Social and Community Informatics and social theories of networks

Abstract

There are Non Government Organisations (NGOs), technical and academic interest in the community driven Athlone Living Lab and its social innovations. With actors across many disciplines, it is necessary that the successful solutions can be utilised by other NGO‟s without creating social casualties. The social research background to the project needs to be understood so that the project can reach an academic audience in multi-disciplinary fields. Also that the data generated by this successful project may be used to demonstrate important principles that have enabled the community to develop from a Community in Tension (CiT) to a community in transformation