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It has been argued that the value of communities is that they can solve certain types of collective action problems which are resistant to purely market-based or policy-based solutions. Such problems increasingly arise in a data-driven information economy, the (so-called) sharing economy, and in economies of scarcity, where the added-value of information, reciprocity or other pro-social behaviour...
The research that follows is an attempt to present theoretical considerations about subjects in order to understand and present the concept of local development, a concept that renders clear the identity of a Masters Degree Program in Local Development in Campo Grande, MS — Brazil, at the Dom Bosco Catholic University. Globalization is a term which invaded the economical word and the international...
Oil and gas production involve potential danger to human lives, environment and economy. Everyday decisions and actions can lead to catastrophes. Production engineers are a group of people responsible for getting oil and gas from the subsurface reservoir to a processing plant. In order to do this in an efficient and safe manner the engineers require a set of skills that we argue they cannot get from...
This article aims to present the Vila Fátima Project developed by the Pontifical Catholic University of Minas Gerais - PUC Minas, within the activities of the Prorectory of Extension. The study describes the scenarios in which the extension and Project are inserted revealing the vulnerabilities and challenges faced. It is about a reference center for young people aged 15 to 17 years that promotes...
A number of changes are occurring in the field of computer game development: persistent online games, digital distribution platforms and portals, social and mobile games, and the emergence of new business models have pushed game development to put heavier emphasis on the live operation of games. Artificial intelligence has long been an important part of game development practices. The forces of change...
Online communities bring together people with varied access to and understanding of the work at hand, who must collaborate through documents of various kinds. We develop a framework articulating the characteristics of documents supporting collaborators with asymmetric access to knowledge versus those with symmetric knowledge. Drawing on theories about document genre, boundary objects and provenance,...
Earlier research on documentary boundary objects has underlined the contextual nature of the process of their emergence. The aim of this paper is to discuss how the process of making and the attribution or non-attribution of authorship affects documentary boundary objects. A better understanding of the making of boundary objects is helpful in understanding why and how particular boundary objects work,...
Organizations bring together people with various access to and understanding of the work at hand. De-spite their different stocks of background knowledge, most of them engage in documentation, whether as writers or readers. This paper explores how documents serve such diverse users by building a framework articulating the characteristics of documents supporting collaborators with asymmetric access...
This paper aims to provide a theoretical-methodological foundation for the understanding of social implications of emerging technologies. It argues that such an understanding requires a dialogical interaction between computer science and social theory. The argument is grounded within a critical analysis of the computer science discourse on ICTs-mediated collaboration in relation to the model of collaboration...
Cyberinfrastructure (CI) is a rapidly growing area of global research and funding with a history for emphasizing the role technology will play in changing scientific work practices. This paper proposes a group-theoretic perspective on small group collaboration that is informative to CI research and the design of CI environments. To illustrate the relevancy of a group-theoretic perspective to CI, this...
Grid and e-science infrastructure interoperability is an increasing demand for Grid applications but interoperability based on common open standards adopted by Grid middle-wares are only starting to emerge on Grid infrastructures and are not broadly provided today. In earlier work we have shown how open standards can be improved by lessons learned from cross-Grid applications that require access to...
There has been a growing awareness of the need for models of engineering practice in recent years and the publication of The New Production of Knowledge [1] by Gibbons led to considerable attention being focused on two distinct modes of knowledge production: Mode 1 associated with a traditional academic discipline-based approach and the more recently-emerged Mode 2, a problem-focused process more...
Many look at knowledge management as an organizational initiative, which it is. However, can KM also be used to assist low technology situations such as rural villages? This paper describes the application of KM to the creation of a self-reliant community in Thailand. Changing demographics are threatening the ability of rural villages to sustain their viability as traditional methods of passing knowledge...
Academic scientific software development projects aim to provide valuable research tools to aid the scientific community in the process of discovery. The need for those tools to meet wider expectations of usability and good user experience design is critical to success; however the nature of academic e-science software development projects means they are often constrained by too narrow an understanding...
There is no substitute to the intellectual disposition to innovate. To increase the value of creative thinking, ideas have to be transformed into wealth production through generation, promotion, and distribution of appreciated products and/or services in a timely and competitive way. To achieve these goals, philosophies of institutions and (virtual) organizations need to be nurtured to promote collective...
The World's dependence on fossil fuels and the need to move to more beneficial energy alternatives pose daunting challenges to humanity. Historically, economic and political rationality has driven the exploration, development and management of natural resources in the search for stable energy supplies. The insistence on continuing the unsustainable consumption patterns of developed countries has jeopardized...
In response to Vice President Cheney's famous dismissal of conservation as a mere "sign of personal virtue," I argue that personal virtue may be a necessary even if not a sufficient condition for "a sound, comprehensive energy policy." The most effective and worthwhile approach to energy policy is one that seeks both to change the overall system of energy production and distribution...
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