Title: Social Informatics: An Information Society for all? In Remembrance of Rob Kling
Abstract: Science (SLIS) said, "Rob Kling's accomplishments are legion, and well documented.He was quite simply the brightest bloke with whom I have had the pleasure of working.Infectiously curious, playfully serious, razor sharp, generous of spirit, and wonderfully open-minded."We share that appreciation, as so many of his friends.Rob was a founding father of IFIP-TC9.For several years since the inception, he was also chair of the so-called 'American core' of IFIP-Working Group 9.2 on Social Accountability.What is this rather new field of research that, after discussion with colleagues and friends, Rob decided to call 'Social Informatics'?[RKCSI, 1996] "Social Informatics (SI) refers to the body of research and study that examines social aspects of computerization -including the roles of information technology in social and organizational change and the ways that the social organization of information technologies are influenced by social forces and social practices.SI includes studies and other analyses that are labelled as social impacts of computing, social analysis of computing, studies of computer-mediate