Social Webs, Communities, and Appropriate Internet Technologies

Dr. D. R. NEWMAN <d.r.newman@qub.ac.uk>

Presented at The WWW and the Knowledge Society: Year 2000 trends, 26 Nov. 1997, European IT Conference, Brussels.

• Summary
• Year 2000: predicting the future
  • Join me in this problem-solving exercise
  • Groupware in the 21st Century
  • 1973 predictions already outdated by 1997
  • So what will happen in the next four or five years?
    • Better questions:
      • What special conditions shape these changes?
      • Where would we look for clues, design and test alternatives?
• The Knowledge Society
  • What is shaping the knowledge society?
  • Where will we learn about the knowledge society?
    • Relationships and communities
    • Community organisations
  • Where can we experiment on the Web's role in it?
• Communities and the Web in designing the knowledge society
  • Community groups and the Web: pioneers and wishes
  • Community networks
  • Developing Socially Appropriate Internet Technologies for communities