Integrated Multimedia City Data: Exploring Learning Engagement and Greenspace in Glasgow

This paper showcases a holistic, data-led, analytical approach to complex research questions about the associations between learning engagement and green spaces, and uses this exemplar to reflection, and make recommendations relevant to, future implementation of CIM approaches to aspects of urban inclusion. This research offers a holistic picture of educational engagement, digital use, sustainability, cultural and civic participation, and transportation, employing data from diverse strands of the Integrated Multimedia City Data (iMCD) project in the Glasgow city region. This includes a household survey, individuals' travel diaries and GPS trails around the city, linked to other urban administrative datasets on area deprivation and greenspace. Triangulated findings from iMCD data indicate that greenspace is generally positively related to adult learning engagement (in particular, less formal learning), highlighting the value to urban planners of considering varied types of data capture for lifelong learning, with linkage to more objective measures of active mobility (e.g. walking) around the city. iMCD, in line with CIM approaches, offers an interdisciplinary bridge to address healthy ageing and educational inclusion. Insights generated in a CIM-based context can help education policymakers, city planners, and other educational stakeholders reconsider resource and infrastructure allocation, for instance, in promoting lifelong learning engagement for adults in urban settings.

KUALITAS PEMBANGUNAN MANUSIA DI PROVINSI PAPUA

<em>Various economic literature has been widely disclosed that the level of income, the allocation of the education budget, the level of investment and infrastructure spending are fundamental factors directly affecting the level of poverty. In the end, reducing poverty levels is expected to improve the quality of human development. The purpose of this study is to look at the effect of education budget allocation, health budget allocation, infrastructure budget allocation, population, open unemployment rate and inflation on poverty levels in Papua Province and see the effect of poverty levels on HDI in Papua Province. <em>This study uses quantitative methods to analyze the effect of independent variables on HDI with poverty as an intervening variable in Papua Province. Data was taken from 2010-2017 and came from 29 regencies in Papua Province in Indonesia. The analytical tool used is Multiple Linear Regression with Panel Data. <em>The findings of this study are significant education and health budget allocations to poverty levels, whereas for infrastructure allocation budgets, the population is not significant to poverty levels. Open unemployment and inflation are significant for poverty levels. Poverty Level Installed is very significant on the Human Development Index</em></em></em>

The Gigatown Competition in New Zealand: competition as digital infrastructure allocation?

The Gigatown Competition (2013-2015) was a joint initiative between the telecommunications company Chorus and the New Zealand government to award a New Zealand town ‘the fastest internet in the Southern Hemisphere’ through a social media competition. Towns accrued points based on the volume of social media content related to the Competition and the benefits of ultra-fast broadband (UFB). I undertake a discourse analysis of select promotional materials and participation in the Competition to show how support for UFB as a necessary infrastructure for the New Zealand economy was achieved. I argue the Gigatown initiative mobilises a form of community participation in information and communications technologies (ICT) infrastructure premised on urban centres and towns competing against one another for their future viability. The success of the Competition and enthusiastic participation of towns in South Island can be contextualised by the governing and economic rationalities of urban austerity.

Pork-Barrel Politics in Semi-Democracies: The Spanish “Parliamentary Roads,” 1880–1914

This article analyzes the effects of parliamentary representation on road infrastructure expenditure during the Spanish Restoration. Using a panel data set of Spanish provinces in 1880–1914, we find that the allocation of administrative resources among provinces depended both on the delegation characteristics (such as the share of MPs with party leadership positions, and their degree of electoral independence), and the regime's global search for stability. These results point to the importance of electoral dynamics within semi-democratic political systems, and offer an example of the influence of government tactics on infrastructure allocation.