Communities of Interest in the Nordic Management of International Watercourses

2017 ◽  
pp. 167-186
Keyword(s):  
Communities Of Interest

Silence of the Land: On the Historical Irrelevance of Territory to Congressional Districting and Political Representation in the United States

2001 ◽  
Vol 15 (01) ◽  
pp. 53-87 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrew Rehfeld
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
House Of Representatives ◽  
Political Representation ◽  
The United States ◽  
Representative Government ◽  
Congressional District ◽  
Congressional Districts ◽  
Communities Of Interest

Every ten years, the United States “constructs” itself politically. On a decennial basis, U.S. Congressional districts are quite literally drawn, physically constructing political representation in the House of Representatives on the basis of where one lives. Why does the United States do it this way? What justifies domicile as the sole criteria of constituency construction? These are the questions raised in this article. Contrary to many contemporary understandings of representation at the founding, I argue that there were no principled reasons for using domicile as the method of organizing for political representation. Even in 1787, the Congressional district was expected to be far too large to map onto existing communities of interest. Instead, territory should be understood as forming a habit of mind for the founders, even while it was necessary to achieve other democratic aims of representative government.

Supporting collaborative design by communities of interest with the envisionment and discovery collaboratory (EDC)

2002 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ernesto Arias ◽  
Hal Eden ◽  
Vanessa Empinotti ◽  
Gerhard Fischer ◽  
Andrew Gorman ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Collaborative Design ◽  
Communities Of Interest

Navigating Ethnic Hierarchies in Community-Academic Partnerships: A Case Study on Koreatown Community Politics

2019 ◽  
Vol 16 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 153-179
Author(s):  
Angie Chung ◽  
Johng Song ◽  
Carolyn Choi
Keyword(s):  
Executive Director ◽  
Urban Redevelopment ◽  
Pacific Rim ◽  
Ethnic Communities ◽  
Power Structures ◽  
The Pacific ◽  
Academic Partnerships ◽  
Communities Of Interest ◽  
The City

Based on the experiences of a Koreatown scholar, the executive director of a Koreatown nonprofit, and a longtime resident student, the article advocates for greater attention to the complex and dynamic power structures of ethnic enclaves in community-academic partnerships. We discuss the changing landscapes of Koreatown as the global nexus of the Pacific Rim economy, the city of Los Angeles’s urban redevelopment plans, and growing diversity and inequality. Programs that aim to engage effectively with ethnic communities must reassess how knowledge is produced and conveyed, how we structure partnerships within stratified communities, and how to grow from issue-based partnerships to broader communities of interest.

Managing Collective Intelligence in Semantic Communities of Interest

2011 ◽  
pp. 261-288
Author(s):  
Stefano Montanelli ◽  
Silvana Castano ◽  
Alfio Ferrara ◽  
Gaia Varese
Keyword(s):  
Collective Intelligence ◽  
Knowledge Organization ◽  
Personal Knowledge ◽  
Real Case ◽  
Health Domain ◽  
Organization And Management ◽  
Communities Of Interest ◽  
Effective Collaboration

In this paper, the authors present a reference P2P architecture based on autonomous, self-emerging semantic communities of interest (CoIs) for collective intelligence creation and management. An approach for enabling knowledge organization and management at the level of a single peer is presented in the paper, as well as techniques for supporting a peer to participate to the construction of a shared community vocabulary, according to the terminological preferences automatically extracted from its personal knowledge. Furthermore, an application example in the e-health domain is presented in the framework of the iCoord system for P2P semantic coordination to show the use of a manifesto-based collective intelligence for enforcing effective collaboration in a real case study.

Managing Collective Intelligence in Semantic Communities of Interest

2010 ◽  
Vol 1 (4) ◽  
pp. 40-60
Author(s):  
Stefano Montanelli ◽  
Silvana Castano ◽  
Alfio Ferrara ◽  
Gaia Varese
Keyword(s):  
Collective Intelligence ◽  
Knowledge Organization ◽  
Personal Knowledge ◽  
Real Case ◽  
Health Domain ◽  
Organization And Management ◽  
Communities Of Interest ◽  
Effective Collaboration

In this paper, the authors present a reference P2P architecture based on autonomous, self-emerging semantic communities of interest (CoIs) for collective intelligence creation and management. An approach for enabling knowledge organization and management at the level of a single peer is presented in the paper, as well as techniques for supporting a peer to participate to the construction of a shared community vocabulary, according to the terminological preferences automatically extracted from its personal knowledge. Furthermore, an application example in the e-health domain is presented in the framework of the iCoord system for P2P semantic coordination to show the use of a manifesto-based collective intelligence for enforcing effective collaboration in a real case study.

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