Camfield Estates-MIT Creating Community Connections Project Overview [HTML][PDF][WORD]
Camfield Estates Website and Creating Community Connections (C3) System v2.0 [GO TO SITE] (Go to the "Camfield in the News" Section for Project News)
Northwest Tower Website and Creating Community Connections (C3) System v1.0 [GO TO SITE]
Books
Pinkett, Randal D. (2002). The Digital Divide. In Lee, R. (Ed.). 2002 Encyclopedia of Information Systems. San Diego, CA: Academic Press.
Pinkett, Randal D. (2002). The Camfield Estates-MIT Creating Community Connections Project: High-Technology in a Low- to Moderate-Income Community. In Lazar, J. (Ed.). Managing IT/Community Partnerships in the 21st Century. Hershey Park, PA: Idea Publishing Group.
Papers
Pinkett, Randal D. (2002). Toward Social and Cultural Resonance: Case Studies from the Creating Community Connections Project. Published paper presented at the 2002 International Symposium on Technology and Society: Social Implications of Information and Communication Technology, Raleigh, NC, June 6-8. [PDF][WORD]
Pinkett, Randal D. (2002). Integrating Community Technology and Community Building: Early Results from the Creating Community Connections Project. Proceedings of Shaping the Network Society: Directions and Implications of Advanced Computing Symposium 2002 (DIAC-2002), Seattle, WA, May 16-19. [PDF][WORD]
Pinkett, Randal D. (2002). Community Technology and Community Building: Early Results from the Camfield Estates-MIT Creating Community Connections Project. Paper presented at Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning (ACSP 2001) 43rd Annual Conference, Cleveland, OH, November 8-11. [PDF][WORD]
Pinkett, Randal D. and O'Bryant, Richard L. (2002). Building Community, Empowerment and Self-Sufficiency: Early Results from the Camfield Estates-MIT Creating Community Connections Project. Paper presented at Digital Communities 2002: Cities in the Information Society, Chicago, IL, November 4-6. [PDF][WORD]
Pinkett, Randal D. (2002). The Camfield Estates-MIT Creating Community Connections Project: Strategies for Active Participation in a Low- to Moderate-Income Community. Published paper presented at the Second Kyoto Meeting on Digital Cities, Kyoto, Japan, October 18-20. [PDF][WORD]
Pinkett, Randal D. (2002). The Creating Community Connections (C3) System: Community Created, Community Focused, Community Content in a Low- to Moderate-Income Community. Paper submitted to Computer Support for Collaborative Learning (CSCL) 2002, Boulder, Colorado, January 7-11. [PDF][WORD]
Pinkett, Randal D. (2001). The Creating Community Connections (C3) System Project. Submitted to the US Department of Commerce, Ars Portalis Final Report, June 18. [PDF][WORD]
Turner, Nicol E. and Randal D. Pinkett. (2000). Closing the Digital Divide: An Asset-Based Approach to Community Building and Community Technology. Paper presented at Agenda for the New Millennium: Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning (ACSP 2000) 42nd Annual Conference, Atlanta, GA, November 2-5. [PDF][WORD]
Turner, Nicol E. and Randal D. Pinkett. (2000). An Asset-Based Approach to Community Building and Community Technology. Published paper in the Proceedings of Shaping the Network Society: The Future of the Public Sphere in Cyberspace, Directions and Implications of Advanced Computing Symposium 2000 (DIAC-2000), Seattle, WA, May 20-23. [PDF][WORD]
Pinkett, Randal D. (2000). Bridging the Digital Divide: Sociocultural Constructionism and an Asset-Based Approach to Community Technology and Community Building. Paper presented at the 81st Annual Meeting of the American Educational Research Association (AERA), New Orleans, LA, April 24-28. [PDF][WORD]
Pinkett, Randal D. (1999). Strategies for Motivating Minorities to Engage Computers. Position paper for the Carnegie Mellon Symposium on Minorities and Computers, Sponsored by the National Science Foundation (NSF), Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA. [PDF][WORD]
Presentations
Pinkett, Randal D. (2001). Community Technology and Community Building: Early Results from the Camfield Estates-MIT Creating Community Connections Project. Presentation at the Urban Affairs Association 32nd Annual Meeting, Bostonk, MA, March 20-23. [POWERPOINT]
Pinkett, Randal D. (2001). Bridging the Digital Divide: Community Technology and Community Building in a Low-Income Community. Presentation at the Society of Black Graduate and Professional Students (SBGPS), University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa, April 20. [POWERPOINT]
Pinkett, Randal D. (2000). Building Connections: The Role of CTCs in Community Change. Presentation at the Community Technology Centers' Network (CTCNet) National Conference 2000, Atlanta, GA, June 23-25. [POWERPOINT]
Pinkett, Randal D. and Richard O'Bryant (2000). Partnerships between Academia and the Community. Presentation at the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), Neighborhood Networks Regional Technical Assistance Project (RTAP) Meeting, Boston, MA, June 29. [POWERPOINT]
Pinkett, Randal D. (2000). The Skilled Worker Shortage. Presentation at the U.S. Department of Commerce (DOC), Networks for People Conference, Alexandria, VA, October 30-31. [POWERPOINT]
Articles
Pinkett, Randal D. (2001). Redefining the Digital Divide. Experts on the Digital Divide: Framing the Digital Divide in Teaching to Change LA, Spring, Vol. 1, No. 2. [ARTICLE]
Ph.D. General Examination Papers
Pinkett, Randal D. (2000). Community Revitalization: An Asset-Based Approach to Community Organizing, Commuinty Development, and Community Building. Submitted to Professor Ceasar McDowell, MIT Department of Urban Studies and Planning, March 21. [WORD][PDF]
Pinkett, Randal D. (2000). Constructionist Learning in Communities: Sociocultural Constructionism and an Asset-Based Approach to Community Building and Community Technology. Submitted to Professor Mitchel Resnick, MIT Media Laboratory, April 24. [WORD][PDF]
Pinkett, Randal D. (2000). Community Technology: Defining, Analyzing, and Measuring the Digital Divide. Submitted to Professor Brian Smith, MIT Media Laboratory, May 2. [WORD][PDF]
Ph.D. Thesis Proposal
Pinkett, Randal D. (2000). Bridging the Digital Divide: Sociocultural Constructionism and an Asset-Based Approach to Community Technology and Community Building in a Low-Income Community Submitted to the Program in Media Arts and Sciences, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, September 11. [PDF]
Thesis Advisor: Professor Mitchel Resnick. Thesis Readers: Professor Brian Smith, MIT Media Laboratory, Professor Ceasar McDowell, MIT Department of Urbuan Studies Planning, Dr. Alan C. Shaw, Executive Director, Linking Up Villages, Dr. Holly Carter, President, Community Technology Development, Inc.