scholarly journals The use of Information and Communication Technologies by sex workers to manage occupational health and safety: a scoping review. (Preprint)

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Therese Bernier ◽  
Amika Shah ◽  
Lori E. Ross ◽  
Carmen Logie ◽  
Emily Seto
Keyword(s):  
Occupational Health ◽  
Information And Communication Technologies ◽  
Sex Work ◽  
Scoping Review ◽  
Sex Workers ◽  
Health And Safety ◽  
Occupational Health And Safety ◽  
Communication Technologies ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Information And Communication

BACKGROUND In many countries sex work is criminalized, driving sex work underground and leaving sex workers vulnerable to a number of occupational health and safety (OHS) risks, including violence, assault and robbery. With the advent of widely accessible information and communication technologies (ICTs), sex workers have begun to use electronic OHS tools to mitigate these risks. OBJECTIVE The aim of this study was to explore the use of ICTs by sex workers in managing OHS risks and strategies to reduce these risks. This paper aims to answer the following question: What is known about sex workers’ usage of information and communication technologies in the delivery of OHS strategies? METHODS A literature review following the methodological framework of Arksey et al and Levac et al was conducted to analyze studies describing the usage of ICTs by sex workers to mitigate OHS risks. Experimental, observational, and descriptive studies, as well as protocol papers, were included in this scoping review. RESULTS Of the 2477 articles initially identified, 41 met the inclusion criteria. 71% of the studies (N=29) were published between 2015 and 2019. In the studies, the Internet was the predominant ICT (58%), followed by text messaging (24%), and assorted communication technologies associated with mobile phones without Internet access (17%) (e.g., interactive voice response (IVR), voice-mail). In 56% of the studies (N=23), sex workers located in high income countries created the OHS strategies (e.g., bad date lists, violence prevention) and shared them via the Internet. In 24% of the studies (N=10), mostly in LMICs, organizations external to sex work developed and sent, via text message, OHS strategies focused on STI/HIV. In 20% (N=8) of the studies, external organizations collaborated with the sex worker community in the development and study of OHS strategies communicated via ICTs; through this collaboration, concerns other than STI/HIV (e.g., sexual and reproductive health, mental health) emerged. CONCLUSIONS While there has been an increase in studies on the use of ICTs by sex workers for managing OHS over the past five years, the knowledge around how to optimally leverage ICTs for this purpose remains scarce. Recommendations to further the use of ICTs by sex workers for OHS include (1) that external organizations collaborate with sex workers in the design of ICT interventions to mitigate OHS risks, (2) to examine whether ICTs used in LMICs would have applications in high income countries as a substitute to the Internet in sharing OHS strategies, and (3) to explore the creation of innovative secure online communities using existing or alternative digital technologies that could be used by sex workers to manage their occupational health and safety

scholarly journals Information and Communication Technologies in Commercial Sex Work: A Double-Edged Sword for Occupational Health and Safety

2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 23
Author(s):  
Sunny Jiao ◽  
Vicky Bungay ◽  
Emily Jenkins
Keyword(s):  
Occupational Health ◽  
Information And Communication Technologies ◽  
Sex Work ◽  
Technology Use ◽  
Qualitative Interviews ◽  
Health And Safety ◽  
Occupational Health And Safety ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Commercial Sex Work ◽  
Safety Concerns

Over the previous decade, there has been a notable shift within sex work marketplaces, with many aspects of the work now facilitated via the internet. Many providers and clients are also no longer engaging in in-person negotiations, opting instead for communications via technological means, such as through mobile phones, email, and the internet. By analysing the qualitative interviews of indoor-based providers, clients, and agency managers, this paper addresses the occupational health and safety concerns that indoor sex workers experience in the digital age, as well as how technology use can both support and hinder their capacity to promote their health and safety. Using thematic analysis, we arrived at three salient and nuanced themes that pertain to the intersection of sex work, technology use, and occupational health and safety: screening; confidentiality, privacy, and disclosure; and malice. As socio-political context can affect the occupational health and safety concerns that providers experience, as well as their capacity to prevent or mitigate these concerns, we highlight our findings in light of prevailing societal stigma and a lack of legal recognition and protections for sex work in Canada.

scholarly journals Reimagining Sex Work Venues: Occupational Health, Safety, and Rights in Indoor Workplaces

2021 ◽  
pp. 207-230
Author(s):  
Brooke S. West ◽  
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Anne M. Montgomery ◽  
Allison R. Ebben
Keyword(s):  
Occupational Health ◽  
Health Outcomes ◽  
Sex Work ◽  
Sex Workers ◽  
Health And Safety ◽  
Occupational Health And Safety ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Critical Element ◽  
Sex Worker ◽  
Safety Standards

AbstractThe setting in which sex workers live and work is a critical element shaping health outcomes, in so far that different venues afford different sets of risk and protective factors. Understanding how contextual factors differ across venue types and influence health outcomes is thus essential to developing and supporting programmes promoting the rights and safety of people in sex work. In this chapter, we focus primarily on indoor workplaces, with the goals of: (1) elucidating unique social, economic, physical, and policy factors that influence the well-being of sex workers in indoor workplaces; (2) highlighting sex worker-led efforts in the Thai context through a case study of the organisation Empower Thailand; (3) describing best practices for indoor settings; and (4) developing a framework of key factors that must be addressed to improve the rights and safety of sex workers in indoor workplaces, and to support their efforts to organise. The chapter draws attention to convergences and divergences in key challenges that sex workers encounter in indoor venues in different global contexts, as well as opportunities to advance comprehensive occupational health and safety programmes. Indoor venues pose important potential for establishing and implementing occupational health and safety standards in sex work and also may provide substantial opportunity for collective organising given the close proximity of people working together. However, any efforts to improve the health and safety of sex workers must explicitly address the structural conditions that lead to power imbalances and which undermine sex worker agency and equality.

Decriminalisation of sex work in the post-truth era? Strategic storytelling in neo-abolitionist accounts of the New Zealand model

2020 ◽  
pp. 174889582091889 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lynzi Armstrong
Keyword(s):  
New Zealand ◽  
Occupational Health ◽  
Sex Work ◽  
Sex Workers ◽  
Policy Making ◽  
Empirical Studies ◽  
Health And Safety ◽  
Occupational Health And Safety ◽  
Sex Work Policy ◽  
Knowledge Claims

In the context of on-going debates regarding sex work laws, in most jurisdictions forms of criminalisation continue to dominate. Despite decades of sex workers calling for the decriminalisation of sex work and collectively organising against repressive laws, decriminalisation remains uncommon. New Zealand was the first full country to decriminalise sex work with the passing of the Prostitution Reform Act in 2003, which aimed to improve occupational health and safety. Several empirical studies have documented positive impacts of this framework. However, despite this, neo-abolitionists persistently describe the New Zealand model as a failed approach. This article examines neo-abolitionist knowledge claims regarding the New Zealand model and in doing so unpacks the strategic stories told about this approach, considering the implications for sex work policy making.

scholarly journals ICT-Enabled Mobile Work: Challenges and Opportunities for Occupational Health and Safety Systems

2020 ◽  
Vol 17 (20) ◽  
pp. 7498
Author(s):  
Swantje Robelski ◽  
Sabine Sommer
Keyword(s):  
Occupational Health ◽  
Information And Communication Technologies ◽  
New Technologies ◽  
Health And Safety ◽  
Occupational Health And Safety ◽  
Work Arrangements ◽  
Mobile Work ◽  
Challenges And Opportunities ◽  
Information And Communication ◽  
Safety Systems

The development and dissemination of new technologies has brought forward a rise in flexible work arrangements, such as mobile work. In the literature, mobile work has mostly been discussed from a microergonomic perspective, considering detachment, stress, strain, and life-domain balance. However, the macroergonomic or institutional perspectives have often been neglected, although for occupational health and safety (OHS) management, as well as occupational health and safety systems, many questions remain unanswered. Therefore, in the present paper, information and communication technologies (ICT)-enabled mobile work is described taking into account institutional and regulative, as well as company-related, requirements. As the literature-based analysis was able to show, existing regulations cover many aspects of mobile work arrangements but also offer starting points for a more concrete protection of mobile workers. Furthermore, there are challenges regarding the enforcement of regulation. In this regard, new technologies might offer the chance to improve the interactions between institutional and company-related occupational health and safety systems. Additionally, 278 co-funded research projects in Germany were categorized, yielding 18 projects on new ways of work, of which another eleven projects addressed different aspects of mobile work. The project analysis revealed that current research focuses on tools and strategies for designing communication and cooperation. In conclusion, the examination of research trends can be used to generate new knowledge for better OHS management and effective OHS systems.

Upotreba interneta u obrazovanju odraslih: istorijsko-organizaciona perspektiva

2017 ◽  
pp. 35-52
Author(s):  
Bojan Ljuijić
Keyword(s):  
Adult Education ◽  
Information And Communication Technologies ◽  
Computer Network ◽  
Communication Technologies ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Other Information ◽  
Educational Computer ◽  
Information And Communication ◽  
Internet In Education ◽  
Historical Periods

Beside the fact that the Internet was not primarily educational network (it didn’t emerge from the intention to be systematically used in the field of education), shortly after it emerged, possibilities of its application in education were recognised. This paper is dedicated to analysis of the most important chronological moments (technological and social in the first place) that were crucial in sense of comprehensive application of the Internet in service of education in general, but also in service of adult education. Having all mentioned in focus, in more details, we analysed emergence and development of the Internet observed as educational computer network in frame of general development of information and communication technologies. While realising mentioned analysis, our focus was on four historical periods of educational computer technologies. We also intended to emphasize the activities of international institutions that followed, encouraged and supported the development of the Internet use and the use of other information and communication technologies in the field of education. According to that, we distinguished the main moments referring activities of these organisations which describe in the best manner their contributions to growing application of the Internet in education in general, but also in adult education.

Cyber socialization: trends and prospects

2020 ◽  
Vol 45 (4) ◽  
pp. 115-123
Author(s):  
A. Igibayeva ◽  
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D. Erbolatuly ◽  
G. Turarova ◽  
◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Information And Communication Technologies ◽  
New Technologies ◽  
Communication Technologies ◽  
Modern World ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Young Generation ◽  
Spiritual Values ◽  
Information And Communication ◽  
Virtual Interaction ◽  
Pedagogical Research

The development of the modern world is very complex and rapid, and the process is characterized by high rates of development of information and communication technologies. The Internet space is a means of searching and obtaining information, as well as a medium for communication, virtual interaction, and has a significant impact on the formation of stereotypes of behavior of the young generation, as well as ideals, spiritual values, personal and social worldview. The article identifies the positive aspects of the development of cyberspace by young people, and also notes the threats and barriers to cyber socialization for modern youth. The necessity of conducting psychological and pedagogical research on cyber socialization is actualized, a conclusion is made about the use of new technologies for the purpose of positive cyber socialization of the younger generation.

scholarly journals Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) Enabling Integrated Primary Care for Complex Patients: A Protocol for a Scoping Review

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Farah Tahsin ◽  
Alana Armas ◽  
Apery Kirakalaprathapan ◽  
Heather Cunningham ◽  
Mudathira Kadu ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Primary Care ◽  
Information And Communication Technologies ◽  
Scoping Review ◽  
Communication Technologies ◽  
Integrated Primary Care ◽  
Multiple Chronic Conditions ◽  
Care Model ◽  
Primary Care Model ◽  
Complex Patients ◽  
Information And Communication

Abstract IntroductionAn increasing number of individuals are living with multiple chronic conditions, often combined with psychosocial complexities. For these patients with complex conditions, an integrated primary care model that provides care coordination and a team-based approach can help manage their multiple needs. Information and communication technologies (ICTs) are recognized as a critical enabler of integrated primary care. A better understanding of the use of ICTs in an integrated care setting and how ICTs are being leveraged would be beneficial to identify knowledge gaps and could lead to successful implementation for ICT-based interventions.ObjectiveThis study will systematically scope the literature on the topic of ICT-enabled integrated healthcare delivery models for patients with complex care needs to identify which technologies have been used in integrated primary care settings. MethodThis study protocol outlines a scoping review of the peer-reviewed literature, using Arksey and O’Malley’s (enhanced by Levac et al.) scoping review methodology. Peer-reviewed- literature will be identified using a multi-database search strategy. The results of the search will be screened, abstracted, and charted in duplicate by 6 research team members. DiscussionThe key findings of the study will be thematically mapped to describe the implemented ICTs aimed for complex patients within the integrated primary care model and interactions of the elements (ICT, health model, and targeted patients). This review will be the first step to formally identify how ICT is used to support integrated primary health care models. The results will be disseminated through peer-reviewed publications, conference presentations, and special interest groups.

scholarly journals Business ideas in start-ups

2020 ◽  
Vol 83 ◽  
pp. 01063
Author(s):  
Štefan Slávik
Keyword(s):  
Information And Communication Technologies ◽  
New Technologies ◽  
Legal Protection ◽  
Communication Technologies ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Development Cycle ◽  
Start Up ◽  
Information And Communication ◽  
Start Ups

Start-up is a modern entrepreneurship form designed to realize original business ideas, mostly based on new technologies and the Internet. It evolves in the development cycle, which is determined by the business idea development cycle and the financing cycle. The purpose of the paper is to describe and analyse the business idea. The business idea is characterized by its content, circumstances of its origin, degree of originality and evidence of this originality. Start-ups are dominated by business ideas based on the application of information and communication technologies, the business idea is most often created by combining professional and business experience, but its originality is from the international point of view only average and the level of legal protection is quite rare.

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