scholarly journals Online communities sustainability: some economic issues

2005 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Laura Anna Ripamonti ◽  
Fiorella De Cindio ◽  
Mario Benassi
Keyword(s):  
Online Communities ◽  
Information Society ◽  
Local Communities ◽  
Economic Sustainability ◽  
Community Informatics ◽  
Top Down ◽  
Bottom Up ◽  
Economic Issues ◽  
Active Involvement ◽  
Survival And Growth

Nowadays a growing attention is put on community networking and community informatics, due to the role both can play in building the Information Society through the active involvement of citizens and local communities. Hence, the issue of online communities sustainability becomes more and more relevant: multiple aspects – social, institutional and economical – have to be jointly analyzed to understand how and if a project is really worth. In this paper we address the economic sustainability aspect, a key component still not deeply investigated. Actually, survival and growth are common themes in organizational and businesses literature since the beginning of the ‘60’s, nevertheless, online communities only partly comply with the existing available frameworks and we are left with a panorama where communities emerge and evolve as if they were either completely bottom-up, unplanned entities or rational top down quasi-organizations. Hence, our aim is to offer a first attempt to define several theoretical propositions on economical sustainability, mainly derived from our ongoing experience and research on online communities.

Building the Information Society from the Bottom Up? EU Public Policy and Community Informatics in North West England

2011 ◽  
pp. 151-172 ◽  
Author(s):  
John Cawood ◽  
Seamus Simpson
Keyword(s):  
Information Society ◽  
The European Union ◽  
Community Informatics ◽  
Information And Communications Technologies ◽  
Bottom Up ◽  
North West ◽  
Structural Funds ◽  
Potential Benefits ◽  
The Many ◽  
Technological Opportunities

If information and communications technologies are to be used to support community efforts to achieve social and economic development, then policies which link emerging technological opportunities with the social and economic context must be devised. In the European regions, the many organizations which promote community informatics have increasingly taken up the concept of the Information Society as both an objective and a rationale for such policy making. The key player in proselytizing this concept has been the Commission of the European Union and monies from EU Structural Funds have been deployed in a series of community, regional and interregional informatics initiatives which started in the early 1990s. In these initiatives, increasing emphasis has been laid on the devolution of decision making to the community, user access and the empowerment of those who risk exclusion from the potential benefits of ICTs. In brief, the Commission has sought to create a policy environment which encourages local and regional actors to build the “Information Society” from the bottom up.

scholarly journals Top-down Paternalism Versus Bottom-up Community Development: A Case Study of Compulsory Income Management Programmes in Australia

2019 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 42-57 ◽  
Author(s):  
Philip Mendes
Keyword(s):  
Community Development ◽  
Social Inclusion ◽  
Development Process ◽  
Local Communities ◽  
Top Down ◽  
Bottom Up ◽  
Design Processes ◽  
The Past

The compulsory income management or welfare quarantining programmes introduced by Australian governments over the past 11 years have provoked major public contention. One key source of conflict has been around whether these programmes have been introduced via co-design processes enabling the consent of local communities, or alternatively whether they are merely top-down programmes imposed with minimum consultation on specific geographical sites. This article argues that most consultation processes have been limited and tokenistic, and rarely included actual income management participants. An alternative bottom-up community development process is proposed based on the principles such as social inclusion, participation and empowerment.

Psychology and Culture: Top Down Versus Bottom Up?

PsycCRITIQUES ◽  
2005 ◽  
Vol 50 (19) ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael Cole
Keyword(s):  
Top Down ◽  
Bottom Up

Optimalisasi Ekonomi Syariah Untuk Peningkatan Kesejahteraan Masyarakat Dalam Pengentasan Kemiskinan Mewujudkan Goodgovernance

2019 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 19
Author(s):  
Sadari Sadari ◽  
Nurhidayat Nurhidayat ◽  
Rafiqah Rafiqah
Keyword(s):  
Top Down ◽  
Bottom Up

Humanisme religius telah mengantarkan pada era kesadaran bahwa peradaban manusia harus memiliki dua arus yang saling menunjang. Selama ini arus balik dalam bidang ekonomi hanya menonjolkan arus balik vertikal atas kebawah (model top down) yang didominasi oleh sistem ekonomi kapitalis dan sosialis, sedangkan di sisi lain mengesampingkan arus balik vertikal dari bawah ke atas (model bottom up) yang didominasi oleh sistem ekonomi syariah, sehingga dampaknya adalah adanya kesenjangan ekonomi yang sangat tajam. Paper ini mewujudkan peran penting, yakni menghubungkan dua arus tersebut secara timbal-balik, yakni mempertemukan arus pertama dengan arus balik kedua, sehingga akan menghasilkan dampak yang positif, progresif, kreatif dan produktif, kemudian pada akhirnya akan dapat meng-optomal-kan ekonomi syariah untuk menciptakan goodgovernance, post goodgovernance secara berkelanjutan, tentunya dengan bantuan peran media kontemporer yang kian update. Ekonomi syariah juga merupakan pilar dan nilai dasar, dari sikap keyakinan dan sikap rasionalitas untuk sanggup menciptakan terwujudnya pemberdayaan dan kesejahteraan sekaligus pengentasan kemiskinan dalam masyarakat di Indonesia.

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