From Rural Outsourcing to Rural Opportunities

Business Strategy ◽

Development Project ◽

Production Model ◽

Overall Design ◽

Key Innovation ◽

Set Up ◽

Production Company

Inspired by the potential of Information and Communication Technologies, henceforth ICTs, for socio-economic development, and supported by a university based technology and business incubator, Rural Production Company, henceforth RPC, was set up in 2007 employing an ICT-mediated distributed production model. This paper reveals how RPC, initially an exploratory project whose key innovation was its Internet kiosk-facilitated model of crafts production and local empowerment, morphed into a social enterprise catering to global demands. The context of innovation provided by the Incubator led to a transformation of an ICT4D (ICT for Development) project into a business venture through the practice of formal and informal questioning at every stage of its implementation. This paper focuses on the iterative method adopted while highlighting the role of the incubator in the overall design and development process of the enterprise. This paper is a reflexive mapping of the organization’s evolution from the original research agenda of outsourcing production cum rural employment, to one that privileges local networks both as a conscious business strategy and as an arena for collaborative change for human development.

International Journal of Information Communication Technologies and Human Development ◽

From Rural Outsourcing to Rural Opportunities

10.4018/jicthd.2011070102 ◽

2011 ◽

Vol 3 (3) ◽

pp. 16-30

Author(s):

Aarti Kawlra

Keyword(s):

Business Strategy ◽

Development Project ◽

Production Model ◽

Original Research ◽

Local Networks ◽

Key Innovation ◽

Set Up ◽

Production Company ◽

Distributed Production

Coworking, the Sharing Economy, and the City: Which Role for the ‘Coworking Entrepreneur’?

Urban Science ◽

10.3390/urbansci2030083 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 2 (3) ◽

pp. 83 ◽

Cited By ~ 11

Author(s):

Giacomo Durante ◽

Margherita Turvani

Keyword(s):

Organizational Factors ◽

Sharing Economy ◽

Internal Factors ◽

Entrepreneurial Action ◽

Coworking Spaces ◽

Set Up ◽

The City

Sharing economy platforms enabled by information and communication technologies (ICTs) are facilitating the diffusion of collaborative workplaces. Coworking spaces are emerging as a distinctive phenomenon in this context, not only fostering knowledge transfer and facilitating innovation, but also affecting the urban and socio-economic fabric contributing to urban regeneration processes at both the local scale and the city scale. Although the positive impacts of coworking on the urban environment are documented, there is still little or no evidence of the economic viability of coworking businesses, and a “coworking bubble” has been evoked. Given the lack of data, a national survey was set up of Italian coworking businesses, aimed at assessing the relevance of internal organizational factors (size, occupancy, profitability, services provided) for the sustainability of coworking businesses. By presenting the results of the survey, we argue that the sustainability and viability of the coworking model is highly dependent on internal factors, strictly related to the entrepreneurial action of coworking managers.

ICT Investments and Management for Organizations

Banking, Finance, and Accounting ◽

10.4018/978-1-4666-6268-1.ch029 ◽

2014 ◽

pp. 544-560

Author(s):

Georgios N. Angelou ◽

Anastasios A. Economides

Keyword(s):

Decision Making ◽

Real Options ◽

Business Strategy ◽

Qualitative Modeling ◽

Balance Scorecard ◽

Cost Benefits ◽

Decision Making Model

Developing the Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) strategy that supports the overall organization's business strategy is critical for generating business value. Recognizing the inadequacy of traditional quantitative cost-benefits analysis for evaluating and managing ICT investments, researchers suggest multi-criteria analysis, integrating quantitative and qualitative modeling. This chapter introduces the Balance Scorecard (BS) decision analysis framework and combines it with Real Options (ROs) analysis, in a qualitative and quantitative perspective, for modeling the business flexibility as well as for evaluating and controlling the ICT investments strategy. The multi-criteria ROs modeling applies to all perspectives of the BS framework providing a holistic decision-making model for ICT business.

Participatory Design and Creativity in Development of Information and Communication Technologies

Designing for Networked Communications ◽

10.4018/978-1-59904-069-1.ch004 ◽

2011 ◽

pp. 75-96 ◽

Cited By ~ 4

Author(s):

Nette Schultz ◽

Lene Sørensen ◽

Dan Saugstrup

Keyword(s):

Design Process ◽

Participatory Design ◽

Early Stage ◽

Development Project ◽

Communication Tool ◽

Ict Development ◽

Mobile Ict

This chapter presents and discusses a new design framework for involving users at an early stage in a mobile ICT development project. A user-centered design process, in which participatory design principles are combined with creativity techniques, is used in order to create scenarios as a communication tool between users and system designers. The theoretical basis for the framework is described, leading to a new participatory design and creativity framework. Empirical insight into how the framework has been developed and used in practice is presented based on the experiences and results from a large ICT development project within the ?eld of mobile communication. Finally, the value of applying creativity as part of a participatory design process is discussed.

Training for E-Commerce Success in SMEs

Managing Information Technology in Small Business ◽

10.4018/978-1-930708-35-8.ch019 ◽

2011 ◽

pp. 334-348

Author(s):

Yanqing Duan ◽

Roisin Mullins ◽

David Hamblin

Keyword(s):

Business Performance ◽

Current Knowledge ◽

Small And Medium Enterprises ◽

Goods And Services ◽

Skills Shortage ◽

Set Up ◽

Medium Enterprises

Rapid developments in Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs), such as electronic commerce (e-commerce), have revolutionized the way that business is conducted. E-commerce refers to the process of buying and selling goods and services electronically involving transactions using Internet, network, and other digital technology. It offers companies tremendous opportunities to improve their business performance in new and innovative ways. However, its huge potential benefit would only be realized by capable managers who can deal with these emerging technologies and implement them wisely. A skills shortage has been categorized as one of the challenges facing global e-commerce by Bingi and Khamalah (2000). The demand for highly knowledgeable and skilled managers and workloads places enormous pressure upon companies to improve or update their current knowledge and skills. This is particularly important in Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) as compared with their larger counterparts, as they are often described as “lacking the expertise needed to set up the technologies necessary, despite having a great deal to gain from doing so” (Anonymous, 1998).

From Evidence-based to Market-based mHealth: Itinerary of a Mobile (for) Development Project

Science Technology & Human Values ◽

10.1177/0162243918824657 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 44 (6) ◽

pp. 1048-1067 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

Marine Al Dahdah

Keyword(s):

Science And Technology Studies ◽

Controlled Trial ◽

Qualitative Interviews ◽

Global South ◽

Development Project ◽

Mobile Technologies ◽

Evidence Based ◽

Information And Communication

Information and communication technologies are increasingly used for development in the Global South, and mHealth (health assisted by mobile technologies) plays key role. This paper analyzes the particular relationship to science that characterizes a global maternal mHealth program deployed in Ghana and India. Using science and technology studies (STS), this research relies on qualitative interviews conducted between 2014 and 2016 with funders, implementers, and beneficiaries of this mHealth program. This story begins with a randomized controlled trial, a biomedical experiment with a strong positioning regarding science and the production of evidence. But rapidly the scientific stance disappears to give way to the testing and marketing of a product for the digital economy. From science to market, this paper offers to revisit a classical STS topic through the lens of mHealth. It shows how the various experimental forms taken by this project fundamentally diverge from scientific methods and evidence production and at the same time how it nurtures an ongoing instrumental relationship with science. Thus, from clinical research to product marketing, this paper highlights the tenuous link between evidence-based and market-based mHealth in the Global South.

Drivers of a tourism e-business strategy: the impact of information and communication technologies

Operational Research ◽

10.1007/s12351-009-0046-6 ◽

2009 ◽

Vol 11 (2) ◽

pp. 149-169 ◽

Cited By ~ 3

Author(s):

Emmanouil Stiakakis ◽

Christos K. Georgiadis

Keyword(s):

Business Strategy ◽

The Impact

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].

CAB - Collaboration across Borders: Peer Evaluation for Collaborative Learning

10.28945/2848 ◽

2005 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Janice Whatley ◽

Frances Bell ◽

Jan Shaylor ◽

Elena Zaitseva ◽

Danuta Zakrzewska

Keyword(s):

Higher Education ◽

Online Learning ◽

Web Sites ◽

Peer Evaluation ◽

Online Portal ◽

Set Up ◽

Collaborative Activities

Use of information and communication technologies (ICT) and the development of tools to enable communication, can change the ways in which students in higher education learn, including online learning, both as individuals and through collaboration with other learners. This paper is a review of two cases of online peer evaluation of web sites or multimedia presentations, between students from several countries. Examining the research feedback from these collaborative activities has contributed to our understanding of online learning tasks, and led to the development of a dedicated online portal for carrying out collaborative activities. We have found that there is a clear benefit to be derived from incorporating activities of this type within the learning of students in higher education. The CAB portal we have developed helps tutors, wishing to set up a collaborative activity, to address issues of reciprocity of learning outcomes and guidelines for students’ participation.

La Formación Superior en Artes Mediatiazada por Dispositivos Hipermediales Dinámicos

Palíndromo ◽

10.5965/2175234605102013067 ◽

2014 ◽

Vol 5 (10) ◽

Author(s):

Federico Buján ◽

Patricia Silvana San Martín

Keyword(s):

Higher Education ◽

Public University ◽

Methodological Framework ◽

Research Project ◽

Multiple Dimensions ◽

Semiotic Perspective ◽

Set Up

RESUMENEl presente artículo aborda aspectos de la formación superior en artes utilizando Tecnologías de la Información y Comunicación (TIC) desde una perspectiva semiótica. Se toma como base el marco teórico y metodológico de los Dispositivos Hipermediales Dinámicos (DHD) en el entendimiento que la complejidad de los fenómenos en cuestión demanda de una visión compleja e interdisciplinaria que permita dar cuenta de las múltiples dimensiones que los componen. Luego de conceptualizar la noción de DHD y sus bases semióticas, se presenta un caso efectuado en el ámbito de una universidad pública de Argentina donde se concretizó, en el marco de un proyecto de investigación, una experiencia de formación superior en artes a partir de la configuración de un DHD contextualizado, en atención a la especificidad disciplinar. Finalmente, se concluye que el enfoque adoptado resulta consistente para la conceptualización de problemáticas de mediatización educativa en el actual contexto físico-virtual.Palabras clave: Formación Superior en Artes, perspectiva semiótica, Dispositivo Hipermedial Dinámico. RESUMOO presente artigo aborda aspectos da formação superior em artes utilizando Tecnologias da Informação e da Comunicação (TIC) desde uma perspectiva semiótica. Baseia-se no referencial teórico-metodológico dos Dispositivos Hipermediais Dinâmicos (DHD) no entendimento de que a complexidade dos fenômenos em questão demanda de uma visão complexa e interdisciplinar para dar conta das múltiplas dimensões que os compõem. Após conceitualizar a noção de DHD e suas bases semióticas, apresenta-se um caso desenvolvido no âmbito de uma universidade pública da Argentina onde se realizou, no contexto de um projeto de pesquisa, uma experiência de formação superior em artes a partir da configuração de um DHD contextualizado em atenção à especificidade disciplinar. Finalmente, conclui-se que a abordagem adoptada resulta consistente para a conceitualização de problemáticas de mediatização educativa no âmbito do atual contexto físico-virtual.Palavras chave: Formação Superior em Artes, perspectiva semiótica, Dispositivo Hipermedial Dinâmico. ABSTRACTThis article discusses aspects of higher education in arts using Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) from a semiotic perspective. The aspects are based on the theoretical and methodological framework of Dynamic Hypermedia Devices (DHD) on the understanding that the complexity of the phenomena in question demands a complex and interdisciplinary vision able to account for the multiple dimensions that compose them. After conceptualizing the notion of DHD and its semiotic bases, it presents a case that was developed in a public university in Argentina where it was set up, in the sphere of a research project, an experience of higher education in arts through the configuration of a contextualized DHD, in response to the disciplinary specificity. Finally, we conclude that the approach is consistent for conceptualizing mediation education issues in the current physical and virtual context.Key words: Higher Education in Arts, semiotic perspective, Dynamic Hypermedial Device.