scholarly journals On the Right to Science: Recommendations of Selection Criteria for IMIA Scientific Meetings

2019 ◽  
Vol 28 (01) ◽  
pp. 011-013
Author(s):  
Christoph U. Lehmann ◽  
Elizabeth Borycki ◽  
Kyung-Hee Cho ◽  
Amado Espinosa ◽  
Antoine Geissbuhler ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Selection Criteria ◽  
Scientific Meeting ◽  
Member Society ◽  
For Profit ◽  
Not For Profit ◽  
Global Organization ◽  
Scientific Meetings ◽  
The Right ◽  
Global Platform ◽  
Central Factors

The International Medical Informatics Association (IMIA), a non-governmental, not-for-profit, global organization promoting health and biomedical informatics, is committed to the right of communities/populations and individuals to science, comprised of three separate constituent rights: 1) the right to participate in science, 2) the right to benefit from science, and 3) the right to benefit from a person’s own contribution to science or inventions. As such, IMIA provides a global platform where scientists, researchers, health information users, vendors, developers, consultants, health care consumers, and suppliers can meet in an environment of cooperation and sharing. In the context of IMIA’s conferences, the IMIA board has discussed and identified the important central factors, which are essential considerations to host a scientific meeting. These factors will be used to help vet future contenders applying for the honor to host an IMIA conference: Reasonable safety and security, commitment by the host member society, freedom of travel, scientific freedom, and freedom from discrimination.

A Green New Deal for Housing: affordable sustainable homes and communities for all

Housing Shock ◽  
2020 ◽  
pp. 237-252
Author(s):  
Rory Hearne
Keyword(s):  
Public Housing ◽  
New Deal ◽  
Social Housing ◽  
Public Land ◽  
Middle Income ◽  
For Profit ◽  
Housing Systems ◽  
Not For Profit ◽  
Unitary Model ◽  
The Right

This chapter sets out why the connection between housing and the environment urgently needs to be moved centre stage in both the housing and climate debates. It links climate change and housing together conceptually through the centrality of home to the human existence. It sets out a new housing plan: a Green New Deal for Housing in Ireland which details the key solutions for transforming our housing systems to provide affordable, sustainable homes for all. This includes a new housing plan, A Green New Deal for Housing in Ireland: Affordable Sustainable Homes and Communities for All, including mixed income public housing for all, a dedicated Affordable Sustainable Homes Building Agency, reimagining public housing, transforming social housing from being treated as a stigmatized form of accommodation restricted to very low-income households to becoming a model of desirable housing available and attractive to a much broader range of low- and middle-income households, using public land for public and not-for-profit affordable sustainable homes, how the new housing model can be financed, and why a new housing model should be underpinned by the right to housing as foundation of housing policy and law. It develops indicators for assessing housing models: and compares the market (dualist) model and public, affordable, sustainable, human rights (unitary) model.

scholarly journals Are We on the Right Track? Inserting Democracy System unto Governance Mechanism for Not-For-Profit Organization

2017 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 1
Author(s):  
Aries Heru Prasetyo ◽  
Wei Lo ◽  
Jersan Hu
Keyword(s):  
Good Governance ◽  
Governance Mechanism ◽  
For Profit ◽  
Not For Profit ◽  
Ideal Form ◽  
Governance Model ◽  
Types Of Democracy ◽  
New Variables ◽  
The Right ◽  
Ideal Term

Research on good governance mechanism has been done tremendously for more than five decades but not for the not-for-profit sector. The concept is still inclusive and under theorized. Most study focus on adopting concept from commercial sector which is sometimes misleads. This paper tries to find clear evidence by inserting new variables namely democracy. The study begins by looking at the importance of stakeholder and brings in the idea of positioning the society in the organization. Using multiple case analyses in Indonesia, this paper found that types of democracy has a great influenced on how organization sets their governance mechanism. For those who are experiencing an indirect democracy system, democratic governance is the ideal form. Meanwhile for the direct system, compliance model would be the most ideal term. And finally for an active participatory system, the study suggests to use participatory governance model. Among those three, the last model shall be justified as the most ideal form of governance for the sector, thus leaving something for future agenda.

scholarly journals Reframing Aging-in-the-Right-Place for Housing Insecure Older Adults

2020 ◽  
Vol 4 (Supplement_1) ◽  
pp. 707-707
Author(s):  
Sarah Canham ◽  
Mineko Wada ◽  
Stephen Golant
Keyword(s):  
Older Adults ◽  
Older People ◽  
Affordable Housing ◽  
Promising Practices ◽  
Policy And Practice ◽  
For Profit ◽  
Age In Place ◽  
Not For Profit ◽  
Work Community ◽  
The Right

Abstract Amidst rising costs of housing and changing personal needs, considerations of the availability of appropriate and accessible housing are becoming increasingly salient for older adults. While it has been widely acknowledged that older adults would prefer to age-in-place, recent reframing of this trend promotes the ideal as aging-in-the-right-place. This symposium will provide an updated understanding of how to support older adults’ ability to age-in-the-right-place, regardless of income or physical, mental, or social status. Presenters include international and interdisciplinary researchers representing perspectives from gerontology, social work, community planning, and health sciences. The symposium will begin with Wada examining resilience scholarship, with a focus on older people who are experiencing homelessness, which has been largely neglected. In the next presentation, Humphries will outline distinct, senior-specific needs and shelter/housing solutions for newly and chronically homeless older adults. Following, Canham will describe promising practices of shelter/housing to support aging-in-the-right-place for older people experiencing homelessness in Montréal, Calgary, and Vancouver identified through an environmental scan. Extending these efforts to an international scale, Mahmood will outline findings from a scoping review of supportive shelter/housing options, supports, and interventions. A final presentation will report on how community development practices implemented by a not-for-profit affordable housing provider promote older tenants’ food security and social support needs. Stephen Golant, a leading expert on housing, geography, and long-term needs on older adults, will discuss implications of these studies for policy and practice for supporting housing insecure older adults while advancing scholarship on aging-in-the-right-place for this marginalized population. Environmental Gerontology Interest Group Sponsored Symposium.

scholarly journals The Right Stuff: Are Not-For-Profit Managers Really Different?

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Krista J. Fiolleau ◽  
Theresa Libby ◽  
Linda Thorne
Keyword(s):  
Locus Of Control ◽  
Individual Characteristics ◽  
Survey Method ◽  
Control System Design ◽  
For Profit ◽  
Not For Profit ◽  
Public Pressure ◽  
Tolerance For Ambiguity ◽  
The Right ◽  
Exploratory Multivariate Analysis

In response to public pressure for accountability in the not-for-profit (NFP) sector, attempts have been made to adopt for-profit controls. These have generated mixed results. While many have argued that employees attracted to the NFP sector are "different," little prior empirical evidence backs up this claim. To address this gap, we review the literature to identify claimed individual characteristics that might differ and use the survey method to examine whether these differences exist between the groups of responding managers working in the NFP and for-profit sectors. NFP respondents exhibit lower levels of narcissism, lower levels of entitlement, less extroversion, and a more externally oriented locus of control than their for-profit counterparts. In exploratory multivariate analysis, best predictors of NFP membership include extroversion, locus of control, conscientiousness and moral reasoning. Rather surprisingly, the groups did not differ on altruism or tolerance for ambiguity. Implications for control system design are discussed.

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