Collaboration Challenges in Community Telecommunication Networks

Community Network ◽

Policy Makers ◽

Intelligent Networks ◽

Management Framework ◽

Two Phases ◽

And Performance ◽

Insight Into ◽

This article reviews the literature on networks and, more specifically, on the development of community telecommunication networks. It strives to understand the collaboration needed for innovative projects such as intelligent networks. Guided by a change management framework, collaboration within a community network is explored in terms of the formation and performance phases of its development. The context, content, and process of each phase is analyzed, as well as the interaction of the two phases. User involvement and technology appropriation are discussed. Collaboration challenges are identified and linked to the sustainability of the community network. Policy makers are presented with a model that gives some insight into planning and managing a community network over time.

Collaboration Challenges in Community Telecommunication Networks

Human Computer Interaction ◽

10.4018/978-1-87828-991-9.ch126 ◽

2009 ◽

pp. 1915-1936

Author(s):

Sylvie Albert ◽

Rolland LeBrasseur

Keyword(s):

User Involvement ◽

Community Network ◽

Policy Makers ◽

Intelligent Networks ◽

Management Framework ◽

Two Phases ◽

And Performance ◽

Insight Into ◽

This article reviews the literature on networks and, more specifically, on the development of community telecommunication networks. It strives to understand the collaboration needed for innovative projects such as intelligent networks. Guided by a change management framework, collaboration within a community network is explored in terms of the formation and performance phases of its development. The context, content, and process of each phase is analyzed, as well as the interaction of the two phases. User involvement and technology appropriation are discussed. Collaboration challenges are identified and linked to the sustainability of the community network. Policy makers are presented with a model that gives some insight into planning and managing a community network over time.

Collaboration Challenges in Community Telecommunication Networks

Social Networking Communities and E-Dating Services ◽

10.4018/978-1-60566-104-9.ch006 ◽

2009 ◽

pp. 101-122

Author(s):

Sylvie Albert

Keyword(s):

User Involvement ◽

Community Network ◽

Policy Makers ◽

Intelligent Networks ◽

Management Framework ◽

Two Phases ◽

And Performance ◽

Insight Into ◽

This article reviews the literature on networks and, more specifically, on the development of community telecommunication networks. It strives to understand the collaboration needed for innovative projects such as intelligent networks. Guided by a change management framework, collaboration within a community network is explored in terms of the formation and performance phases of its development. The context, content, and process of each phase is analyzed, as well as the interaction of the two phases. User involvement and technology appropriation are discussed. Collaboration challenges are identified and linked to the sustainability of the community network. Policy makers are presented with a model that gives some insight into planning and managing a community network over time.

Collaboration Challenges in Community Telecommunication Networks

Information Communication Technologies ◽

10.4018/978-1-59904-949-6.ch022 ◽

2008 ◽

pp. 323-344

Author(s):

Sylvie Albert ◽

Rolland LeBrasseur

Keyword(s):

User Involvement ◽

Community Network ◽

Policy Makers ◽

Intelligent Networks ◽

Management Framework ◽

Two Phases ◽

And Performance ◽

Insight Into ◽

This article reviews the literature on networks and, more specifically, on the development of community telecommunication networks. It strives to understand the collaboration needed for innovative projects such as intelligent networks. Guided by a change management framework, collaboration within a community network is explored in terms of the formation and performance phases of its development. The context, content, and process of each phase is analyzed, as well as the interaction of the two phases. User involvement and technology appropriation are discussed. Collaboration challenges are identified and linked to the sustainability of the community network. Policy makers are presented with a model that gives some insight into planning and managing a community network over time.

Recital I (for Cathy):A Drama ‘Through the Voice’

twentieth century music ◽

10.1017/s1478572217000317 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 15 (3) ◽

pp. 359-397

Author(s):

FRANCESCA PLACANICA

Keyword(s):

Twentieth Century ◽

Creative Agency ◽

Literary Sources ◽

Performance Tradition ◽

Twentieth Century Music ◽

Two Phases ◽

And Performance ◽

The Voice ◽

One Act ◽

Insight Into

AbstractWork on this article began as a contribution to a wider discussion of twentieth-century music theatre, and in particular a genre in the category of twentieth-century musical monodramas – one-act staged monologues with, or in music for, one performer.1My current research focuses on the genesis and performance tradition of works composed for solo female singer, and raises questions about the creative agency of the performer in the making of such works, reflecting on matters such as subjectivity, voice, and identity.2If this outlook may slightly drift from a conventional narrative springing from the composer's voice, a critical investigation of the collaborative process foregrounding the genealogy of some of these works is compelling, especially since every composer who embarked on this ‘genre’, or compositionaltopos, inflected it in idiosyncratic ways. In works such asErwartung,La Voix humaine,The Testament of Eve,Neither, andLa machine de l’être, the performative voice of the female soloist to whom the work was tailored became a generative element capable of shaping the formal, musical, and dramaturgical material.3Examination of selected case studies, focusing especially on the creative and performative processes surrounding these works, triggers an array of questions about gender politics. More importantly, transversal insight into the making of these works and their performativity reveals the interconnected nature of the two phases of creation and performance. In musical monodrama, more than in larger forms of music theatre, the two processes interweave and depend on each other; reconstructing the performative genealogy of the ‘work’ reveals an intrinsic impasse in the very notion of the musical ‘text’ associated exclusively with the compiled score and its literary sources.

Intra-sectoral and Intersectoral Parity Issues in Pricing of Agricultural Crops: A Preliminary Analysis

The Pakistan Development Review ◽

10.30541/v26i4pp.401-417 ◽

1987 ◽

Vol 26 (4) ◽

pp. 401-417

Author(s):

Sarfraz K. Qureshi

Keyword(s):

Preliminary Analysis ◽

Agricultural Sector ◽

Terms Of Trade ◽

Agricultural Crops ◽

Allocation Of Resources ◽

Price Determination ◽

Policy Makers ◽

The Government ◽

Distribution Of Income ◽

Intersectoral terms of trade play a cruc1al role in determining the sectoral distribution of income and resource allocation in the developing countries. The significance of intra-sectoral terms of trade for the allocation of resources within the agricultural sector is also widely accepted by research scholars and policy-makers. In the context of planned development, the government specifies production targets for the agricultural sector and for different crops. The intervention of government in the field of price determination has important implications for the achievement of planned targets. In Pakistan, there is a feeling among many groups including farmers and politicians with a rural background that prices of agricultural crops have not kept their parities intact over time and that prices generally do not cover the costs of production. The feeling that production incentives for agriculture have been eroded is especially strong for the period since the early 1970s. It is argued that strong inflationary pressures supported by a policy of withdrawal of government subsidies on agricultural inputs have resulted in rapid increases in the prices paid by agriculturists and that increases in the prices received by farmers were not enough to compensate them for the rising prices of agricultural inputs and consumption goods.

Anti-corruption in History

10.1093/oso/9780198809975.001.0001 ◽

2017 ◽

Keyword(s):

Financial Institutions ◽

Global Media ◽

Policy Makers ◽

The Past ◽

Human Wellbeing ◽

Modern Period ◽

Legitimate Power ◽

Wide Range ◽

Scant Attention ◽

Anticorruption in History is the first major collection of case studies on how past societies and polities, in and beyond Europe, defined legitimate power in terms of fighting corruption and designed specific mechanisms to pursue that agenda. It is a timely book: corruption is widely seen today as a major problem, undermining trust in government, financial institutions, economic efficiency, the principle of equality before the law and human wellbeing in general. Corruption, in short, is a major hurdle on the “path to Denmark”—a feted blueprint for stable and successful statebuilding. The resonance of this view explains why efforts to promote anticorruption policies have proliferated in recent years. But while the subjects of corruption and anticorruption have captured the attention of politicians, scholars, NGOs and the global media, scant attention has been paid to the link between corruption and the change of anticorruption policies over time and place. Such a historical approach could help explain major moments of change in the past as well as reasons for the success and failure of specific anticorruption policies and their relation to a country’s image (of itself or as construed from outside) as being more or less corrupt. It is precisely this scholarly lacuna that the present volume intends to begin to fill. A wide range of historical contexts are addressed, ranging from the ancient to the modern period, with specific insights for policy makers offered throughout.

Dualities, Dialectics, and Paradoxes in Organizational Life

10.1093/oso/9780198827436.001.0001 ◽

2018 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Keyword(s):

Dynamic Systems ◽

Empirical Studies ◽

Organizational Studies ◽

Organizational Life ◽

Organizational Processes ◽

Organization Studies ◽

Process Studies ◽

Convergence And Divergence ◽

Insight Into ◽

Organizational contradictions and process studies offer interwoven and complementary insights. Studies of dialectics, paradox, and dualities depict organizational contradictions that are oppositional as well as interrelated such that they persistently morph and shift over time. Studies of process often examine how contradictions fuel emergent, dynamic systems and stimulate novelty, adaptation, and transformation. Drawing from rich conversations at the Eighth International Symposium on Process Organization Studies, the contributors to this volume unpack these relationships in more depth. The chapters explore three main, connected themes through both conceptual and empirical studies, including (1) offering insight into how process theorizing advances understandings of organizational contradictions; (2) shedding light on how dialectics, paradoxes, and dualities fuel organizational processes that affect persistence and transformation; and (3) exploring the convergence and divergence of dialectics, paradox, and dualities lenses. Taken together, this book offers key insights in order to inform persistent, contradictory dynamics in organizations and organizational studies.

The Oxford Handbook of the Brazilian Economy

10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190499983.001.0001 ◽

2018 ◽

Keyword(s):

Direct Investment ◽

Global Economy ◽

Iron Ore ◽

Structural Features ◽

Economic Importance ◽

Closed Economy ◽

Current Characteristics ◽

Insight Into ◽

Contemporary Context ◽

Brazil constitutes a globally vital but troubled economy. It accounts for the largest GDP in Latin America and ranks among the world’s largest exporters of critical commodities including iron ore, soya, coffee, and beef. In recent years Brazil’s global economic importance has been magnified by a surge in both outward and inward foreign direct investment. This has served to further internationalize what has been historically a relatively closed economy. The purpose of this Handbook is to offer real insight into the Brazil’s economic development in contemporary context, understanding its most salient characteristics and analyzing its structural features across various dimensions. At a more granular level, this volume accomplishes the following tasks. First, it provides an understanding of the economy’s evolution over time and the connection of its current characteristics to this evolution. Second, it analyzes Brazil’s broader place in the global economy, and considers the ways in which this role has changed, and is likely to change, over coming years. Third, reflecting contemporary concerns, the volume offers an understanding, not only of how one of the world’s key economies has developed and transformed itself, but also of the ways in which this process has yet to be completed. The volume thus analyzes the current challenges facing the Brazilian economy and the kinds of issues that need to be tackled for these to be addressed.

The prevalence of underweight in 9–10-year-old schoolchildren in Liverpool: 1998–2006

Public Health Nutrition ◽

10.1017/s136898000800311x ◽

2009 ◽

Vol 12 (7) ◽

pp. 953-956 ◽

Cited By ~ 13

Author(s):

Lynne M Boddy ◽

Allan F Hackett ◽

Gareth Stratton

Keyword(s):

Mass Spectrum ◽

Body Mass ◽

The Body ◽

Fitness Testing ◽

Policy Makers ◽

Substantial Problem ◽

Prevalence Of Obesity ◽

Grade 3 ◽

The City ◽

AbstractObjectiveTo estimate the prevalence of underweight between 1998 and 2006 in Liverpool schoolchildren aged 9–10 years using recently published underweight cut-off points.Design and settingStature and body mass data collected at the LiverpoolSportsLinx project’s fitness testing sessions were used to calculate BMI.SubjectsData were available on 26 782 (n13 637 boys, 13 145 girls) participants.ResultsOverall underweight declined in boys from 10·3 % in 1998–1999 to 6·9 % in 2005–2006, and all sub-classifications of underweight declined, in particular grade 3 underweight, with the most recent prevalence being 0·1 %. In girls, the prevalence of underweight declined from 10·8 % in 1998–1999 to 7·5 % in 2005–2006. The prevalence of all grades of underweight was higher in girls than in boys. Underweight showed a fluctuating pattern across all grades over time for boys and girls, and overall prevalence in 2005–2006 represents over 200 children across the city.ConclusionsUnderweight may have reduced slightly from baseline, but remains a substantial problem in Liverpool, with the prevalence of overall underweight being relatively similar to the prevalence of obesity. The present study highlights the requirement for policy makers and funders to consider both ends of the body mass spectrum when fixing priorities in child health.