scholarly journals Electronic and traditional public participation in modern public policy

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
A.Yu. Sungurov ◽  
D.A. Arkatov
Keyword(s):  
Public Policy ◽  
Decision Making ◽  
Public Participation ◽  
General Public ◽  
Academic Community ◽  
Review Article ◽  
Participatory Decision Making ◽  
The World ◽  
New Challenges ◽  
The Moment

Around the World, public policy is experiencing the growth of eparticipation – ICT-based ways of interaction on public matters between state and general public. These may include online-consultations or participatory decision-making. Despite the scholars’ effort to extensively study the phenomena, we still know little of e-participation. This review article seeks to compile what do we know of e-participation at the moment and how does it compare to traditional ways of public participation. It was showed that both traditional and digital participation are contradictory. The former is often resisted by bureaucracy and does not enjoy much of people’s attention. The latter offers some solutions but brings new challenges. We further conclude the need for continuous studies of e-participation, offering the venues for the academic community

scholarly journals Diabetes, hyperglycemia and its role in fitness for work

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mirsaeed Attarchi ◽  
Seyed Mohammad Seyedmehdi
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Scientific Evidence ◽  
Review Article ◽  
Diabetic Patients ◽  
Efficacy And Safety ◽  
Ability To Work ◽  
Personal Risk ◽  
Fitness For Work ◽  
The World ◽  
Prevalent Disease

Introduction: Diabetes is a prevalent disease in our country and in the world. Hyperglycemia complications can impact on ability to work. Decision making about fitness for work in diabetic patients is important and complicated. The aim of this study was assessment scientific evidence and present suitable approach for fitness for work in diabetic patients. Methods: In this review article the last evidence from Scopus, Science Direct, Pub Med, Google Scholar, SID and Magiran Data Base was evaluated and different aspects of fitness for work in hyperglycemia of diabetics of diabetic patients was analyzed. Results: Assessment of personal risk and diabetic patient abilities in comparison with inherent requirements of the job is important in decision making about fitness for work. Most of these patients can work and have acceptable efficacy and safety in most of the jobs. Conclusion: In most of job situations, with support of the employer and job environment modifications, diabetic patients can work with acceptable efficacy and safety.

scholarly journals THE CHANGING NATURE OF GEOSPATIAL DATA – CHALLENGES FOR A NATIONAL MAPPING AGENCY

2020 ◽  
Vol XLIII-B5-2020 ◽  
pp. 179-183
Author(s):  
D. A. Holland ◽  
I. Hurst ◽  
G. Heathcote ◽  
J. Horgan ◽  
D. Capstick
Keyword(s):  
General Public ◽  
Autonomous Vehicle ◽  
Geospatial Data ◽  
Recent Experience ◽  
Two Dimensional ◽  
Digital Form ◽  
The World ◽  
New Challenges ◽  
Global Initiatives

Abstract. National Mapping and Cadastral Agencies have been creating geospatial products for customers for many decades and, in some cases, for over two centuries. During that time the nature of the products largely remained the same, consisting of cartographic representations of the world, usually generalized and projected in a two-dimensional form. Even when mapping agencies began to convert their mapping from paper to digital form, the products created were largely based on their paper map counterparts. In recent times, the general public has become far more aware of geospatial data due to global initiatives from Google, Bing, Apple, OpenStreetMap and others. While some users of geospatial data still require the same products as before, many other users need different kinds of geospatial data and products, ones which will provide new challenges to National Mapping and Cadastral Agencies. In this paper we discuss some of these new geospatial data users and illustrate some the challenges using an example from Ordnance Survey’s recent experience of a project in the connected autonomous vehicle domain.

scholarly journals Models and numbers: Representing the world or imposing order?

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-40
Author(s):  
Matthias Kaiser ◽  
Tatjana Buklijas ◽  
Peter Gluckman
Keyword(s):  
Public Policy ◽  
Decision Making ◽  
Power Relations ◽  
Good Governance ◽  
Scientific Models ◽  
Epidemiological Models ◽  
The World ◽  
Implicit Power

Abstract We argue for a foundational epistemic claim and a hypothesis about the production and uses of mathematical epidemiological models, exploring the consequences for our political and socio-economic lives. First, in order to make the best use of scientific models, we need to understand why models are not truly representational of our world, but are already pitched towards various uses. Second, we need to understand the implicit power relations in numbers and models in public policy, and, thus, the implications for good governance if numbers and models are used as the exclusive drivers of decision making.

scholarly journals Reconfiguring Economic Democracy: Generating New Forms of Collective Agency, Individual Economic Freedom and Public Participation

2019 ◽  
Vol 34 (4) ◽  
pp. 678-695 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrew Cumbers ◽  
Robert McMaster ◽  
Susana Cabaço ◽  
Michael J White
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Public Participation ◽  
Economic Freedom ◽  
Institutional Arrangements ◽  
Collective Agency ◽  
Economic Democracy ◽  
Economic Rights ◽  
Economic Decision Making ◽  
The World ◽  
The Right

We seek to advance debate and thinking about economic democracy. While recognising the importance of existing approaches focused upon collective bargaining and workplace organisation, we articulate a perspective that emphasises the importance of individual economic rights, capabilities and freedoms at a time when established norms and protections at work are in retreat in many parts of the world. We outline a framework where both individual rights to self-government of one’s own labour, as well as the right of all citizens to participate in economic decision-making, are emphasised. The framework identifies a set of underlying principles, prerequisites, critical spheres for intervention, progressive institutional arrangements, and policies in pursuit of an expanded agenda around economic democracy. In this way, economic democracy potentially empowers individuals and creates the basis for generating new and sustainable alliances that challenge elite dominance in contemporary capitalism.

SBS: Is There a Role for a Multicultural Broadcaster in 2009 and beyond?

2009 ◽  
Vol 133 (1) ◽  
pp. 19-23
Author(s):  
Bruce Meagher
Keyword(s):  
Public Policy ◽  
Government Support ◽  
Language Support ◽  
Current Affairs ◽  
The World ◽  
Public Debates ◽  
New Challenges ◽  
Broadcasting Service

This article notes that the degree of retreat from multiculturalism in public policy in Australia since the mid-1990s has challenged the rationales for government support for the Special Broadcasting Service, and presents the case for ongoing community and government support for SBS in terms of its distinctive contribution to public debates within Australia, and Australia's place in the world. It is noted that this is not uniquely a function of its news and current affairs programs, but is seen across a suite of programming ranging from documentaries to locally produced drama, light entertainment and comedy. It also emphasises the language support remit for SBS, and some of the new challenges faced in supporting communities for recently arrived refugees into Australia.

scholarly journals Review of Artificial Intelligence Applied in Decision-Making Processes in Agricultural Public Policy

Processes ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 8 (11) ◽  
pp. 1374
Author(s):  
Juan M. Sánchez ◽  
Juan P. Rodríguez ◽  
Helbert E. Espitia
Keyword(s):  
Artificial Intelligence ◽  
Public Policy ◽  
Decision Making ◽  
Genetic Algorithms ◽  
Agricultural Production ◽  
Public Policies ◽  
Search Process ◽  
Agent Based ◽  
The World ◽  
Decision Making Processes

The objective of this article is to review how Artificial Intelligence (AI) tools have helped the process of formulating agricultural public policies in the world. For this, a search process was carried out in the main scientific repositories finding different publications. The findings have shown that, first, the most commonly used AI tools are agent-based models, cellular automata, and genetic algorithms. Secondly, they have been utilized to determine land and water use, and agricultural production. In the end, the large usefulness that AI tools have in the process of formulating agricultural public policies is concluded.

scholarly journals COMPLEXITY IN MANAGEMENT: OPPORTUNITY OR THREAT?

2015 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 4-5
Author(s):  
Iwona Gorzeń-Mitka
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Self Organization ◽  
The World ◽  
New Challenges ◽  
Way Of Thinking ◽  
Complex Phenomena

Complexity is a new way of thinking about the world (Snowden Boone, 2007). Some of the attributes of complex phenomena is uncertainty, non-linearity, self-organization, turbulence, and unpredictability. In the situation of dynamically changing external and internal conditions of its functioning, an organization can survive and grow only when it is able to successfully adapt its changeability to the changeability of the environment in which it is operating (Penc, 2002, p.51). The existing and applied systems of decision-making are often inadequate to the new challenges encountered by enterprises.

UK Merger Control

2021 ◽  
pp. 169-200
Author(s):  
David Reader
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
National Security ◽  
Public Interest ◽  
Phase 1 ◽  
Merger Control ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Dark Ages ◽  
The World ◽  
New Challenges ◽  
The Uk

In Chapter 7, David Reader observes that the introduction of the Enterprise Act 2002 formally ended a much maligned public interest approach to merger control in the UK, oft-criticized for the uncertainty permeated by ministerial decision-making. In its place came a new competition-based test to be applied by independent competition authorities with new powers and resources at their disposal. Despite encountering some teething problems as the authorities sought to interpret their respective roles at Phases 1 and 2, the reforms have proven largely successful in delivering one of the most transparent and predictable merger regimes in the world. This chapter reflects on the evolution of UK merger control under the Enterprise Act, observing that a combination of major—and finer-tuning of the competition authority’s Phase 1 enforcement powers has enabled it to effectively deliver upon its mandate. New challenges lie in wait, however, and Reader stresses that the CMA must be allocated the resources and statutory remit to contend with the increased workload implications presented by Brexit and the novel theories of harm associated with mergers in the digital sector. Of further concern are recent reforms to extend the national security public interest ground, which risk a return to the ‘dark ages’ of opaque ministerial decision-making if further safeguards are not implemented.

Using Environmental Information to Engage Public Participation in Decision Making in Coastal Policy Development

2013 ◽  
Author(s):  
Suzuette S. Soomai ◽  
Bertrum H. MacDonald ◽  
Peter G. Wells
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Public Participation ◽  
Policy Development ◽  
General Public ◽  
Environmental Information ◽  
Main Issue ◽  
Public Communication ◽  
Coastal Policy ◽  
Stakeholder Groups ◽  
Grand Public

This paper presents findings of a study of the awareness and use of The 2009 State of Nova Scotia’s Coast Report by specific stakeholder groups and the general public. Communication of the Report to wider audiences was identified as a main issue in increasing public participation in the development of provincial coastal policy.Cet article présente les résultats d’une étude sur le niveau de connaissance et l’utilisation du 2009 State of Nova Scotia’s Coast Report par des groupes d’intervenants précis ainsi que par le grand public. On a identifié la communication du rapport à un vaste auditoire comment étant le principal moyen pour augmenter la participation publique dans le développement d’une politique côtière provinciale. 

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