scholarly journals Data in the Time of COVID-19: How Data Library Professionals Helped Combat the Pandemic

2021 ◽  
Vol 16 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-6
Author(s):  
Alexandra Cooper ◽  
Elizabeth Hill ◽  
Sandra Keys ◽  
Michael Steeleworthy ◽  
Kristi Thompson
Keyword(s):  
Service Providers ◽  
Alternative Methods ◽  
Shared Resources ◽  
Related Data ◽  
Information And Communication ◽  
Government Data ◽  
Data Libraries ◽  
Data Library ◽  
Usual Research ◽  
Library Professionals

As the world struggled to respond to the COVID-19 pandemic, researchers worked around the clock to understand what was going on, medically, socially, and economically. At the same time, usual research processes were disrupted: campuses were closed and normal government data collection and dissemination went haywire. Data professionals in academic libraries sprang into action to help. They shared resources, developed workshops, helped find alternative methods of carrying out research, and found ways of coping with the influx of COVID-related data. Social crises are fought on the front lines by medical professionals and service providers, but they are also fought with research, with information, with data. Libraries are at the nexus of information and communication and library professionals were able to play an important supporting role in helping researchers combat the effects of the pandemic.

Relation-Based Governance and Competition

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Avinash Dixit
Keyword(s):  
Spatial Model ◽  
Monopolistic Competition ◽  
Perfect Competition ◽  
Alternative Methods ◽  
Fixed Costs ◽  
Relational Governance ◽  
Dead Weight ◽  
Small Communities ◽  
Information And Communication ◽  
Size Of Firms

If formal institutions of contract governance are absent or ineffective, traders try to substitute relational governance based on norms and sanctions. However, these alternatives need good information and communication concerning members’ actions; that works well only in relatively small communities. If there are fixed costs, the market has too few firms for perfect competition. The optimum must be a second best, balancing the effectiveness of contract governance and dead-weight loss of monopoly. This chapter explores this idea using a spatial model with monopolistic competition. It is found that relational governance constrains the size of firms and can cause inefficiently excessive entry, beyond the excess that already occurs in a spatial model without governance problems. Effects of alternative methods of improving governance to ameliorate this inefficiency are explored.

scholarly journals Smarter Open Government Data for Society 5.0: Are Your Open Data Smart Enough?

Sensors ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 21 (15) ◽  
pp. 5204
Author(s):  
Anastasija Nikiforova
Keyword(s):  
Industry 4.0 ◽  
Economic Value ◽  
Open Data ◽  
Digital Data ◽  
Open Government ◽  
Data Sets ◽  
Time Data ◽  
Open Government Data ◽  
Information And Communication ◽  
Government Data

Nowadays, governments launch open government data (OGD) portals that provide data that can be accessed and used by everyone for their own needs. Although the potential economic value of open (government) data is assessed in millions and billions, not all open data are reused. Moreover, the open (government) data initiative as well as users’ intent for open (government) data are changing continuously and today, in line with IoT and smart city trends, real-time data and sensor-generated data have higher interest for users. These “smarter” open (government) data are also considered to be one of the crucial drivers for the sustainable economy, and might have an impact on information and communication technology (ICT) innovation and become a creativity bridge in developing a new ecosystem in Industry 4.0 and Society 5.0. The paper inspects OGD portals of 60 countries in order to understand the correspondence of their content to the Society 5.0 expectations. The paper provides a report on how much countries provide these data, focusing on some open (government) data success facilitating factors for both the portal in general and data sets of interest in particular. The presence of “smarter” data, their level of accessibility, availability, currency and timeliness, as well as support for users, are analyzed. The list of most competitive countries by data category are provided. This makes it possible to understand which OGD portals react to users’ needs, Industry 4.0 and Society 5.0 request the opening and updating of data for their further potential reuse, which is essential in the digital data-driven world.

scholarly journals Building a House Prices Forecasting Model in Hong Kong

2012 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 57-70
Author(s):  
Xin Janet ◽  
Ka-Chi Lam
Keyword(s):  
Regression Analysis ◽  
Hong Kong ◽  
Household Income ◽  
House Prices ◽  
Alternative Methods ◽  
Forecasting Model ◽  
Land Supply ◽  
Related Data ◽  
Political Events ◽  
Macroeconomic Indicators

This paper builds a house prices forecasting model for private residential houses in HongKong, based on general macroeconomic indicators, housing related data and demographicfactors for the period of 1980 to 2001. A reduce form economic model has been derivedfrom a multiple regression analysis where three sets and eight models were derived foranalysis and comparison. It is found that household income, land supply, population andmovements in the Hang Seng Index play an important role in explaining house pricemovements in Hong Kong. In addition, political events, as identified, cannot be ignored.However, the results of the models are unstable. It is suggested that the OLS may nota best method for house prices model in Hong Kong situation. Alternative methods aresuggested.

scholarly journals The Analysis of E-Government Services Adoption and Use in Slovenian Information Society between 2014 and 2017

2018 ◽  
Vol 16 (2) ◽  
pp. 193-215 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mitja Dečman
Keyword(s):  
Public Sector ◽  
Information And Communication Technology ◽  
Communication Technology ◽  
Service Providers ◽  
The European Union ◽  
Digital Inequality ◽  
Government Services ◽  
Information And Communication ◽  
The Eu

With the increasing role of information and communication technology (ICT) in the society, ICT’s role is gaining importance in the aspect of provision and use of the public sector services for the citizens. Especially in the European Union different activities have been conducted through the years to promote ICT use in the society. It has been mainly based on the Digital Agenda for Europe (DAE), which underlines the key role of ICT in the efforts to achieve its strategic objectives. Slovenia as an EU member state follows these directions but positions itself among less successful states in the EU. The well-known European Digital Economy and Society Index ranks Slovenia to the lower half of member states indicating possibilities for improvement. Although much can be said and done about the service-providers side this paper focuses on the users’ side and especially on their digital inequality. The lack of studies in the area of digital inequality and online government services adoption and use is the main motivation for this research. The research uses the data provided by Slovenian annual survey Use of Information and Communication Technology in Households and by Individuals of the last four years. The analysis of this data, presented in the paper, exhibits that changes for the better are detected in Slovenian society, but the situation in public-sector services is not optima. The results demonstrate the existence of digital inequality considering the income level of households and education level of individual users. The synthesis of the data demonstrates that the Slovenian government and its ministries should consider adding tangible actions to the already set strategies if the country wants to catch up with the leading countries of the EU and achieve goals, set by the DAE.

scholarly journals Uso de Modelos de Dados Multidimensionais para a ampliação da Transparência Ativa │ Use of multidimensional data models to increase active

2013 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Fernando De Assis Rodrigues ◽  
Ricardo Ceśar Gonçalves Sant'Ana
Keyword(s):  
Information And Communication Technologies ◽  
Business Intelligence ◽  
Data Access ◽  
Communication Technologies ◽  
Multidimensional Data ◽  
Dimensional Model ◽  
Information And Communication ◽  
Future Demands ◽  
Citizen Monitoring ◽  
Government Data

Resumo Ambientes para acesso a dados governamentais, via Tecnologias de Informação e Comunicação, podem ampliar possibilidades de acompanhamento pelo cidadão, retroalimentando futuras demandas. O objetivo deste estudo é identificar nos dados disponíveis via transparência ativa, a existência de elementos que permitam a elaboração de propostas de modelos dimensionais, propiciando a antecipação de demandas de acesso a dados. Como referencial teórico-metodológico, o texto utiliza os conceitos Business Intelligence eCitizen Intelligence. Como resultado, foi elaborada a proposta de um modelo dimensional a partir da consulta de despesas diárias, disponível no Portal de Transparência do Governo Federal.Palavras-chave Transparência Pública, Tecnologias de Informação e Comunicação, Coleta de Dados, Citizen Intelligence, Data Warehouse.Abstract Environments for access to government data, viaInformation and Communications Technologies, may expand possibilities for citizen monitoring, providing feedback for future demands. The aim of this study is to identify, in the available data via active transparency, the existence of elements that allow the construction of new proposals of dimensional models, enabling an anticipation of demands on data access. The theoretical-methodological framework, the text uses the concepts Citizen Intelligence and Business Intelligence. As a result, a dimensional model was proposed, building on a dimensional model from a daily expenses query, available in the Transparency home-page of the Brazillian Federal Government.Keywords Public Transparency, Information and Communication Technologies, Collecting Data, Citizen Intelligence, Data Warehouse.

scholarly journals Development of Personal Information Privacy Concerns Evaluation

2018 ◽  
pp. 4862-4871
Author(s):  
Anna Rohunen ◽  
Jouni Markkula
Keyword(s):  
Service Providers ◽  
Personal Information ◽  
Personal Data ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Privacy Concerns ◽  
The Public ◽  
Data Intensive ◽  
Information Privacy Concerns ◽  
Evaluation Instruments ◽  
Information And Communication

Personal data is increasingly collected with the support of rapidly advancing information and communication technology, which raises privacy concerns among data subjects. In order to address these concerns and offer the full benefits of personal data intensive services to the public, service providers need to understand how to evaluate privacy concerns in evolving service contexts. By analyzing the earlier used privacy concerns evaluation instruments, we can learn how to adapt them to new contexts. In this article, the historical development of the most widely used privacy concerns evaluation instruments is presented and analyzed regarding privacy concerns' dimensions. Privacy concerns' core dimensions, and the types of context dependent dimensions, to be incorporated into evaluation instruments are identified. Following this, recommendations on how to utilize the existing evaluation instruments are given, as well as suggestions for future research dealing with validation and standardization of the instruments.

scholarly journals Identifying executive challenges of performance-based payment from medical and educational hospitals managers’ perspective and offering solutions in Isfahan (2018)

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alireza Jabbari ◽  
Nasrin Shaarbafchi Zadeh ◽  
Behrooz Maddahian
Keyword(s):  
Financial Incentives ◽  
Service Providers ◽  
Public Hospitals ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Educational Support ◽  
The Public ◽  
Health Service Providers ◽  
Research Population ◽  
Information And Communication ◽  
Correct Implementation

Introduction: Performance-based payment is a payment model that attempts to reward the measured dimensions of performance and encourages health service providers to achieve predetermined goals by financial incentives. This study aimed to identify executive challenges of performance-based payment from medical and educational hospitals managers’ perspective and offering solutions in Isfahan 2018. Methods: This study was a qualitative study. Semi structured interviews were used to collect data. The research population was 11 people (the managers of educational and medical hospitals in Isfahan) who were selected purposefully. All interviews were recorded and then written on a paper. The duration of the interviews varied between 45 to 60 minutes. The data were analyzed using MAXQDA120 software and based on thematic analysis. Results: In this study, , regarding executive challenges, seven themes and fifteen sub-themes were obtained, including the weakness of the performance-based payment project, weakness in education and educational support, low employee participation, weakness of information and communication technology, weakness of laws and regulations, unfavorable economic conditions of the public sector, and special conditions governing public hospitals.   Conclusion: performance-based payment, if implemented correctly, can lead to the improvement of quantitative and qualitative indicators related to employees’ performance. Correct implementation requires identifying challenges and obstacles and then corrective actions. This study was able to identify and present some of the operational challenges of the performance-based payment from the viewpoint of hospital managers.

scholarly journals Incitement to riot: intermediary liability of ISP`S

2021 ◽  
Vol 7 (3) ◽  
pp. 111-118
Author(s):  
Murad Madzhumayev
Keyword(s):  
Information And Communication Technologies ◽  
Social Relations ◽  
Service Providers ◽  
Communication Technologies ◽  
Eastern Bloc ◽  
Internet Service ◽  
Information And Communication ◽  
Intermediary Liability ◽  
Technical Capacity ◽  
The Arab Spring

Collective actions, particularly organization, promotion, encouragement, and incitement to civil disturbances, are hard to imagine without use of information and communication technologies (ICTs). Recent events such as the Arab Spring, the colour revolutions (e.g. in former Eastern Bloc and the Balkan countries), the unrest in Minneapolis in 2020 which subsequently spread to other US cities, and the US Capitol riots 2021 present significant evidence in this regard. The dissemination of information online inciting to riots involves internet service providers (ISPs) alongside the author. The aim of the paper is to specify the actors in accordance with their functions and determine their eligibility to be prosecuted in cases of incitement to riots using ICTs. Formulated a conclusion about the onset of intermediary liability of ISPs, holding the organizational and technical capacity to influence the information social relations of their users at any time.

Client Expectations in Virtual Construction Concepts

2011 ◽  
pp. 556-560
Author(s):  
O.K.B Barima
Keyword(s):  
Construction Projects ◽  
Service Providers ◽  
Virtual Construction ◽  
Common Value ◽  
Project Environment ◽  
Client Expectations ◽  
Information And Communication ◽  
Ict Tools ◽  
Time Savings ◽  
Construction Works

Meeting the expectations of clients through better service delivery has been a key concern of the construction industry over the years (Hui, 2005; Shen & Liu, 2004 ). One recommendation often suggested in recent studies to support the delivery of construction works to the construction client is the use of information and communication technology (ICT) (Weippert, Kajewski, & Tilley, 2003). In recent times the virtual construction concept has emerged where construction actors may rely on modern ICT tools to operate irrespective of time and space, to attain common value delivery goals in construction projects. For example, highly skilled construction parties may be in different physical geographic locations in the world, but they may use modern ICT tools to collaborate to achieve common project goals. The virtual construction concept has the potential to provide cost and time savings to the construction client, and it is also likely to play an important role in the delivery of construction works (Barima, 2003). A key party to the construction delivery process is the construction client, and it may be important to know the client’s expectations in the use of the virtual construction concept. This knowledge may provide understanding on the potential expectations of construction clients and also assist construction service providers to improve on their value delivery systems to their clients. This chapter explores the potential expectations of construction clients in the virtual construction project environment. First, the background to this study is provided via review of previous literature, then the research methodology and key findings of this exploratory study are presented, before recommendations for future studies and the conclusions are given.

WSRP, SOA and UDDI

2010 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 38-50
Author(s):  
Tony Polgar
Keyword(s):  
Web Services ◽  
Service Oriented Architecture ◽  
Service Providers ◽  
Low Cost ◽  
Team Development ◽  
Shared Resources ◽  
Enterprise Integration ◽  
Business Partners ◽  
Cost Development ◽  
Service Oriented

Web Services for Remote Portlets (WSRP) provide solutions for implementation of lightweight Service Oriented Architecture (SOA). UDDI extension for WSRP enables the discovery and access to user facing web services provided by business partners while eliminating the need to design local user facing portlets. Most importantly, the remote portlets can be updated by web service providers from their own servers. Remote portlet consumers are not required to make any changes in their portals to accommodate updated remote portlets. This approach results in easier team development, upgrades, administration, low cost development and usage of shared resources. Furthermore, with the growing interest in SOA, WSRP should cooperate with service bus (ESB).In this paper, the author examines the technical underpinning of the UDDI extensions for WSRP (user facing remote web services) and their role in service sharing among business partners. The author also briefly outlines the architectural view of using WSRP in enterprise integration tasks and the role Enterprise Service Bus (ESB).

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