scholarly journals The Future-Making Assessment Approach as a Tool for E-Planning and Community Development

2010 ◽  
pp. 58-79 ◽  
Author(s):  
Liisa Horelli ◽  
Sirkku Wallin
Keyword(s):  
Community Development ◽  
Collective Action ◽  
Evaluation System ◽  
Monitoring And Evaluation ◽  
Contextual Analysis ◽  
New Approach ◽  
Evaluation Approach ◽  
The Future ◽  
Assessment Approach

As e-planning takes place in a complex and dynamic context, consisting of many stakeholders with a diversity of interests, it benefits from an evaluation approach that assists in the monitoring, supporting and provision of feedback. For this purpose, we have created a new approach to e-planning, called the Future-making assessment. It comprises a framework and a set of tools for the contextual analysis, mobilisation and nurturing of partnerships for collective action, in addition to an on-going monitoring and evaluation system. The aim of this chapter is to present and discuss the methodology of the Future-making assessment-approach (FMA) and its application in a case study on e-planning of services in the context of community development, in a Helsinki neighbourhood.

scholarly journals Benefit, Monitoring & Evaluation System: A Case Study of Malaysian Technical Education System

10.28945/2465 ◽  
2002 ◽  
Author(s):  
Aziz Deraman ◽  
Syahrul Fahmi ◽  
Mohamad Naim Yaakub ◽  
Abdul Aziz Jemain
Keyword(s):  
Education System ◽  
Evaluation System ◽  
Technical Education ◽  
Monitoring And Evaluation ◽  
Management Support ◽  
Vision 2020 ◽  
Web Based ◽  
External Efficiency ◽  
Financial Research

This paper presents a case study of the Malaysian technical education system. The Technical and Vocational Department (TVED) is designated to prepare skilled technical and intelligent workforce to Malaysia in order to meet the goals of Vision 2020. For that reason, a web-based management support system is proposed to TVED for its planning, management and decision-making activities. e-BME is a system for education monitoring and evaluation by means of establishing internal and external efficiency indicators. e-BME would receive input mainly from Technical and Vocational Education (TVE) schools and graduates. There are four types of reports that are generated by the system: Management, Financial, Research and Planning. TVED could use these reports in its policy and decisionmaking activities. This system promotes faster data collection, higher integrity of generated information and a systematic channel for distribution of reports.

Infrastructural insurgency: Constructing situated data at Brazil’s urban periphery

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kristine Stiphany
Keyword(s):  
Collective Action ◽  
Informal Settlement ◽  
Informal Settlements ◽  
Global South ◽  
Sao Paulo ◽  
Comparative Case Study ◽  
Urban Periphery ◽  
The Future ◽  
Over Time

This paper focuses on how insurgencies are continually recast in parallel to State-led redevelopment or ‘upgrading’. It brings attention to communities that shape and are reshaped by inclusion of data in processes through which citizens participate in city-making. Drawing on a comparative case study of intensively upgraded informal settlements in São Paulo, Brazil, findings show that data-based insurgencies have been forged from prior collective action. The resultant co-created or situated data challenge the State’s legitimacy as sole arbiter of informal settlement representation and infrastructure transformation in cities. In this context, the term infrastructural insurgency is proposed as a way that socio-material agencies iterate over time and in space, and to stimulate discourse about the future of upgrading. It reflects on which interactions between data and redevelopment can inform planning in post-redevelopment conditions across global south.

scholarly journals Security Situation Assessment of All-Optical Network Based on Evidential Reasoning Rule

2016 ◽  
Vol 2016 ◽  
pp. 1-7
Author(s):  
Zhong-Nan Zhao ◽  
Pei-Li Qiao ◽  
Jian Wang ◽  
Guan-Yu Hu
Keyword(s):  
Optical Network ◽  
Evidential Reasoning ◽  
Situation Assessment ◽  
New Approach ◽  
Quantification Method ◽  
All Optical ◽  
Assessment Approach ◽  
All Optical Network

It is important to determine the security situations of the all-optical network (AON), which is more vulnerable to hacker attacks and faults than other networks in some cases. A new approach of the security situation assessment to the all-optical network is developed in this paper. In the new assessment approach, the evidential reasoning (ER) rule is used to integrate various evidences of the security factors including the optical faults and the special attacks in the AON. Furthermore, a new quantification method of the security situation is also proposed. A case study of an all-optical network is conducted to demonstrate the effectiveness and the practicability of the new proposed approach.

scholarly journals The search for a method to unpack urban complexity: Case study of the City of Johannesburg

2017 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Lewis Ndhlovu ◽  
Laila Smith ◽  
Stephen Narsoo
Keyword(s):  
Policy Development ◽  
Evaluation System ◽  
Institutional Environment ◽  
Monitoring And Evaluation ◽  
Evaluation Framework ◽  
Second Phase ◽  
Group Discussions ◽  
Five Dimension ◽  
The City

Background: The City of Johannesburg (COJ) provides services to approximately 5 million people; yet the elements of monitoring and evaluation remain a missing link in the design and implementation of programmes. This was the case even after the introduction of the monitoring and evaluation framework in 2012. This case study is filling an empirical gap.Objectives: The aim of this study was to understand the policies, practices and use of monitoring and evaluation (M&E) in tracking the performance of the City towards meeting its long-term developmental plans.Method: A mixed methods approach was used to gather quantitative data from 54 senior M&E officials. This was complemented with qualitative data drawn from in-depth interviews and focus group discussions conducted during three workshops with M&E officials.Results: The study reveal a number of weaknesses: poor integration of M&E practices in planning, budgeting, service delivery and policy development oversight. The inter-governmental institutional environment and various committees and utility boards has resulted in extensive resources being devoted to compliance reporting. Consequently, the foundations for building an evaluation system have been neglected.Conclusion: The five-dimension complexity model was found to be a useful organising framework for effectively evaluating the city’s M&E capacity. These findings form the first phase of an intervention that will inform the second phase targeted at building the foundations for a city-wide evaluation system.

scholarly journals Application of the reason model within risk management on railway crossings – a case study

2020 ◽  
Vol 109 ◽  
pp. 129-140
Author(s):  
Eva NEDELIAKOVA ◽  
Lenka LIZBETINOVA ◽  
Renata STASIAK-BETLEJEWSKA ◽  
Adrian SPERKA
Keyword(s):  
Risk Management ◽  
Monitoring And Evaluation ◽  
Rail Transport ◽  
Material Damage ◽  
Railway Network ◽  
Worst Case ◽  
The Future

Despite constant efforts to improve safety in the railway environment, various accidents and incidents happen, resulting in material damage and in the worst case, loss of human lives. This article emphasises the need for proper identification of risks, their constant monitoring, and evaluation of all causes that arise at railway crossings. Furthermore, this paper aims to apply the Reason model to the problems of railway crossings within the case study on the railway network in Slovakia. The timeliness of the problem lies in the possibility of preventing such issues in the operation of rail transport using this model. Prevention is an effective way of averting the serious consequences of accidents in the future.

scholarly journals A New Approach for Predicting the Future Position of a Moving Object: Hurricanes’ Case Study

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-30
Author(s):  
Wided Oueslati ◽  
Sonia Tahri ◽  
Hela Limam ◽  
Jalel Akaichi
Keyword(s):  
Moving Object ◽  
New Approach ◽  
The Future ◽  
Future Position

scholarly journals AN INTRODUCTION TO PROSPECTIVE MULTIPLE ATTRIBUTE DECISION MAKING (PMADM)

2016 ◽  
Vol 22 (2) ◽  
pp. 309-326 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sarfaraz HASHEMKHANI ZOLFANI ◽  
Reza MAKNOON ◽  
Edmundas Kazimieras ZAVADSKAS
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Multiple Criteria Decision Making ◽  
Multiple Attribute Decision Making ◽  
Future Research ◽  
New Approach ◽  
Multiple Attribute ◽  
The Future ◽  
Science Community ◽  
Future Topics

In recent years futures science has received a great deal of attention and has gained worldwide credibility in the science community as the science of tomorrows. The countless applications of futures studies in various fields have been a major breakthrough for mankind. Undoubtedly, decision making is one of the most significant aspects of shaping the future and an integral part of any credible future research. Multiple Criteria Decision Making (MCDM) in general and Multiple Attribute Decision Making in particular (MADM), are among the most remarkable subparts of the decision making process. The most recent model developed using the MADM method is the Dynamic MADM. The model does not specifically concentrate on the future actions and approaches and remains to be fully explored. This research presents a new concept and a new approach in the MADM field which is called the Prospective Multiple Attribute Decision Making (PMADM). The PMADM model can very well cover the DMADM concept but instead chooses to focus on future topics. The study also introduces two new approaches. The first research aims to elaborate the basis of this model and then evolves to deal with the future limiters as they potentially pop up and change the course of future actions. The new model based on future limiters is separated and categorized into two sections; one of which is looked upon without the probabilities rate and the other one with the probabilities rate. This approach is deemed priceless due to its major applicability in the ranking of the MADM methods such as: TOPSIS, VIKOR, COPRAS, ARAS, WASPAS and etc. Finally, a case study with the various applications of PMADM model in WASPAS methodology is put forth and illustrated.

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