Digital Cities and E-Government: The Institutional Perspective -- E-Government: European Commission Policies and Activities -- TeleCities: The Role of City Networks in E-Government Processes -- The Italian Approach to Local E-Government -- Experience and Initiatives in Europe -- E-Democracy: The Participation of Citizens and New Forms of the Decision-Making Process -- Web Service Portals: Trans…
Holistic Approaches to Collaborative Networks -- Breeding Environments Management -- VO Creation and Frameworks -- VO Creation and Partner Selection -- VO Creation and Optimization -- Trust Management -- VO Management -- VO Coordination -- Network Benefit Analysis -- Performance Measurement -- Performance Management -- Modeling and Meta-Modeling -- Process Modeling -- Professional Virtual Commu…
Why Agility Now? -- Agility in Fours: IT Diffusion, IT Infrastructures, IT Development, and Business -- Information Technology Diffusion Research: An Interim Balance -- Agility in Information Systems Development: A Three-Tiered Framework -- Agile IT Diffusion -- Navigating Software Process Improvement Projects -- Mapping Social Networks in Software Process Improvement: An Action Research Study …
Process integration in the printmedia industry -- Job Definition Format -- Networking architectures -- Benefits -- Procedure when implementing process integration -- Closing remarks.The arrival of PDF has successfully optimized certain elements of the production workflow – the next challenge facing the print media industry is to resolve the problem of non-networked software packages that exis…
Exploring the Interaction of Space and Networks in the Creation of Knowledge: An Introduction: Johannes Glückler, Emmanuel Lazega, and Ingmar Hammer -- I: The Significance of Knowledge About Networks: The Relational Dimension as a Bridging Principle Between Economic, Social, and Geographic Issues: Reversing the Instrumentality of the Social for the Economic: A Critical Agenda for 21st-Century …
What is Good Design? -- Rational Design -- Social Psychology -- Style -- Culture -- Social Contract -- Social Agendas -- Activism -- Social Spaces -- Risk -- Fairness -- Progress -- Sustainability.This book discusses concepts of good design from social perspectives grounded in anthropology, sociology and philosophy, the goal being to provide readers with an awareness of social issues to help th…
Part I: Positioning youth as social innovators on the global stage.- 1. The Sustainable Development Goals and the role of youth-driven innovation for social change; Sheri Bastien and Halla Holmarsdottir -- 2. Global perspectives on youth and school-to-work transitions in the 21st century: New challenges and opportunities in skills training programs; Halla Holmarsdottir and Kendra Dupuy -- 3. C…
1. Introduction -- 2.the 'Entrepreneurial State' and the Leveraging of Life in the Field of Regenerative Medicine -- 3.Technologies of Governance: Science, State and Citizen in Visions of the Bioeconomy -- 4. "Having a Structuring Effect on Europe". The Innovative Medicines Initiative and the Construction of the European Health Bioeconomy -- 5. The Underworlds Project and The "Collective Microb…
Preface -- New Media and Economy -- New Media and Culture -- New Media and Daily Life -- New Media and Public Political Participation -- Negative Sides of New Media.Starting from a history of new media, this book presents the development of network technology and media applications in China, while also examining the relationship between new media and politics, economy, culture, lifestyle, tradi…
1.Introduction: where great need meets great uncertainty -- 2. Understanding innovation & the problem of technology adoption -- 3. A history of deep brain stimulation -- 4. Multidisciplinary teamwork -- 5. Body work & space -- 6. Managing expectations, aligning futures -- 7. Measuring clinical outcomes -- 8. Towards patient-centred platforms.This book draws on medical sociology and science and …