Community Informatics Institute

Using data, information, communication, and technology to enhance communities

Welcome to the Community Informatics Institute!

The Community Informatics Institute (CII) was founded in November 2023 to facilitate positive transformation through community informatics (the use of data, information, communication, and technology to enhance communities), prioritizing challenges and opportunities in rural or otherwise disadvantaged areas.

  • FCC Grants Radio License to Community Informatics Institute

    The Community Informatics Institute (CII) is pleased to announce that the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has issued a Construction Permit (CP) to our nonprofit for a Low-Powered FM (LPFM) Radio station, to be located in Vienna, Maryland. The station identification will be “WVCI-LP 92.9 FM Vienna Maryland”. Our goal is to be on-the-air in 2025.

  • Application for Radio License

    On December 7, 2023, the Community Informatics Institute applies for a license from the FCC to construct a low-powered FM radio station, based in its headquarters in Vienna, Maryland.

  • Community Informatics Institute Incorporates

    On November 28, 2023, the Community Informatics Institute becomes an official nonprofit corporation in Delaware.