scholarly journals Modular Web Portal Approach for Stimulating Home Renovation: Lessons from Local Authority Developments

Energies ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 14 (5) ◽  
pp. 1270
Author(s):  
Minyoung Kwon ◽  
Erwin Mlecnik
Keyword(s):  
Digital Media ◽  
Local Authority ◽  
Case Study Research ◽  
Management Plan ◽  
Web Portals ◽  
Single Family ◽  
Web Portal ◽  
Local Authorities ◽  
Neutral Information

Web portals have the potential to promote sustainable environmental ideas due to the capacity of digital media, such as easy accessibility, openness, and networking. Local authorities (LAs) are responsible for activating carbon savings in homes, and they are key actors when it comes to providing neutral information to their citizens. Local authority web portals may thus create environmental awareness, particularly regarding owner-occupied single-family home renovation. Nevertheless, the experiences of LAs developing web portals have rarely been studied. Therefore, this paper analyses the development process of various LA web modules and investigates how LAs foster modular web portals to stimulate the adoption of home renovation with parameters to assess LAs’ actions in terms of the management of web-modules development. A homeowner renovation journey model is applied to map current local authority developments. Case study research and interviews were done to analyse and evaluate the adoption of modular web portals developed and tested by six local authorities in four countries in Europe. Based on the development and use of the modular web portal, lessons have been derived emphasising the importance of co-creation, integrating with offline activities, and a strategic management plan.

Integrating Web Portals with Semantic Web Services

2012 ◽  
pp. 326-336
Author(s):  
César J. Acuña ◽  
Mariano Minoli ◽  
Esperanza Marcos
Keyword(s):  
Web Services ◽  
Semantic Web ◽  
Data Integration ◽  
Methodological Approach ◽  
Integrated Systems ◽  
Semantic Web Services ◽  
Web Portals ◽  
Web Portal ◽  
Integration Architecture

Several systems integration proposals have been suggested over the years. However these proposals have mainly focused on data integration, not allowing users to take advantage of services offered by Web portals. Most of the mentioned proposals only provide a set of design principles to build integrated systems and lack in suggesting a systematic way of how to develop systems based on the integration architecture they propose. In previous work we have developed PISA (Web Portal Integration Architecture)—a Web portal integration architecture for data and services—and MIDAS-S, a methodological approach for the development of integrated Web portals, built according to PISA. This work shows, by means of a case study, how both proposals fit together integrating Web portals.

scholarly journals Twinning arrangements and service delivery in Zimbabwe’s local authorities: The case of Bulawayo City Council (Zimbabwe) and eThekwini Municipality (South Africa)

2021 ◽  
Vol 2 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alouis Chilunjika ◽  
Sharon RT Chilunjika
Keyword(s):  
Service Delivery ◽  
Community Involvement ◽  
Institutional Environment ◽  
Local Governance ◽  
Case Study Research ◽  
City Council ◽  
Local Authorities ◽  
Developing Cities ◽  
The Impact

The Zimbabwean local government environment has been affected by chronic defects in the provision of basic public services. As such, city twinning has been adopted as one of the strategies to address the impasse in service delivery as it allows for the sharing of expertise in local governance, development, strategic international relations and the enhancement of service delivery in local authorities. Using the exploratory case study research design the study explores the impact the twinning arrangement between Bulawayo City Council (BCC) and eThekwini Municipality and how it has enhanced service delivery in Bulawayo. Data was gathered from written documents, observations and in-depth interviews. The study established that the BCC-eThekwini cooperation has been very fruitful and Bulawayo City Council has benefited immensely through the exchange of ideas and information as well as technology transfer among others from this twinning arrangement. Nonetheless, it was also observed that weak legal and financial frameworks hinders the city twinning partnership from realising its full fruition. The study concluded that city twinning between BCC and eThekwini is a favourable route for creating sustainable South to South linkages that benefit developing cities. As recommendations, the article argues that there is need for clarity in defining the partnership roles and goals, community involvement as well as an enabling policy and institutional environment.

scholarly journals E-service portal for freelance community: case study in photography business

2022 ◽  
Vol 12 (2) ◽  
pp. 1759
Author(s):  
Supaporn Chai-Arayalert ◽  
Supattra Puttinaovarat ◽  
Nattaporn Thongsri
Keyword(s):  
Information Sources ◽  
Performance Ratings ◽  
Web Portals ◽  
Web Portal ◽  
Design And Implementation ◽  
Channel Information ◽  
And Performance ◽  
Potential Customers ◽  
Effective Design

This study revealed the limitations of freelancers’ inability to perform portfolios and biographies, their performance ratings to a large community of customers. The difficulties were evident in searching for reliable, qualified and experienced freelancers from multi-channel information sources. These limitations might impact the ability of freelancers selected by customers to perform the required task to the customers’ satisfaction. This research focused on the case study of the freelance community for photography business in southern of Thailand. This aims to establish an online facility in which freelance photographers can publicize their services and performance to potential customers. The concepts entailed in web portals and e-services were the key elements in the development and ensured that its functions worked efficiently. The study employed qualitative methods were used to assess the current practices of web portal and thus determining the requirements for the e-service web portal for freelance community. The practical contribution is that it can aid the effective design and implementation of an e-service web portal for the freelance community of photography business, and it is a massive step towards promoting the freelance community in Thailand.

Integrating Web Portals with Semantic Web Services

2010 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 57-67 ◽  
Author(s):  
César J. Acuña ◽  
Mariano Minoli ◽  
Esperanza Marcos
Keyword(s):  
Web Services ◽  
Semantic Web ◽  
Data Integration ◽  
Methodological Approach ◽  
Integrated Systems ◽  
Semantic Web Services ◽  
Web Portals ◽  
Web Portal ◽  
Integration Architecture

Several systems integration proposals have been suggested over the years. However these proposals have mainly focused on data integration, not allowing users to take advantage of services offered by Web portals. Most of the mentioned proposals only provide a set of design principles to build integrated systems and lack in suggesting a systematic way of how to develop systems based on the integration architecture they propose. In previous work we have developed PISA (Web Portal Integration Architecture)—a Web portal integration architecture for data and services—and MIDAS-S, a methodological approach for the development of integrated Web portals, built according to PISA. This work shows, by means of a case study, how both proposals fit together integrating Web portals.

scholarly journals Architecture of the Organic.Edunet Web Portal

2011 ◽  
pp. 759-773
Author(s):  
Nikos Manouselis ◽  
Kostas Kastrantas ◽  
Salvador Sanchez-Alonso ◽  
Jesús Cáceres ◽  
Hannes Ebner
Keyword(s):  
Semantic Web ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Learning Resources ◽  
Web Portals ◽  
Web Portal ◽  
Semantic Web Technologies ◽  
Web Technologies

The use of Semantic Web technologies in educational Web portals has been reported to facilitate users’ search, access, and retrieval of learning resources. To achieve this, a number of different architectural components and services need to be harmonically combined and implemented. This article presents how this issue is dealt with in the context of a large-scale case study. More specifically, it describes the architecture behind the Organic.Edunet Web portal that aims to provide access to a federation of repositories with learning resources on agricultural topics. The various components of the architecture are presented and the supporting technologies are explained. In addition, the article focuses on how Semantic Web technologies are being adopted, specialized, and put in practice in order to facilitate ontology-aided sharing and reusing of learning resources.

scholarly journals Public Space at the “Palm of a Hand”: Perceptions of Urban Projects Through Digital Media

2021 ◽  
Vol 6 (4) ◽  
pp. 242-256 ◽  
Author(s):  
Byron Ioannou ◽  
Gregoris Kalnis ◽  
Lora Nicolaou
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
New Media ◽  
Public Space ◽  
Digital Media ◽  
Urban Space ◽  
Methodological Approach ◽  
Case Study Research ◽  
Comparative Case Study ◽  
The Way

This article examines the interactions between digital and social media as the contemporary incubators of place perceptions and the critical debate of environmental quality. Digital and social media may change the way people live but not the way they use physical spaces. This indirect reading of place acts in terms of perceptual understanding in a number of ways, but, most importantly, it becomes fundamental in the “construction” of the sense of place. This is because it impacts on the way information is associated with reality or a contract of the reality which is generated through its “interference” with our intellectual and emotive understanding of place. At the same time, the politics of a new “sociality” contains participations and exclusions. The article adopts comparative case study research as the methodological approach for investigating notions of how urban space is perceived through the case study of Eleftheria Square in Nicosia, a controversial urban regeneration project that generated an extensive debate through digital and social media in Cyprus during the last two decades. It is an attempt of a parallel decoding of (i) a more formal or directive view through digital newspapers’ survey and (ii) an informal view through a Facebook group content analysis. Through the case study, the inefficiencies and potentialities of the new media tools in informing the wider public are clear by providing at the same time evidence of their priorities, preferences, and fears. The article comes to two basic conclusions: (i) the perceptions of urban projects through digital media are not static but fluent and constantly updated, usually turning positive as projects are completed and experienced; and (ii) the interactive and synchronous nature of social media provides a more accurate and updated picture of the society’s changing perceptions of public space.

Web Portals as an Exemplar for Tourist Destinations

2011 ◽  
pp. 1157-1160
Author(s):  
Michelle Rowe ◽  
Wayne Pease ◽  
Pauline McLeod
Keyword(s):  
Web Portals ◽  
Web Portal ◽  
Tourist Destinations

Continuing on from an earlier article in this publication that considers portals and their relevance to destination tourism, this article investigates the case study of the Margaretriver.com Web portal. Margaretriver.com is based on a brokerage model of portals and this structure has been important to its development. Also critical to its success is the collective approach taken by small and medium tourist enterprises (SMTEs) as they have coalesced around shared assets that belong to the region.

scholarly journals Benefits and challenges of knowledge management in public sector : a case study of local authorities in Malaysia

2010 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 67
Author(s):  
Kalsom Salleh ◽  
Syed Noh Syed Ahmad ◽  
Syed Omar Sharifuddin Syed Ikhsan
Keyword(s):  
Knowledge Management ◽  
Public Sector ◽  
Case Study Research ◽  
Electronic Government ◽  
Management Tool ◽  
Local Authorities ◽  
Management Tools ◽  
Private Sector Organizations ◽  
High Level

The potential impact of knowledge management in the public sector organizations on the stakeholders is greater than that in the private sector organizations. Knowledge management is regarded as an essential component to the Electronic Government evolution in Malaysia because it uses people and technology to generate creativity and innovation in the existing systems to improve productivity and quality of services. Thus. this paper explores the role ofknowledge management in the Local Authorities in a broader perspective towards achieving the Electronic Government. A case study research of knowledge management in the Local Authorities is imperative as it provides empirical evidence on whether knowledge management is a suitable platform for Electronic Government evolution in Malaysia. Survey questionnaires were distributed to the senior and middle management government officers in the Local Authorities located in the Kuala Lumpur Federal Territory and Selangor State. This group ofgovernment officers was selected as they are responsible for the strategic policies and operational management in various departments ofthe Local Authorities. The responses from the questionnaires were aimed to identify the potential benefits and challenges in using KM as a strategic management tool to improve the internal operational efficiency and electronic service delivery system ofthe Local Authorities. Thefindings revealed a high level ofperceived importance ofKM benefits in achieving the Electronic Government paradigm. However, the main obstaclesfor the Local Authorities to adopt knowledge management are non-standardized processes and procedures of organizational systems and outdated information and communication technology and inadequate knowledge management tools.

scholarly journals Architecture of the Organic.Edunet Web Portal

2011 ◽  
pp. 54-69
Author(s):  
Nikos Manouselis ◽  
Kostas Kastrantas ◽  
Salvador Sanchez-Alonso ◽  
Jesús Cáceres ◽  
Hannes Ebner ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Semantic Web ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Learning Resources ◽  
Web Portals ◽  
Web Portal ◽  
Semantic Web Technologies ◽  
Web Technologies

The use of Semantic Web technologies in educational Web portals has been reported to facilitate users’ search, access, and retrieval of learning resources. To achieve this, a number of different architectural components and services need to be harmonically combined and implemented. This article presents how this issue is dealt with in the context of a large-scale case study. More specifically, it describes the architecture behind the Organic.Edunet Web portal that aims to provide access to a federation of repositories with learning resources on agricultural topics. The various components of the architecture are presented and the supporting technologies are explained. In addition, the article focuses on how Semantic Web technologies are being adopted, specialized, and put in practice in order to facilitate ontology-aided sharing and reusing of learning resources.

scholarly journals USER AWARENESS, IMPEDIMENTS AND PROPOSED IMPROVEMENTS TO THE ONE STOP CENTRE (OSC) ONLINE 3.0 SYSTEM. CASE STUDY: MUNICIPAL COUNCIL OF SUBANG JAYA, SELANGOR, MALAYSIA

2020 ◽  
Vol 18 (14) ◽  
Author(s):  
Siti Mazwin Kamaruddin ◽  
Rozdiana Mohd Rosmi ◽  
Faridah Muhamad Halil ◽  
Alamah Misni ◽  
Marlyana Azyyati Marzukhi
Keyword(s):  
Local Authority ◽  
Secondary Data ◽  
Primary Data ◽  
Local Authorities ◽  
Planning Stage ◽  
Online Submission ◽  
One Stop ◽  
The One ◽  
Insight Into

This study provides an insight into an adoption of online submission approach at a planning stage. The case study is an implementation of One Stop Centre (OSC) Online 3.0 System at a Local Authority. Local Authority is Majlis Perbandaran Subang Jaya (MPSJ) as one of the pioneers to implement this system. Currently, not all Local Authorities implement the system fully. For this study, the data collected consisted of primary and secondary data. Primary data of users' knowledge, readiness and satisfaction of the system were collected through a survey in a form of questionnaire. In contrast, secondary data were acquired from Local Government Department, MPSJ OSC Department and reliable sources, such as reports of the development plan, Local Authorities, relevant agencies, and websites. The findings indicated that almost half of the users found the system effective and successful while suggesting that there was still room for improvement relevant in shaping the alignment between technology, organisation and human factor. The resulting knowledge from this study could help to improve e-government implementation in Malaysia and could benefit other Local Authorities towards digital e-submission of plans online.

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