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This book provides an ideal starting point in understanding the core concepts of deliberative democracy
In Sharing Cities, Duncan McLaren and Julian Agyeman argue that the intersection of cities' highly networked physical space with new digital technologies and new mediated forms of sharing offers cities the opportunity to connect smart
Major themes of this book are smart cities, urban big data, and shared mobility. This book also contains chapters with cutting-edge research on urban modeling, walkability and bikeability analysis, and planning support systems (PSS).
In this book, the real-world implementations of successful Smart City technology in places like New York, Amsterdam, Copenhagen, and more are analyzed, and insights are gained from recorded attempts in similar urban centers that have not ...
This book illustrates how social media platforms enable us to understand everyday politics and evaluates the extent to which they can foster accountability, transparency and responsiveness
In acht Kapiteln aus der Zeit von 2013 bis 2020 sucht Ingolf Pernice die Auswirkungen der Digitalisierung auf unsere Konzepte von Staat und Verfassung zu erschließen: Vom Strukturwandel von Öffentlichkeit und Politik und einem neuen Verhältnis von Staat und Bürger bis hin zu den Bedingungen einer "Verfassung des Internets" und den Möglichkeiten demokratischer Selbstbestimmung auch auf globaler Ebene
This book provides the most current and comprehensive overview available today of the critical role of information systems in emergency response and preparedness
This is an essential guide for government employees, scholars, and regular citizens who want to make government work more effectively and democratically in the digital age.
The book concludes with a thoughtful response from Gutmann and Thompson to their esteemed critics
Setting a Research Agenda
In this counterintuitive study of digital democracy, Jen Schradie shows how the web has become another weapon in the arsenal of the powerful, and a potent weapon for conservative activists
This book uses a combination of descriptive statistical analysis and real-world case study narratives to evaluate the ways in which each individual urban variable or their combination matter in the diversity of smart city approaches around ...
The book covers issues presented by the technological changes on policy making and offers a wide array of perspectives
Geographic Citizen Science Design
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (the)This book presents a selection of wide-ranging case studies that provide insights into the design, interaction barriers, and lessons learned from a diverse set of participants.
This volume draws on the ecojustice, citizen science and youth activism literature base in science education and applies the ideas to situated tensions as they are either analyzed theoretically or praxiologically within science education ...
Designers have traditionally focused on enchancing the look and functionality of products.
This volume provides an important update to our current understanding of politics and the internet in a variety of new contexts, both geographically and institutionally
Instructor and sustainable design expert Scott Boylston explains the relationship between design thinking and social innovation and teaches us about the impact design can have on global goals, including sustainable development, anti-racism, ...
In this book, a number of leading democratic theorists address the key issues that surround the theory and practice of deliberative democracy
PRAISE FOR SMART CITIES, SMART FUTURE "Mike and Cornelia have managed to distill hundreds of ideas, sources, milestones, technologies and dreams into a thoughtful 'showcase of tomorrow'. . . their analysis, synthesis and narrative make this ...
The chapters in this book focus on the design, development, implementation, use, and evaluation of information system technologies and methodologies to support crisis response and management, as well as technology management-related issues
The intelligence of a city is the capacity to learn: to learn the past, its history and the culture of its territory.
Service Design by Working with Youth Civic Groups in Lebanon
With The Data Journalism Handbook, you’ll explore the potential, limits, and applied uses of this new and fascinating field.
Shapiro brings much-needed empirical research to a field that has often relied on “10,000-foot views.” Timely, important, and expertly researched, Design, Control, Predict doesn’t just help us comprehend urbanism today—it advances ...
From a perspective of practice, this research offers new insights into how organizations might recognize and more confidently integrate key design attitude capabilities that can result not only in social innovation outcomes, but also in ...
The Internet and "social media" may initially have been understood as just one more instrument politicians could employ to manage without political parties
Das Buch untersucht die Struktur, die Potenziale und die Risiken der Informationsgesellschaft und präsentiert den LeserInnen eine aktuelle und eingehende Analyse der wirtschaftlichen, technischen und politischen Fundamente dieser Gesellschaft im Umbruch
It is for these reasons that this is a worthwhile topic to be examined in this paper: What impact has the digital revolution of the German Pirate Party on direct democracy in Germany and how does it affect the transparency of an ...
Unlocking Innovation and Performance with Liquid Information
The book offers a valuable interdisciplinary dialogue on the challenges and opportunities of the increasingly influential space of civic media
Summary of a Workshop on Using Information Technology to Enhance Disaster Management culminates phase 1 of the project
This is a unique, timely, and distinctly Australian look at a global phenomenon by two 'reflective practitioners'
Inhaltsangabe:Einleitung: Um sich im Wettbewerb gegenüber der Konkurrenz zu behaupten, fokussieren viele Unternehmen ihre Strategie auf den Kunden
This dilemma has given rise in some places to a new, deliberative democracy, and this volume explores four contemporary empirical cases in which the principles of such a democracy have been at least partially instituted: the participatory
Hearing Before the Subcommittee on Cybersecurity, Information Technology, and Government Innovation of the Committee on Oversight and Accountability, House of Representatives, One Hundred Eighteenth Congress, First Session, September 14, 2023
The book can empower social entrepreneurs and innovators to develop and implement ideas for the betterment of society at large.
This book discusses the latest developments in the field of open data.
From planning to executing to evaluating citizen science research, the range of useful material in this book is astounding."--Allen Fish, Golden Gate National Parks Conservancy
Pro bono legal assistance for NGOs or academic research assistance on legislative issues at no cost and worldwide
We created a search engine for public domain works that can be adapted to work in each country as the legislation changes according to the nationality of the author of the work.
The Google News Initiative works with publishers and journalists to fight misinformation, share resources and build a diverse and innovative news ecosystem.
CTCL is thrilled to launch a nonpartisan grant program to help rural and nonmetro election jurisdictions ensure reliable and secure elections consistent with applicable law.
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