scholarly journals Die Digitalisierung des Wissens – oder: Haben Bibliotheken und wissenschaftliches Publizieren eine gemeinsame Zukunft?

2016 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 33-41
Author(s):  
Volker Oppmann
Keyword(s):  
Information Society ◽  
Digital Content ◽  
The Public ◽  
Public Supply ◽  
Counter Model ◽  
Democratic Knowledge ◽  
Large Sections

Bereits heute kontrollieren einige wenige Konzerne weite Teile der öffentlichen Grundversorgung mit digitalen Inhalten. Dies stellt eine Bedrohung für eine demokratischeWissens- und Informationsgesellschaft dar. Wir laufen Gefahr, die Hoheit über unser wichtigstes Kulturgut zu verlieren und von jenen anhängig zu werden, welche die systemrelevanten Infrastrukturen betreiben. Ein Aufruf für eine gemeinsames Gegenmodell.A few corporations are gaining more and more control over large sections of the public supply of digital content, which poses a threat to every democratic knowledge and information society. We are in danger of losing control over our most important cultural asset – and becoming totally dependent from those infrastructures. A call for a common counter-model.

scholarly journals In[form]ation: Smart living architecture

2013 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 132-159
Author(s):  
Areti Markopoulou ◽  
Rodrigo Rubio ◽  
Joris Laarman ◽  
Saša Jokić ◽  
Petr Novikov ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Genetic Algorithms ◽  
Public Space ◽  
Information Society ◽  
Industrial Revolution ◽  
Communication Protocols ◽  
Digital Content ◽  
The Public ◽  
Smart Living ◽  
The City ◽  
Self Learning

As Information Era Technologies and their impacts on architecture change, their relationship calls for new or adapted concepts, where Buildings and Cities seamlessly intertwine with digital content and where the language of electronic connections tie in with the language of physical connections. Architecture cannot be just inhabited and rigid, but users and the environment should integrate with it. If computers were once the size of buildings, buildings are now becoming computers capable of performing on I/O Communication protocols or being programmed at molecular-material-nanoscale, or even operating on self-learning genetic algorithms. If the public space we inhabit today was basically constructed at the start of the Industrial Revolution, the Information Society is now bringing to bear new principles and technologies with which to rethink the functioning and structure of the streets, avenues, squares and infrastructure of the City.

6th Meeting of the Public Committee Assisting Russian Libraries Development

2010 ◽  
pp. 8-14
Author(s):  
Boris V. Gryzlov ◽  
Andrey V. Loginov ◽  
Mikhail D. Afanasiev ◽  
Viktor V. Fedorov ◽  
Aleksandr V. Kibovsky
Keyword(s):  
Information Society ◽  
Research Library ◽  
The Public

On the 6th Offsite Meeting of the Public Committee Assisting Russian Libraries Development, held in the framework of the VII socio-economic forum "Information Society" in the Tver Regional Universal Research Library named after A. Gorky on July, 8th, 2010

Public servants working from home: Exploring managers’ changing allowance decisions in a COVID-19 context

2021 ◽  
pp. 103530462110555
Author(s):  
Sue Williamson ◽  
Linda Colley ◽  
Meraiah Foley
Keyword(s):  
Employee Productivity ◽  
Public Servants ◽  
Jel Codes ◽  
Individual Level ◽  
The Public ◽  
Work From Home ◽  
Working From Home ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Organisational Level ◽  
Large Sections

Before the COVID-19 pandemic forced large sections of the workforce to work from home, the uptake of working from home in the public sector had been limited and subject to the discretion or ‘allowance decisions’ of individual managers. Allowance decisions are influenced by factors at the organisational, group and individual levels. This research examines managers’ allowance decisions on working from home at each of these levels. It compares two qualitative datasets: one exploring managerial attitudes to working from home in 2018 and another dataset collected in mid-2020, as Australia transitioned out of the initial pandemic lockdown. The findings suggest a change in the factors influencing managers’ allowance decisions. We have identified a new factor at the organisational level, in the form of local organisational criteria. At the group level, previous concerns about employee productivity largely vanished, and managers experienced an epiphany that working from home could be productive. At the individual level, a new form of managerial discretion emerged as managers attempted to reassert authority over employees working remotely. These levels intersect, and we conclude that allowance decisions are fluid and not made solely by managers but are the result of the interactions between the organisational, group and individual levels. JEL Codes J81, J32

scholarly journals Washington Hotline

2019 ◽  
Vol 80 (11) ◽  
pp. 633
Author(s):  
Shawnda Hines
Keyword(s):  
Digital Content ◽  
World Conference ◽  
The Public ◽  
Book World ◽  
Digital Book ◽  
Local Campaigns

ALA leads national #eBooksForAll campaignAccess to digital content has long been a sore spot for libraries. When Macmillan Publishers announced an eight-week embargo on new eBook titles sold to libraries, the public outcry was extraordinary. In response, ALA launched the #eBooksForAll petition campaign at the Digital Book World conference in September. Coverage of libraries proliferated in news outlets across the country as more and more library systems led their own local campaigns to oppose Macmillan’s new policy. Just days before the embargo took effect on November 1, 2019, ALA hand delivered more than 160,000 signatures to CEO John Sargent.

Analysis of water pricing in Ireland and recommendations towards a more efficient water sector

Water Policy ◽  
2013 ◽  
Vol 15 (3) ◽  
pp. 435-457 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. Brady ◽  
N. F. Gray
Keyword(s):  
Water Supply ◽  
Water Pricing ◽  
Water Sector ◽  
The Public ◽  
Public Supply ◽  
Revenue Collection ◽  
Water Charges ◽  
Group Water ◽  
Water And Wastewater ◽  
Unaccounted For Water

Within Ireland, both the public water supply and group water scheme (GWS) sectors are crucial entities in the provision of water supply to individuals. In this study, variances in water charges and operation are assessed via an in-depth survey of 104 GWSs in order to establish the range in both domestic and commercial charges, and also to establish the factors influencing these charges within the rural water sector. Results are compared with the commercial water charges of the 34 local authorities involved in the provision of public water and wastewater services. Devoid of regulation, tariff setting is highly decentralised with substantial variations in connection, fixed and volumetric charges across both sectors. Greater transparency is essential to establish the full cost of supply to domestic and non-domestic consumers. Findings reveal average GWS volumetric charges to be 35% lower than public supplies, resulting in communities wishing to retain ownership of their schemes as there is much greater control over water pricing. Historic underinvestment has led to an infrastructure deficit and deficiencies within the public supply sector are discussed, such as inadequate revenue collection and high unaccounted-for water. Furthermore, recommendations are made towards effective operation and pricing in light of proposed government plans to establish a national water authority.

Curriculum and Evaluation in Outcome-Based Education

2021 ◽  
Vol 58 (2) ◽  
pp. 5620-5625
Author(s):  
Dr. Gurudutta P Japee, Dr. Preeti Oza
Keyword(s):  
Student Performance ◽  
Information Society ◽  
Knowledge Society ◽  
The Other ◽  
Student Centered ◽  
Outcome Based Education ◽  
The World ◽  
Fast Pace ◽  
The Mind ◽  
Democratic Knowledge

The “Outcome-Based Education” (OBE) model is being adopted at a fast pace in education institutions. it's considered an enormous breakthrough to enhance education across the world . Outcome-based education (OBE) may be a student-centered instruction model that focuses on measuring student performance through outcomes. Outcomes include knowledge, skills, and attitudes. there's a hidden contradiction within the projection and implementation of the OBE. One results in Multidisiciplinarity and therefore the other results in OBE. At first, we expect freedom and in other structured progress is predicted . One results in democratic knowledge and therefore the other results in capitalist knowledge management. Our education is sort of a lady with over ornaments who is unable to steer simply because of the load she carries of the ornaments. Technology silences the mind and not questioning a mind and thus this information society or knowledge society is ignorant and this may come whenever and wherever we mention mass education and not class education. This paper discusses the necessity and importance of curriculum formation and enhancing evaluation within the Outcome Bases education –OBE

Taxonomy of IT Intangible Assets for Public Administration Based on the Electronic Government Maturity Model in Uruguay

2013 ◽  
pp. 103-122
Author(s):  
Helena Garbarino ◽  
Bruno Delgado ◽  
José Carrillo
Keyword(s):  
Public Administration ◽  
Intellectual Capital ◽  
Information Society ◽  
Intangible Assets ◽  
Electronic Government ◽  
Intangible Asset ◽  
Maturity Model ◽  
The Public

This chapter presents a taxonomy of IT intangible asset indicators for Public Administration, relating the indicators to the Electronic Government Maturity Model proposed by the Uruguayan Agency for Electronic Government and Information Society. Indicators are categorized according to a consolidated intellectual capital model. The Taxonomy is mapped at the indicator level against the EGMM subareas covering all of the relevant aspects associated with the intangible IT assets of the Public Administration in Uruguay. The main challenges and future lines of work for building a consolidated maturity model of IT intangible assets in Public Administration are also presented.

11. Copyright in the digital environment

2019 ◽  
pp. 274-304
Author(s):  
Andrew Murray
Keyword(s):  
Public Relations ◽  
Information Society ◽  
Copyright Law ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Communication To The Public ◽  
Digital Environment ◽  
Considerable Time ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Right ◽  
Public Right

This chapter examines copyright issues from copying and distributing information from the internet. It considers the discussion focuses on how the internet has challenged the application and development of copyright law, considering web-copyright concerns such as linking, caching, and aggregating, citing Google Inc. v Copiepresse SCRL. It spends considerable time discussing the operation of the temporary eproduction right though key cases Infopaq International, and Public Relations Consultants Association v Newspaper Licensing Agency. The analysis then moves on to examine the communication to the public right created by the Copyright and Related Rights in the Information Society Directive, examining the application of the right through key cases such as Nils Svensson v Retriever Sverige, GS Media v Sanoma Media, and Stichting Brein v Ziggo BV.

Virtual Innovation Environment

2011 ◽  
pp. 1601-1605
Author(s):  
N. Komninos
Keyword(s):  
Information Society ◽  
Technological Development ◽  
Product Development Process ◽  
Digital Innovation ◽  
The Public ◽  
Industry Sector ◽  
Information Tools ◽  
Complex Processes ◽  
Tools And Methods

Major new trends of our era emerge from the spread of information society and the increasing role of innovation as source of competitive advantage, development, and wealth. Innovation, however, is a tricky issue. We do not dispose adequate theories for predicting innovation in different sectors of industry and services, though we have plenty of tools and methods which assist and facilitate innovation in product development, process reorganization, and quality improvement. We tend to compensate the lack of theory about radical innovation (none can tell what the next big thing will be in an industry sector) with environments of innovation enabling the use of tools, instruments, and methods: financial tools, institutional tools, communication and information tools, creativity tools, and others. The rise of the information society opened new possibilities in the creation of environments of innovation. Digital tools and virtual (digital) innovation environments may assist organizations in learning and practicing innovation. They offer new forms of government (digital this time), online or offline, for mastering the complex processes of technological development and innovation. These virtual environments are important for companies, research institutions, technology intermediary organizations, and the public administration involved in innovation and research and development (R&D) management as well.

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