OpenLabs - Collaborative Industrialization with Distributed and Open Source Microfactories

2015 ◽  
Vol 794 ◽  
pp. 470-477
Author(s):  
Tobias Redlich ◽  
Manuel Moritz ◽  
Sonja Buxbaum-Conradi ◽  
Pascal Krenz ◽  
Susanne Heubischl ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Open Source ◽  
Production Technology ◽  
Value Creation ◽  
Developed Countries ◽  
Local Communities ◽  
Scarce Resources ◽  
The People ◽  
Economic Strategies ◽  
The World ◽  
Economic Imbalances

Technical progress in production technology, the advancement of ICTs as well as increasing social and economic imbalances and ever-scarce resources ask for new means of value creation. . With the spill over of the highly efficient and innovative open source principles to the world of physical goods and products new modes of value creation appear that put traditional economic strategies and assumptions into question by stressing collaboration instead of competition, knowledge sharing engineering and fostering the empowerment of the people to participate and get engaged.The here presented multidisciplinaryOpenLabsconcept takes into account these new patterns of value creation based on open source principles and is a suitable approach to increase the overall empowerment and participation in local communities in developing, but also in developed countries.

Community Impact of Telebased Information Centers

2011 ◽  
pp. 298-318 ◽  
Author(s):  
Morten Falch
Keyword(s):  
Developing Countries ◽  
Universal Coverage ◽  
Developed Countries ◽  
Local Communities ◽  
Community Centers ◽  
Communication Services ◽  
Community Impact ◽  
The World ◽  
It Capabilities ◽  
Point Of Departure

Telebased information community centers or just telecenters have been seen as the killer application to empower local communities in developed and developing countries to meet the challenges of the information society. The point of departure has been different in various parts of the world, and a number of quite diverse models for development of telebased information centers have been applied. While centers in developed countries, with an almost universal coverage of telephony services, have been focussed on enhancing IT capabilities and access to IT-based communication services, developing countries have also focussed on provision of basic telephony. This chapter presents the approaches taken in Scandinavia, Hungary, Western Australia and Ghana in order to reach these objectives, and discusses the experiences with the different models and the national strategies used for setting up telebased information centers with special attention to their applicability in developing countries.

Challenges and Prospects for E-Planning in Lusophone African Countries

2013 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 60-69 ◽  
Author(s):  
Carlos Nunes Silva
Keyword(s):  
Urban Planning ◽  
Developed Countries ◽  
Colonial History ◽  
African Countries ◽  
Sao Tome And Principe ◽  
The People ◽  
Published Report ◽  
The World ◽  
Planning Development ◽  
Administrative Tradition

The level of E-Planning development in African cities is in general far behind cities in developed countries. This is also, to a large extent, what happens in the five Lusophone African countries (Angola, Cape Verde, Guinea-Bissau, Mozambique and Sao Tome and Principe). Besides sharing a common colonial history, administrative tradition and language these five African countries have in common similar urban planning cultures. In the recently published report “E-Government Survey 2012: E-Government for the People” the United Nations confirms a growth tendency in the implementation of e-government throughout the world, a trend that will make possible the development of E-Planning in countries where this new urban planning paradigm is still missing or has been insufficiently implemented, as is the case of the five Lusophone African countries. This review of the UN 2012 E-Government Survey aims to summarize and discuss the key challenges for e-government development identified in the survey and, based on these findings, to explore the challenges and prospects for e-Planning adoption in the five Lusophone African countries.

scholarly journals The Importance of Nepotym and Corruption Management in Institutions and the Economy of the Country

2017 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 133
Author(s):  
Driton Fetahu
Keyword(s):  
Good Governance ◽  
Developed Countries ◽  
Influential Factors ◽  
Transparency International ◽  
The People ◽  
The World ◽  
International Report ◽  
Private And Public ◽  
Close Relatives ◽  
The Impact

: Social, political and institutional factors play a major role in the country's economic development and economic growth in developing and developed countries. Corruption, which is a symptom of deep institutional weaknesses, is one of the factors responsible for reducing investment and spending (for education and health), increasing income inequality, decreasing foreign direct investment, and allocating resources. It tends to grow faster than the dynamics implemented to neutralize it. Systematically, it has caused many disturbing problems in all countries of the world. Based on a Transparency International report. Corruption is one of the greatest contemporary challenges of the world. It determines good governance, leads to inefficient resource allocation, disrupts the private and public sector, and often affects the poor. The people in the world carry the phenomena that society has so far encountered but has neglected. Nepotism usually means hiring close relatives, close friends, regardless of their merits and abilities. While corruption poses a permanent threat to both the economic system and the country's legal system. The purpose of this paper is; To assess the factors that have influenced the appearance and development of nepotism and corruption. Then, analyze the influence of nepotism and corruption in the country's economy. The impact of nepotism on employment and the advancement of relatives in the important sector of the country as well as the influence of corruption and nepotism in justice institutions. The research results will be useful for researchers who will be concerned with analyzing the influential factors of nepotism and corruption.

A corrupção no setor privado: análise dos atos corruptivos na cadeia de valor

2019 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 51-70
Author(s):  
Marcio Bonini Notari
Keyword(s):  
Private Sector ◽  
Key Words ◽  
Value Creation ◽  
Value Chain ◽  
Private Companies ◽  
Public And Private ◽  
Private Initiative ◽  
The People ◽  
The World ◽  
Internal Operations

O presente trabalho tem por objetivo abordar a temática da corrupção no ambito na cadeia de valor, notadamente, envolvendo o setor privado. Desse modo, será abordada, num primeiro momento, a necessidade de resgaste da ética pública e privada, a partir de algumas premissas filosóficas. Num segundo momento, será feita uma abordagem acerca da Teoria da Modernização, Funcionalista e institucionalista. Ao final, será analisado de que modo à corrupção atinge o mundo dos negócios, que vão desde as operações internas de criação de valor, até a venda final e a distribuição ao consumidor, etapas da chamada cadeia de valor, envolvendo as pessoas que trabalham de forma direta e indireta, para empresas privadas, a partir do Relatório da Transparência Internacional (2009), sobre a corrupção na iniciativa privada. .   Palavras chaves: ética pública e privada, teoria da modernização, cadeia de valor, setor privado.   SUMMARY The present work aims to address the issue of corruption in the field of value chain, notably, involving the private sector. In this way, the need to safeguard public and private ethics, based on certain philosophical premises, will be addressed initially. In a second moment, an approach will be made about the Theory of Modernization, Functionalist and Institutionalist. In the end, it will analyze how corruption reaches the world of business, ranging from internal operations of value creation, to the final sale and distribution to the consumer, stages of the so-called value chain, involving the people who work of work direct and indirect way, for private companies, from the International Transparency Report (2009), on corruption in private initiative. .   Key words: public and private ethics, theory of modernization, value chain, private sector.

scholarly journals MONITORING SDG 9 WITH GLOBAL OPEN DATA AND OPEN SOFTWARE – A CASE STUDY FROM RURAL TANZANIA

2019 ◽  
Vol XLII-2/W13 ◽  
pp. 1551-1558 ◽  
Author(s):  
C. M. Ilie ◽  
M. A. Brovelli ◽  
S. Coetzee
Keyword(s):  
Developing Countries ◽  
Open Source ◽  
Open Source Software ◽  
Open Data ◽  
Cost Effective ◽  
Developed Countries ◽  
Geospatial Information ◽  
Training Material ◽  
Educational Challenges ◽  
The World

<p><strong>Abstract.</strong> The 17 goals adopted by the United Nations (UN) are aimed at achieving a better and more sustainable future for all. For each goal, a set of indicators has been defined. The indicators measure progress towards achieving the respective SDG. For the majority of these indicators, geospatial information is needed to evaluate the current state of the indicator. While geospatial information is largely available in developed countries, this is not the case in many developing countries of the world. Furthermore, skills and capacity for calculating indicator values are also limited in many developing countries. To address these shortcomings, the third challenge of the 2018 UN OSGeo Committee Educational Challenges called for the development of training material for using open source software together with freely available high resolution global geospatial datasets in support of monitoring SDG progress. The resulting training material provides a step-by-step guide for calculating the state of SDG indicator 9.1.1, <i>Proportion of the rural population who live within 2km of an all-season road</i>, using open software and open data with global coverage. Through the development of this training material, we showed that anyone can monitor progress towards achieving SDG indicator 9.1.1 for their specific part of the world. Because open source software and open data were used, the indicator calculation is cost effective and completely sustainable.</p>

scholarly journals Tinjauan Teori Perdagangan Internasional dan Keunggulan Kooperatif

2016 ◽  
Vol 22 (2) ◽  
pp. 126
Author(s):  
Yusmichad Yusdja
Keyword(s):  
International Collaboration ◽  
World Trade ◽  
The Other ◽  
Dark Side ◽  
Competitive Advantages ◽  
International Peace ◽  
Scarce Resources ◽  
The People ◽  
The World ◽  
Cooperative Advantage

<strong>English</strong><br />In general, world trade concept is built upon principles of different comparative and competitive advantages among countries. If the countries produce and trade based on comparative and competitive advantages, it is believed that efficiency in scarce resources use will improve such that the people all over the world will be better off. Comparative advantage is a 250-years old concept and is still established, so far. This paper aims to describe the dark side of comparative and competitive advantages and to introduce cooperative advantage concept. The paper explains that cooperative advantage concept in international collaboration is more promising than those of comparative and competitive advantages. Mathematically, it reveals that cooperative conduct in international collaboration will create more benefits, especially in efficiency, income distribution, welfare, and international peace. On the other hand, the guarantee of comparative and competitive advantages is an illusion only. <br /><br /><br /><strong>Indonesian</strong><br />Konsep perdagangan dunia secara umum dibangun berdasarkan pemikiran keunggulan komparatif dan daya saing  yang berbeda antara negara.  Jika negara-negara berproduksi dan berdagang dengan mengacu pada keunggulan komparatif dan persaingan, maka diyakini akan meningkatkan efisiensi penggunaan sumberdaya yang langka sehingga tercapai tingkat kesejahteraan dunia yang lebih baik. Keunggulan komparatif merupakan konsep yang telah berusia 250 tahun namun tidak tergoyahkan hingga saat ini. Makalah ini bertujuan memperlihatkan sisi gelap konsep keunggulan komparatif dan daya saing  dan memperkenalkan konsep keunggulan kooperatif.  Makalah ini memperlihatkan bahwa konsep keunggulan kooperatif dalam hubungan internasional  akan memberikan dampak yang jauh lebih menjanjikan dibandingkan dengan  konsep keunggulan komparatif dan daya saing. Secara matematika diperlihatkan bahwa sikap kooperatif  dalam hubungan negara-negara akan memberikan lebih banyak manfaat terutama dalam menciptakan efisiensi dunia, distribusi pendapatan, kesejahteraan yang lebih tinggi dan kedamaian dunia. Sedangkan janji yang diberikan oleh konsep keunggulan komparatif dalam pasar bersaing hanyalah sebuah ilusi.

Summary: Lessons From A Disaster

2002 ◽  
Author(s):  
Inge F. Goldstein ◽  
Martin Goldstein
Keyword(s):  
Military Intervention ◽  
Developed Countries ◽  
Indian Territory ◽  
British India ◽  
The People ◽  
Tube Wells ◽  
Animal Wastes ◽  
The World ◽  
Per Capita ◽  
Independent Country

We have told a number of stories in this book about environmental health hazards. To summarize the main messages, we will briefly tell another. There is one common pollutant, a product of human activity, that is responsible for many millions of deaths each year, most of them among small children. Human feces contaminating the water supply is the means by which cholera, dysentery, typhoid fever, and a number of parasitic diseases are spread. These diseases were killing people even in Western economically advanced countries throughout most of the nineteenth century, and are still among the most serious threats to the health of the majority of the people of the world. They can be prevented, as they are in the industrialized world, by rather simple measures, but measures that are beyond the economic resources of many of the less developed countries. Recently the United Nations has been providing funds and technological help in controlling them by improving access to uncontaminated drinking water. One such program in Bangladesh involved digging tube wells to get access to deep groundwater sources, so that the people would no longer have to drink surface water from ponds and streams contaminated by human and animal wastes. Bangladesh has had more than its share of misfortune. It is a low-lying country subject to floods and other natural disasters, which has not been spared disasters of human making as well. Originally part of Pakistan when British India was partitioned, it is cut off from the rest of Pakistan by a thousand miles of Indian territory. The people of Bangladesh, although Muslim in religion, were ethnically distinct and spoke a different language from the rest of Pakistan. Their attempts to gain greater autonomy for their region led to a brutal suppression by the Pakistan army in 1971, in which over 1 million people were killed. Indian military intervention led to the defeat of Pakistan and the creation of an independent country of about 150 million people, with the highest population density in the world and one of the lowest per capita incomes, under $300 a year.

Telemedicine and Its Scope in COVID-19: Commentary

2020 ◽  
Vol 33 (04) ◽  
pp. 318-319
Author(s):  
Kanupriya Pareek
Keyword(s):  
Waiting Time ◽  
Modern Science ◽  
Cost Effective ◽  
Future Generation ◽  
Developed Countries ◽  
The People ◽  
Alternative Systems ◽  
The World ◽  
The Future

AbstractTelemedicine is a new concept that is developing with a lightning speed in developed countries. The practitioners of medicine are also using this as it has been legalised in many countries.In the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) times, when the buzzword is physical distancing, telemedicine assumes more importance. People are using this because of its easy availability, which cuts down their waiting time in the hospitals, it is easily accessible and is cost-effective. This is not only used by the modern science but also by the alternative systems of medicine like Ayurveda and Homoeopathy, as well as by the nutritionists, physiotherapists, yoga experts and so many others who are following these audio-visual and telecommunication techniques. It has worked well to reach out to the patients and resolve their queries. It is easy to reach to so many persons via a single platform and guide them. We are here to share some of our views on telemedicine and on the approach adopted by the people across the world, and discuss how it will be implemented by the future generation for the benefits of their lives and the society.

The Challenge of World-wide Social Conditions

1960 ◽  
Vol 329 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-14
Author(s):  
Julia J. Henderson
Keyword(s):  
World War Ii ◽  
Total Population ◽  
Social Situation ◽  
Developed Countries ◽  
Standard Of Living ◽  
World War ◽  
The People ◽  
New Synthesis ◽  
World Food Supply ◽  
The World

In the fifteen years since World War II, the international community has seen marked progress in prolong ing life, providing education for children, and in increasing the world food supply. Progress in the struggle against pov erty and bad housing is much less notable, and the achieve ments in lessening social tensions, in increasing human dignity, and other qualitative aspects of the standard of living are not measurable by the rough indicators we have at our disposal. The attempt to reach a new synthesis in the economic and social aspects of the development of less-developed countries, the widespread approval of governmental planning for social as well as economic development, the growth of public respon sibility for welfare of the total population, and the attention given to rural as well as urban development are cited as impor tant postwar developments in the philosophy and methods of international co-operation. The concern about extending as sistance in ways which stimulate active participation of the people is a hopeful response to the world social situation. Fi nally, the importance of basing assistance on mutual respect— with every country acting both as donor and recipient—is stressed in this co-operation.

scholarly journals A Study on Poverty in Turkey and in the World

2012 ◽  
Author(s):  
H. Yunus Taş ◽  
Selami Özcan
Keyword(s):  
20Th Century ◽  
World Bank ◽  
Poverty Line ◽  
Developed Countries ◽  
The Other ◽  
African Countries ◽  
The World Bank ◽  
The People ◽  
The World ◽  
Us Dollar

Poverty has become one of the most important problems for both underdeveloped and developed countries along with increasing globalization in the world since the second half of the 20th century. On the other hand, it has been claimed that the world is having its richest period of time. While two billion and five hundred millions of the people live under 2 US dollars, which has been determined by the World Bank as the poverty line, one billion and two hundred million of people live under 1 US dollar which has been determined as the hunger line. In our study, dimensions of poverty problems in certain significant countries and continents of the world (such as OECD and African countries) will be tried to be explained by giving quantities and graphics. Besides giving the rates of poverty in Turkey and Kazakhstan, studies concerning this issue and examples as regards their solutions will be given. As a result, suggestions towards lessening the rates of populations in those countries which have poverty and increasing life standards will be tried to ve given.

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