Author(s)

Xin Huang

Corresponding Author

Xin Huang

ABSTRACT

Community informatics is a new field of research, and social informatics education and development programs in the United States have achieved great results. This paper first introduces the meaning, main contents and main methods of community informatics, then expounds the typical practice of community informatics in the United States, emphatically describes the personnel training and scientific research projects in the direction of "community informatics" in some American universities, and then analyzes its main features, finally reveals the progress of community informatics in the United States, which provides useful reference for our country.

KEYWORDS

Community and Community Informatics, Information and Communication Technology, Library and Information Science