scholarly journals From Exploration to Design: Aligning Intentionality in Community Informatics Projects

2015 ◽  
Vol 11 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Ammar Halabi ◽  
Amalia Sabiescu ◽  
Salomão David ◽  
Sara Vannini ◽  
David Nemer
Keyword(s):  
Knowledge Production ◽  
Community Informatics ◽  
Community Based ◽  
Participatory Approaches ◽  
Data Intensive ◽  
Action Taking ◽  
Community Projects ◽  
Research And Design ◽  
Shed Light ◽  
The Continuum

This article focuses on a particular aspect of research and design processes in community-based projects: the transition from exploratory stages, concerned with knowledge production, to design stages, in which goals for action-taking are formulated and desired directions for change are envisioned. This paper offers a reflection about the methodological processes that underpin this transition, in response to the questions: How are design goals formulated in community informatics interventions that rely on data-intensive exploratory methodologies, and what factors and dynamics shape them? Guided by these questions, we shed light on various issues related to this transition by recounting and analysing cases taken from field experiences within three different community projects in Syria, Brazil and Mozambique. The article proposes that the transition is associated with shifts in intentionality, which are elusive and hard to grasp, particularly in participatory approaches. Three analytical categories are put forward to illuminate the dynamics of intentionality shifts along the continuum of transitioning from exploration to design. Reflections based on the empirical cases are contributed.

Applying Community‐Based Participatory Approaches to Addressing Health Disparities and Promoting Health Equity

2020 ◽  
Vol 66 (3-4) ◽  
pp. 217-221
Author(s):  
Yolanda Suarez‐Balcazar ◽  
Vincent T. Francisco ◽  
Noé Rubén Chávez
Keyword(s):  
Health Disparities ◽  
Health Equity ◽  
Community Based ◽  
Participatory Approaches

scholarly journals Enacting agency: exploring how older adults shape their neighbourhoods

2018 ◽  
Vol 40 (3) ◽  
pp. 565-583 ◽  
Author(s):  
Carri Hand ◽  
Debbie Laliberte Rudman ◽  
Suzanne Huot ◽  
Rachael Pack ◽  
Jason Gilliland
Keyword(s):  
Older Adults ◽  
Social Interaction ◽  
Social Connectedness ◽  
Community Action ◽  
Community Based ◽  
Participatory Approaches ◽  
Public Places ◽  
Helping Others ◽  
Neighbourhood Level ◽  
Potential Benefits

AbstractWithin research on ageing in neighbourhoods, older adults are often positioned as impacted by neighbourhood features; their impact on neighbourhoods is less often considered. Drawing on a study exploring how person and place transact to shape older adults’ social connectedness, inclusion and engagement in neighbourhoods, this paper explores how older adults take action in efforts to create neighbourhoods that meet individual and collective needs and wants. We drew on ethnographic and community-based participatory approaches and employed qualitative and geospatial methods with 14 older adults in two neighbourhoods. Analysis identified three themes that described the ways that older adults enact agency at the neighbourhood level: being present and inviting casual social interaction, helping others and taking community action. The participants appeared to contribute to a collective sense of connectedness and creation of social spaces doing everyday neighbourhood activities and interacting with others. Shared territories in which others were present seemed to support such interactions. Participants also helped others in a variety of ways, often relating to gaps in services and support, becoming neighbourhood-based supports for other seniors. Finally, participants contributed to change at the community level, such as engaging politically, patronising local businesses and making improvements in public places. Study findings suggest the potential benefits of collaborating with older adults to create and maintain liveable neighbourhoods.

Community-Based Participatory Approaches to Knowledge Translation: HIV Prevention Case Study of the Investigaytors Program

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jeffrey Morgan ◽  
Cameron Schwartz ◽  
Olivier Ferlatte ◽  
Caroline Mniszak ◽  
Nathan Lachowsky ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Hiv Prevention ◽  
Knowledge Translation ◽  
Community Based ◽  
Participatory Approaches

scholarly journals Predicting the number of public projects in the region as an indicator of economic stability

2019 ◽  
Vol 65 ◽  
pp. 06001
Author(s):  
Olha Dupliak ◽  
Olena Ovchynnikova ◽  
Oksana Zamazii
Keyword(s):  
Middle Age ◽  
Age Groups ◽  
Older Age ◽  
Government Agencies ◽  
Economic Stability ◽  
Community Based ◽  
Demographic Situation ◽  
The Public ◽  
Public Projects ◽  
Community Projects

The article examines the issues of submitting applications and receiving funding for public projects depending on the demographic situation in the region. It is shown that the activity of the population in submitting applications for community projects contributes to the effectiveness of investing in the development of cities and regions. The dynamics of project submission in connection with the permanent population of Khmelnytskyi region is analyzed. In the course of the analysis, it was found that women make up the largest share among both the population and those who submit social projects. According to age characteristics, in spite of an increase in the proportion of the older age groups, mainly younger and middle age groups of the population develop community-based projects. The gender trend identified during the study indicates that women are more active in local processes than men who more closely coordinate these projects with government agencies. According to these statistics, a forecast is provided as to allocation of funds for the public projects’ financing.

scholarly journals Community Inquiry and Informatics: Collaborative Learning Through ICT

2006 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Ann Peterson Bishop ◽  
Bertram C. Bruce ◽  
M. Cameron Jones
Keyword(s):  
Collaborative Learning ◽  
Information And Communication Technologies ◽  
Communication Technologies ◽  
Theory And Practice ◽  
Community Informatics ◽  
Community Based ◽  
Information And Communication

This paper presents the integration of community informatics with the theory and practice of community inquiry, describing community-based projects in which people simultaneously learn about their community and the production and use of information and communication technologies (ICTs).

scholarly journals Dynamics of territorial production in situated and community projects

2017 ◽  
Vol 2 (3) ◽  
pp. 129 ◽  
Author(s):  
Manfredo Manfredini ◽  
Uwe Rieger
Keyword(s):  
Use Case ◽  
Spatial Transformation ◽  
Hands On ◽  
Urban Transformations ◽  
Entire Society ◽  
Post Traumatic ◽  
Community Projects ◽  
Transformation Processes ◽  
Early Phases ◽  
Shed Light

<p>This section considers forms of collaboration in situated and community projects embedded in important spatial transformation processes in New Zealand cities. It aims to shed light on specific combinations of material and semantic aspects characterising the relation between people and their environment. Contributions focus on participative urban transformations. The essays that follow concentrate on the dynamics of territorial production of associations between multiple actors belonging both to civil society and constituted authority. Their authors were directly engaged in the processes that are reported and conceptualised, thereby offering evidence gained through direct hands-on experience. Some of the investigations use case studies that are conspicuous examples of the recent post-traumatic urban development stemming from the Canterbury earthquakes of 2010-2011. More precisely, these cases belong to the early phases of the programmes of the Christchurch recovery or the Wellington seismic prevention. The relevance of these experiences for the scope of this study lies in the unprecedented height of public engagement at local, national and international levels, a commitment reached also due to the high impact, both emotional and concrete, that affected the entire society.</p><p>This article is an introduction to contents of Chapter III.</p>

scholarly journals Individual and Social Preferences in Participatory Multi-Criteria Evaluation

2019 ◽  
Vol 11 (20) ◽  
pp. 5746 ◽  
Author(s):  
Itziar Barinaga-Rementeria ◽  
Artitzar Erauskin-Tolosa ◽  
Pedro José Lozano ◽  
Itxaro Latasa
Keyword(s):  
Social Preferences ◽  
Participatory Methods ◽  
Deliberative Process ◽  
Participatory Approaches ◽  
Multi Criteria Evaluation ◽  
The Social ◽  
Determining Factors ◽  
Technical Issues ◽  
The One ◽  
Shed Light

Decisions on environmental issues are complex and multidimensional as they represent multiple interests and values. Nevertheless, the ability of participatory multi-criteria methodologies to deal with this kind of problem is widely acknowledged. Traditionally, multi-criteria methods have focused more on technical issues than on the representation of participants’ preferences. In participatory processes there are questions such as who establishes the mechanisms of participation, in what terms these processes are developed and who is going to participate, which are determining factors that have not been sufficiently studied in multi-criteria analysis. This paper, in order to shed light on this gap, aims to compare the creation of social preferences under two different participatory approaches. For this purpose, two different participatory approaches are compared. On the one hand, applying the social multi-criteria evaluation (SMCE) method, a deliberative process is developed following the principles of deliberative democracy. On the other hand, an aggregation process of individual preferences has been developed based on information collected through surveys. Both approaches have advantages as well as constraints. Our main finding is that the information obtained through the different participatory methods is different and complementary. Therefore, we can state that both participatory methods can be enriching assessment processes.

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