Research Article
Online Communities: The Case of Immigrants in Greece
@INPROCEEDINGS{10.1007/978-3-642-11631-5_32, author={Ioannis Panaretou and Nikos Karousos and Ioannis Kostopoulos and Georgia-Barbara Foteinou and Giorgos Pavlidis}, title={Online Communities: The Case of Immigrants in Greece}, proceedings={Next Generation Society. Technological and Legal Issues. Third International Conference, e-Democracy 2009, Athens, Greece, September 23-25, 2009, Revised Selected Papers}, proceedings_a={E-DEMOCRACY}, year={2012}, month={5}, keywords={Online Communities Taxonomies Social Networking frameworks collaboration and decision support tools}, doi={10.1007/978-3-642-11631-5_32} }- Ioannis Panaretou
Nikos Karousos
Ioannis Kostopoulos
Georgia-Barbara Foteinou
Giorgos Pavlidis
Year: 2012
Online Communities: The Case of Immigrants in Greece
E-DEMOCRACY
Springer
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-11631-5_32
Abstract
Immigrants in Greece are an increasing population, very often threatened by poverty and social exclusion. At the same time Greek government has no formal policy concerning their assimilation in Greek society and this situation generates multiple problems in both immigrants and native population. In this work we suggest that new technology can alleviate these effects and we present specific tools and methodologies adopted by ANCE, in order to support online communities and specifically immigrant communities in Greece. This approach has the potential to support immigrant communities’ in terms of the organization of personal data, communication, and provision of a working space for dedicated use. The Information System’s operational features are also presented, along with other characteristics and state-of-the-art features in order to propose a general direction to the design of online communities’ mechanisms.