Assessing Community Information Needs: A Practical Guide (2011)
About: A project of the Aspen Institute Communications and Society Program and the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation.
Author: Richard C. Harwood
Publish Date: 2011
Description: In October 2009, the Knight Commission on the Information Needs of Communities in a Democracy released its report, Informing Communities: Sustaining Democracy in the Digital Age, with 15 recommendations to better meet community information needs.
Immediately following the release of Informing Communities, the Aspen Institute Communications and Society Program and the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation partnered to explore ways to implement the Commission’s recommendations.
As a result, the Aspen Institute commissioned a series of white papers with the purpose of moving the Knight Commission recommendations from report into action. The following paper is one of those white papers.
