Research Activities

This research, which builds on a decade of academic study and fieldwork in Austin, Texas, has labored to assess and promote the efficacy of Community Technology Centers (CTCs). These organizations and their work address larger issues of inequality, structural racism, and urban development.

Our analysis focuses on identifying the elements of an "ideal" CTC and how these can help us better understand the community based organization movement in Austin and other cities across the United States. If we know why these elements are effective, we will have a blueprint for those who want to counter the inequalities in opportunity that haunt their own neighborhoods.

• Research Goals and Products: Our ideals and our contributions.
• CTC Site List: These CTCs are working with us to explore what makes a CTC strong and effective.
• Working Hypotheses: The working hypotheses are our claims about what makes CTCs effective in developing their communities.
• Surveys: The surveys we use to gather information at the CTCs we are working with.
  

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this page last updated
April 13, 2002