Reinventing Community Networks as Economic Development Solutions

iSChannel is an excellent student initiative that spotlights the academic work of members of the LSE-IS community. The editors have worked hard to prepare the inaugural issue, and its quality demonstrates the high-level of academic work to be found among IS students at the London School of Economics. It is important to raise the visibility of student work not only to understand IS issues more fully, but also to foster a culture of peer to peer information exchange -students learning from students. The LSE-IS Department fully supports the iSChannel and is enthusiastic about the first edition. We hope that the journal will start a tradition in our department, and become a beacon for IS students worldwide. The students whose works have been published in this journal, by their willingness to submit their work to rigorous scrutiny, are certainly what I would label ‘new barbarians’!