VISITE VIRTUELLE: LA PLACE DE DRUMMONDVILLE AU SEIN DU WEB

L'automate de l'information est souvent présentée comme un outil de développement des régions. Or, très peu d'études ont été réalisées à ce jour sur les façons dont les villes et les régions se sont appropriées l'internet et l'analyse des effets socio-spatiaux de l'autoroute de l'information reste à faire. Cet article propose un éclairage empirique sur l'appropriation d'Internet dans une ville moyenne particulièrement dynamique au plan économique, Drummondville au Québec. Un total de 127 sites et pages Web portant sur la ville ont ainsi été analysés, tant au plan des organismes associés à leur production que de leur contenu. C'est ce portrait d'une toile en pleine construction qui est présenté ici. II met en lumière une appropriation plutôt timide de l'Internet, dont les usages se rapprochent beaucoup de ceux offerts par les médias traditionnels.
Much hope is placed in the information highway as an opportunity for regional development. Very few studies have been conducted on the actual degree to which the Internet has actually been appropriated at the local and regional scales, and its overall social and spatial impact has been hardly measured. This paper is aimed at shedding some light on the development of the Internet in a mid-sized city of southern Quebec, Drummondville, known for its economic dynamism. A total of 127 websites and pages are analyzed, in terms of the organizations associated with their creation and in terms of their content. The results highlight a very timid approach toward the Internet and uses not very different from those offered by traditional media.     

Spatial-temporal trends in complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) offices in Ontario,Canada

This paper assesses complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) from a spatial-temporal perspective; it would be of particular interest to those who evaluate health care resource accessibility over space. The analysis compares CAM supply (number of offices, employment, and sales) in Ontario by provincial district, metropolitan influence classification, and health care and social assistance employment quintiles using summary statistics, Kruskal-Wallis and median analyses, and local spatial autocorrelation evaluation. Metropolitan areas throughout Ontario, but especially in the southcentral part of the province, are well endowed with CAM supply and tend to be most important in terms of CAM change. CAM offices are increasing in size in the most populated parts of the province and shrinking in regions that are more peripheral. CAM supply per capita is highest in census subdivisions with moderate levels of health care and social assistance employment, a result that is not offset by significant temporal change. While CAM supply is restructuring in many of Ontario's most populated urban locations, the overall attraction of CAM resources to large and small metropolitan areas is clear. If current spatial-temporal trends continue, CAM spatial disparities will be exacerbated as accessibility to CAM in Ontario's most peripheral locations worsen.