Digitalisation and social innovations – perspectives and risks to the society

2018 ◽  
Vol 46 (1) ◽  
pp. 19-29
Author(s):  
Prof. nadzw. Mirosław Grewiński
Keyword(s):  
Social Relations ◽  
Information Technologies ◽  
Electronic Communication ◽  
Social Issues ◽  
Social Economy ◽  
Sharing Economy ◽  
Social Risk ◽  
Social Sphere ◽  
Social Innovations ◽  
Education And Development

The process of digitalisation of the economy and social sphere that has occurred in the last decades is beyond the wildest expectations put forward by the technological pioneers. Information technologies and new possibilities of electronic communication have totally changed business, economic and social relations, as well as labour market, industries and professions. Technologies as social innovations change the way of work, forms of education and development, adherence to social networks or consumption patterns. The article also tries to prove that social innovations are not only digital technologies, but also the search for new social ideas and values, including solutions in the scope of social economy, sharing economy, a new model of welfare state. Moreover, some new social issues are revealed, together with new forms of social risk related to the development of technology and digi-talisation, which will have to be solved in the future.

scholarly journals Sharing Economy and Transformation of Network Information Technologies

2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (6) ◽  
pp. 5180-5185 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Economic Development ◽  
Political Institutions ◽  
Information Technologies ◽  
Driving Forces ◽  
Social Economy ◽  
Sharing Economy ◽  
Russian Society ◽  
Present Stage ◽  
Network Information ◽  
Socio Economic Development

Subject/topic of the research is background and prospects for the transformation of political institutions during the development of the sharing economy and network information technologies. Object of the research is the transformation of political institutions during the development of the sharing economy and network information technologies. The aim of the paper is to analyze the concepts of social economy and the economy of shared access in the context of the transformation of political institutions at the present stage of socio-economic development. Methods. The following general scientific research methods were used in the work: method of induction, deduction, analysis and synthesis, comparison and generalization, as well as structural and graphical methods for visualizing the results obtained. Results. The paper discusses the concept of sharing economy. The four driving forces of the development of the sharing economy at the present stage are characterized. The postulates of the concept of modern sharing are revealed. Russia does not stand aloof from global trends, and the sharing economy is gradually penetrating into Russian society, becoming an effective tool for the national socio-economic development in times of crises. However, the development of domestic sharing has its own specific features that somehow affect the functioning of the sharing economy in Russia. Therefore, the authors carried out a SWOT analysis of the domestic sharing economy. It allowed identifying some opportunities, prospects, barriers, and threats to its development

scholarly journals Modelo descritivo de atuação sustentável para o desenvolvimento de inovações sociais

2021 ◽  
Vol 14 (2) ◽  
pp. 241-262
Author(s):  
Priscila Rezende Da Costa ◽  
Lucimar da Silva Itelvino ◽  
Sonia Francisca Monken
Keyword(s):  
Social Transformation ◽  
Social Impact ◽  
Social Innovation ◽  
Social Issues ◽  
Social Impacts ◽  
Social Business ◽  
Descriptive Model ◽  
Innovation Development ◽  
Sustainable Performance ◽  
Social Innovations

Purpose: The concept of social innovation as open, collaborative and social transformation process opens room to reinforce the need of legitimizing social impact businesses and of expanding partnerships for social change, as well as the urgency of establishing professional and more sustainable social innovation environments. Accordingly, we tried to answer the following research question: How can social business performance boost the development of social innovations?Design/methodology/approach: Therefore, we adopted the inductive approach of qualitative paradigm, based on the Grounded Theory, to investigate 24 social businesses. In addition, we adopted the Atlas.ti software for data organization and recovery.Aggregate results allowed us to  propose a descriptive model of sustainable performance for the development of social innovations in social business, based on the following propositions: sustainable performance in processes and social innovation, the prevalence of a cooperative environment to solve social issues, professional governance as causal factor to social innovation development, the development of actions focused on public interests as influencing conditions for social innovation development, technical and scientific evaluation of social impacts as strategy to measure the outcomes of developed innovations and the expansion of social impacts as the consequence of the self-negotiation of social affairs.Originality/value: A descriptive model of sustainable acting was proposed for the development of social innovations in social businesses.

scholarly journals Socio-technological system of sharing economy

2021 ◽  
Vol 20 (2) ◽  
pp. 192-215
Author(s):  
Amarjeet Singh ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Literature Review ◽  
Conceptual Framework ◽  
Systematic Literature Review ◽  
Social Innovation ◽  
Social Issues ◽  
Focal Point ◽  
Sharing Economy ◽  
Social Motives ◽  
Holistic View ◽  
Comprehensive Framework

Sharing economy is a system which functions successfully provided that technological and social subsystems complement each other forming an indivisibly combined cohesive structure. The premise of balancing social and technological aspects is proposed in the socio-technological theory. Social issues call for social innovation to fulfil the needs and requirements of the society as well as individual citizens. The goal of this paper is to fill the gap in the extant literature by proposing a comprehensive framework of sharing economy based on the socio-technological theory. This study carried out a systematic literature review of works on sharing economy and socio-technological theory in order to develop a conceptual framework. There were identified different social motives associated with each of the subsystems; interplay between them was established. This study contributes to the increasing research by presenting a holistic view of sharing economy through the theoretical lens of socio-technology keeping society as well as consumer needs and requirements at its focal point.

scholarly journals Topical questions of crime prevention in the Darknet

2021 ◽  
pp. 26-34
Author(s):  
Shamil Khasanovich Gonov ◽  
Anton Vladimirovich Milovanov
Keyword(s):  
Crime Prevention ◽  
Social Relations ◽  
Information Technologies ◽  
Telecommunication Networks ◽  
Main Task ◽  
Internet Crime ◽  
Basic Model ◽  
Telecommunication Systems ◽  
Information Safety ◽  
Crime Detection

The article considers the topical issue of a significant growth of crimes in the field of information technologies most of which are committed in the dark and hidden web. The research object is social relations in the sphere of Internet crime prevention. The research subject is the methods and mechanisms of crimes using information systems, and the technologies of information safety provision and deanonymization. The main task of the research is to develop the scientifically-grounded ideas aimed at the enhancement of the technique of analysis and assessment of crimes committed via information and telecommunication systems. The scientific novelty of the research consists in the fact that the authors systematize, generalize and analyze the standard mechanisms of committing crimes using information technologies. Based on this analysis, the authors formulate suggestions and recommendations. The article considers the main methods and mechanisms of information safety provision (anonymity on the Internet, and some promising technologies of deanonymization which can be used in the process of crime detection and investigation. The authors formulate a basic model of an offender which can be used for a primary profiling of a criminal. They also formulate an approach to the assessment of his potential which takes into account the peculiarities of using computer equipment in criminal activities in information and telecommunication networks.   

scholarly journals Digital Media Behavior of School Students: Abusive Use of the Internet

2018 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 140-147 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrés García-Umaña ◽  
Ramón Tirado-Morueta
Keyword(s):  
Digital Media ◽  
Information Technologies ◽  
Social Issues ◽  
Statistical Treatment ◽  
The Internet ◽  
School Students ◽  
Internet Abuse ◽  
Use Of The Internet ◽  
Main Components ◽  
Educational Field

The increase in the use of information technologies encompasses all educational and social issues, even changing intergenerational skills. It is considered that the most conditioned to this effect are adolescents and young people. This research is a literary review of various studies on addiction and Internet abuse and presents relevant results of the situation of college students and their level of Internet use. The study was developed in seven educational units of Ecuador, with a sample of n = 773 students (53.6% men and 46.4% women). An instrument with sufficient validation guarantees (α.94) has been applied, verified by means of a factorial analysis of main components, which determined two study factors in the use of the Internet and loss of control and interference with life. Through a statistical treatment (Pearson) a good correlation was established (,62) between the two study dimensions, which is a concern in the educational field.

PREPARATION OF APPLICANTS OF THE SECOND (MASTER) LEVEL OF HIGHER EDUCATION FOR THE APPLICATION OF ADVERTISING AND INFORMATION TECHNOLOGIES

2020 ◽  
Vol 11 (4) ◽  
pp. 49-57
Author(s):  
Vytrykhovska O. P. ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Information Technologies ◽  
Master's Level ◽  
Professional Activities ◽  
Social Sphere ◽  
The Social ◽  
Master Level

The article reveals the peculiarities of training applicants for higher education of the second (master's) level of higher education in the use of advertising and information technologies in future professional activities. Tasks, types and technologies of advertising and information activities in the social sphere are outlined.

Kształtowanie się zasad dostępu do zasobów cyfrowych w Stanach Zjednoczonych w ramach zarządu powierniczego

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Arkadiusz Wudarski
Keyword(s):  
Electronic Communication ◽  
Social Issues ◽  
State Level ◽  
The United States ◽  
Legislative Process ◽  
Final Approval ◽  
State Laws ◽  
Uniform Law ◽  
To Receive ◽  
Digital Assets

This paper describes the development of the principles of fiduciary access to digital assets in the United States. It focuses on US legislation before the drafting of the Revised Uniform Fiduciary Access to Digital Assets Act (RUFADAA) in 2015, examining the legal and social issues faced by American lawyers in their search for a balance between facilitating fiduciary access and respecting privacy. Special attention is paid to the first legislative initiatives at the state level as well as to two model regulations that represent opposite approaches to access to digital assets: the Privacy Expectation Afterlife and Choices Act (PEAC) and the Uniform Fiduciary Access to Digital Assets Act (UFADAA). The analysis considers the requirements for gaining access to the account of a deceased user, conflicts between legally protected interests and conflicting federal and state laws, and the meaning of such legal terms as digital assets, fiduciary, custodian, content of an electronic communication, et. al. The reasons for the failure of these acts to receive final approval are also analysed. Research is based on American doctrine, state and federal legal acts, documentation of the legislative process, and the work of expert groups, including, primarily, the Uniform Law Commission (ULC).  

Digital Social Innovation

2019 ◽  
pp. 184-211
Author(s):  
Alicia Guerra Guerra ◽  
Lyda Sánchez de Gómez ◽  
Carlos Jurado Rivas
Keyword(s):  
Conceptual Framework ◽  
Social Innovation ◽  
General Scheme ◽  
Social Economy ◽  
Digital Technologies ◽  
Good Practices ◽  
The Social ◽  
Social Innovations ◽  
Global Movement ◽  
Global Activity

The fusion of the social economy with the digital economy, together with the essential need for social organizations to innovate in order to face challenges not satisfied by using traditional methods, led to what is known as digital social innovation: the use of digital technologies to allow or help to carry out social innovations. We are facing a developing field of study, in full evolution and with a high and recent level of global activity, which makes it a true global movement. This, together with the fact that DSI practices still lack unanimous and systematized criteria, calls for identifying what DSI is and what should be understood by it. Therefore, this chapter aims to configure and illustrate the conceptual framework of DSI, detail the barriers that are limiting its momentum, and formulate a general scheme of action for good practices in DSI.

Performance and Accountability in E-Budgeting Projects

2008 ◽  
pp. 722-734
Author(s):  
Gabriel Puron-Cid ◽  
J. Ramon Gil-Garcia
Keyword(s):  
Social Relations ◽  
Information Technologies ◽  
Organizational Structures ◽  
Technological Determinism ◽  
Systems Research ◽  
Information Systems Research ◽  
The Status ◽  
Information And Communication ◽  
Institutional Contexts ◽  
Complex Relationships

An influential theoretical tradition in information systems research suggests that information and communication technology has the power to transform organizational structures and individual behaviors. This approach has been called “technological determinism.” In contrast, recent studies have found evidence of more complex relationships between information technologies and the organizational and institutional contexts in which those technologies are embedded (Fountain, 2001; Kling & Lamb, 2000; Orlikowski & Baroudi, 1991). The theories that Orlikowski and Iacono (2001) have categorized as the “ensemble view” explain that information technologies should not be conceptualized as physical artifacts only, but that the social relations around those artifacts should also be considered. In addition, the relationship between information technologies and social structures is at least bidirectional, and therefore organizational characteristics and institutional arrangements also have an impact on government ICT projects (Fountain; García, 2005; Kraemer, King, Dunkle, & Lane, 1989). As a result of this embedment of ICT in government settings, certain characteristics of the information technologies are expected to reflect important aspects of the institutional and organizational environment and, therefore, help preserve the status quo instead of promoting change (Fountain; Kraemer et al.).

Online Virtual Communities as a New Form of Social Relations

2010 ◽  
pp. 2226-2238
Author(s):  
Almudena Moreno Mínguez ◽  
Carolina Suárez Hernán
Keyword(s):  
Social Relations ◽  
Cultural Context ◽  
Information Technologies ◽  
Virtual Communities ◽  
Online Communication ◽  
Virtual Community ◽  
Communication Technologies ◽  
New Information ◽  
The Social ◽  
Cyber Culture

The generalization of the new information technologies has favored the transformation of social structures and the way of relating to others. In this changing process, the logic of the social relationships is characterized by the fragility and the temporality of the communicative systems reciprocity which are established “online” in a new cybernetic culture. “Virtual communities” are created in which the interaction systems established by individuals exceed the traditional categories of time and space. In this manner the individuals create online social webs where they connect and disconnect themselves based on their needs or wishes. The new online communication technologies favor the rigid norms of the “solid society” that dilute in flexible referential contexts and reversible in the context of the “global and liquid society” to which the sociologists Bauman or Beck have referred to. Therefore the objective that the authors propose in this chapter is to try new theoretic tools, from the paradigms of the new sociology of technology, which let them analyze the new relational and cultural processes which are being generated in the cultural context of the information global society, as a consequence of the new communication technologies scope. Definitely the authors propose to analyze the meaning of concepts such as “virtual community”, “cyber culture”, or “contacted individualism”, as well as the meaning and extent of some of the new social and individual behaviors which are maintained in the Net society.

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