Community development through digital public spaces

Abstract

The development of Information and Communication Technologies facilitates wide range of our lives aspects, but is also responsible for widening the digital divide. One way to tackle this digital divide is community development through Digital Public Spaces. Based on the methodology of Digital Cooperatives project, we further analysed the budget of 31 practices from this field. We pointed on the differences in budgets of several types of these spaces that are arising from their scope and extent of their operations and emphasized po-tential role of universities in helping to reduce cost while estab-lishing new Digital Public Spaces for the development of the community.