Data Border Crossings

Worldview ◽  
1983 ◽  
Vol 26 (7) ◽  
pp. 7-10
Author(s):  
Edward M. Roche ◽  
David J. Dell
Keyword(s):  
Information Technologies ◽  
Data Flow ◽  
Freedom Of Speech ◽  
Border Crossings ◽  
Computer Data ◽  
Policy Debates ◽  
New Information ◽  
Political Impact ◽  
The World ◽  
The Right

Most of us are well aware that the world is being changed by new information technologies, especially in the area of computers and telecommunications. Fewer are aware that these same technologies have stimulated major policy debates in international councils and within the economic and foreign policy-making chambers of an ever-increasing number of nations. Generally, these debates focus on the economic and political impact of technologies that enable computer data to be sent across national borders, a process known as transborder data flow (TDF). But transborder data flow has given rise to complex social and moral questions as well. At issue are such matters as national sovereignty and security, and the right of citizens to privacy and freedom of speech.

scholarly journals Social media in use

2021 ◽  
Vol 26 (1) ◽  
pp. 201-217
Author(s):  
Visar Rrustemi ◽  
Egzona Hasani ◽  
Gezim Jusufi ◽  
Dušan Mladenović
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Information Technologies ◽  
Uses And Gratifications ◽  
Digital Marketing ◽  
Western Balkans ◽  
The World ◽  
Digital Environments ◽  
Marketing Activities ◽  
Traditional Marketing ◽  
The Right

Information technologies have caused radical changes in many areas, they have also changed marketing activities. Today, marketing activities are carried out in digital environments, facilitating the work of companies and helping consumers around the world. Consumers get the right information and data about products and services much easier and faster, as well as access different forms of entertainment. Therefore, it can be said that the place of traditional marketing today has been replaced by digital marketing. This paper tries to shed some light on how consumers of Western Balkans and specifically in Kosovo, use social media and how those shape their attitudes, based on the uses and gratifications approach. This is the first paper from this region, which analyzes social media, based on the previously mentioned approach. Since research in the region was prohibitive for us, we selected a sample of 200 consumers from Kosovo, active on social media. The findings of this paper serve managers in better attracting online customers through social media.

Globalization, Citizenship and New Information Technologies

2008 ◽  
pp. 2379-2395
Author(s):  
Peter J. Smith ◽  
Elizabeth Smythe
Keyword(s):  
World Trade Organization ◽  
World Trade ◽  
Information Technologies ◽  
Internet Technology ◽  
Trade Negotiations ◽  
Governmental Organizations ◽  
Non Governmental Organizations ◽  
New Information ◽  
The World ◽  
Multilateral Agreement On Investment

This chapter examines how information technologies have been used by non-governmental organizations to contest economic globalization. The chapter uses as case studies the failed attempt to negotiate the Multilateral Agreement on Investment (1995-1998) and the failed effort to launch a new round of trade negotiations at the World Trade Organization ministerial meetings in Seattle 1999. We do not take the simplistic view that non-governmental organizations were solely responsible for defeating the MAI, or stopping further trade negotiations, but rather use these cases to examine how Internet technology contributed to the capacity of groups to communicate, to quickly mobilize and widely disseminate critical information, outside the control of national elites.

scholarly journals Use of Open Data in the Development of the Digital Economy in the Knowledge Society in the Era of Globalization

2020 ◽  
Vol 74 ◽  
pp. 03008
Author(s):  
Katarina Repkova Stofkova ◽  
Jana Stofkova
Keyword(s):  
Slovak Republic ◽  
Knowledge Society ◽  
Open Data ◽  
Personal Data ◽  
International Study ◽  
Digital Economy ◽  
Control Mechanisms ◽  
New Information ◽  
The World ◽  
The Right

Process of electronization is one of the milestones in the development of technological processes that leads to an improvement in the quality of life of citizens. The process of electronization is taking place all over the world. From the world leaders in the field of digitization of processes and data it is necessary to solve many things in the Slovak Republic, the development is in the right direction. The concept of national disclosure and delivery of important information is being addressed. The implementation of new information communication technologies and the introduction of processes have improved the awareness of citizens and businesses. By introducing open data into datasets, it also helps businesses to perform their activities more effectively. Open data contains non-personal data that is accessible to all and can be freely used, reused and distributed by everyone. This means that a certain type of data is available to everyone, in order to use and publish it at their own discretion, without restricting copyright, patents, or other control mechanisms. Improving aspects include raising awareness among citizens and businesses, improving the content of institutions providing such data, and so on. As part of the International Digital Economy and Society International Study, as well as the National Digital Economy and Society Index, a number of researches have been carried out that describe information and digitization. The paper lists the results of the survey focused on the ongoing development of the digital services.

Adopting IT

2011 ◽  
pp. 209-224
Author(s):  
John M. Anderson ◽  
William H. Gwinn
Keyword(s):  
Information Management ◽  
Information Technologies ◽  
Child Care Providers ◽  
Care Providers ◽  
Small Companies ◽  
Administrative Services ◽  
It Implementation ◽  
New Information ◽  
The World ◽  
The Cost

Small companies are often reluctant to try innovative approaches to information management because of the cost of the hardware and software, the potential disruption of processes already dependent on overstressed resources and the lack of in-house expertise. This case looks at the experience with information technology (IT) implementation of one small nonprofit company that provides administrative services for child care providers. Like many companies of all sizes, the focal company realized it must adopt new information technologies in order to survive. The company fit the profile for small companies just entering the world of IT. It experienced the expected internal problems associated with change. And then it discovered that its size and its relationship to government oversight agencies, themselves struggling to implement IT, posed special threats to its survival.

scholarly journals The prerequisites for changing the mechanism of implementation of adversarial principle as the backbone of justice in the information and communication society

2021 ◽  
pp. 51-59
Author(s):  
Anastasiya Ivanovna Tomak
Keyword(s):  
Social Relations ◽  
Information Society ◽  
Information Technologies ◽  
Legal Enforcement ◽  
New Information ◽  
Global Trend ◽  
Civil Proceedings ◽  
Information And Communication ◽  
Judicial Proceedings ◽  
The Right

The advancement of informatization leads to the information society, which is a global trend of information civilization. Present time marks the new information stage of social development, which should be defined as information society, where information and knowledge are the key object of labor of the majority of population, and information technologies are a direct instrument of labor. In this regard, civil proceedings, which is founded on the adversarial principle, also takes the vector towards the information component. The adversarial principle, is in turn is influenced by objective factors (social relations) and subjective factors  (attitude towards the right of subjects), which is the basis for changing the mechanism of its implementation. This directly affect the conduct of judicial proceedings and legal enforcement of adversarial principle. The author determines the key trends in adaptation of the means of implementation of adversarial principle in civil proceedings in the conditions of the use of information technologies. The author suggest dividing the means of implementation of adversarial principle into two groups: for creating an environment of trust and communication interaction between the participants and the court. Based on this, the article analyzes the possible impact of information technologies upon the adversarial principle in civil proceedings, as well as the mechanism of its implementation. The conclusion is made that the adversarial principle in civil proceedings can fall under influence of information technologies, since its essence is formed from objective and subjective factors; while the means of its implementation, which comprise the legal measures of its mechanism through adaptation of information technologies in justice, are susceptible to change.

Language and Literacy: what writing does to Language and Mind

1996 ◽  
Vol 16 ◽  
pp. 3-13 ◽  
Author(s):  
David R. Olson
Keyword(s):  
Information Technology ◽  
Information Technologies ◽  
The Other ◽  
Cognitive Effects ◽  
Language And Literacy ◽  
The West ◽  
New Information ◽  
The World ◽  
The Mind ◽  
Different Cultures

With the ascendance of new information technologies, the significance of writing has, it seems, slipped from view, in spite of the fact that the conceptual and cognitive implications of the newer technologies is a matter of enthusiastic speculation rather that serious research. On the other hand, it is now reasonably well established that the invention of the first “information” technology, namely writing, has had a profound effect on the ways in which we think about language, the mind, and the world, effects which have taken millenia to unfold. “Effects” is perhaps too strong a term as it is less a matter of how technology affects people than a matter of the ways in which people in different cultures have used and applied the technology and the ways they have altered the technology to suit their purposes. In the West, some of these uses have involved institutional change; thus, to make use of a technology such as writing requires the development of monasteries, schools, and other institutions. Indeed, some of the cognitive effects we usually attribute to schooling are better thought of as consequences or implications of literacy.

Nationality and liberty, protestant and catholic: Robert Southey’s Book of the Church

1982 ◽  
Vol 18 ◽  
pp. 409-432 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sheridan Gilley
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Freedom Of Speech ◽  
Roman Catholic ◽  
Human Race ◽  
English History ◽  
The Past ◽  
The World ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Right ◽  
The Church

The Victorian liberal Roman catholic historian lord Acton thought that the history of the world was one of the growth of liberty. By liberty, he meant national independence and freedom of speech and worship, the liberties of nineteenth-century liberalism: and in his conception of the past, he drew on the whig interpretation of English history as a conflict between a progressive tradition and a reactionary one: between churches, parties and classes representing either freedom or authority. The classic statement of the idea is the whig lord Macaulay’s in 1835:Each of those great and ever-memorable struggles, Saxon against Norman, Villein against Lord, Protestant against Papist, Roundhead against Cavalier, Dissenter against Churchman, Manchester against Old Sarum, was, in its own order and season, a struggle, on the result of which were staked the dearest interests of the human race; and every man who, in the contest which, in his time, divided our country distinguished himself on the right side, is entitled to our gratitude and respect.

scholarly journals Anomalies in the US Cyberbullying Jurisprudence

2016 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 148-169 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tamás Pongó
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Freedom Of Speech ◽  
Case Law ◽  
The United States ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Circuit Court ◽  
The Supreme Court ◽  
The Us ◽  
The World ◽  
The Right

This article focused on US case law and analyzed the evolution of students’ freedom of speech from 1969 to this date in the US. Therefore, it briefly introduced the tests and doctrines, which were created in the landmark cases of the Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS), noting that these cases were dealing with offline, on-campus situations and their determinations are not necessarily fully applicable to situations we might experience today. Nevertheless, the tests and doctrines, which were created in SCOTUS landmark decisions, are still in force and every cyberbullying judgment is still based on them even in the era of the Internet. Taking into consideration that the world has changed since these tests were established, I examined some more recent cyberbullying cases in the US, where these above tests were applied.Based on the analysis of SCOTUS and some Circuit Court jurisprudence, Certain anomalies were revealed, which serve as a basis to clearly state that the US system suffers from severe deficiencies, like handling the off-campus origin of the speech, or defining the substantial disruption or the sufficient nexus. However, the US courts have worked out tests and doctrines as a basis for their cyberbullying jurisprudence, so they are on the right track, but the jurisprudence will remain ambiguous and unpredictable without a SCOTUS landmark decision regarding cyberbullying.

scholarly journals Coronavirus Deformation of the Value-Semantic Matrix of the Life of the World Community in the Conditions of a Postmodern Society

2021 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 284-295
Author(s):  
Volodymyr Bekh ◽  
Viktor Vashkevych ◽  
Olena Postol ◽  
Bogdan Kalinichenko ◽  
Mykola Lipin
Keyword(s):  
Information Technologies ◽  
Social Situation ◽  
Growing Up ◽  
World Community ◽  
New Information ◽  
The Social ◽  
The World ◽  
Cultural Sphere ◽  
The Mind ◽  
The Impact

The range of research on value issues is quite wide today. The transition from understanding values as a philosophical category to a psychological interpretation of the nature of values has led to the emergence of many trends and psychological concepts of value problems. In this study, we will reveal the main modern views of researchers on the essence of the value-semantic matrix of both an individual and the entire world community. The modern socio-economic situation in the world is characterized by an almost permanent crisis state both in the social, and in the spiritual, cultural sphere, which is due to the existence of the consequences of the epidemic situation in the world. Based on this, the problem of teaching the dynamics of the value-semantic matrix, its development and changes under the influence of personality crises of various origins, both external ones caused by the social situation in the country, the impact of new information technologies, and internal ones, caused by growing up, growth, psychological development personality in time and space. Therefore, the purpose of this work is to conduct a theoretical study of the value-semantic sphere as a system that undergoes changes during the crisis periods of a person's life and to investigate the main deformations that have taken place in the Mind of existence of today's post-pandemic reality.

scholarly journals Creating Competitive Opponents for Serious Games through Dynamic Difficulty Adjustment

Information ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 11 (3) ◽  
pp. 156
Author(s):  
David Kristan ◽  
Pedro Bessa ◽  
Ricardo Costa ◽  
Carlos Vaz de Carvalho
Keyword(s):  
Serious Games ◽  
Basic Element ◽  
Good Strategy ◽  
New Information ◽  
The World ◽  
Computer Controlled ◽  
Game Designer ◽  
The Right ◽  
Player Performance ◽  
Strategic Goal

Competition is a basic element of our society. It drives us to rise above previously perceived limitations, increases our engagement and makes the world more interesting. Competition rewards our existing skills and prompts us to identify and improve our weaker skills. In games, player engagement is achieved, at least in part, by providing him/her with competition at the right amount of difficulty. Achieving and maintaining this exact level of challenge is one of the most difficult tasks for a game designer. The use of Dynamic Difficulty Adjustment techniques allows the game to dynamically adjust the challenge according to player performance, therefore keeping him/her always on edge, immersed and fully active. New information can then be more easily acquired, which is especially important in Serious Games. This paper describes how DDA techniques were used to create two strategic, goal-oriented computer-controlled (CC) players in order to deliver a higher level of competitiveness for the user in Transform@, a Serious Game aimed at developing entrepreneurship skills. As a result, the strength of the computer controlled player increased by more than 100%. By developing a good strategy for the AI and using DDA the game includes now a powerful opponent which has increased the engagement level of the player.

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