STS Forum 2016

1. Professor Athula Ginige
School of Computing, Engineering and Mathematics
Western Sydney University
Australia
Digital Knowledge Ecosystems:
Harnessing Social Knowledge for
Sustainable Development
ICT & Social Innovation

2. Social Computing - Power is in Integration

3. N’Eliya carrot farmers in the
dumps:
Bumper harvest, but prices low
Source: The Sunday Times, April 22, 2012
Over Production problem in Sri Lanka
Troubled farmers erect tomato Pandol for Poson
Source: Ada Derana
Wednesday 15th June 2011

4. Mobile Based Information System

7. Behavioral
component
Reorganising
Published
Knowledge
User Query
Action
Taking
Actionable
Information
Aggregation
Context
Filter
Context
Addition
Ontological
SituationalIntrapersonal
component
Competence
Sense of
control
Motivation
Self-Efficacy
Goals
Interactional
component
Understanding users
have about environment
Knowledge-base
MBIS
Empowerment Flow
Make Decisions
Identify, select,
evaluate choices
Learn new skills
Engage
Communicate
Information Flow

8. Digital Ecosystem Evolution
Disaggr
egation
Prior Knowledge
Context Specific
Actionable
Information
Information Need User Context
Aggrega
tion
User Act
on the
Informat
ion
Dynamic Content
Context
Filter

9. Managing Type 2 Diabetes

10. Current Situation: Medical Nutrition Therapy
Advice
24 Hour recall /
Paper Records

11. Transformed Scenario
Reorganised Knowledge
Personalised Protocol
Context Specific
Actionable Information
Aggregated/
Disaggregated
Knowledge

12. Electronic Child Health Development Records

13. eCHDR Mock-up Interfaces

14. Digital Knowledge Ecosystems - Bring
Actionable Information in Context to Workers
Increased Productivity
Sustainability
Wealth Creation
User Empowerment

15. Published Papers from the Project
 Overall System
 Ginige, A., Silva, L. D., Ginige, T., Giovanni, P. D., Walisadeera, A. I., Mathai, M., . . . Jain, R.
(2014, 29 September - 2 October 2014). Towards an Agriculture Knowledge Ecosystem: A
Social Life Network for Farmers in Sri Lanka. Paper presented at the 9th Conference of the
Asian Federation for Information Technology in Agriculture - 2014, Perth, Australia.
 Context Modelling
 Mathai, M., & Ginige, A. (2014). Task Oriented Context Models for Social Life Networks
Software Technologies (pp. 306-321): Springer Berlin Heidelberg.
 Mathai, M., & Ginige, A. (2013). Context based Content Aggregation for Social Life
Networks. Paper presented at the 8th International Conference on Software Paradigm
Trends (ICSOFT-PT 2013), Reykjavik, Iceland.
 Ontology Development
 Walisadeera, A. I., Ginige, A., & Wikramanayake, G. N. (2014). User centered ontology for
Sri Lankan farmers. Ecological Informatics, 26, 140-150. doi:
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ecoinf.2014.07.008
 Walisadeera, A. I., Ginige, A., & Wikramanayake, G. N. (2014). Conceptualizing Crop Life
Cycle Events to Create a User Centered Ontology for Farmers. Paper presented at the
International Conference on Computational Science and its Applications (ICCSA 2014),
Poroto, Portugal.
 Walisadeera, A. I., Wikramanayake, G. N., & Ginige, A. (2013). Designing a Farmer Centred
Ontology for Social Life Network. Paper presented at the 2nd International Conference on
Data Management Technologies and Applications (DATA 2013), Reykjavík, Iceland.

16. Published Papers from the Project Cont
 Information Flow Model
 De Silva, L., Goonetillake, J., Wikramanayake, G., & Ginige, A. (2014, 8th - 10th December,). Towards an Agriculture
Information Ecosystem. Paper presented at the 25th Australasian Conference on Information Systems,.
 De Silva, L. N. C., Goonetillake, J. S., Wikramanayake, G. N., & Ginige, A. (2013). Farmer Response towards the Initial
Agriculture Information Dissemination Mobile Prototype. In B. Murgante, S. Misra, M. Carlini, C. Torre, H.-Q. Nguyen,
D. Taniar, B. Apduhan, & O. Gervasi (Eds.), Computational Science and Its Applications – ICCSA 2013 (Vol. 7971, pp.
264-278): Springer Berlin Heidelberg.
 L. De Silva, J. S. Goonethilake, G.N. Wickramanayake, & A. Ginige. (2012). Towards using ICT to Enhance Flow of
Information to aid Farmer Sustainability in Sri Lanka. Paper presented at the Australasian Conference on Information
Systems (ACIS), Geelong Australia.
 User Empowerment
 Ginige, T., Richards, D., & Hitchens, M. (2014). Cultivation planning application to enhance decision making among Sri
Lankan farmers Knowledge Management and Acquisition for Smart Systems and Services (pp. 180-194): Springer.
 Ginige, T., & Richards, D. (2013). Design and Evaluation of a Mobile-based Cultivation Planning Application for
empowering Sri Lankan Farmers. Paper presented at the 24th Australasian Conference on Information Systems,
Melbourne, Australia.
 Ginige., T., & Richards., D. (2012). A model for Enhancing Empowerment in Farming using Mobile based Information
System. Paper presented at the 23rd Australasian Conference on Information Systems (ACIS 2012), Geelong.
 User Interface Design
 Silva, L. D., Goonetillake, J., Wikramanayake, G., Ginige, A., Ginige, T., Giovanni, P. D., . . . Tortora, G. (2014, August 25,
2014). Design Science Research Based Blended Approach for Usability Driven Requirements Gathering and Application
Development. Paper presented at the Second International Workshop on Usability and Accessibility focused
Requirements Engineering, Karlskrona, Sweden.
 Giovanni, P. D., Romano, M., Sebillo, M., Tortora, G., Vitiello, G., Ginige, T., . . . Ginige, A. (2013). Building Social Life
Networks through Mobile Interfaces‒ the Case Study of Sri Lanka Farmers Organizational Change and Information
Systems (pp. 399 - 408): Springer Berlin Heidelberg.
 Di Giovanni, P., Romano, M., Sebillo, M., Tortora, G., Vitiello, G., Ginige, T., . . . Ginige, A. (2012). User centered scenario
based approach for developing mobile interfaces for Social Life Networks. Paper presented at the Usability and
Accessibility Focused Requirements Engineering (UsARE), 2012 First International Workshop on.