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This article attempts to demonstrate how technology can play a fundamental role in the best use of social networking and paperless citizens' claims processing (e-Gov, e-services, e-Administration, etc.) in strengthening democracy and stabilization of social peace in the Arab world in general and Morocco in particular, after the recent political and social changes. The goal of this research is to clarify...
Social networks, which have almost become part of our daily lives, have established new communication structures and behaviors in society. While citizens and businesses have already extensively used social networks for years, governments continuously increase their interest in the new communication technologies. Sites such as Facebook, Twitter, and Linked In provide a mechanism for individuals to...
Social media is increasingly important for political and social activism in Mexico. In particular, Twitter has played a significant role in influencing government decision making and shaping the relationships between governments, citizens, politicians, and other stakeholders. Within the last few months, some commentators even argue that Mexican politics has a new influential actor: "I'm Number...
Micro-blog has risen abruptly in China from 2010. Many people like to study the using motivation and behavioral characteristic of micro-blog users, while this article aim to use the viewpoint of economics and management, studying the cost-benefit analysis of micro-blog users from the general and marketing level, which is analyzed layer upon layer and thoroughly. At last, according to the analysis,...
A realistic and scientific risks communication system is inevitable for better risk awareness and improved disaster preparedness. Conventional disaster management studies paid much attention on the contents of the information, and ignored the importance of information source. Since natural disasters are uncertain and complex, individuals decisions on disaster issues depend much on their trust in risk...
Weibo (i.e. microblogs pronounced in Chinese) surging to be the mainstream on the Internet, promotes the governmental progress of social campaigns, emergencies and public affairs. Thousands of Weibo accounts are created by government agencies and officials, and considered as a new-found channel for information dissemination and citizen service. Chinese government's confidence in social media grows...
With the current global conditions and erratic climate changes, people should be prepared for the worst as no place is safe from nature's wrath. Preparing for disaster, especially flash floods, requires collaborative efforts from the citizen, local authorities, state and federal government. Natural disaster can happen at any time and anywhere, so by anticipating and preparing for a known occurrence,...
India is a democratic country. Democracy is the government by the people and of the people. Hence access to information and transparency needs to be ensured in a democracy for a citizen to understand the functioning of the government. In India, the Right to Information Act (RTI) fulfills this objective. To bring in social accountability and transparency in the functioning of the Indian government,...
Parties of the social rights in the structure of significant pollution incident are: the business as the perpetrators, government as managers, the public as the victims, the news media as evangelist and supervisor. In the pollution incident, the business behavior caused the pollution incidents and public loss, the public claimed the business to safeguard their legitimate rights and interests; the...
Understanding of variation characteristics of public environmental awareness is vital to raising such awareness. The paper compares data released by surveys in Beijing between 1994 and 2005 on five aspects, namely public cognition, sentiments, attitude, assessment of and actions for the environment and analyzes, through comprehensive assessment, variation characteristics of public awareness in China...
This paper describes how the technology innovation system works as an inexhaustible motive force of those resource-based cities, especially during their industrial transformation process. Compared to the traditional upgrade path of the resource-based cities, the technology innovation system is devoted to establish a new path of industry transformation, including the interaction among the enterprises,...
The emergence of the Internet has made an increasingly significant influence on public relations. Under the background of informationization, cyber communication appears and functions as a new sharp weapon for external activities among social members. How civil service and governmental public service institutions should capitalize the cyber communication to deal with media relations and crisis management...
The purposes of this study were to develop a serious game which integrated interactive narratives, entertainment-education and argument reconstruction and further, to examine its effects on enhancing political efficacy and critical thinking dispositions for college students in Taiwan. The employed elements for entertainment-education were emotions, empathy, examples, self-efficacy, enhancement, quality,...
The paper reflects on the user studies that were conducted for the development of a soccer results application that enables its users to access results of matches that have been recently played in the premier division of the PSL of South Africa through an Interactive Voice Response system. The intended users are characterised as oral users who are mostly male adults. We have obtained unexpected findings...
The paper discusses the crucial role of ICTs to leap-frog the status of the African countries to achieve the full status of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) of the UN by 2015. Uganda is a typical show case of a sub-Saharan African country. The objectives are to: assess the status of the MDG 2 in Uganda, the challenges encountered, and the diffusion of ICTs in Africa. In this review we collated...
This empirical study investigates the socio demographic typology of customers who used the internet as a medium of information for tourism services and products. Students at three public universities namely Universiti Teknologi MARA Shah Alam, Universiti Malaya and International Islamic University were selected as sample. Study findings clearly indicate that young consumers enjoy using the internet...
Use of new media technologies, in education sector, is on the lips of everybody. Indian education system is in the transition phase. Without diluting its traditional value added education system, in terms of its holistic approach, India is getting equipped with emergence of new media and new approaches in teaching. This paper discusses the strategies that can be used to enhance education to the masses,...
The text summarize how to make environment protection strategy of local government, by analyzing key success factors of local environment protection through brain storm, discomposing from the up down key success factors of local environment through strategic goals correlations, and abstracting Local Party and Government Leaders key environment protection performance indicators through fishbone diagram...
Style-based text authorship identification extracts features from authorship-known texts, constructs classifier and then identifies disputed texts. Authorship identification belongs to the domain of style classification and is a branch of text classification. In contrast with text classification which deals with the content of texts, authorship identification focuses on the form property of texts...
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