Cities for Real-World Crisis Management.- Virtuose, a VIRTual CommUnity Open Source Engine for Integrating Civic Networks and Digital Cities.- Talking Digital Cities: Connecting Heterogeneous Digital Cities Via the Universal Mobile Interface.- Town Digitizing: Omnidirectional Image-Based Virtual Space.- III Knowledge and Data Modeling for Digital Cities.- Articulating the Digital Environment Via Community-Generated Ontologies.- Map-Based Range Query Processing for Geographic Web Search Systems.- Recognizing Buildings Using a Mobile System and a Reference City Model.- Querying Multiple Video Streams and Hypermedia Objects of a Video-Based Virtual Space System.- IV Participation, Design, Monitoring.- Cultural User Experience Issues in E-government: Designing for a Multi-cultural Society.- Visualizing Social Patterns in Virtual Environments on a Local and Global Scale.- Participation in Community Systems: Indications for Design.- Intention and Motive in Information-System Design: Toward a Theory and Method for Assessing Users' Needs.- The Perfections of Sustainability and Imperfections in the Digital Community: Paradoxes of Connection and Disconnection.- V ICT and Social Capital.- The Promises and Perils of Integrated Community Learning Environments.- Effects of ICT on Social Cohesion: The Cyburg Case.- Citizenship and Digital Media Management.- Digital Cities and the Opportunities for Mobilizing the Information Society: Case Studies from Portugal.