scholarly journals Envisioning Communities: A Participatory Approach Towards AI for Social Good

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elizabeth Bondi ◽  
Lily Xu ◽  
Diana Acosta-Navas ◽  
Jackson A. Killian
Keyword(s):  
Participatory Approach ◽  
Social Good

The logic of projects and the ideal of community development

2016 ◽  
Vol 9 (3) ◽  
pp. 546-561 ◽  
Author(s):  
Svetlana Cicmil ◽  
Eamonn O'Laocha
Keyword(s):  
Social Change ◽  
Community Development ◽  
Design Methodology ◽  
Participatory Approach ◽  
Project Managers ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Social Good ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
The Ideal

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to examine the relationship between project-based organizing and the initiatives labelled as “development” by critically engaging with some unchallenged assumptions inherent in the notion of both projects as a means through which social change can be achieved and the wider possibility of delivering social good as an objective of development. Design/methodology/approach – From a phenomenologically informed critical participatory perspective the authors focus on contradictions within the practices of community development (CD) by attending to the interplay between the dominant project form of organizing that frames those practices and the rhetoric of “development”. Findings – Drawing on two CD examples, the authors illustrate and discuss the contradictions and damaging consequences of the developmentalism-projectification double-act. The position is that social good is local and contextual and draws expediently and contingently on the means through which it can be achieved by the collective action of those who co-define and co-create the social good. Social implications – The authors propose that there is a need to open the dialogue with development practitioners, funders, project managers, project workers, and the recipients and stimulate multiple participation. Originality/value – The authors believe the critical participatory approach that the authors have taken to CD project management could be both novel and useful as it refocuses attention to non-performative aspects of CD, arguing for de-naturalization of project organizing logic and encouraging emancipation from dominant epistemic inequalities. With an uncompromising focus on embedded practices, the authors hope to spur further debate on the important issue of CD and the possibilities of creating “social good”.

Toward a participatory approach to implement a psychoeducational intervention

2012 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tom Van Daele ◽  
Chantal Van Audenhove ◽  
Dirk Hermans ◽  
Omer Van Den Bergh ◽  
Stephan Van Den Broucke
Keyword(s):  
Participatory Approach ◽  
Psychoeducational Intervention

What constitutes a social good?

1974 ◽  
Vol 29 (2) ◽  
pp. 150-150
Author(s):  
Joseph M. Kamen
Keyword(s):  
Social Good

People Participatory Approach: A Study Of Drought Management Programmes Through Mnrega In Mewat Region, Haryana

2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (8) ◽  
pp. 50-61
Author(s):  
Satpal Singh
Keyword(s):  
Empirical Study ◽  
Rural Society ◽  
Participatory Approach ◽  
Correlation Technique ◽  
Drought Management ◽  
Executive Process ◽  
The People ◽  
Varied Degree ◽  
Degree Of Satisfaction ◽  
Topographical Attributes

The paper examines the people participatory approach towards executive process of drought management programmes of Mewat region of Haryana. It is an empirical study, based on 93 respondents, taken from three villages, who have been engaged in varied drought management activities within these villages. The study has thrown an adequate light on various levels of benefits and varied degree of satisfaction, derived from the drought management projects, executed in these villages, characterized with different topographical attributes. On the basis of findings of the study, varied inferences have been drawn from the study. This participatory approach has also been testified with correlation technique which shows the results in accordance with responses, responded by the people; belonged to various strata of rural society in their respective villages of Mewat region.

Towards Training Librarian 2.0 through A Community-based Participatory Group Project: A Case Study

2013 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lu Xiao ◽  
Trina Joyce Sajo
Keyword(s):  
Participatory Approach ◽  
Group Project ◽  
Community Based ◽  
Design Decisions ◽  
Etude De Cas ◽  
Étude De Cas ◽  
User Centered

Librarian 2.0 adopts user-centered approach. This paper reports the case study of a community-based participatory approach for training librarian 2.0. The findings suggest that this approach allows the students to practice user-centered interactions, identify and integrate the user’s needs into design decisions, and develop ways of collecting the user’s feedbacks.Les bibliothécaires 2.0 adoptent une approche centrée sur l’utilisateur. Cet article présente une étude de cas sur une approche participative et communautaire visant à former les bibliothécaires 2.0. Les résultats suggèrent que cette approche permet aux étudiants d’interagir avec les usagers, d’identifier les besoins, de les intégrer dans leur processus décisionnel et de développer des moyens de recueillir les commentaires des usagers. 

On diversity in the social sciences: Why homogeneous research groups are an ethical mistake

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Amy Nusbaum ◽  
Toby SantaMaria
Keyword(s):  
Minority Groups ◽  
Academic Science ◽  
Research Groups ◽  
Ethical Perspective ◽  
Scientific Enterprise ◽  
Social Scientists ◽  
Social Good ◽  
The Social ◽  
Public Responsibility ◽  
Principles Of Justice

The scientific enterprise reflects society at large, and as such it actively disadvantages minority groups. From an ethical perspective, this system is unacceptable as it actively undermines principles of justice and social good, as well as the research principles of openness and public responsibility. Further, minority social scientists lead to better overall scientific products, meaning a diverse scientific body can also be considered an instrumental good. Thus, centering minority voices in science is an ethical imperative. This paper outlines what can be done to actively center these scientists, including changing the way metrics are used to assess the performance of individual scientists and altering the reward structure within academic science to promote heterogenous research groups.

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