Community research
- Area Development Management [ADM] - the government body that coordinates local partnerships in Ireland. Features a searchable research database
- Communities online - UK-based organisation seeking to make use of the Internet for community development
- Community Workers Co-operative - Galway-based organisation that promotes and supports community work as a means of intervention for radical social change.
- Electronic Communities in an Information Society: paradise, mirage, or malaise? - Lee Komito UCD [2001]
- Ennis 'Information Age Town' - evaluation report PDF
- European Rural Development (ERD) project - coordinated by the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis
- The implications for rural and regional populations of the Irish government’s provision of broadband communications infrastructure - report for NIRSA by Sarah Skerratt
- Local development in Ireland: Partnership, innovation and social justice - OECD paper by Charles Sabel
- Rural Community Network (NI) - Northern Ireland voluntary organisation established by local community organisations to articulate the voice of rural communities on issues relating to poverty, disadvantage and equality
- Rural Development Online - service of the US Dept. of Agriculture. Has useful online documents on rural and agricultural issues
- Údarás na Gaeltachta - development organisation for Irish speaking areas
- The Village - Irish eco-community experiment
- The Virtual Community - online copy of Howard Rheingold's influential book, about the possibility of developing community through the Internet