Social Informatics is a research field that aims to improve our knowledge on social context of technological actions and co-evolution of technologies, organisations and society, by research and modelling. Topics of the research include: inter-organisational coordination on removing effects of natural disasters, social innovations, IT adoption, IT work force, IT at home and work, global diffusion, virtual worlds and artificial environments, IT and powers of organisation, mobile technologies for developing countries and technologies for social integration.

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