At the 2011 Conference, a special workshop session highlighted a number of issues which keep coming up in Community Informatics (and at all conferences, hear about the same challenges), and it was felt that these should be the basis of the sub-themes for the 2012 conference.
Sub-theme 1: Bricolage in Community Informatics: planning v improvisation
Sub-theme 2: Reconciling differences between clashing communities
Sub-theme 3: The dark side of community informatics