Abstract
Community information (CI) is the information that people need in their everyday lives. The information service through which CI is provided to the members of a community can be called Community Information Service (CIS). An information center that specifically provides such information is called community information center (CIC). It is also known by various other names. The main types of information served through CIS are survival information, citizen action information, and local information. The thrust areas of CIS are agriculture, industry, education, health, savings, and investment, etc. In the digital environment, it has become possible to enable the users to access community information from anywhere at any time. The progress of CIS in different countries has been described in this chapter.
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