Digital world meets urban planet – new prospects for evidence-based urban studies arising from joint exploitation of big earth data, information technology and shared knowledge

Investments in criminal justice have been expanding over the decades especially as specific outcomes have been sought to address the issues surrounding crime and public safety. Reducing crime and the rate of imprisonment can both significantly impact public safety and cost savings, as well as address outcomes for the justice-involved population in reducing the rate of return to imprisonment, or recidivism. Lessening sentences for non-violent crimes and expanding drug courts as an alternative to incarceration, along with other major criminal justice reform, have led some states to experience a reduction in crime and prison population. New Jersey, Hawaii, and California have made significant strides to reduce its crime and prison populations and are leaders in achieving major criminal justice reform. This chapter seeks to examine corrections spending for these three leading states that have implemented evidence-based policies and adapted information technology to improve criminal justice outcomes. It will also outline states spending on corrections over the past five years.

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Sharing Scientific and Social Knowledge in a Performance Oriented Industry

Industrial Engineering ◽

10.4018/978-1-4666-1945-6.ch059 ◽

2012 ◽

pp. 1085-1114

Author(s):

Haris Papoutsakis

Keyword(s):

Information Technology ◽

Theoretical Model ◽

Group Performance ◽

Empirical Studies ◽

Business Community ◽

Social Knowledge ◽

Shared Knowledge ◽

The Social ◽

Study Results ◽

Manufacturing Performance

The chapter evaluates the contribution of shared knowledge and information technology to manufacturing performance. For this purpose, a theoretical model was built and tested in praxis through a research study among manufacturing, quality and R&D groups. The social character of science is perceived as a matter of the aggregation of individuals, not their interactions, and social knowledge as simply the additive outcome of mostly scientists, members of the three groups, making sound scientific judgments. The study results verify the significant contribution of shared knowledge to the manufacturing group performance. They also demonstrate that information technology influences notably the manufacturing group performance and, in a less significant way, the sharing of knowledge. Study results are useful to researchers and the business community alike as they may be used as a springboard for further empirical studies and can help put together strategies involving knowledge management and information technology.

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A Study on Role of Moderating Variables in Influencing Employees’ Acceptance of Information Technology

Vision The Journal of Business Perspective ◽

10.1177/0972262918803467 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 22 (4) ◽

pp. 387-394

Author(s):

Payal Dutta ◽

Ashima Sharma Borah

Keyword(s):

Information Technology ◽

Secondary Data ◽

Unified Theory ◽

Moderating Variables ◽

Post Offices ◽

Digital World ◽

Use Of Technology ◽

Great Transformation ◽

Rapid Pace

Penetration of information technology (IT) in almost every sector of the Indian economy is occurring at a very rapid pace. This has brought about a great transformation from a paper world to a digital world. Employees face new technological changes in their workplace almost every day. Some employees welcome the changes brought about by technology while others resist it and become defensive. These differences in employees’ reactions are influenced by a host of moderating variables existing in the environment. For the purpose of the present study, the researchers have adopted three moderating variables, namely, age, gender and experience (from the unified theory of acceptance and use of technology [UTUAT] model of Venkatesh, Morris, Davis, and Davis (2003, MIS Quarterly, 27, 3, 425–478). Hence, the article attempts to study the influence of the aforementioned moderating variables on the employees’ acceptance of IT at their workplace. The study has been conducted in the post offices falling under the Nalbari-Barpeta division of the Assam postal circle. The study is based on both the primary and secondary data.

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Creation Proposal for the Digital Competency Framework of the Middle-East European Region

Key Engineering Materials ◽

10.4028/www.scientific.net/kem.755.106 ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 755 ◽

pp. 106-111 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Zoltán Nyikes

Keyword(s):

Information Technology ◽

Age Groups ◽

Complex Problem ◽

The Internet ◽

Age Group ◽

Digital Competence ◽

East European ◽

Digital Devices ◽

Digital World ◽

Safety Awareness

Since the end of the 20th century the digital competence social and personal importance is increasingly heaves. Nowadays the basic level information technology knowledge is necessary because the penetration rate of the digital devices and the internet availability. Again the material world dangers the defense actions evolved. The cyber age started some decade ago. Civil people are not aware for attacks in the Cyber space and they can’t survey its danger. In Hungary the information technology and the internet penetration started in the last some decades. „Gen X” and older generation people users only in theirs adulthood met digital devices and its application. For the said generations to find a workplace was not required the digital competence, because the digital devices and the digital infrastructure wasn’t availability for everybody. This age-group has not enough motivation to improve the digital competence and herewith develop the safety awareness too. Nowadays this age-group needs significant helps to correspond to the challenge of the digital world. The digital competence and the safety awareness are improvable by the way of education. The knowledge levels are very different between the same age users. The assessment and the determination of the levels are a complex problem. Skills and routine levels of the users are approximately well determinable by questionnaire. The development of the different digital competence and safety awareness level user’s is workable by different knowledge transmission. I introduce in this paper like my research synthesis the assessment and the classification of the tested age-groups.

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