This workshop of Information Empowered Communities Lab jointly organized with the iSchools Asia-Pacific Chapter (AP-iSchools), iSchools Asia-Pacific Next Generation Committee (iNext), and Nanjing University discusses diverse interlinked issues related to environmental and community informatics based on the research led by Professor Juliana Sutanto from Monash University, Basil Mahfouz from University College London, and Professor Yuxiang (Chris) Zhao from Nanjing University.