On Construction of the Volunteer Roles in Urban Community Governance —A Case Study of Guangming Community of Nanchang City

This article presents a case study of an exercise in Aboriginal community governance in Australia. It sets out the background events that led the Yawuru Native Title Holders Aboriginal Corporation in the town of Broome on Australia’s northwest coast to secure information for its own needs as an act of self-determination and essential governance, and it presents some of the key findings from that exercise. As the Indigenous rights agenda shifts from the pursuit of restitution to the management and implementation of benefits, those with proprietary rights are finding it increasingly necessary to build internal capacity for post-native title governance and community planning, including in the area of information retrieval and application. As an incorporated land-holding group, the Yawuru people of Broome are amongst the first in Australia to move in this area of information gathering, certainly in terms of the degree of local control, participation, and conceptual thinking around the logistics and rationale for such an exercise. An innovative addition has been the incorporation of survey output data into a Geographic Information System to provide for spatial analysis and a decision support mechanism for local community planning. In launching and administering the "Knowing our Community" household survey in Broome, the Yawuru have set a precedent in the acquisition and application of demographic information for internal planning and community development in the post-native title determination era.

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Evaluating Consent and Legitimacy Amongst Shifting Community Norms: an EVE Online Case Study

Journal of Virtual Worlds Research ◽

10.4101/jvwr.v6i3.6409 ◽

2013 ◽

Vol 6 (3) ◽

Cited By ~ 4

Author(s):

Nicolas Suzor ◽

Darryl Woodford

Keyword(s):

Private Governance ◽

Potential Conflict ◽

Community Governance ◽

Community Norms ◽

Regulatory Frameworks ◽

The Social ◽

Community Expectations ◽

Online Environments ◽

Governance Processes

The legitimate resolution of disputes in online environments requires a complex understanding of the social norms of the community. The conventional legal approach to resolving disputes through literal interpretation of the contractual terms of service is highly problematic because it does not take into account potential conflict with community expectations. In this paper we examine the importance of consent to community governance and argue that a purely formal evaluation of consent is insufficient to legitimately resolve disputes. As online communities continue to grow in importance to the lives of their participants, the importance of resolving disputes legitimately, with reference to the consent of the community, will also continue to grow. We present a case study of botting and real money trading in EVE Online that highlights the dynamic interaction of community norms and private governance processes. Through this case study, we argue that the major challenge facing regulators of online environments is that community norms are complex, contested, and continuously evolving. Developing legitimate regulatory frameworks then depends on the ability of regulators to create efficient and acceptable modes of dispute resolution that can take into account (and acceptably resolve) the tension between formal contractual rules and complex and conflicting community understandings of acceptable behaviour.

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A case study on urban community e-government

Proceedings of the 1st international conference on Theory and practice of electronic governance - ICEGOV '07 ◽

10.1145/1328057.1328155 ◽

2007 ◽

Author(s):

Pengzhu Zhang ◽

Lin Zhu

Keyword(s):

Urban Community

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COMMUNITY GOVERNANCE FOR POVERTY ALLEVIATION

Yustisia Jurnal Hukum ◽

10.20961/yustisia.v96i0.5002 ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 96 ◽

Author(s):

Sudarmo

Keyword(s):

Social Capital ◽

Public Service ◽

Poverty Alleviation ◽

Limited Capacity ◽

Community Governance ◽

Self Interest ◽

Presidential Decree ◽

Horizontal Networks ◽

Internal Networks

The Al-Munawaroh Muslim is an Islamic communitygrowing in Gilingan urban area of Surakarta City. Most members of this association and many people living around the area were living in poverty. This situation was perceived as a common problem and challenge for the community to resolve it. The aim of this study is to discuss critically the contemporary evident on community governance in Surakarta in line with the Indonesian Constitution of 1945, the Law 13/2011, and the Presidential Decree 166/2014 and that of 96/2015. One case study of the religion-based association namely the Al Munawaroh Muslim of Surakarta has been examined with regard to the networks created by the community in delivering community governance. By using ethnographic method, this research showed that the community had capacity to govern common problem despite its limited capacity; it has capacity to provide sustainable public service for the poor because its leaders, advisers and experienced members were together able to create social capital including internal networks among its members and external networks with <br />because of different interests and preferences among them in managing the resource they belong, and some membersof the communitywere to be self-interest resulting in distrust among the majority of the members to them. Although the community had a capacity of governance by providing public service for <br />state role in alleviating poverty. <br />Keywords: community governance, social capital, internal networks, horizontal networks, vertical networks.

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