The Right to Nonparticipation for Global Digital Citizenship

Global Citizenship ◽

Digital Citizenship ◽

Nation States ◽

This article argues for the right to nonparticipation for Global Digital Citizenship (GDC). It recuperates the notion of political nonparticipation in the context of information and communication technologies (ICTs) and GDC in order to show that nonparticipation can operate effectively in non-State spheres, particularly online. The paper begins with a discussion of nonparticipation in the context of Nation States and non-Statal Organizations before offering a brief survey of the terms Global Citizenship (GC), Digital Citizenship (DC), and GDC. Nonparticipation in an online context is then explained, followed by a discussion of practical concerns, such as who might enforce GDC rights among global digital citizens.

The Right to Nonparticipation for Global Digital Citizenship

The International Review of Information Ethics ◽

10.29173/irie236 ◽

2015 ◽

Vol 23 ◽

Author(s):

Andrew Iliadis

Keyword(s):

Global Citizenship ◽

Digital Citizenship ◽

Nation States ◽

Re/coding Global Citizenship: How Information and Communication Technologies have Altered Humanity… and Created New Questions for Global Citizenship Education

Research in Social Sciences and Technology ◽

10.46303/ressat.05.01.4 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 5 (1) ◽

pp. 70-85

Author(s):

Gabriel Swarts

Keyword(s):

Citizenship Education ◽

Global Citizenship ◽

Digital Citizenship ◽

Centralized Control ◽

Global Citizenship Education ◽

Control Limits ◽

Digital Identities

In the broadest sense, the concept of global citizenship education (GCE) includes many facets of a rapidly changing world and concepts in education. The information and communication technology (ICT) advances of the last few decades have created opportunities for educational connection and interaction through digital spaces at all levels, local and global. In linking technology with global citizenship, neither GCE nor ICTs can be assumed to be mutually progressive and/or mutually beneficial. In recent years, governments have moved to centralize ICT technologies exacting more control over their use for surveillance, including the weaponization of ICTs for strategic gains. This complicates the work of GCE scholars and practitioners in unforeseen ways as centralized control limits decentralized interactions. ICT concepts and philosophical stances are explored and defined to address how GCE scholars and practitioners can reimagine and reframe the tenets of the field within this informational world. Key topics discussed include complications of GCE in the infosphere, digital citizenship & GCE, and teaching GCE in the age of “inforgs” & digital identities.

Australian Health Review call for papers

Australian Health Review ◽

10.1071/ah070007 ◽

2007 ◽

Vol 31 (1) ◽

pp. 7

Author(s):

Sandra G Leggat

Keyword(s):

Health Care ◽

New Zealand ◽

Information Management ◽

Care Delivery ◽

Australian Health ◽

The Right ◽

Health Review

Technology in health care: are we delivering on the promise? Australian Health Review invites contributions for an upcoming issue on information management and information and communication technology in health care. Submission deadline: 15 May 2007 Despite a reputation for less spending on information and communication technologies (ICT), the health care sector has an imperative to ensure the ?right? information has been made available and accessible to the ?right? person at the ?right? time. While there is increasing evidence that the strategic application of ICT in innovative ways can improve the effectiveness of health care delivery, we don?t often discuss the substantial changes to the way health care organisations operate that are required for best practice information management. In an upcoming issue, Australian Health Review is looking to publish feature articles, research papers, case studies and commentaries related to information management and information and communication technologies in health care. We are particularly interested in papers that report on the successes, or failures, of initiatives in Australia and New Zealand that have brought together the research, the technology and the clinical, managerial and organisational expertise. Submissions related to international initiatives with lessons for Australia and New Zealand will also be welcomed. Submissions can be short commentaries of 1000 to 2000 words, or more comprehensive reviews of 2000 to 4000 words. Please consult the AHR Guidelines for Authors for information on formatting and submission. The deadline for submission is 15 May 2007.

International Journal of Innovative Technology and Exploring Engineering - Special Issue ◽

GSM Controlled Automatic Medicine Remainder System

10.35940/ijitee.i8535.078919 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 8 (9) ◽

pp. 1741-1742

Keyword(s):

Reminder System ◽

Drug Names ◽

Day Of The Week ◽

Set Up ◽

The Right ◽

Medication Reminder

As individuals develop more established, they depend more vigorously upon outside help for wellbeing evaluation and medicinal consideration. The present medicinal services foundation in later society is broadly viewed as lacking to address the issues of an undeniably more established populace. One arrangement, called maturing set up, is to guarantee that the older can live securely and autonomously in their own homes for whatever length of time that conceivable. For accomplishing this reason the Automatic medicine reminders were included. Programmed automatic medicine reminder is a mechanical methodology which makes a difference individuals age set up by ceaselessly giving medicinal information. The usage of Information and Communication Technologies in the drug stores in the course of the most recent decades has involved the likelihood of utilizing robotized choice emotionally supportive networks creating cautions to push drug specialists to distinguish drug related issues while apportioning medicines [1]. The old and debilitated are regularly endorsed a few prescriptions each with shifting times, for example, measurements sums and times to be taken. Adapting to their current condition is now sufficiently troublesome without being loaded with monitoring distinctive drugs and their dosages. A few items have endeavored to tackle this ever developing issue, yet just the medicine reminder has made standard progress. It is a lot of compartments each with multi day of the week on it. It requires the client consistently to stack the right medicine at the right time into its every day holder. This framework is excessively dependent upon the client. Regardless of whether the prescription is stacked accurately the client still needs to make sure to take the prescription. The Automated Medication Reminder System (AMRS) will altogether enhance the pill take care of by administering to five extraordinary prescriptions, cautioning the client when to take their pills through both sound what's more, visual alerts, showing the medicine timings, and showing the drug names [2].

Students' perception of the International University of Novi Pazar on the exchange and transfer of knowledge through information technology

Univerzitetska misao - casopis za nauku kulturu i umjetnost Novi Pazar ◽

10.5937/univmis2019111a ◽

2020 ◽

pp. 111-118

Author(s):

Suada Aljković-Kadrić ◽

Suad Bećirović

Keyword(s):

Young People ◽

Information Technologies ◽

Modern Society ◽

Transfer Of Knowledge ◽

International University ◽

The One ◽

A characteristic of modern society in the last few decades is the increasingly powerful exchange and transfer of knowledge through information technologies that offer tools for the production, creation, collection, organization, use and storage of knowledge and information. The research was conducted among students of the International University of Novi Pazar, with indicators that indicate the degree of understanding and use of computers and the development of information literacy, after which young people should understand and rationally use information and communication technologies. Students provided answers to questions such as: how to access information and how to evaluate information in a youth support process related to research processes that enable young people to find, download and make relevance assessments, Everyday use of computer-aided technologies by young people also generates larger amounts of information that are difficult to manage. So, young people have a large amount of important information that needs to be recognized on the one hand, and understood on the other, and finally situated in a harmonious relationship, so for them, in computer and IT terms, complex tasks are set, such as how to choose the right technology and how to manage that information. Information management refers, among other things, to the ability of young people to take responsibility, fundamentally for the process of planning, organizing, coordinating and controlling.

Hydrology and Best Practices for Managing Water Resources in Arid and Semi-Arid Lands - Advances in Environmental Engineering and Green Technologies ◽

Towards Integrated Innovative Technologies for Sustainable Provision and Financing of Agricultural Groundwater in African Drylands

10.4018/978-1-5225-2719-0.ch011 ◽

2017 ◽

pp. 209-229

Author(s):

Cush Ngonzo Luwesi ◽

Amos Yesutanbul Nkpeebo ◽

Yaw Osei-Owusu ◽

Paa Kofi Osei-Owusu

Keyword(s):

High Potential ◽

Water Users ◽

Groundwater Supply ◽

Recent Developments ◽

Agriculture Intensification ◽

Private Investors ◽

Water Vision 2000 declared: “Water crises are not about too little water... but about managing water badly such that billions of people and the environment suffer badly.” Good leadership and governance are therefore needed to bring about investments through innovation in the water sector. However, the ubiquitous nature of investments in water services makes it less attractive for the private finance sector. Agricultural groundwater development has particularly begun offering incentives for private investors. This study foresees a high potential in the integration of recent developments of information and communication technologies (ICT) with existing hydraulic technologies to sustain cropping and food production in African drylands. A case is given for the blending of the Bhungroo, Grundfos Lifelink and M-Pesa technologies to make an integrated BGM-P technology for agricultural groundwater supply. This will enable water users have access to the service at the “right” time, in the “right” quantities, at the “right” places. This is a pathway to sustainable agriculture intensification.

Intelligent Citizenship Assistants for Distributed Governance

Encyclopedia of Digital Government ◽

10.4018/978-1-59140-789-8.ch167 ◽

2011 ◽

pp. 1105-1113

Author(s):

G. A. Gimenez-Lugo ◽

C. A. Tacla ◽

J.F. Hubner

Keyword(s):

Policy Decision ◽

Social Software ◽

Digital Citizenship ◽

Political Organizations ◽

Perceived Change ◽

The Common ◽

Governance Processes

One of the main reasons for lower levels of participation in the political arena by the common citizen is the apprehended distance from actions such as representative election to perceived change. People feel that they have less and less power to exercise. Impotence leaves to indifference (“it doesn’t matter who will I choose ... anyway they won’t care/change thinks that I consider important”). More and more technology may put another bureaucratic barrier between people and their legitimate right to exercise power: citizenship. Politics is the process of formation, distribution, and exercise of power (Bobbio, Matteucci & Pasquino, 1983). In this sense, the term e-democracy (Riley & Riley, 2003) has emerged as the goal to be reached by our technology. It is defined by Clift (2004) as the use of information and communication technologies and strategies by democratic actors within political and governance processes of local communities, nations and on the international stage. Such democratic actors/sectors include governments, elected officials, the media, political organizations, and citizen/voters. The first steps towards e-democracy (i.e., the current e-government frameworks), even though the efforts taken, are mostly centralized (Bicharra Garcia, Pinto, & Ferraz, 2004; Clift, 2004; Macintosh, 2004; Macintosh & McKay-Hubbard, 2004). Furthermore, the information they provide about government decisions and acts and their consequences are presented as (mostly) unproven facts. It is often difficult for the common citizen to check whether the myriad of data and their sources are even legitimate, not to say legal or fare. Certainly, political confidence and faith (even though mediated by technology) have some limits, to say the less. If technology is to be put for a good use it has to be not only accessible to the common citizen, he/she has to feel and exercise power not only through voting on candidates or accessing some services online. Currently, there are two aspects considered as the main targets of e-government technologies (Riley & Riley, 2003): • E-Voting: Taking part in elections or other ballots • E-Participation: Allowing degrees of access to policy decision making Thus, for the citizen the actual range of possible actions is rather narrow. Our democratic societies require bridging a gap between current IT based Democracy and well established democratic practices. A suitable option is to be served by democracy enabler social software, allowing a new dimension: • E-Enaction-and-Alterity: Collective planning, monitoring, awareness, and enforcement of already set actions and decisions made by representatives and public institutions Such an approach tries to incorporate and extend the idea presented by Clift (2003) as “e-democracy + public net-work” and illustrated in Figure 1. Seeking for direct citizen/stakeholder/leadership involvement, this new dimension, along with the e-voting and e-participation, can be implemented with decentralized digital citizenship systems (DCS), composed by intelligent citizenship assistants (CAs). Such systems can create an extended channel to restore the capillarity of power back to the citizens. We will now discuss some aspects that are to be explored in the quest that may (hopefully) lead to implement DCS in the near future.

Education for Democratic Citizenship in a Digital Culture

Comunicar ◽

10.3916/c36-2011-03-04 ◽

2011 ◽

Vol 18 (36) ◽

pp. 131-138 ◽

Cited By ~ 8

Author(s):

Vicent Gozálvez-Pérez

Keyword(s):

Communication Technology ◽

New Technologies ◽

Democratic Citizenship ◽

Digital Culture ◽

Digital Citizenship ◽

Nuevas Tecnologías ◽

The Right ◽

Deliberative Processes

Given the importance of new technologies in the classroom, especially in today’s information and communication societies, and following European Union recommendations to promote media literacy, this article reflects the need to educate not only in technical and efficient applications of communication technologies but also in their civic and responsible use, thus promoting participatory and deliberative processes which are the lifeline of a functioning democracy. The Greek dream of «isegoria», everyone’s right to speak, can become a reality in a digital culture, yet the highly selective use of communication technology can have the opposite effect: new forms of socialization can contribute to the expansion of «echo chambers» or «digital niches», shrinking communication spaces in which the right to speak dissociates itself from the responsibility to listen critically to what arises from a more open, plural and public sphere. One of the goals of education in a digital culture is precisely to diminish this trend that authors such as Sunstein, Wolton and Cortina have detected in recent years. This article proposes educational guidelines to avoid this bias by using communication technology to promote digital citizenship and the ethical values sustained by democratic societies.Asumiendo la importancia de las nuevas tecnologías en las aulas, especialmente en las actuales sociedades de la información y la comunicación, y siguiendo las recomendaciones de la Unión Europea a favor de la alfabetización mediática, el presente trabajo reflexiona acerca de la necesidad de educar no solo en los usos técnicos y eficientes de las tecnologías comunicativas, sino también en el uso responsable y cívico de las mismas, favoreciendo así los procesos participativos y deliberativos que son el sustento de una democracia viva. El sueño griego de la «isegoría», del igual derecho de todos al uso de la palabra, puede hacerse realidad en la cultura digital, si bien es cierto que un uso hiperselectivo de la tecnología comunicativa puede producir un efecto contrario: las nuevas formas de socialización pueden contribuir a la expansión de «cámaras de eco» o «nichos digitales», es decir, espacios discursivos cada vez más reducidos en donde el derecho a decir se desvincula de la responsabilidad de escuchar críticamente lo que procede de un espacio público más abierto y plural. Una de las metas de la educación en la cultura digital es precisamente frenar esta tendencia, detectada en los últimos años por autores como Sunstein, Wolton o Cortina. En el presente artículo se proponen orientaciones educativas para evitar estos sesgos y para fomentar, mediante la tecnología comunicativa, la ciudadanía digital y los valores éticos propios de sociedades democráticas.

Tecnologias digitais e deficiência visual: a contribuição das TIC para a prática pedagógica no contexto da Lei Brasileira de Inclusão

Revista Pesquisa Qualitativa ◽

10.33361/rpq.2018.v.6.n.12.236 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 6 (12) ◽

pp. 412

Author(s):

Maria Helena Silveira Bonilla ◽

Manoela Cristina Correia Carvalho da Silva ◽

Taiane Abreu Machado

Keyword(s):

Visual Impairment ◽

Visually Impaired ◽

Digital Technologies ◽

Pedagogical Practices ◽

Blind People ◽

Visually Impaired People ◽

Resumo: Com a promulgação da Lei Brasileira de Inclusão (LBI), confirma-se o direito das pessoas com deficiência à educação em escolas comuns. As Tecnologias da Informação e Comunicação (TIC) podem ser grandes aliadas nesse processo, inclusive para pessoas com deficiência visual, o maior contingente de pessoas entre aquelas que têm deficiências no Brasil e um público para o qual o uso não criterioso de tecnologias digitais pode apresentar sérias barreiras devido à carga imagética associada às TIC. O presente estudo, além de discutir as principais barreiras na comunicação e na informação enfrentadas por pessoas com deficiência visual, apresenta alternativas de como educadores podem incorporar as TIC a sua prática pedagógica e fomentar a colaboração, a descentralização do conhecimento, a autonomia e a criatividade.Palavras-chave: Deficiência visual; TIC; Lei brasileira de inclusão. Digital technologies and visual impairment: the contribution of ICT to pedagogical practices in the context of the Brazilian Law for the Inclusion of persons with disability Abstract: With the enactment of the Brazilian law for the inclusion of persons with disability, the right of people with special needs to be educated in regular schools has been confirmed. Information and communication technologies (ICT) can be of great use in this process, even for visually impaired people, the largest contingent of people among those with disabilities in Brazil and an audience for whom the non-judicious use of digital technologies may present serious barriers due to the imaging load associated to ICT. In the present study, besides discussing the main barriers in information and communication faced by blind people, the authors present alternatives to educators who wish to incorporate ICT into their pedagogical practices and foster collaboration, helping enhance the decentralization of knowledge, autonomy and creativity.Keywords: Visual impairment; ICT; Brazilian law for the inclusion of persons with disability.

Standards Management in the Twenty-First Century

International Journal of Standardization Research ◽

10.4018/ijsr.2016010103 ◽

2016 ◽

Vol 14 (1) ◽

pp. 34-44 ◽

Cited By ~ 3

Author(s):

Michael B. Spring

Keyword(s):

Rapid Change ◽

First Century ◽

Security And Privacy ◽

Nation States ◽

History Of ◽

Standards Development ◽

Privacy Issues

The history of modern standards development provides support for the argument that the process of standardization has evolved in response to crises and opportunities. In the information and communication technologies (ICT) sector, many new groups have become involved in standards setting. In a period of rapid change, standards development in these areas has focused primarily on the provision of functionality. That is, there are few overarching roadmaps for development and issues such as security and interoperability are of less concern for many of the new standards developers. In addition, new oversight structures have emerged that appear to be more responsive to the particular needs of developers in the ICT arena. It may be important for nation states to consider assisting in roadmap development in the ICT arena to insure security and privacy issues are addressed such that these increasingly essential systems are less vulnerable.