Volume 28 Number 2
Summer 2009
K-Net and Canadian Aboriginal Communities

SPECIAL ISSUE ON ISTAS`08: CITIZENS, GROUPS, COMMUNITIES, AND ICT
Guest Editors: Susan O’Donnell and William McIver, Jr.

DEPARTMENTS

3 President’s Message

4 Editorial

5 Policy Perspectives 

64 Letter

7 Guest Editors’ Introduction

SPECIAL ISSUE FEATURES

9 Wireless Nomad: Pioneer in an Urban Residential Environment*
Matthew A. Wong

16 Video Communication Roadblocks Facing Rural, Indigenous Communities*
Susan O’Donnell, Sonja Perley, Deanne Simms, and Brecken Rose Hancock

23 K-Net and Canadian Aborginal Communities*
Adam Fiser and Andrew Clement

34 Communications Technology, Emergency Alerts, and Campus Safety*
Gordon A. Gow, Tara McGee, David Townsend, Peter Anderson, and Stanley Varnhagen

42 Technology and Connections: Mexican Immigrants in the U.S.*
Víctor M. González, Luis A. Castro, and Marcela D. Rodríquez

49 Conflict and Consensus in the Chinese Version of Wikipedia*
Han-Teng Liao

FEATURE

57 Wiki Deployment in Corporate Settings*
Ofer Arazy, Ian Gellatly, Soobaek Jang, and Raymond Patterson

*Refereed articles.
Cover image: Courtesy K-Net.