Using the Web for Enhancing Decision-Making

2003 ◽  
pp. 259-276
Author(s):  
David King
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Vulnerable Groups ◽  
Critical Examination ◽  
Stakeholder Groups ◽  
Project Failures ◽  
Decision Making Processes ◽  
Assessment And Monitoring ◽  
Use Of The Internet ◽  
Official Sources ◽  
The Web

The purpose of this chapter is to highlight the use of the Internet to improve the reliability of information supplied to the United Nations (UN) from official sources in Sub-Sahara Africa (SSA). The focus of the chapter is that aid project failures in SSA need efficient project management, effective communication, and information openness to achieve socio-economic growth. The use of the Internet’s potential(s) in a way that will benefit society at large and in particular vulnerable groups needs critical examination within a wider framework of the actual needs and existing facilities of these communities. An interpretive evidence data collection method is used through questioning and interviews with stakeholder groups, validated by observation where possible. The importance of aid project performance, assessment, and monitoring in SSA is emphasised. The significance of public participation in decision-making processes is explored. This research also highlights the pragmatics of giving local people an international voice.

scholarly journals Theoretical signposts for tracing spirituality within the fluid decision-making of a mobile virtual reality

2012 ◽  
Vol 68 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Jan-Albert Van den Berg
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Virtual Reality ◽  
Practical Theology ◽  
Information Age ◽  
Mobile Platforms ◽  
Decision Making Processes ◽  
Use Of The Internet ◽  
Using Data ◽  
Mobile Communication Technology

In the context of the interconnected world of the information age, and demarcated by a virtual existence through the use of the Internet, decision-making has become even more dynamic. In an evolving era of virtuality, with special emphasis on the increasing role of mobile communication technology, it is indicated that decision-making has become fluid. As part of the phenomenon of fluid decision-making, not only is the evolutionary character of virtual connectivity acknowledged, but the ever-increasing and important role of mobile platforms is also emphasised. In a hermeneutical practical theology of lived spirituality, focusing on the praxis of everyday living, the possible role of spirituality in informing the fluid decision-making processes in a mobile virtual world was traced. A qualitatively inspired analysis, using data collected from various virtual forums, was proposed. In the description of these contours, special emphasis was placed on narrative-inspired biographical accents. The research made a contribution in terms of possible new articulations of the language of faith as embodied in fluid decision-making in a mobile virtual reality.

scholarly journals A Scalable GeoWeb Tool for Argumentation Mapping

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Aaron P Sani ◽  
Claus Rinner
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Web 2.0 ◽  
Deliberative Democracy ◽  
Geographic Information ◽  
Public Realm ◽  
The Public ◽  
Stakeholder Groups ◽  
Mapping Tool ◽  
Collaborative Decision ◽  
The Web

Public participation geographic information systems (PPGIS) support collaborative decision-making in the public realm. PPGIS provide advanced communication, deliberation, and conflict resolution mecha nisms to engage diverse stakeholder groups. Many of the functional characteristics of Web 2.0 echo basic PPGIS functions including the authoring, linking, and sharing of volunteered geographic information. However, with the increasing popularity of geospatial applications on the Web comes a need to develop concepts for scalable, reliable, and easy-to-maintain tools. In this paper, we propose a cloud computing implementation of a scalable argumentation mapping tool. The tool also illustrates the opportunities of applying a Web 2.0 model to PPGIS. The searching, linking, authoring, tagging, extension, and signalling (SLATES) functions are associated with PPGIS functionality to produce a participatory GeoWeb tool for deliberative democracy.

Using Spreadsheets as a Decision Support Tool

2003 ◽  
pp. 57-71 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stephen Burgess ◽  
Don Schauder
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Small Businesses ◽  
Web Site ◽  
Swot Analysis ◽  
Decision Support Tool ◽  
Support Tool ◽  
Decision Making Processes ◽  
Set Up ◽  
Support Decision Making ◽  
The Web

This chapter discusses a model that has been set up to assist small businesses in the decision-making processes associated with setting up a Web site by which they can interact with their customers. Specifically, the chapter addresses the use of a spreadsheet to support decision-making processes in relation to the level of capital needed to devote to the Web site and who should be used to develop it. The chapter describes the process followed, from the initial SWOT analysis used to collect information about the business to the decision-making process modelled in the spreadsheet.

scholarly journals The Influence of the Web on Health Related Decision-making Processes: A Survey with Portuguese Women During Pregnancy

2016 ◽  
Vol 100 ◽  
pp. 347-354 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marta Ferraz ◽  
Ana Margarida Almeida ◽  
Alexandra Matias ◽  
Dan Farine
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Health Related ◽  
Decision Making Processes ◽  
The Web

scholarly journals A Scalable GeoWeb Tool for Argumentation Mapping

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Aaron P Sani ◽  
Claus Rinner
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Web 2.0 ◽  
Deliberative Democracy ◽  
Geographic Information ◽  
Public Realm ◽  
The Public ◽  
Stakeholder Groups ◽  
Mapping Tool ◽  
Collaborative Decision ◽  
The Web

Public participation geographic information systems (PPGIS) support collaborative decision-making in the public realm. PPGIS provide advanced communication, deliberation, and conflict resolution mecha nisms to engage diverse stakeholder groups. Many of the functional characteristics of Web 2.0 echo basic PPGIS functions including the authoring, linking, and sharing of volunteered geographic information. However, with the increasing popularity of geospatial applications on the Web comes a need to develop concepts for scalable, reliable, and easy-to-maintain tools. In this paper, we propose a cloud computing implementation of a scalable argumentation mapping tool. The tool also illustrates the opportunities of applying a Web 2.0 model to PPGIS. The searching, linking, authoring, tagging, extension, and signalling (SLATES) functions are associated with PPGIS functionality to produce a participatory GeoWeb tool for deliberative democracy.

Internet-Based Spatial Decision Support Using Open Source Tools

2011 ◽  
pp. 237-262 ◽  
Author(s):  
G. Brent Hall ◽  
Michael G. Leahy
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Decision Support ◽  
Open Source ◽  
Gis Technology ◽  
Spatial Concepts ◽  
Geographically Dispersed ◽  
Decision Making Processes ◽  
User Groups ◽  
Planning Decision ◽  
Use Of The Internet

In the last half decade, there has been growing interest in the concept of collaborative geographic information systems (GIS) in support of decision making, especially in the context of various domains of planning. This interest has spawned an already substantial literature in what is now becoming popularly known as public participation GIS (PPGIS) or community GIS. A central and general objective of PPGIS is to encourage the use of GIS technology by broadly based and geographically dispersed nonexpert users. In the context of planning decision support, this involves creating software with map-based functionality that is responsive to the needs of user groups that have limited experience with computers and only a rudimentary knowledge of even simple spatial analysis concepts. This functionality should be designed to enable these individuals to communicate and interact with higher level users and agencies on an equal footing so that all participants can be both better informed of each others perspectives and more involved in decision-making processes that involve land and resource use planning and management. This chapter considers the general issue of PPGIS in the context of use of the Internet and the World Wide Web as a means of achieving broad participation and collaboration in decision making among dispersed participants with a diversity of backgrounds and competencies in using spatial concepts and analyses. The chapter also considers the role that open source software tools can play in crafting accessible and highly customizable solutions using an example for assessing the quality of primary-level education in Peru.

Contextualizing Mine-Community Relations in Treaty No. 9 Territory

2020 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Brady Reid
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Literature Review ◽  
Indigenous Communities ◽  
Critical Examination ◽  
Treaty Rights ◽  
Mining Operations ◽  
Mining Sector ◽  
North Eastern ◽  
Decision Making Processes ◽  
Eastern Ontario

This paper presents a rigorous literature review identifying and critically examining the characteristics of decision-making processes in the mining sector that empower or disempower Indigenous communities in north-eastern Ontario, specifically Treaty no. 9 territory. The conclusions drawn from this review aim to inform future research throughout my doctoral program and other researchers and practitioners within the mining sector. The Ring of Fire is a controversial but lucrative mineral cache in north-eastern Ontario worth an estimated $60 billion that may position nearby rural and remote communities for economic growth. However, critics caution that proposed mineral exploration and extraction in the region may threaten the sustainability of First Nations communities. Fifty secondary sources, academic and grey literature produced by both Indigenous and non-Indigenous authors, were reviewed and I propose three “myths” surrounding relations between the mining sector and Indigenous communities in Ontario. I position the synthesis of literature in response to these myths to provide insight into false assumptions that may form the basis of community-mine relations. First, critical examination of the signing of Treaty 9 in the early twentieth century shows that Indigenous communities in northern Ontario did not unilaterally cede and surrender title rights to their traditional territories. Second, the literature falsifies the notion that Indigenous communities are inherently anti-development and show that Indigenous communities do not always unilaterally refute opportunities for resource development. Third, the literature debunks the idea that the duty to consult and accommodate is always triggered before proponents infringe on Indigenous and treaty rights on traditional territory. The duty to consult and accommodate, triggered by the fiduciary duty of the Crown to protect aboriginal and treaty rights outlined in the Constitution Act of 1982, attempts to address the exclusion of Indigenous perspectives in decision-making processes within the mining sector. However, current consultation standards do not ensure an “effective” or “meaningful” decision-making process. Narrowing in on some false assumptions surrounding relations built between mining operations and Indigenous communities, this rigorous literature review can support researchers and practitioners working with Indigenous communities in the mining sector to generate novel approaches to community-mine relations in the future.

scholarly journals Distributed environmental impact assessment using Internet

1999 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 59-70 ◽  
Author(s):  
Huang Yan ◽  
Dimitri P. Solomatine ◽  
Slavco Velickov ◽  
Michael B. Abbott
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Environmental Impact ◽  
Impact Assessment ◽  
Environmental Impact Assessment ◽  
Decision Making Process ◽  
Internet Technologies ◽  
Decision Making Processes ◽  
Use Of The Internet ◽  
Control Technologies ◽  
And Control

The ever more widespread use of the Internet now makes it possible to bring many more persons than hitherto into environmental impact assessment and resulting decision-making processes. Because most at these persons are non-experts, however, it is necessary to provide them with tools that will support their assessments and decision-making efforts. When these tools are directed primarily to the making of judgements they may be described as judgement engines. The need to promote cooperative attitudes among participants in the assessment and judgemental/decision-making process, requires that these tools should promote transparency. Judgemental processes are introduced and related to evaluation processes so as to provide a characterisation of transparency. This paper gives an overview of the relevant Internet technologies and then takes the reader through the conception and realisation of one client–server component of an Internet-distributed judgement engine for environmental impact assessment. Because this is built upon the MikeImpact judgement engine of the Danish Hydraulic Institute, it is called a Web-MikeImpact. Although possibly of interest to specialists in information and control technologies, this paper is primarily intended as a background for potential users of Web-MikeImpact. It should be used alongside the use of the artefact that it describes, as this is available on http://www.hi.ihe.nl/hi/test/mikeimpact/mikeindex1.htm.

scholarly journals A Scalable GeoWeb Tool for Argumentation Mapping

GEOMATICA ◽  
2011 ◽  
Vol 65 (2) ◽  
pp. 145-156 ◽  
Author(s):  
Aaron Sani ◽  
Claus Rinner
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Web 2.0 ◽  
Deliberative Democracy ◽  
Geographic Information ◽  
Public Realm ◽  
The Public ◽  
Stakeholder Groups ◽  
Mapping Tool ◽  
Collaborative Decision ◽  
The Web

Public participation geographic information systems (PPGIS) support collaborative decision-making in the public realm. PPGIS provide advanced communication, deliberation, and conflict resolution mecha nisms to engage diverse stakeholder groups. Many of the functional characteristics of Web 2.0 echo basic PPGIS functions including the authoring, linking, and sharing of volunteered geographic information. However, with the increasing popularity of geospatial applications on the Web comes a need to develop concepts for scalable, reliable, and easy-to-maintain tools. In this paper, we propose a cloud computing implementation of a scalable argumentation mapping tool. The tool also illustrates the opportunities of applying a Web 2.0 model to PPGIS. The searching, linking, authoring, tagging, extension, and signalling (SLATES) functions are associated with PPGIS functionality to produce a participatory GeoWeb tool for deliberative democracy.

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