Cultural Event Management and Urban e-Planning Through Bottom-Up User Participation

2018 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 15-33 ◽  
Author(s):  
Angelo Corallo ◽  
Anna Trono ◽  
Laura Fortunato ◽  
Francesco Pettinato ◽  
Laura Schina
Keyword(s):  
Urban Planning ◽  
Information And Communication Technologies ◽  
Methodological Approach ◽  
User Participation ◽  
Economic Transformation ◽  
Added Value ◽  
Event Management ◽  
Bottom Up ◽  
Cultural Event ◽  
The Impact

Cultural events are an important driver of socio-cultural-economic transformation. The growth of Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) has affected the ways in which people can play an active role in cultural event management and urban planning. This work proposes a methodological approach that identifies the key elements for building bottom-up urban e-planning strategies. After a brief theoretical analysis of the impact of cultural activities, tourism and ICTs on urban planning, this paper presents the results of an empirical study carried out in the Puglia region (south of Italy) during the cultural event known as “La Notte della Taranta”, in which the crowd created added-value information via comments posted on social media. Data were collected using a mobile application specifically created for this event as part of the Folkture project, as well as from Facebook and Twitter posts. Using network-analytic and sentiment/semantic algorithms, the work aims to support the event management decisional process and produce results valuable to the field of urban planning.

Cultural Event Management and Urban E-Planning Through Bottom-Up User Participation

2019 ◽  
pp. 1011-1030
Author(s):  
Angelo Corallo ◽  
Anna Trono ◽  
Laura Fortunato ◽  
Francesco Pettinato ◽  
Laura Schina
Keyword(s):  
Urban Planning ◽  
Information And Communication Technologies ◽  
Methodological Approach ◽  
Active Role ◽  
User Participation ◽  
Added Value ◽  
Event Management ◽  
Cultural Economic ◽  
Bottom Up ◽  
Cultural Event

Cultural events are an important driver of socio-cultural-economic transformation. The growth of Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) has affected the ways in which people can play an active role in cultural event management and urban planning. This work proposes a methodological approach that identifies the key elements for building bottom-up urban e-planning strategies. After a brief theoretical analysis of the impact of cultural activities, tourism and ICTs on urban planning, this paper presents the results of an empirical study carried out in the Puglia region (south of Italy) during the cultural event known as “La Notte della Taranta”, in which the crowd created added-value information via comments posted on social media. Data were collected using a mobile application specifically created for this event as part of the Folkture project, as well as from Facebook and Twitter posts. Using network-analytic and sentiment/semantic algorithms, the work aims to support the event management decisional process and produce results valuable to the field of urban planning.

Cultural Event Management and Urban E-Planning Through Bottom-Up User Participation

2018 ◽  
pp. 1059-1078
Author(s):  
Angelo Corallo ◽  
Anna Trono ◽  
Laura Fortunato ◽  
Francesco Pettinato ◽  
Laura Schina
Keyword(s):  
Urban Planning ◽  
Information And Communication Technologies ◽  
Methodological Approach ◽  
Active Role ◽  
User Participation ◽  
Added Value ◽  
Event Management ◽  
Cultural Economic ◽  
Bottom Up ◽  
Cultural Event

Cultural events are an important driver of socio-cultural-economic transformation. The growth of Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) has affected the ways in which people can play an active role in cultural event management and urban planning. This work proposes a methodological approach that identifies the key elements for building bottom-up urban e-planning strategies. After a brief theoretical analysis of the impact of cultural activities, tourism and ICTs on urban planning, this paper presents the results of an empirical study carried out in the Puglia region (south of Italy) during the cultural event known as “La Notte della Taranta”, in which the crowd created added-value information via comments posted on social media. Data were collected using a mobile application specifically created for this event as part of the Folkture project, as well as from Facebook and Twitter posts. Using network-analytic and sentiment/semantic algorithms, the work aims to support the event management decisional process and produce results valuable to the field of urban planning.

scholarly journals The Impact of User Participation Methods on E-Government Projects: The Case of La Louvière, Belgium

2018 ◽  
Vol 6 (4) ◽  
pp. 175-186
Author(s):  
Anthony Simonofski ◽  
Benoît Vanderose ◽  
Antoine Clarinval ◽  
Monique Snoeck
Keyword(s):  
Information And Communication Technologies ◽  
Smart Cities ◽  
Implementation Process ◽  
Communication Technologies ◽  
User Participation ◽  
Public Servants ◽  
Government Project ◽  
Information And Communication ◽  
One Year ◽  
The Impact

In recent years, information and communication technologies (ICT) have allowed governments to improve their internal functioning and to improve the delivery of information and services to their users. This application of ICT in governments has been conceptualized as “e-government”. However, more recently, smart cities emerged as a locally-embedded paradigm that proposes the design of innovative solutions across all domains of our everyday life (mobility, environment, economy, education, quality of life, and governance) with ICT as an enabler. In their recent evolutions, these two concepts have advocated for increased involvement of their stakeholders (citizens, businesses, public servants, etc.) through user-participation methods to support the design of their projects. This article intends to examine how these methods impact an e-government project and, more particularly, to find out which challenges and benefits practitioners experience. In order to reach that goal, we studied the case of the city of La Louvière (Belgium) through a one year plus study following action research’s best practices. This article contributes at several levels. First, it describes the challenges and benefits experienced with participation methods in a concrete project. Second, it proposes an e-government implementation process enhanced with these methods. Third, this article discusses the similarities and differences between e-government and smart cities through the lens of participation methods.

Economic effects of non-additive development of industrial enterprises: an analytical review of the process and structural transformations

2021 ◽  
Vol 92 (1) ◽  
pp. 87-106
Author(s):  
Yaroslav Kudria
Keyword(s):  
Structural Changes ◽  
Methodological Approach ◽  
Industrial Sector ◽  
Structural Transformations ◽  
Economic Transformation ◽  
Economic Effects ◽  
Industrial Activity ◽  
Industrial Enterprises ◽  
Analytical Review ◽  
The Impact

The article presents a methodological approach to assessing the effects of non-additive development (NAD) of enterprises, which takes into account the impact of economic processes on the intensification of production activities of an enterprise and its socio-economic transformation. The author analyzed the current non-additive development of enterprises in the industrial sector of the Ukrainian economy by assessing the dynamics and identifying key trends depending on the main types of industrial activity. The results of the analysis were used to identify recent structural changes in the industrial sector.

scholarly journals Daylight Provision Requirements According to EN 17037 as a Restriction for Sustainable Urban Planning of Residential Developments

2019 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 315
Author(s):  
Nataša Šprah ◽  
Mitja Košir
Keyword(s):  
Urban Planning ◽  
Residential Buildings ◽  
Methodological Approach ◽  
Area Ratio ◽  
Sustainable Land Use ◽  
Urban Density ◽  
Floor Area ◽  
Floor Area Ratio ◽  
Residential Developments ◽  
The Impact

The attempt at a more sustainable land use by increasing urban density may have a negative effect on the daylighting of residential buildings. In densely built areas, obstructions generated by the surrounding buildings can substantially reduce the available amount of daylight, causing poorly daylit spaces and a less healthy indoor environment with higher electricity consumption as a consequence of artificial lighting. European standard EN 17037, Daylight in Buildings, was established in 2018 to ensure appropriately daylit spaces. In this paper, a three-step methodology was developed to investigate the relationship between certain urban planning parameters and the daylighting of a typical room defined by specific (Slovenian) legislative restrictions about its geometry and minimum required window to floor area ratio, in order to establish the maximum densities of residential developments still fulfilling the minimum requirements for daylight provision defined by EN 17037. The results show that a relatively low urban density is required to fulfil the stipulations for minimum daylight provision for the deepest permissible room according to the Slovenian legislation. The impact of the development floor area ratio on the daylighting potential of buildings was identified as significant, followed by the site coverage, development layout, and building typology. Furthermore, the developed methodological approach clearly demonstrates a substantial potential for application in urban planning, with indoor daylight environmental conditions being linked to the planning of residential developments in the earliest stages of the project.

scholarly journals One Laptop per Child? Using Production Frontiers for Evaluating the Escuela 2.0 Program in Spain

Mathematics ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (20) ◽  
pp. 2600
Author(s):  
Daniel Feliciano ◽  
Laura López-Torres ◽  
Daniel Santín
Keyword(s):  
Information And Communication Technologies ◽  
Group Performance ◽  
Negative Impact ◽  
Methodological Approach ◽  
Malmquist Index ◽  
The Difference ◽  
Inference Techniques ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Base Group ◽  
Production Frontiers

Over the last few decades, public programs have driven the gradual adoption of information and communication technologies (ICTs) in education. The most ambitious project in Spain so far was Escuela 2.0, which provided students from the regions that opted into the program with laptops. The objective of this paper is to evaluate the impact of this program on school performance and productivity. To do this, we developed a new methodological approach based on combining causal inference techniques and the analysis of production frontiers. We calculated the differences in productivity and performance between treated and control schools using the base-group Camanho–Dyson Malmquist index and the base-group performance gap index. We estimate the impact of the program as the variation of these differences, following the essence of the difference-in-differences analysis. The main results are that Escuela 2.0 had a negative impact on performance and productivity.

scholarly journals Promotion Des Exportations Des Produits Industriels, Emploi Et Revenu Des Menages Au Maroc. Une Simulation D’impact A L’aide D’un Modele De Multiplicateurs De La Matrice De Comptabilite Sociale

2018 ◽  
Vol 14 (25) ◽  
pp. 354
Author(s):  
Nouzha Zaoujal ◽  
Rachid El Mataoui
Keyword(s):  
Economic Growth ◽  
Household Income ◽  
Positive Impact ◽  
Methodological Approach ◽  
Added Value ◽  
Social Accounting Matrix ◽  
Poor Households ◽  
The Social ◽  
Global Economic Growth ◽  
The Impact

This paper aims to analyze empirically the impact of increased exports of industrial products on employment, household income (rich, average and poor) and sectoral and global economic growth in Morocco. The methodological approach used is the multiplier techniques based on the Social Accounting Matrix (SAM). For this we use the 2015 Morocco’s SAM. The results indicate that a generally positive impact on all sectoral and macroeconomic aggregates (production, added value, employment, transactions balance and GDP). For household’s income, the results indicate also that the impact would have benefited to the average households more than rich or poor households.

Use of ICT and Student Learning in Higher Education

2012 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 37-49
Author(s):  
Rodney Arambewela ◽  
Dilanthi Koralagama ◽  
Shyamali Kaluarachchi
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Student Learning ◽  
Information And Communication Technologies ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Added Value ◽  
University Teaching ◽  
Successful Implementation ◽  
Technology In Teaching ◽  
Learning Orientations ◽  
The Impact

The use of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) in Higher Education (HE) and the capabilities of the internet have added value to university teaching and learning. It has also tested the resolve of universities to maximise the benefits of technology integration amidst increasing class sizes, student expectations, cultural diversity and mobility of students. Understanding how students learn and devising appropriate student centred instruction and learning are considered essential to the successful implementation of ICT and allied technologies in teaching and learning. Supported by the findings of an empirical study conducted in an Australian university on student learning orientations and perceptions of course delivery, this article discusses the challenges faced by universities in the integration of technology in teaching for better learning outcomes. The study indicates that technology and learning contexts have a profound influence on student learning orientations of deep or surface learning and students seem to have mixed feelings about the impact of technology in teaching and learning.

scholarly journals Relation between intangible assets, macroeconomic environment, and market value of German public companies - period from 1999 to 2016

2020 ◽  
Vol 11 (3) ◽  
pp. 1-14
Author(s):  
Tiago De Vasconcelos ◽  
Rogerio Marino
Keyword(s):  
Intangible Assets ◽  
Methodological Approach ◽  
Credit Default Swap ◽  
Market Value ◽  
Added Value ◽  
Rate Of Return ◽  
Public Companies ◽  
Tangible Assets ◽  
Physical Form ◽  
The Impact

The present paper is aimed to investigate the relation of intangible assets, macroeconomic data and market value of German public companies from 1999 to 2016. This paper innovates in relation to those who used the theoretical reference of the neoclassical production function by introducing ranges of variations for the main variables of the model (growth rate of sales, rate of return to fixed capital, rate of return for German bonds, internal product growth rates, discount rates) to verify if the contribution of intangibles is supported by significant changes in the variables essential for estimating the model. Entrepreneurs and executives believed that the key to success in business was associated with its tangible assets and what they were able to produce.  Recently it was realized that the value of a company is not restricted to tangible assets, but also to the assets  with no physical form, such as trademarks, intellectual capital, patents, and other intangible assets. The verification of the impact of the intangibles on the company's market value is made through proxies according to the methodology proposed by Gu & Lev (2011), the Euribor rate and the Credit Default Swap as a country risk proxy and sensitivity analysis for the weighting weighing of Ebitda and for economic growth assumptions. The methodological approach is a test-based quantitative research by using analysis of correlation and regression with panel data using STATA-15 software in order to determine the impact of intangible assets on the market value of the company. The sample was extracted from the Capital IQ database of all public companies listed in Germany from 1999 to 2016 on annual basis. As a result, it was verified that Ebitda is a consistency element of intangibility, and it  impacts the IDE and IC calculation over time, with positive relation with Market Value of German companies, but partial evidences that generate  added value to shareholders.

ICTs and Participation in Developing Cities

2010 ◽  
pp. 306-323 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alexandre Repetti ◽  
Jean-Claude Bolay
Keyword(s):  
Urban Planning ◽  
Information And Communication Technologies ◽  
Urban Governance ◽  
Communication Technologies ◽  
Added Value ◽  
Information Flows ◽  
Developing Cities ◽  
Information And Communication ◽  
Land Use Models ◽  
Internet Forums

Developing cities are experiencing substantial gaps in urban planning. They are due to approaches and instruments that do not correspond to the realities of the developing city including the prevalence of informal sector and slums, urban governance problem, and few resources. Information and communication technologies (ICTs) now offer enormous possibilities to use information flows, communication, and land-use models better. ICTs offer solutions that take greater account of informal activities, enable discussions with civil society and Internet forums to take place, etc. ICTs can enhance the planning of developing cities, if conditions are right. The chapter provides a review of the situation in developing cities. It analyses the challenges and potential of using ICTs to improve urban planning. Lastly, it puts forward key conditions for the successful and relevant implementation of ICTs in order to create the best conditions for real technological added value.

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