Learning About Learning in Tourism: Indigenous Guide Perspectives on Their Personal and Professional Development

This empirically based article examines guides’ knowledge and skills acquisition. Using two cultural tourism attractions in New Zealand as field sites, the focus is on guides in cultural tourism contexts. Twenty-one semistructured in-depth interviews with guides and managers were conducted and analyzed using a social constructivist perspective. This article is thus among the first to add the voices of (Indigenous) guides to the discussions of guide knowledge acquisition and learning. The relevance of previous personal experience of guides, conceptualized as informal experiential (practice-based) learning and lifelong learning, is identified as critical in guided tour content selection and delivery, as well as in engagement with participants of a guided tour experience. Implications address power relationships, ownership of information and stories, and credibility of a message in (Indigenous) cultural tourism; the need to focus on recruitment of guides, and a call for perceiving guides as humans with a sophisticated, demanding, interpersonal role.

The Perspectives of Supply Chain Management Using Natural Knowledge From 3D Blockchain Technologies and Avatar-Based and Geographic Information Systems (GIS)

The blockchain restores control and ownership of information back to its rightful owner, thus eliminating dependencies on central authorities and third parties. These material chains are immensely complex; they can be subject to the laws and regulations of more than 200 countries and territories, and they are heavily influenced by many different factors ranging from freight consolidation to the timing of hundreds of concurrent shipments. This chapter is about algorithmic modeling of supply chain management using natural knowledge from a 3D-hybrid blockchain as a dragon chain.

INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION FACTORS FORMING SUPPORTIVE LEARNING ENVIRONMENTS AT DIAN NUSWANTORO UNIVERSITY SEMARANG

Abstrak. Universitas Dian Nuswantoro (Udinus) sebagai Universitas Terbaik ketiga Nasional memiliki Visi “The Top Priority University to be Chosen in education and Enterpreneurship”. Visi ini diimplementasikan melalui pemberian mata kuliah kewirausahaan. Indikator keberhasilan sekaligus indikator prestasi mata kuliah yang diberikan, dapat dilihat melalui jumlah lulusan yang menjadi wirausaha, yaitu sejumlah 165 sejak tahun 2011. Berdasar data tersebut, dapat dikatakan bahwa lulusan yang menjadi wirausaha masih sangat sedikit. Diketahui bahwa pencapaian prestasi sangat dipengaruhi oleh lingkungan belajar yang mendukung, terutama pada saat terjadi interaksi komunikasi antar personal Dosen dan Mahasiswa. Berdasar hal tersebut, penelitian ini bertujuan untuk mengetahui faktor-faktor Komunikasi Antar Pribadi yang mampu meningkatkan lingkungan belajar yang mendukung di Universitas Dian Nuswantoro. Metode penelitian yang digunakan adalah analisis faktor, dengan dua belas variabel asal. Adapun dua belas faktor tersebut antara lain, toleransi, kesempatan yang seimbang, sikap menghargai, sikap mendukung, sikap terbuka, pemilikan informasi, kepercayaan, keakraban, kesejajaran, control dan pengawasan, respon, dan suasana emosional. Hasil penelitian menunjukkan sepuluh faktor baru yang terbentuk yaitu perhatian, timbal balik, akurasi, kolaborasi, pengertian, kejelasan, kejujuran, keintiman, keikhlasan, kesetiaan. Faktor yang paling dominan adalah faktor perhatian. Berdasar hasil penelitian, disarankan kepada pengajar untuk dapat menerapkan kesepuluh faktor dalam pembelajaran mata kuliah yang termasuk dalam turunan kewirausahaan, terlebih faktor perhatian. Penerapan faktor-faktor ini dalam pembelajaran mata kuliah kewirausahaan diharapkan mampu membentuk lingkungan belajar yang mendukung dan mampu meningkatkan motivasi untuk berwirausaha. Konteks tentang pengaruh faktor komunikasi antar personal dalam pembelajaran terhadap motivasi berwirausaha dapat dikaji pada penelitian selanjutnya. Abstract. Dian Nuswantoro University (Udinus) as the third best National University, has a vision "The Top Priority University to be Chosen in Education and Entrepreneurship". This vision is implemented through the provision of entrepreneurship courses. Indicators of success as well as indicators of achievement given courses, can be seen through the number of graduates who become entrepreneurs, which is a number of 165 since 2011. Based on these data, it can be said that graduates who become entrepreneurs are very few. It is known that achievement is greatly influenced by a supportive learning environment, especially when communication interactions occur between lecturers and students. This study aims to determine the factors of Interpersonal Communication that can improve the supportive learning environment at Dian Nuswantoro University. The research method used was factor analysis, with twelve origin variables. They are, tolerance, balanced opportunities, respect, support, openness, ownership of information, trust, intimacy, alignment, control and supervision, response, and emotional atmosphere. The results showed ten new factors formed namely attention, reciprocity, accuracy, collaboration, understanding, clarity, honesty, intimacy, sincerity, and loyalty. The most dominant factor is attention. Based on the results of the study, it is advisable for instructors to be able to apply the ten factors in learning subjects included in entrepreneurship, especially attention factors. The application of these factors in learning entrepreneurship courses is expected to form a supportive learning environment and be able to increase motivation for entrepreneurship. The context of the influence of interpersonal communication factors in learning on entrepreneurial motivation can be examined in furtherresearch

Who Owns Information? Law Enforcement Information Sharing as a Case Study in Conceptual Confusion

This article addresses the real impacts of conceptual confusion surrounding statutory language linking entities and information for purposes such as privacy, freedom of information, archiving, policing and evidence laws. The idea of ownership of information (which is assumed in the statutory allocation of powers of control and responsibilities) is captured in a confusing miscellany of terminology that differs across jurisdictions and contexts. It uses the example of information sharing for law enforcement purposes as a case study to highlight the practical challenges inherent in the diverse and vague statutory language linking entities and information. It then proposes a new taxonomy for attributing responsibilities and powers with respect to information that is consistent with the ephemeral nature of the subject matter.

Library as a consortium perspective: A systematic literature review

Consortia are a form of association between organizations seeking to reach a common objective. This study aims to systematize discussion in the area of library consortia and relate it to aspects of information management. To this end, the Web of Science databases was used to identify the literature to be analysed, resorting to Bibliometrix software. The results show a tendency in the literature to discuss themes such as open access contract management. The study concludes on an evolution of themes setting out from shared resources and directs future research towards identifying questions of access to and ownership of information resources.

What to bring when you are told not to bring a thing: The need for protocols in acknowledging Indigenous knowledges and participants in Australian research

This article provides a content analysis of articles published in Australian Social Work, the British Journal of Social Work, the International Journal of Social Welfare and International Social Work from 2007 to 2017 regarding the practice of acknowledging Indigenous participants and knowledges in articles that contain Indigenous content. This article argues that acknowledgement is an important way of recognising and showing respect for Indigenous people, as active agents in the research process. Indigenous cultural ideas, values and principles are now contributing to and informing a significant amount of research. Ways are suggested by which authors and journals can develop good practice when acknowledging Indigenous peoples respectfully within their research. This research found a need for the development of specific journal editorial policies and guidelines for authors who wish to publish content pertaining to Indigenous peoples that adequately reflects their contribution while protecting and acknowledging Indigenous knowledge, ideas and ownership of information.

Beyond Genes: Re-Identifiability of Proteomic Data and Its Implications for Personalized Medicine

The increasing availability of high throughput proteomics data provides us with opportunities as well as posing new ethical challenges regarding data privacy and re-identifiability of participants. Moreover, the fact that proteomics represents a level between the genotype and the phenotype further exacerbates the situation, introducing dilemmas related to publicly available data, anonymization, ownership of information and incidental findings. In this paper, we try to differentiate proteomics from genomics data and cover the ethical challenges related to proteomics data sharing. Finally, we give an overview of the proposed solutions and the outlook for future studies.

TACTICAL MEMORY: THE POLITICS OF OPENNESS IN THE CONSTRUCTION OF MEMORY

Those in the openness movement believe that access to information is inherently democratic, and assume the effects of openness will all be good from the movement’s perspective. But means are not ends, nothing is inevitable, and just what will be done with openly available information once achieved is rarely specified. One implicit goal of the openness movement is to create and sustain politically useful memory in situations in which official memory may not suffice, but to achieve this, openness is not enough. With the transition from a panopticon to a panspectron environment, the production of open information not only provides support for communities but also contributes to surveillance. Proprietary ownership of information is being challenged, but there is erosion of ownership in the sense of being confident in what is known. Some tactics currently in use need to be re–evaluated to determine their actual effects under current circumstances. Successfully achieving tactical memory in the 21st century also requires experimentation with new types of tactics, including those of technological discretion and of scale as a medium. At the most abstract level, the key political battle of the 21st century may not be between particular political parties or ideologies but, rather, the war between mathematics and narrative creativity.