Does Multi-Hop Crowdsourcing Work? A Case Study on Collecting COVID-19 Local Information

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ying Zhong ◽  
Masaki Kobayashi ◽  
Masaki Matsubara ◽  
Atsuyuki Morishima
Keyword(s):  
Local Information

Stronger Voices?

2010 ◽  
pp. 248-266
Author(s):  
Claire Buré
Keyword(s):  
Civil Society ◽  
New Technologies ◽  
Internet Access ◽  
Local Information ◽  
Civil Society Organization ◽  
Virtual Communication ◽  
Community Needs ◽  
The Creation ◽  
Gain Access

This case study focuses on a civil society organization called Radio Viva in Asunción, Paraguay. It was found that the interactive use of ‘traditional’ and ‘new’ technologies in locally innovative ways was able to meet community needs through the creation of two local products. Specifically, when radio and telephony were integrated with telecentre services (including internet access), new physical and virtual communication spaces were opened up for civic participation. Second, ICT interactivity was found to lead to the creation of locally relevant content production, helping Paraguayan communities to gain access to useful and contextualized information while also turning local ‘information recipients’ into ‘knowledge users’.

scholarly journals INTERACTIVE VIDEOS AS GEOSPATIAL INTERFACES: A CASE STUDY FOR REGIONAL PROMOTION

2021 ◽  
Vol XLIII-B4-2021 ◽  
pp. 345-351
Author(s):  
M. Zmitko ◽  
F. Schwander ◽  
D. Agotai ◽  
A. Çöltekin
Keyword(s):  
Brain Drain ◽  
Interactive Video ◽  
Careful Consideration ◽  
Local Information ◽  
User Engagement ◽  
Geospatial Information ◽  
The One ◽  
Interactive Videos ◽  
User Experiment

Abstract. In this paper we discuss the potential of interactive video as an interface to geospatial information, and demonstrate our findings in a case study driven by goals of promoting a region for tourism and for preventing brain drain. Use of video is controversial due to various technical and human-centric debates; on the one hand, they offer unique qualitative insights as they enable a certain level of immersion via walk-throughs and fly-throughs and they are considered attractive by viewers, on the other hand, they are complex because they contain unfiltered (possibly too much) information that may be irrelevant to the goals of the users, and require careful consideration from computational and bandwidth concerns. We examine these arguments from the literature briefly, and demonstrate our case study in which we have embedded and overlain statistical and other local information interactively over drone footage, and measured levels of usability and user engagement using standardized scales. Our implementation and design choices are detailed in the article. Our small user experiment (n = 6) suggests high levels of usability, desirability and engagement by our participants, leading to the hypothesis that video is an attractive medium and indeed has strong potential for regional promotion, given that the computational and cognitive issues are taken into account.

scholarly journals Public Libraries Worked in the Tohoku Mega-disaster

2016 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Andreas Vårheim
Keyword(s):  
Disaster Recovery ◽  
Public Libraries ◽  
Local Communities ◽  
Local Information ◽  
Library Services ◽  
Government Agencies ◽  
Success Stories ◽  
The Usa

Public libraries play important roles during disaster recovery, even when other government actors fail. Libraries are centers of local information and have local knowledge. Patrons, as well as government agencies and NGOs, benefit from public libraries’ local grounding. Along with their local communities, many public libraries in the Tohoku region of Japan were severely damaged in the earthquake and tsunami of 3.11.2011. The nuclear accident in Fukushima following the tsunami meant that libraries in the evacuated zone were abandoned. Disaster recovery is difficult to handle and few success stories are found. Studies show that where other public services have failed, public libraries have been successful in disaster recovery. The literature on the role of libraries in disaster recovery is scant and only a few cases have been studied, all in the USA. This three-case study shows that libraries worked, that is, library services were offered and were helpful in areas where libraries had been completely demolished in the Japanese prefectures of Iwate and Miyagi.

scholarly journals Ecotourism in Eaglesnest, West Kameng, Arunachal Pradesh: A Case Study

2012 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 75-85
Author(s):  
Peter Lobo
Keyword(s):  
Local Information ◽  
Local People ◽  
Arunachal Pradesh ◽  
Bird Watching ◽  
The World ◽  
Tourism Resource ◽  
Tourism Resources ◽  
Convenience Sampling ◽  
Tourism Information

This study was aimed at exploring tourism resources and Ecotourism  behaviour of  tourists  and  local  people to provide  guidelines  for  Ecotourism  development  of Eaglesnest,  West  Kameng, Arunachal Pradesh.  Tourists were  selected  by  applying  the  method  of  convenience sampling,  wherein, local  people  were  interviewed in depth to gather local information. Results of the research showed  that  Eaglesnest had  an  outstanding  tourism resource  which  was Bird  watching, especially after  the discovery of the new species of bird to the world, which is known as Bugun Liochicla, which attracted tourists from all over the world. Most of the tourists received tourism information from trip reports and advertising. They were normally grouped visitors who visited the destination for wildlife, especially Bird watching. On an average, they stayed over seven nights at different campsites. Nearly all tourists were aware of Ecotourism. The most attractive resource  was  Bird  watching.  They  also admired  the landscapes, the scenery of the forest and mountains

A Risk Assessment of Ships Groundings in Rivers: The Case of Parana River

2019 ◽  
Vol 73 (4) ◽  
pp. 833-845 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hristos Karahalios
Keyword(s):  
Weather Conditions ◽  
Local Information ◽  
Paraná River ◽  
Analytic Hierarchy ◽  
Parana River ◽  
Safe Navigation ◽  
Using Data ◽  
Local Agencies ◽  
Hierarchy Process

A ship's grounding appears to be a significant threat to the safety of its crew, marine environment and the local ports economy. The risk of such incidents is higher in rivers since weather conditions can significantly alter the depths of channels from those shown on navigation charts. By means of a fuzzy analytic hierarchy process, a new methodology is proposed, capable of evaluating the hazards of a ship's grounding in a river. The proposed method contributes to safe navigation in rivers. Navigators are able to assess grounding risk in a river passage based on local information of past incidents. The proposed methodology is used to evaluate commercial risks from groundings in the Parana River. A case study was carried out using data from 118 cases, as provided by local agencies for the period 2008–2017.

scholarly journals PERAN JURNALISME WARGA (CITIZEN JOURNALISM) BERBASIS SANTRI SEBAGAI PENYEIMBANG KOMUNIKASI KEAGAMAAN LOKAL KEDIRI

MEDIAKITA ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Diah Handayani
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Construction Materials ◽  
Editorial Staff ◽  
Local Information ◽  
Citizen Journalism ◽  
Research Focus ◽  
Negative Image ◽  
The Social ◽  
Preparation Phase

The aim of this research is to improve awareness of the religious multivarians local information that constructedby the Pesantren. Improving the dakwah Pesantren by constructed the santri capacity improving the santri skillsto conduct the news, features, public opinion, and the articles by citizen journalism. And the process of socialconstruction of santri about radicalism of pesantren, according to four stages of social construction of massmedia by Burhan Bungin; phase of construction materials prepare, phase of construction distribution, materialsconstruction formation, and phase of confirmation. This research based on qualitative research method.Explaining and answering the questions of “why” and “how” of the research focus in this case study in TheHidayatul Mubtadi’ien Lirboyo Pesantren. This research used data from interview with editorial staff, pesantren,Al-Muttaqien, also from Radar Kediri and Stain Kediri. This project held on the three institution are collaboratedto introduce the partnership between the researcher, civil society, and the economic society.The result of this research shows that during preparation phase of construction materials santri stood up forcapitalism but still based on consideration of news quality and values. Santri distributed its construction weekly,to Middle-Class city readers. By citizen journalism santri made the construction about radicalism at pesantrenformed by means of negative image messages about pesantren, which extended through construction of text andselection of news sources.This influenced by ideological factor and journalists closeness to police and intelligent sources. Confirmation phaseoccurred when Al-Muttaqien sent a protest letter to santri into the social media, which caused readers interaction.Keywords: citizen journalism, journalism product, the religious local informasion, santri, social media.

The Genesis and Internal Dynamics of El Salvador's People's Revolutionary Army, 1970–1976

2014 ◽  
Vol 38 (01) ◽  
pp. 102-129
Author(s):  
ALBERTO MARTÍN ÁLVAREZ ◽  
EUDALD CORTINA ORERO
Keyword(s):  
Latin America ◽  
El Salvador ◽  
Early Years ◽  
Left Wing ◽  
Internal Dynamics ◽  
Internal Coherence ◽  
The 1960S

AbstractUsing interviews with former militants and previously unpublished documents, this article traces the genesis and internal dynamics of the Ejército Revolucionario del Pueblo (People's Revolutionary Army, ERP) in El Salvador during the early years of its existence (1970–6). This period was marked by the inability of the ERP to maintain internal coherence or any consensus on revolutionary strategy, which led to a series of splits and internal fights over control of the organisation. The evidence marshalled in this case study sheds new light on the origins of the armed Salvadorean Left and thus contributes to a wider understanding of the processes of formation and internal dynamics of armed left-wing groups that emerged from the 1960s onwards in Latin America.

Culture and the plasticity of perception

2020 ◽  
Vol 43 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael Lifshitz ◽  
T. M. Luhrmann
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Context ◽  
Sensory Experience ◽  
Cultural Learning ◽  
The World

Abstract Culture shapes our basic sensory experience of the world. This is particularly striking in the study of religion and psychosis, where we and others have shown that cultural context determines both the structure and content of hallucination-like events. The cultural shaping of hallucinations may provide a rich case-study for linking cultural learning with emerging prediction-based models of perception.

Dual systems for all: Higher-order, role-based relational reasoning as a uniquely derived feature of human cognition

2019 ◽  
Vol 42 ◽  
Author(s):  
Daniel J. Povinelli ◽  
Gabrielle C. Glorioso ◽  
Shannon L. Kuznar ◽  
Mateja Pavlic
Keyword(s):  
Temporal Reasoning ◽  
Higher Order ◽  
Important Case ◽  
Human Cognition ◽  
Relational Reasoning ◽  
Dual Systems ◽  
First Order ◽  
Reasoning System ◽  
Role Based

Abstract Hoerl and McCormack demonstrate that although animals possess a sophisticated temporal updating system, there is no evidence that they also possess a temporal reasoning system. This important case study is directly related to the broader claim that although animals are manifestly capable of first-order (perceptually-based) relational reasoning, they lack the capacity for higher-order, role-based relational reasoning. We argue this distinction applies to all domains of cognition.

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