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The adoption of CCS depends on many societal issues beyond technological and economic viability. This paper maps these issues based on multiple data sets from two research projects in Finland, looking at social, cultural, and political issues. The analysis takes advantage of various data sets collected within the projects, including interview data, media corpuses, stakeholder workshop materials, and...
E-government envisages transforming internal and external ties of state agencies by exploring the capacity of the internet, electronic and telecommunication technologies in order to improve the quality of services' delivery, to enlarge the scope of public participation in the matters of state governance and to enhance inner processes. This paper states the external and internal barriers to e-government...
Television news has been the predominant way of understanding the world around us, but individual news broadcasters can frame or mislead audience's understanding about political and social issues. We aim to develop a computer system that can automatically identify highly biased television news and encourages audience to seek news stories from contrasting viewpoints. But can computers identify news...
Systems methodologies for analyzing independent behavior and coalition formation under conflict are employed to examine the strategic impact of the decision of the United States not to sign the Kyoto Protocol upon the preferences and attitudes of Russia. The reduction of greenhouse gases to control climate change is a complex system of systems problem involving not only environmental factors but also...
Over the next several decades, a profound transformation of the global energy enterprise will occur driven largely by population growth and economic development. How this growing demand for energy is met poses one of the most complex and challenging issues of our time. The current national energy dialogue reflects the challenge in simultaneously considering the social, political, economic, and technical...
Technical, legal, political, and social issues have hampered efforts to broaden data sharing among UK government departments. One of the major arguments against data sharing is that it violates the citizens' right to privacy. However, the new plans for personal data subvert these beliefs, outlined in the Human Rights Act, in favor of active risk reduction for a common good defined by the state. While...
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