scholarly journals Application of Crowdsourcing to Generate Datasets of Public Procurement Processes

2018 ◽  
Vol 210 ◽  
pp. 04050
Author(s):  
Andrés Rey ◽  
Luis Gomez ◽  
Angel Lozada
Keyword(s):  
Information And Communication Technologies ◽  
State Of The Art ◽  
Public Procurement ◽  
Public Information ◽  
Communication Technologies ◽  
Computational Techniques ◽  
Free Access ◽  
Data Sets ◽  
Information And Communication ◽  
Unstructured Information

In order to fight against Corruption, there are currently laws of free access to public information that favor transparency in many countries. In this opening scenario, information and communication technologies play an important role in facilitating the delivery of information that is made available to citizens seeking to enable greater control over the actions of government and civil servants. Nevertheless, in many cases, the information provided is aimed at human reading and interpretation and it is not published in machine-processable formats, a condition that hinders automatic processing using state-of-the-art computational techniques. This article presents a new method of data collection based on Crowdsourcing that allows generating data sets of public procurement processes from the unstructured information published on the Web. The results obtained show that our method allows the generation of reliable public procurement data sets in a scalable way whose scope is limited by the availability of data and the transparency of the country.

Challenging the commodification of public spheres: The hacker work ethic in a free media lab

First Monday ◽  
2014 ◽  
Author(s):  
Steven Corbett
Keyword(s):  
Public Sphere ◽  
Information And Communication Technologies ◽  
Social Practice ◽  
Work Ethic ◽  
Communication Technologies ◽  
Free Access ◽  
Digital Inclusion ◽  
Information And Communication ◽  
Free Media ◽  
Media Lab

This paper explores the hacker work ethic in a case study of Access Space, a free media lab in Sheffield, United Kingdom, which provides free access to information and communication technologies (ICTs). It is suggested that the hacker work ethic allows participants at Access Space to become socially and digitally included in an empowering way. This aspect of ICT culture is explored in the context of social and technological changes from a public sphere perspective (Habermas, 1989). Access Space is described as part of a hacker counter-public sphere that challenges the dominant trend towards the commodification of ICTs by engaging the principles of the hacker work ethic in social practice. With a move towards informationalism as the ideology of the techno-capitalist age (Castells, 1996; Kellner, 1989), adopting the hacker work ethic in wider social practice may promote empowerment, social and digital inclusion, and critical engagement with ICTs and wider society.

scholarly journals Adaptive Development of a Regional Spatial Data Infrastructure Facing Local Prospects and Socio-Technological Trends

2019 ◽  
Vol 44 (44) ◽  
pp. 73-80
Author(s):  
Risto Kalliola ◽  
Niina Käyhkö ◽  
Sanna Jokela
Keyword(s):  
Information And Communication Technologies ◽  
Spatial Data ◽  
Public Information ◽  
Communication Technologies ◽  
Spatial Data Infrastructure ◽  
Geographical Information ◽  
Data Infrastructure ◽  
Information And Communication ◽  
Dynamic Assembly ◽  
Information Professionals

AbstractThe regional Lounaispaikka-SDI (Spatial Data Infrastructure) in southwest Finland is being developed by a dynamic assembly of the region’s geospatial expertise and its networking, spatial data and geoportal services. Emerging as a data-centric constellation that supported the region’s geographical information professionals, this assembly has developed into a geospatial service with more broadly-focused public information on the region. This development has had five adaptive phases, each as a response to changing local needs and fast-evolving trends in information and communication technologies. Alongside these processes, the Lounaispaikka-SDI has also reinforced the region’s geospatial competencies with benefits offered to academia, public sector institutions, and companies.

scholarly journals Aplicación Web para la Gestión de la información en la Red Integral de Bienestar Social

2019 ◽  
pp. 24-30
Author(s):  
Lilia Margarita Mena-Castillo ◽  
Isaac Neftali Molina-Cepeda
Keyword(s):  
Social Welfare ◽  
Information And Communication Technologies ◽  
Programming Language ◽  
Public Information ◽  
Communication Technologies ◽  
Technological Tools ◽  
Information And Communication ◽  
La Red

Information has become a fundamental resource in companies and, being accompanied by Information and Communication Technologies, it has become more significant to use them, since great changes can be achieved in companies. Through its management through technological tools, decisions can be made more easily, since there are different ways of representing information, to make it more clear and objective, as well as to access it from any place in a reliable manner. This work shows the development of a website that was made to the association Integral Social Welfare Network (RIBS), which works with 20 other associations and needs to have a closer communication and feedback with them in terms of public information and private, as the case may be. The scrum methodology was used, for the development of the website and the programming language was PHP, using the Laravel framework and for the management of the information the MySQL manager was used.

Impacts of Electronic Public Procurement in the Portuguese Construction Sector

2018 ◽  
pp. 363-383 ◽  
Author(s):  
João Pedro Faria Gomes ◽  
Raul M. S. Laureano
Keyword(s):  
European Union ◽  
Public Administration ◽  
Information And Communication Technologies ◽  
User Satisfaction ◽  
Public Procurement ◽  
Communication Technologies ◽  
Electronic Government ◽  
Construction Sector ◽  
The European Union ◽  
Information And Communication

The adoption of fully electronic public procurement (EPP) systems is a requirement laid out in a group of European Union directives. These standards seek to improve the rationalization of resources (i.e., on an economics level) in public administration through the replacement of paper-based procedures with electronic services (i.e., e-services), thereby contributing to the growth of electronic government (i.e., e-government) in all member states. This chapter evaluates the impacts of EPP based on information and communication technologies. Research was conducted in Portugal, in which data on five companies operating on an international scale were examined for any organizational difficulties in the adoption of e-procurement. The findings include the positive impacts of following the objectives of the European Union directives in question. User satisfaction regarding EPP-related electronic platforms was also investigated.

Telepathology and Digital Pathology

2011 ◽  
pp. 240-245
Author(s):  
Vincenzo Della. Mea
Keyword(s):  
Information And Communication Technologies ◽  
State Of The Art ◽  
Digital Pathology ◽  
Communication Technologies ◽  
Digital Slide ◽  
Information And Communication ◽  
Definition Of

The present chapter deals with state-of-the-art topics related to the application of information and communication technologies to the field of pathology, in particular for what regards telepathology and the so-called digital pathology. A classification of telepathology techniques is provided together with their typical applications. Starting from a definition of virtual or digital slide, digital pathology techniques and issues are then discussed.

E-Procurement in Self-Governing Regions in Slovakia

2016 ◽  
Vol 14 (3) ◽  
pp. 321-335
Author(s):  
Mária Murray Svidroňová ◽  
Juraj Nemec
Keyword(s):  
Information And Communication Technologies ◽  
Quantitative Research ◽  
Public Procurement ◽  
Communication Technologies ◽  
Internal Factors ◽  
Quantitative Research Methods ◽  
Qualitative And Quantitative ◽  
Information And Communication ◽  
Original Survey ◽  
Government Level

The current reforms in government and public administration have to also respond to the difficult economic situation caused by the crisis. The use of information and communication technologies including electronic public procurement represent an important tool to increase economy and in some cases, efficiency, too. The goal of this article is to analyse the use of e-procurement in the conditions of Slovakia at the regional self-governing level with the aim to identify those factors influencing e-procurement use. Using qualitative and quantitative research methods and original survey data from our own research collected within the LIPSE project we defined the most important external and internal factors determining e-procurement use at the regional self-government level.

Participation in Citizen Science: Insights from the CONECT-e Case Study

2020 ◽  
pp. 016224392094811
Author(s):  
Petra Benyei ◽  
Manuel Pardo-de-Santayana ◽  
Laura Aceituno-Mata ◽  
Laura Calvet-Mir ◽  
María Carrascosa-García ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Information And Communication Technologies ◽  
Citizen Science ◽  
Activity Patterns ◽  
Communication Technologies ◽  
Ecological Knowledge ◽  
Data Sets ◽  
Trust Relationships ◽  
Important Concern ◽  
Participation Barriers ◽  
Information And Communication

Citizen science (CS) is growing quickly, given its potential to enhance knowledge coproduction by diverse participants, generating large and global data sets. However, uneven participation in CS is still an important concern. This work aims to understand (1) participation dynamics in CS and (2) how they are shaped by participation barriers and drivers. We do so by examining participation in CONECT-e, a CS project that uses a wiki-like platform to document traditional ecological knowledge. More precisely, we analyze quantitative data on participants’ profile and activity patterns and qualitative data on barriers and drivers of participation. Our findings suggest that overcoming the education, age, and residence participation barriers is challenging even in cocreated CS projects. This is potentially due to issues of perceived self-illegitimacy and low access to information and communication technologies. Our results also point out that participants’ alliance with the project’s objectives and trust relationships with the project team are important drivers of participation in CS projects. Finally, we also highlight the need to think beyond participation as single actions and rather consider participation diversity in CS as functional diversity in ecosystems, with participants performing a diverse set of interconnected tasks or functions.

scholarly journals E-Government in Bangladesh: Development and Present State

2021 ◽  
Vol 04 (01) ◽  
Author(s):  
Tanveer Ahmad ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Developing Countries ◽  
Information And Communication Technologies ◽  
Public Information ◽  
Communication Technologies ◽  
Special Focus ◽  
Policy Documents ◽  
The Public ◽  
Information And Communication ◽  
The Government ◽  
Developed Nations

The application of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) by the government to deliver various services to the public, to ensure citizens’ better access to public information, to simplify and ameliorate the process of governance refers as e-Government. Developing countries taking inspiration from developed nations’ success in streamlining governance through e-Government, trying to adapt and replicate initiatives. Bangladesh ranks high among these aspiring nations. Nonetheless, there are hordes of predicaments that impede the effective execution of e-government in Bangladesh. This article relied on archival analysis of relevant laws, policy documents and academic papers on the issue and drawn conclusions based on these. It presented the concept of e-Government; discussed benefits to gain, barriers to face and probable road ahead for developing countries with special focus on Bangladesh. From the appraisal of existing programmes it is detected that e–Government holds many prospects for Bangladesh. If implemented properly it will enhance competence, increase transparency and will augment socio-economic development.

scholarly journals Alfabetización del profesorado en gamificación mediada por las TIC. Estado del arte

2021 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 53-65
Author(s):  
Beatriz R. Sarmiento ◽  
María Ángeles Hernández Prados ◽  
Noelia Carbonell Bernal ◽  
María Cinta Aguaded Gómez
Keyword(s):  
Information And Communication Technologies ◽  
State Of The Art ◽  
Communication Technologies ◽  
Transfer Of Knowledge ◽  
Educational Impact ◽  
Teaching Competence ◽  
Literacy Process ◽  
Information And Communication ◽  
Ict Tools ◽  
Educational Potential

Recognizing the need for teacher literacy, highly supported by educational research, this work aims to carry out a reflective exercise on the educational potential of gamification mediated by Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) and its inclusion in the educational curriculum, offering all those aspects that a teacher who wishes to start in the gamification of their subject should know. To do this, following the methodological parameters of the state of the art, the concepts related to the term, such as learning through games or gamification, among others, are reviewed, as well as the features and characteristics of this active methodology and the educational impact it has in students, considering the perspective of different authors and the results of various investigations. Finally, some ICT tools and psychopedagogical guidelines are exposed that facilitate the implementation of gamification in the classroom by teachers. Every literacy process implies reaching the teaching competence level that contributes to the experiential transfer of knowledge to the classroom. With this intention this article has been constructed, wishing that it was inspiring and that it promoted the teaching methodological change.

Do Investments in ICT Help Economies Grow?

2019 ◽  
pp. 40-63
Author(s):  
Sergey Samoilenko
Keyword(s):  
Information And Communication Technologies ◽  
Time Series Data ◽  
Communication Technologies ◽  
Series Data ◽  
Data Sets ◽  
Dominant Source ◽  
Information And Communication ◽  
Available Technology ◽  
Changes Over Time ◽  
The Impact

A common assumption behind investments in information and communication technologies (ICT) is that of the resultant improvements in productivity. To substantiate this assumption with empirical evidence in the context of transition economies (TE), the authors use time series data sets spanning the period from 1993 to 2008 to inquire into the impact of investments in telecoms on total factor productivity (TFP). Results indicate that the improvements in productivity of the most of TEs in the sample was inconsistent and not based on the increase in the levels of investments and labor. Additionally, the results of the data analysis suggest that the dominant source of growth in productivity is not static, but changes over time. While in an earlier period (1993-2002) of transition, TEs grew based on technological change, it is efficient utilization of the already available technology that became a dominant source of growth in the later (2003-2008) period of transition.

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