scholarly journals The Cyberdivisions Produced by the Design of VGI under the Platform Economy: The Case of the Restaurant Sector in TripAdvisor

2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (11) ◽  
pp. 717
Author(s):  
Daniela Ferreira ◽  
Mário Vale ◽  
Renato Miguel Carmo
Keyword(s):  
Confidence Interval ◽  
Urban Economy ◽  
Spatial Inequality ◽  
Representative Survey ◽  
Digital Platforms ◽  
Spatial Coverage ◽  
Firm Owners ◽  
The City ◽  
Good Coverage ◽  
Platform Economy

There is increasing concern regarding the inequalities produced by digital platforms based on volunteered geographic information (VGI). Several forms of inequalities have been observed, namely the unequal spatial coverage and the uneven levels of usage even in territories with good coverage. However, VGI platforms under the logic of platform economy have generated other forms of spatial inequality that require more attention. The cyberspace within VGI platforms is producing different cyberspatialities, especially with the platformisation processes that have made this type of inequality more evident. With this in mind, this paper aims to explore the making of cyberdivisions under the platform economy. We argue that the design of VGI within digital platforms is generating cyberdivisions in the urban economy. This research is particularly interested in exploring the restaurant sector in the TripAdvisor platform in the city of Lisbon. In this paper, we draw on a representative survey by questionnaire to restaurant firm owners. We obtained 385 responses out of a universe of 3453 restaurants. This sample provides a confidence level of 95% and a confidence interval of 5%. In addition, we webscraped data from TripAdvisor to assess its coverage in Lisbon. This study reveals that there are different forms of online presence and engagement which have generated cyberdivisions.

Analisis Wilayah Kecamatan Potensial Melalui Pendekatan Tipologi Klassen di Kabupaten Ende

Analisis ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 19 (1) ◽  
pp. 39-49
Author(s):  
Estherlina Sagajoka
Keyword(s):  
Economic Development ◽  
Descriptive Analysis ◽  
Population Data ◽  
Spatial Inequality ◽  
Theil Index ◽  
Time Data ◽  
Entropy Index ◽  
Quantitative Descriptive Analysis ◽  
Index Analysis ◽  
The City

This study aims to determine the comparison of the results of the inequality analysis of economic development between districts / cities in the province of East Nusa Tenggara for the period of 2013-2018. The method used in this research is quantitative descriptive analysis using the Williamson index, and Theil Entropy Index, using time data per capita PDRB series and population data for each district / city in 2013-2018. The Williamson Index analysis results show that the economic development sector inequality in 21 districts in NTT province is very evenly distributed (low inequality) except for the city of Kupang, which has an Williamson Index value of 1.49 other than districts in NTT province in the period 2013-2018. The Intra Index Analysis Results show spatial inequality within the regency. The city of Nusa Tenggara Timur province is fairly evenly distributed within the regency except the city of Kupang  shows an unequal inequality compared to 21 other districts. Through the Theil Entropy Index calculation of development inequality between 21 regencies and Kupang  tend to widen (divergence) which has Theil  Index of 798,15, while the other 21 districts in the 2013-2018 period have the Theil Entropy Index Index 211,26 for Regencies and  TTS 201,11, while other districts have an index numberbelow 200.

scholarly journals Platform Patterns—Using Proven Principles to Develop Digital Platforms

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marvin Drewel ◽  
Leon Özcan ◽  
Jürgen Gausemeier ◽  
Roman Dumitrescu
Keyword(s):  
Mechanical Engineering ◽  
Early Stage ◽  
Use Case ◽  
Digital Platforms ◽  
Hands On ◽  
The Future ◽  
Platform Development ◽  
Strategic Options ◽  
Generic Design ◽  
Platform Economy

AbstractHardly any other area has as much disruptive potential as digital platforms in the course of digitalization. After serious changes have already taken place in the B2C sector with platforms such as Amazon and Airbnb, the B2B sector is on the threshold to the so-called platform economy. In mechanical engineering, pioneers like GE (PREDIX) and Claas (365FarmNet) are trying to get their hands on the act. This is hardly a promising option for small and medium-sized companies, as only a few large companies will survive. Small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) are already facing the threat of losing direct consumer contact and becoming exchangeable executers. In order to prevent this, it is important to anticipate at an early stage which strategic options exist for the future platform economy and which adjustments to the product program should already be initiated today. Basically, medium-sized companies in particular lack a strategy for an advantageous entry into the future platform economy.The paper presents different approaches to master the challenges of participating in the platform economy by using platform patterns. Platform patterns represent proven principles of already existing platforms. We show how we derived a catalogue with 37 identified platform patterns. The catalogue has a generic design and can be customized for a specific use case. The versatility of the catalogue is underlined by three possible applications: (1) platform ideation, (2) platform development, and (3) platform characterization.

scholarly journals An apple a day – how the platform economy impacts value creation in the healthcare market

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alexander Gleiss ◽  
Marco Kohlhagen ◽  
Key Pousttchi
Keyword(s):  
Value Creation ◽  
New Technologies ◽  
Healthcare Industry ◽  
Digital Platforms ◽  
Value Network ◽  
Healthcare Market ◽  
Network Analyses ◽  
The Social ◽  
Research Gap ◽  
Platform Economy

AbstractThe healthcare industry has been slow to adopt new technologies and practices. However, digital and data-enabled innovations diffuse the market, and the COVID-19 pandemic has recently emphasized the necessity of a fundamental digital transformation. Available research indicates the relevance of digital platforms in this process but has not studied their economic impact to date. In view of this research gap and the social and economic relevance of healthcare, we explore how digital platforms might affect value creation in this market with a particular focus on Google, Apple, Facebook, Amazon, and Microsoft (GAFAM). We rely on value network analyses to examine how GAFAM platforms introduce new value-creating roles and mechanisms in healthcare through their manifold products and services. Hereupon, we examine the GAFAM-impact on healthcare by scrutinizing the facilitators, activities, and effects. Our analyses show how GAFAM platforms multifacetedly untie conventional relationships and transform value creation structures in the healthcare market.

Platform economy as a new form of capitalism: a Régulationist research programme

2019 ◽  
Vol 43 (4) ◽  
pp. 805-824 ◽  
Author(s):  
Matthieu Montalban ◽  
Vincent Frigant ◽  
Bernard Jullien
Keyword(s):  
Research Programme ◽  
Sharing Economy ◽  
Digital Platforms ◽  
Growth Regime ◽  
Long Run ◽  
New Process ◽  
New Form ◽  
Platform Economy ◽  
Mode Of Regulation

AbstractThe terms ‘platform economy’ or ‘sharing economy’ have become widespread with the development of digital platforms like Uber. This economy is transforming capitalism and raising important questions about its nature. Is it a new process of embeddedness or is it the next step for deregulation following the crisis of the financialised regime of accumulation (RA)? Is it a possible new Growth Regime? Using the approach of the French Régulation school of thought, we describe the nature and transformations of the form of competition inherent in platforms. Although this may favour some forms of re-embeddedness, we show that it will accelerate some of the trends and characteristics of the institutional forms of the financialised RA and that it is an endogenous product of its crisis. This raises further questions and uncertainties related to the ability of platforms to generate stable long run growth due to the dysfunctionality of the mode of régulation and the conflicts it could generate.

scholarly journals DETERMINING THE IMPACT OF TOURISM DEVELOPMENT ON THE CITY ECONOMY

2020 ◽  
Vol 5 (158) ◽  
pp. 32-37
Author(s):  
N. Denysenko
Keyword(s):  
Indirect Effects ◽  
Urban Economy ◽  
Tourism Development ◽  
Tourism Industry ◽  
Economic Effects ◽  
Direct And Indirect Effects ◽  
Tourism Impact ◽  
Goods And Services ◽  
The Impact ◽  
The City

Problems of efficiency of tourism development for the urban economy should be considered on the basis of a systematic approach, which involves the establishment of different criteria and indicators for different levels of government, as well as a hierarchy of goals and corresponding efficiency criteria. Based on the analysis, the article summarizes the concept of "tourist potential of the city". It is determined that the main components of tourist potential are resource, economic and social potential. The main methods of determining the tourist potential are identified, including expert, comparative, cartographic, technological, aesthetic methods of analysis. The directions of tourism impact on the economy of the territory are considered. Direct and indirect effects, as well as induced effects of tourism development are considered separately. The interrelation and interaction of different spheres of the city economy and tourism are shown. In the analysis it is necessary to consider significant sectors of the urban economy: hotel, construction, catering, retail, tour operators, industry, wholesale, housing and communal services, communications, transport, insurance and banking, medicine, education and others. To calculate the gross tourist product, calculate the sum of all costs incurred for the production of tourist goods and services for a certain period. These are the costs of tourist consumption, private and public tourism investments. In addition, calculate the amount of all income from the sale of tourist goods and services for a certain period. This income from the sale of tourist goods and services, income from renting rooms, apartments, etc. The use of a multiplier to determine the impact of tourism development on the city economy is proposed. The calculation of tourism multipliers involves determining the total income from the tourism industry and related infrastructure. Comprehensive assessment allows to identify the economic level of tourism development in the territory, the effect, and is also the basis for justification and management decisions. The study showed that in the modern scientific literature there are several types of multipliers. These are multipliers of income, employment, investment, commercial operations, production and sales. The foreign experience of assessment of social and economic effects from the development of the tourist sphere is analyzed and the possibility of its use in the conditions of Ukraine is substantiated. Keywords: tourist potential of the city, direct and indirect effects, multiplier.

scholarly journals Comunicação rural e internet: protagonismo da população do campo

2020 ◽  
Vol 18 (41) ◽  
pp. 186
Author(s):  
Luiz Custódio Da Silva ◽  
José Primitivo Leal Neto ◽  
Iara Alves dos Santos
Keyword(s):  
Rural Communities ◽  
Rural Population ◽  
Rio Grande ◽  
Communication Tools ◽  
Digital Platforms ◽  
Media Activism ◽  
The City ◽  
Share Information

Apresentamos uma reflexão sobre a utilização de ferramentas contemporâneas de comunicação pela população rural. Para tanto, fizemos uma revisão bibliográfica sobre as concepções de comunicação rural, trazendo algumas problematizações para sua atualização. Em seguida, tendo como parâmetro o YouTube, falamos também sobre a liberação do polo emissor e sobre a democratização da fala. Para isso, nosso objeto empírico foi o canal “Humorista da Serraria Ofc”, protagonizado por agricultores do sítio Serraria, da cidade de João Dias, Rio Grande do Norte. Compreendemos que está havendo um movimento que propende atualizar a concepção de comunicação rural, tendo em vista que o protagonismo desse campo passa a ser das comunidades rurais. Eles estão utilizando cada vez mais as plataformas digitais para compartilhar informações e causos que permeiam a vida no campo. Comunicação rural; YouTube; Humorista da Serraria Ofc; Ativista midiático; Produção de conteúdo. We present a reflection on the use of contemporary communication tools by the rural population. To this end, we did a bibliographic review about the conceptions of rural communication, bringing some problematizations for its updating. Then, taking YouTube as a parameter, we talk too about the release of the emitting pole and the democratization of speech. For this, our empirical object was the channel “Humorista da Serraria Ofc”, starring farmers from the Serraria sítio, from the city of João Dias, Rio Grande do Norte. We understand that there is a movement that promotes the updating of the concept of rural communication, bearing in mind that the protagonism of this field comes from rural communities. They are increasingly using digital platforms to share information and stories that permeate life in the countryside. Rural communication; YouTube; Serraria Ofc humorist; Media activism; Content production. Presentamos una reflexión sobre el uso de herramientas de comunicación contemporáneas por parte de la población rural. Para ello, nosotros hicimos una revisión bibliográfica sobre los conceptos de comunicación rural, trayendo algunas problematizaciones para su actualización. En seguida, tomando YouTube como parámetro, también hablamos sobre la liberación del polo emisor y sobre la democratización del discurso. Para esto, nuestro objeto empírico fue el canal "Humorista da Serraria Ofc", que presenta a los agricultores del sitio Serraria, en la ciudad de João Dias, Rio Grande do Norte. Entendemos que existe un movimiento que promueve la actualización del concepto de comunicación rural, teniendo en cuenta que el protagonismo de este campo pasa a ser de las comunidades rurales. Cada vez más ellas utilizan plataformas digitales para compartir información e historias que impregnan la vida en el campo. Comunicación rural; YouTube; Humorista de la Serraria Ofc; Activismo mediático; Producción de contenidos.

scholarly journals Gridlocked in the city: kinship and witchcraft among Wayao street vendors in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania

Africa ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 88 (S1) ◽  
pp. S51-S71 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alexis Malefakis
Keyword(s):  
Social Relations ◽  
Urban Economy ◽  
Dar Es Salaam ◽  
The Other ◽  
Heterogeneous Environment ◽  
Street Vendors ◽  
Kinship Relations ◽  
The One ◽  
The City

AbstractFor a group of Wayao street vendors in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, kinship relations were simultaneously an advantage and a hindrance. Their migration to the city and entry into the urban economy had occurred along ethnic and kinship lines. But, as they perceived the socially heterogeneous environment of the city that potentially offered them opportunities to cooperate with people from different social or ethnic backgrounds, they experienced their continuing dependency on their relatives as a form of confinement. Against the backdrop of the city, the Wayao perceived their social relations as being burdened with an inescapable sameness that made it impossible to trust one another. Mistrust, contempt and mutual suspicion were the flip side of close social relations and culminated in accusations ofuchawi(Swahili: witchcraft). However, these accusations did not have a disintegrative effect; paradoxically, their impact on social relations among the vendors was integrative. On the one hand,uchawiallegations expressed the claustrophobic feeling of stifling relations; on the other, they compelled the accused to adhere to a shared morality of egalitarian relations and exposed the feeling that the accused individual was worthy of scrutiny, indicating that relationships with him were of particular importance to others.

Accessible Tourism and Digital Platforms

2021 ◽  
pp. 235-247
Author(s):  
Catarina Meira ◽  
Isabel Silva Martins ◽  
Bruno Barbosa Sousa
Keyword(s):  
Special Needs ◽  
Corporate Responsibility ◽  
Qualitative Methodology ◽  
Digital Platforms ◽  
Study Context ◽  
The City

The disclosure of accessibility conditions in tourism supply encourages the demand for destinations. The fact that a destination seeks solutions in order to satisfy the needs and preferences of tourists, regardless of the nature and degree of their disability, fosters a spirit of social and corporate responsibility, contributing to a differentiated, competitive, and, at the same time, sustainable destination. Therefore, the present study aims to present the accessible resources in the city of Viana do Castelo, based on the Tur4ll platform. The objective is to analyse the tourism offer available and suitable for tourists with special needs (SN). By using a qualitative methodology, a diagnosis of the study context is presented, as well as the main constraints and limitations that are sometimes inherent to tourism with specific motivation.

Co-Producing Tools for Participation and Action in Urban Environments

2017 ◽  
pp. 128-144
Author(s):  
Corelia E. Baibarac
Keyword(s):  
Design Process ◽  
Urban Environments ◽  
Decision Makers ◽  
Design Management ◽  
Collective Actions ◽  
Digital Platforms ◽  
Production Of Knowledge ◽  
Collaborative Technologies ◽  
Participatory Processes ◽  
The City

The chapter addresses the potential of co-production in relation to enhancing the participation of a city's inhabitants in its design, management and use. It does this by discussing a co-design process, which explored how participation might be extended to the design of digital platforms that could allow city inhabitants to be involved in the identification of needs, goals and actions for their everyday environments. The chapter outlines three spatial-technological experiments involved in the co-design process and the resulting web 2.0 platform prototype, which illustrates how collaborative technologies might stimulate collective actions. Acknowledging the importance of creating opportunities and spaces for reflection within technology-enabled participatory processes, the notion of co-production is extended to the iterative and collaborative production of knowledge and actions for the city. In this conceptualization, inhabitants' role shifts from that of ‘users' or ‘consumers' to active (and reflective) ‘co-producers' of a more resilient city together with the decision-makers.

The female labour force in an urban economy during transition: A view from the City of Nis

Cities ◽  
2015 ◽  
Vol 42 ◽  
pp. 109-117
Author(s):  
Jelena Stankovic ◽  
Nikola Makojevic ◽  
Vesna Jankovic-Milic ◽  
Marija Radosavljevic
Keyword(s):  
Urban Economy ◽  
Labour Force ◽  
Female Labour ◽  
The City
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