Digital Platforms and E-Commerce in India – Challenges and Opportunities

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Devanshu Gupta
Keyword(s):  
Digital Platforms ◽  
Challenges And Opportunities

scholarly journals Democratizing ownership and participation in the 4th Industrial Revolution: challenges and opportunities in cellular agriculture

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert M. Chiles ◽  
Garrett Broad ◽  
Mark Gagnon ◽  
Nicole Negowetti ◽  
Leland Glenna ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Business Models ◽  
Industrial Revolution ◽  
Cultured Cells ◽  
Advanced Materials ◽  
High Stakes ◽  
Digital Platforms ◽  
Challenges And Opportunities ◽  
The Status ◽  
Political Economic ◽  
Industry Sectors

AbstractThe emergence of the “4th Industrial Revolution,” i.e. the convergence of artificial intelligence, the Internet of Things, advanced materials, and bioengineering technologies, could accelerate socioeconomic insecurities and anxieties or provide beneficial alternatives to the status quo. In the post-Covid-19 era, the entities that are best positioned to capitalize on these innovations are large firms, which use digital platforms and big data to orchestrate vast ecosystems of users and extract market share across industry sectors. Nonetheless, these technologies also have the potential to democratize ownership, broaden political-economic participation, and reduce environmental harms. We articulate the potential sociotechnical pathways in this high-stakes crossroads by analyzing cellular agriculture, an exemplary 4th Industrial Revolution technology that synergizes computer science, biopharma, tissue engineering, and food science to grow cultured meat, dairy, and egg products from cultured cells and/or genetically modified yeast. Our exploration of this space involved multi-sited ethnographic research in both (a) the cellular agriculture community and (b) alternative economic organizations devoted to open source licensing, member-owned cooperatives, social financing, and platform business models. Upon discussing how these latter approaches could potentially facilitate alternative sociotechnical pathways in cellular agriculture, we reflect upon the broader implications of this work with respect to the 4th Industrial Revolution and the enduring need for public policy reform.

scholarly journals Main Challenges and Opportunities in Higher Education to Promote Sustainable Development Goals. The Effectiveness of Digital Teaching Methods in Times of COVID-19

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Belen Lopez
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Teaching Methods ◽  
Sustainable Development Goals ◽  
Communication Strategy ◽  
Digital Platforms ◽  
Short Period ◽  
Challenges And Opportunities ◽  
Hybrid Classes ◽  
Development Goals

The Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic has created big challenges and opportunities in Higher Education (HE). In this situation, several universities worldwide have responded with digital methods and hybrid classes in a short period of time. The aim of this paper is to show how the universities have adapted teaching methods to digital platforms in the academic year 2020–21. This case study is based on the experience of 37 postgraduate communication students in the course Business and Communication from a Communication Programme. The objective of this course was to promote the 17 sustainable development goals (SDGs) in business and following the Principles for Responsible Management Education (PRME) of the United Nations. To do this, the students provided different solutions related to the SDGs and developed a communication strategy to inform and engage the stakeholders in the companies analyzed in a hybrid class. The results show that using this methodology and working in digital platforms, students have learned the importance of SDGs through implementing specific solutions linked to the corporate social responsibility (CSR) strategy. Based on this analysis, they also developed a communication strategy showing how companies can improve society with specific actions through the lens of the SDG perspective.

scholarly journals Creative Documentary Today: Challenges and Opportunities for Directors and Producers

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Željko Mirković
Keyword(s):  
Digital Platforms ◽  
Advantages And Disadvantages ◽  
Development Direction ◽  
Challenges And Opportunities ◽  
Risk Situation ◽  
The One ◽  
High Risk Situation ◽  
The Right ◽  
New Situation

In today’s creative documentary, a director often decides to simultaneously assume the role of producer. This new situation has its own advantages and disadvantages. On the one hand, it gives the director/producer more freedom in story development and in leading a project. In addition, he or she is able to work more flexibly with the film budget and has a chance to change the direction of the project while following the storyline without fear that a producer will refuse such ideas. This position gives the director/producer room to work with smaller budgets and to claim the entire profit in the end. On the other hand, he or she must be prepared to work within a high-risk situation and assume complete responsibility.The new digital economy has opened opportunities to identify the most innovative ways to integrate digital platforms into the phases of story development, direction, promotion, and distribution of documentaries, thus allowing filmmakers to identify their niche audiences, build new value with it and find the right ways for monetization and revenue increase. Article received: December 30, 2017; Article accepted: January 10, 2018; Published online: April 15, 2018; Preliminary report – Short Communications How to cite this article: Mirković, Željko: "Creative Documentary Today: Challenges and Opportunities for Directors and Producers." AM Journal of Art and Media Studies15 (2018): . doi: 10.25038/am.v0i15.240

scholarly journals Can Emergency Remote Education Make Universities “Smarter”? Lecturers’ Reflections About Useful Literacies

2020 ◽  
pp. 265-274
Author(s):  
Antonella Giacosa
Keyword(s):  
Emergency Response ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
High School Education ◽  
Multiple Literacies ◽  
Online Questionnaire ◽  
Effective Response ◽  
Digital Platforms ◽  
Challenges And Opportunities ◽  
Academic Year ◽  
Shed Light

The shift of the entire education system onto digital platforms due to the coronavirus emergency has made lecturers and students massively experience digital teaching and learning, its challenges and possibilities. As with another possible lockdown looming on the new academic year Emergency response education (ERE) might have to be turned into the new normal of distance learning, the wisdom learned by the massive online experience of the last semester could contribute to planning a nimble response to educational needs in case universities have to shift online again. This paper aims at contributing to the discussion on key literacies lecturers might find useful to turn ERE into quality distance education. 24 full professors of English and English linguistics courses from 14 Italian universities have filled in an online questionnaire investigating the challenges and opportunities they have experienced during the emergency which shed light on the multiple literacies they should focus on to plan an effective response to a new emergency, which at the same time could make high school education “smarter” both in-person and online.

scholarly journals Unlearning, Relearning, and Paradigm Shift to Online Tertiary Education during the COVID-19 Pandemic in Bangladesh

2021 ◽  
pp. 65-71
Author(s):  
Salequl Islam
Keyword(s):  
Developing Countries ◽  
Online Teaching ◽  
Tertiary Education ◽  
Medical Science ◽  
Classroom Teaching ◽  
Paradigm Shifts ◽  
Digital Platforms ◽  
Challenges And Opportunities ◽  
Teachers And Students ◽  
The University

The current coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has compelled to shut down all levels of educational institutions worldwide for a particular time. The pandemic has forced educators and institutions to rapidly switching from classroom teaching to online teaching. The changes in teaching strategies have led both teachers and students into sudden multifaced challenges. Consequently, Bangladesh has closed down all classroom teaching and adapted online system education using different digital platforms. This opinion review has outlined some challenges and opportunities of online in Bangladesh as a representative of developing countries. This paper has further reviewed underlined vital factors in the university system of developing countries that may contribute to paradigm shifts in the education system in the modern competitive world. Bangladesh Journal of Medical Science Vol.20(5) 2021 p.65-71

scholarly journals Corporate innovation ecosystems: challenges and opportunities

2021 ◽  
Vol 258 ◽  
pp. 01005
Author(s):  
Dmitrii Shevchuk ◽  
Igor Ilin ◽  
Victoria Iliashenko ◽  
Alissa Dubgorn
Keyword(s):  
Ecosystem Approach ◽  
Innovation Ecosystem ◽  
Digital Platforms ◽  
Digital Platform ◽  
Innovation Ecosystems ◽  
Corporate Innovation ◽  
The World ◽  
Challenges And Opportunities ◽  
Implementation Of Innovations

This article proposes to consider the concepts of an innovation ecosystem and a digital platform. The analysis of world experience in terms of corporate innovative ecosystems contributing to the accelerated implementation of innovations is presented. The article focuses on corporate innovation ecosystems, gives their definition and key functions. The analysis of the management of innovative ecosystems in the world and in Russia is given. Describes the ecosystem approach and the structure of the corporate innovation ecosystem. As part of the study, it is planned to form a scheme for organizing a corporate innovation ecosystem, considering the place of digital platforms in the entire ecosystem.

scholarly journals Online Education and the COVID-19 Outbreak: A Case Study of Online Teaching during Lockdown

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
pp. 72 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nastaran Peimani ◽  
Hesam Kamalipour
Keyword(s):  
Online Education ◽  
Research Methods ◽  
Online Teaching ◽  
Design Research ◽  
Digital Platforms ◽  
Learning And Teaching ◽  
Challenges And Opportunities ◽  
The Face ◽  
The Uk

The COVID-19 pandemic has become a critical challenge for the higher education sector. Exploring the capacity of this sector to adapt in the state of uncertainty has become more significant than ever. In this paper, we critically reflect on our experience of teaching urban design research methods online during the early COVID-19 lockdown in the UK. This is an exploratory case study with a qualitative approach with an aim to inform resilient practices of teaching in the face of public health emergencies. Drawing on the experience of teaching the Research Methods and Techniques subject during lockdown, we discuss the rapid transition from face-to-face to online teaching and point to the challenges and opportunities in relation to the learning and teaching activities, assessment and feedback, and digital platforms. This paper concludes by outlining some key considerations to inform the development of more adaptive and resilient approaches to online teaching in the context of unprecedented global health crises such as the COVID-19 pandemic. We argue that it is critical to move beyond fixed pedagogical frameworks to harness the productive capacities of adaptive teaching.

scholarly journals The expanding universe of Sherlockian fandom and archival collections

2017 ◽  
Vol 23 ◽  
Author(s):  
Timothy Jerome Johnson ◽  
Cheryll Lynne Fong
Keyword(s):  
Big Bang ◽  
Relationship Building ◽  
Expanding Universe ◽  
Sherlock Holmes ◽  
Digital Platforms ◽  
Challenges And Opportunities ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Digital Or ◽  
Over Time

Since 1887, in sometimes cosmic fashion, nearly every medium and format has been used in sharing the original 60 Sherlock Holmes adventures along with their pastiche and parodying offspring. Such creative energy is evidence of a literary big bang, and an expanding universe of creative possibilities, many of them now born digital or residing on digital platforms. We trace older and newer Sherlockian enthusiasms; their points of entry; the creative manifestations of these fandoms over time and through various media; and the emerging challenges and opportunities presented to library and archival professionals by the explosive growth of creative works, especially those produced during the last decade. Curatorial actions involving acquisition, preservation, description, and user discovery of these materials are considered alongside the relationship building necessary between curator and fan in acquiring evolving, dynamic new Sherlockian expressions and insights.

Materials passport's review: challenges and opportunities toward a circular economy building sector

2021 ◽  
Vol ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print) ◽  
Author(s):  
Mayara Regina Munaro ◽  
Sergio Fernando Tavares
Keyword(s):  
Life Cycle ◽  
Value Chain ◽  
Circular Economy ◽  
Building Materials ◽  
Economic Benefits ◽  
Construction Sector ◽  
Knowledge Domain ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Digital Platforms ◽  
Challenges And Opportunities

PurposeReuse and recycling building materials depend on an efficient set of information and tracking, which can be obtained by the materials passport (MP) tool. Although MP introduces principles of circular economy (CE) and brings environmental, social and economic benefits, it is little-explored in the construction sector. The purpose of this study is to explore the adoption of the MP in the sector to raise awareness about this tool. This analysis leads to the conception of a model and identifies the main challenges and opportunities to increase MP implementation in the sector.Design/methodology/approachThrough a systematic literature review, based on the descriptive and thematic analysis, articles were selected, and analyzed to (1) review the MP state-of-the-art in the construction sector; (2) propose a materials passport model and (3) list the main challenges and opportunities to MP adoption.FindingsThe studies about MP were concentrated on strategies to implement general concepts and business opportunities. The MP model was proposed to overcome the lack of studies and understanding showed in the review. The model aimed to improve the recovery and reuse of materials across a building's life cycle. Challenges and opportunities were raised to direct decision-makers and support the development of this tool. A systematic regulation in the construction value chain and policy systems is crucial for creating digital platforms for data management of buildings' material.Originality/valueThis study developed an MP model to enable the management of building materials at different stages of the building's life cycle and contributes to future developments of the studies on this knowledge domain.

scholarly journals Islamic Religious Authority in Cyberspace: A Qualitative Study of Muslim Religious Actors in Australia

Religions ◽  
2022 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
pp. 69
Author(s):  
Shaheen Amid Whyte
Keyword(s):  
Information Dissemination ◽  
New Technologies ◽  
Oral Traditions ◽  
Religious Authority ◽  
Digital Platforms ◽  
Challenges And Opportunities ◽  
Face To Face Learning ◽  
Do It Yourself ◽  
Religious Actors ◽  
The Way

The arrival of new technologies has always presented new challenges and opportunities to religious communities anchored in scriptural and oral traditions. In the modern period, the volume, speed and accessibility of digital technologies has significantly altered the way knowledge is communicated and consumed. This is particularly true for the way religious authority is constructed online. Using in-depth fieldwork interviews and survey findings of Australian Muslims, this article examines the way religious actors, including imams/sheikhs, educators and academics in the field of Islamic studies, perceive and use online platforms to convey their religious knowledge. The findings suggest Muslims value the benefits of accessing knowledge, communicating ideas and facilitating religious pluralism via digital platforms. By the same token, participants warned against the dangers of information anarchy, “Sheikh Google” and the limitations of “do it yourself Islam”. Importantly, the article shows imams, educators and Muslim scholars largely prioritise face-to-face learning as a more reliable and effective method of teaching and establishing rapport among Muslims compared to eclectic internet-based information dissemination. At the same time, religious actors are not averse to Muslims using digital platforms so long as they possess the skills to cross-examine online content and verify the credentials of religious actors. For more complex and circumstantial issues, participants encouraged Muslims to consult a local imam or trusted religious scholar from the community.

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