Institutional Changes and Changing Political Consumerism in China

Author(s):  
Zhang Lei ◽  
Wenling Liu ◽  
Peter Oosterveer

The growth of consumption is one of the most impressive social changes in contemporary China. This transformation is driven and shaped by the forces of globalization, economic growth, political modernization, the emerging middle class, industrialization/urbanization, advances in information and communication technologies, and sustainability challenges. Given China’s unique historical, cultural, and institutional context, it is highly interesting to assess the relevance of the concept of political consumerism in China. This chapter analyzes how institutional changes are shaping consumer politics and how political consumerism affects the development of governance in China. Two important consumption domains, food and energy, are used to explore what occurred in the particular context of rapidly transforming China. The conclusion discusses the question of whether the increased buying power of Chinese consumers will actually be used to address environmental and safety concerns.

A developed information community assumes a broad and active use of information and communication technologies (ICT) in the education system, which is due to a number of factors that accompany the process of social development. One of the first to highlight is the introduction of information and communication technologies in education in order to accelerate the transfer of knowledge and experience accumulated by mankind from generation to generation, and from person to person. The second factor to be called is the possibility of improving the quality of education in the process of mastering information and communication technologies, which allows a person to more successfully adapt to what is happening around, i.e. to social changes. The third factor is the active and fairly effective implementation of information and communication technologies in the education system, which is a guarantee of updating the education system in accordance with the needs of modern society. This paper discusses the use of information and communication technologies in the preparation of future bachelors-designers as one of the organizational forms of innovative type teaching at a university, based on modern achievements of the psychological and pedagogical sciences, educational materials of a new generation and widespread use of electronic educational resources. The variety of diverse actions performed by a designer requires their systematization by means of information and communication technologies and bringing them into line with the competencies mastered in the learning process. Through the introduction of computer technologies in the design education system and mastering ArchiCad and Artlantis Render programs by a student going improvement of his/her professional skills as future experts in the field of design, and accordingly, increasing their competitiveness in the labour market. At the same time, the process of forming the creative activity of future designers requires, first of all, the development of their spatial and design thinking; therefore, when teaching a teacher, it is necessary to make the process of mastering information and communication technologies proportionate to the process of developing student's intellectual characteristics


Author(s):  
Iva Miranda Pires ◽  
Torunn Kvinge

Outsourcing is used to describe the situation where a firm decides to subcontract assembly and/or service functions to an external supplier, either locally or abroad. When activities are subcontracted abroad, the term offshore outsourcing often applies. While offshore assembling activities have taken place for some time, the phenomenon of outsourcing services abroad is quite new. Several factors have contributed to these altered circumstances. First, the development of information and communication technologies (ICT) implies that services can, to a great degree, also be located at arm’s length or elsewhere in the flat world (Friedman, 2005). Second, institutional changes have opened access to new markets for goods and services as well as skilled labor, for instance in Eastern Europe and China. Third, the increased competition through globalization pushes firms to adapt quickly to new contexts and to achieve efficiency in order to maintain competitiveness.


2010 ◽  
pp. 340-349
Author(s):  
Iva Miranda Pires ◽  
Torunn Kvinge

Outsourcing is used to describe the situation where a firm decides to subcontract assembly and/or service functions to an external supplier, either locally or abroad. When activities are subcontracted abroad, the term offshore outsourcing often applies. While offshore assembling activities have taken place for some time, the phenomenon of outsourcing services abroad is quite new. Several factors have contributed to these altered circumstances. First, the development of information and communication technologies (ICT) implies that services can, to a great degree, also be located at arm’s length or elsewhere in the flat world (Friedman, 2005). Second, institutional changes have opened access to new markets for goods and services as well as skilled labor, for instance in Eastern Europe and China. Third, the increased competition through globalization pushes firms to adapt quickly to new contexts and to achieve efficiency in order to maintain competitiveness.


2020 ◽  
Vol 166 ◽  
pp. 10034
Author(s):  
Oksana Gorna ◽  
Tatiana Stanishevskа ◽  
Tatiana Kopulova ◽  
Olga Yusupova ◽  
Daria Horban

The article is devoted to the issues of using information-communication technologies for monitoring the physical health of students, which will enable them to be more successful, adaptable to the environment and current social changes in the future. The study included determining the level of somatic health by the method of G. L. Apanasenko. The rapid assessment had a fairly wide range of individual indicators of overall health, as well as cardiovascular and respiratory system functionality. The analysis of the conducted studies clearly indicates the need for constant monitoring of the indicators of physical development and somatic health of students throughout the study period. In order to objectively evaluate somatic health and to track it in dynamics, the students proposed the information and communication technology “Health Portfolio” developed by the authors. The implementation of such monitoring model and information program provides an automated assessment of the functionality of the human body and is accurate, informative and physiologically sound. Due to the increase in the amount of all kinds of information, as a pledge of future professional success of modern students, there is a problem of motivation of healthy lifestyle and involvement of students in independent motor activity.


10.29007/mk4k ◽  
2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Maria Palacin-Silva ◽  
Jari Porras

Citizen Science initiatives have been around since the 20th century in numerous fields, from astronomy to health monitoring. In recent years, social changes mediated by the development of information and communication technologies have pivoted new types of civic actions, which have enabled an expansion in the breath of citizen science applications. This civic technology has become a genuine interactive and inclusive opportunity for engaging citizens in the continuous collection of data relevant to science, governance, businesses, communal living, as well as individual concerns. This article presents the practices, trends and challenges of 108 ICT enabled citizen science projects. In addition, we present a palette for participation in ICT enabled citizen science that depicts the shapes civic participation is currently taking in different contexts. We discuss the potential uses of this palette for improving the engineering of ICT citizen science platforms to better fit the needs of volunteers and build opportunities for active engagement.


Author(s):  
Uwe Schneidewing

Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) have direct and indirect effects on sustainability. The direct effects are linked to the material and energy flows caused by the application of ICT. Indirect effects are caused by organizational and institutional changes driven by the new technologies. These latter changes can be summarized using the term “e-organization”. E-organization describes organizational and institutional patterns enabled by ICT. Important examples are new forms of network coordination between firms (also between NGOs), virtual factories or virtual communities. This chapter proposes a normative framework for judging the sustainability effects of these organizational designs and makes suggestions on how to create e-organizations capable of offering a sustainability contribution.


2021 ◽  
pp. 38-46
Author(s):  
Светлана Юрьевна Щепул

Современный период развития общества характеризуется большой степенью сложности и скоростью изменений во всех сферах и стремительным ростом накопления информационных данных, использованием новых информационно-коммуникационных технологий, усилением влияния информации на все сферы общественной жизни. Это предъявляет особые требования к профессиональной компетентности специалистов тех отраслей, которые имеют функции создания, обработки и распространения информации. К таким профессиям относятся и специалисты по информационному, библиотечному и архивному делу. Указанные общественные изменения затрудняют не только информационно-библиотечное обслуживание, но и всю систему библиотечной деятельности, которая все больше должна становиться мобильной, разноплановой, включать новые направления и формы работы, которые должны удовлетворять все возрастающие потребности своих пользователей. В частности, содействие усвоению пользователем знания, необходимого ему для применения на практике, в рамках оказания библиотечной услуги может обеспечить проектная деятельность как библиотеки в целом, так и отдельного специалиста. Потенциал в использовании в качестве библиотечной услуги проектной деятельности заслуживает особого внимания отечественных и зарубежных ученых. На сегодня приходится констатировать, что существует несоответствие научного обоснования содержания и механизмов повышения эффективности проектной деятельности специалистов информационной, библиотечной и архивного дела актуальным требованиям к профессиональной компетентности этих специалистов. Особенно обостряется эта проблема в связи с неисследованностью отдельных аспектов профессионального образования специалистов информационного, библиотечного и архивного дела. The modern period of development of society is characterized by a high degree of complexity and speed of changes in all spheres and a rapid increase in the accumulation of information data, the use of new information and communication technologies, the increasing influence of information on all spheres of public life. This imposes special requirements on the professional competence of specialists in those industries that have the functions of creating, processing and distributing information. Such professions include specialists in information, library and archival affairs. These social changes complicate not only information and library services, but also the entire system of library activities, which should increasingly become mobile, diverse, include new areas and forms of work that should meet the ever-increasing needs of their users. In particular, the project activity of both the library as a whole and an individual specialist can facilitate the assimilation by the user of the knowledge necessary for him to apply in practice within the framework of the provision of library services. The potential for using project activities as a library service deserves special attention of domestic and foreign scientists. Today we have to state that there is a discrepancy between the scientific justification of the content and mechanisms for improving the effectiveness of the project activities of information, library and archival specialists to the actual requirements for the professional competence of these specialists. This problem is particularly aggravated due to the lack of research on certain aspects of professional education of information, library and archival specialists.


2018 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 156-165 ◽  
Author(s):  
Linda Linda ◽  
Ida Ri'aeni

Abstract   The objective of this research is to find out the use of Whatsapp Messenger as a mobile media to learn writing in EFL classes.Several researchers have attempted to prove applicability of mobile learning as modern ways of teaching and learning (Naismith, 2004:115). Moreover, applying portable technologies have been demanded by most of the modern learners who oftentimes are forced to study anywhere, and anytime, for example, at work, in the bus or at weekends (Evans, 2008:115).The research was motivated by the students’ difficulties in writing. The sample of this research was three classes of first grade students of English Department of Unswagati. The instrument of this research was questionnaire sheet. Data from questionnaire sheet was analyzed based on the frequency students’ answers and then was calculated and interpreted into percentages. The result shows WhatsApp Messenger attracts the students interest and also the students have positive responses towards the using ofWhatsAppMessenger. In applying WhatsApp group, the writer concluded that, learning using WhatsApp group has effective to develop their creativity in writing skill. On the other hand, the result from the questionnaire sheet indicated that almost of students is active in learning to writing recount text. Students can learn out of the classroom. Beside WhatsApp can be used privately, it can be used for students’ education. The students can use their gadget positively for their ability in learning English. The students can improve their knowledge in learning ICTs (Information and Communication Technologies). Keyword: WhatsApp Messenger,EFL writing, Instructional Media, ICTs (Information and Communication Technologies).


Author(s):  
Tomas Brusell

When modern technology permeates every corner of life, there are ignited more and more hopes among the disabled to be compensated for the loss of mobility and participation in normal life, and with Information and Communication Technologies (ICT), Exoskeleton Technologies and truly hands free technologies (HMI), it's possible for the disabled to be included in the social and pedagogic spheres, especially via computers and smartphones with social media apps and digital instruments for Augmented Reality (AR) .In this paper a nouvel HMI technology is presented with relevance for the inclusion of disabled in every day life with specific focus on the future development of "smart cities" and "smart homes".


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