Date: 4 Jun 2013
Time: 12:45pm - 2:00pm
Venue: Room 101, Runme Shaw Building, The University of Hong Kong
Speakers: Professor Liaquat Hossain, University of Sydney
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Energy Awareness and the Role of “Critical Mass” In Smart Citiesirjes
A Smart City could be depicted as a place, logical and physical, in which a crowd of heterogeneous
entities is related in time and space through different types of interactions. Any type of entity, whether it is a
device or a person, clustered in communities, becomes a source of context-based data.
Energy awareness is able to drive the process of bringing our society to limit energy waste and to optimize
usage of available resources, causing a strong environmental and social impact. Then, following social network
analysis methodologies related to the dynamics of complex systems, it is possible to find out, emergent and
sometimes hidden new habits of electricity usage. Through an initial Critical Mass, involving a multitude of
consumers, each related to more contexts, we evaluate the triggering and spreading of a collective attitude. To
this aim, in this paper, we propose a novel analytical model defining a new concept of critical mass, which
includes centrality measures both in a single layer and in a multilayer social network.
Under what conditions can information and communications technologies (ICTs) enhance the well-being of poor communities? The paper designs an alternative evaluation framework (AEF) that applies Sen’s capability approach to the study of ICTs in order to place people’s well-being, rather than technology at the center of the study. The AEF develops an impact chain that examines the mechanisms by which access to, and meaningful use of, ICTs can enhance peoples “informational capabilities” and can lead to improvements in people’s human and social capabilities. This approach thus uses peoples’ human capabilities, rather than measures of access or usage, as its principal evaluative space. Based on empirical evidence from rural communities’ uses of ICTs in Bolivia, the study concludes that enhancing people’s informational capabilities is the most critical factor determining the impact of ICTs on their well-being. The findings indicate that improved informational capabilities, like literacy, do enhance the human capabilities of the poor and marginalized to make strategic life choices to achieve the lifestyle they value. Evaluating the impact of ICTs in terms of capabilities thus reveals that there is no direct relationship between improved access to, and use of, ICTs and enhanced well-being; ICTs lead to improvements in people’s lives only when informational capabilities are transformed into expanded human and social capabilities in the economic, political, social, organizational and cultural dimensions of their lives.
Small Worlds of Ambridge: Power, Networks & Actants Nicola Headlam
Seeking to explore the ways in which multi-dimensional power may be deployed within a spatially defined place needs an interrogation of place-based statecraft. The paper presents some of the forms of capital in play in Ambridge mapped using Social Network Analysis (SNA) It argues that the extant matriarchal structure of Aldridges/Archers can be challenged by Kinship structures emphasising the weak ties, or hinges between the major cliques/clans and that within the knowledge economy Ed's multiple contractual connections make him 'King of Ambridge'
Evaluating Platforms for Community Sensemaking: Using the Case of the Kenyan ...COMRADES project
Vittorio Nespeca
TU Delft
V.Nespeca@tudelft.nl
Kenny Meesters
TU Delft
K.J.M.G.Meesters@tudelft.nl
Tina Comes
TU Delft
T.Comes@tudelft.nl
WiPe Paper – T12 - Designing for Resilience
Proceedings of the 15th ISCRAM Conference – Rochester, NY, USA May 2018
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/324162897_Evaluating_Platforms_for_Community_Sensemaking_Using_the_Case_of_the_Kenyan_Elections_Vittorio_Nespeca
Energy Awareness and the Role of “Critical Mass” In Smart Citiesirjes
A Smart City could be depicted as a place, logical and physical, in which a crowd of heterogeneous
entities is related in time and space through different types of interactions. Any type of entity, whether it is a
device or a person, clustered in communities, becomes a source of context-based data.
Energy awareness is able to drive the process of bringing our society to limit energy waste and to optimize
usage of available resources, causing a strong environmental and social impact. Then, following social network
analysis methodologies related to the dynamics of complex systems, it is possible to find out, emergent and
sometimes hidden new habits of electricity usage. Through an initial Critical Mass, involving a multitude of
consumers, each related to more contexts, we evaluate the triggering and spreading of a collective attitude. To
this aim, in this paper, we propose a novel analytical model defining a new concept of critical mass, which
includes centrality measures both in a single layer and in a multilayer social network.
Under what conditions can information and communications technologies (ICTs) enhance the well-being of poor communities? The paper designs an alternative evaluation framework (AEF) that applies Sen’s capability approach to the study of ICTs in order to place people’s well-being, rather than technology at the center of the study. The AEF develops an impact chain that examines the mechanisms by which access to, and meaningful use of, ICTs can enhance peoples “informational capabilities” and can lead to improvements in people’s human and social capabilities. This approach thus uses peoples’ human capabilities, rather than measures of access or usage, as its principal evaluative space. Based on empirical evidence from rural communities’ uses of ICTs in Bolivia, the study concludes that enhancing people’s informational capabilities is the most critical factor determining the impact of ICTs on their well-being. The findings indicate that improved informational capabilities, like literacy, do enhance the human capabilities of the poor and marginalized to make strategic life choices to achieve the lifestyle they value. Evaluating the impact of ICTs in terms of capabilities thus reveals that there is no direct relationship between improved access to, and use of, ICTs and enhanced well-being; ICTs lead to improvements in people’s lives only when informational capabilities are transformed into expanded human and social capabilities in the economic, political, social, organizational and cultural dimensions of their lives.
Small Worlds of Ambridge: Power, Networks & Actants Nicola Headlam
Seeking to explore the ways in which multi-dimensional power may be deployed within a spatially defined place needs an interrogation of place-based statecraft. The paper presents some of the forms of capital in play in Ambridge mapped using Social Network Analysis (SNA) It argues that the extant matriarchal structure of Aldridges/Archers can be challenged by Kinship structures emphasising the weak ties, or hinges between the major cliques/clans and that within the knowledge economy Ed's multiple contractual connections make him 'King of Ambridge'
Evaluating Platforms for Community Sensemaking: Using the Case of the Kenyan ...COMRADES project
Vittorio Nespeca
TU Delft
V.Nespeca@tudelft.nl
Kenny Meesters
TU Delft
K.J.M.G.Meesters@tudelft.nl
Tina Comes
TU Delft
T.Comes@tudelft.nl
WiPe Paper – T12 - Designing for Resilience
Proceedings of the 15th ISCRAM Conference – Rochester, NY, USA May 2018
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/324162897_Evaluating_Platforms_for_Community_Sensemaking_Using_the_Case_of_the_Kenyan_Elections_Vittorio_Nespeca
The Global Knowledge Center Network (GKCN) with The Global University System ...Ed Dodds
Acknowledgements: The author’s sincere gratitude goes to extraordinary cooperation and help for
our projects given by Dr. Hans Rudolf Herren of Millennium Institute, Profs. Victor Lawrence and Ali Mostashari of Stevens Institute of Technology, Dr. Greg Cole of the University of Tennessee, Mr. Francisco Bozzano-Barnes, Mr. Daniel P. Molina and many others.
Takeshi Utsumi, Ph.D., P.E.
Chairman, GLObal Systems Analysis and Simulation Association
in the U.S.A. (GLOSAS/USA)
43-23 Colden Street, #9L, Flushing, NY 11355-5913
Tel: 718-939-0928, Cel: 646-589-1730
takutsumi0@gmail.com, http://www.friends-partners.org/GLOSAS/
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Chairman: Takeshi Utsumi, Ph.D.; Vice Chairman: Louis Padulo, Ph.D.;
Board Members: David Johnson, Ph.D., Peter Knight, Ph.D., Joseph Pelton, Ph.D., Tapio Varis, Ph.D.; Treasurer: Hisae Utsumi
Structured Public Involvement™ workshop Helsinki May 2009keironbailey
Structured Public Involvement workshop hosted at Helsinki City Auditorium, May 2009. Contains slides showing Arnstein Gap, overview of SPI process design, and summary results for various large civil infrastructure projects 1999-2008.
"Understanding Broadband from the Outside" - ARNIC Seminar April1 08ARNIC
"Understanding Broadband from the Outside"
Ricardo Ramírez
Freelance researcher and consultant, adjunct professor at the University of Guelph, Ontario, Canada
http://arnic.info/ramirezseminar.php
In order for the internet to play a greater role as an instrument for social and personal empowerment, we need to understand what the everyday life of an individual belonging to a minority or marginalized community encompasses. Such an approach calls for closer examination of the practices, system of relations and context of particular minority and marginalized users in order to figure out what is meaningful to them and how they use (or do not use) different forms of the internet for meeting their objectives. There is a need to acknowledge the multiple conceptualizations and forms of internet use as disadvantaged users apply these differently for meeting specific agendas.
This article presented three projects working with minority and marginalized users. In the context of future research on internet use, three broad sets of variables are closely connected and require careful attention:
• The type of marginalized group;
• The goals, expectations and identification of what particular marginalized users consider to be meaningful in their everyday life; and
• The selected method of research.
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Research paper impact evaluation for collaborative information supply chainKenny Meesters
Emerging technologies provide opportunities for the humanitarian responders’ community to enhance the
effectiveness of their response to crisissituations. A part of this development can be contributed to a new type of
information supply chains -driven by collaboration with digital, online communities- enabling organizations to
make better informed decisions. However, how exactly and to what extend this collaboration impacts the
decision making process is unknown. To improve these new information exchanges and the corresponding
systems, an evaluation method is needed to assess the performance of these processes and systems. This paper
builds on existing evaluation methods for information systems and design principles to propose such an impact
evaluation framework. The proposed framework has been applied in a case study to demonstrate its potential to
identify areas for further improvement in the (online) collaboration between information suppliers and users.
Icwsm10 S MateiVisible Effort: A Social Entropy Methodology for Managing Com...guest803e6d
A theoretically-grounded learning feedback tool suite, the Visible Effort (VE) Mediawiki extension, is proposed for optimizing online group learning activities by measuring the amount of equality and the emergence of social structure in groups that participate in Computer-Mediated Collaboration (CMC). Building on social entropy theory, drawn from Shannon’s Mathematical Theory of Communication, VE captures levels of CMC unevenness and group structure and visualizes them on wiki Web pages through background colors, charts, and tabular data. Visual information provides users entropic feedback on how balanced and equitable collaboration is within their online group are, while helping them to maintain it within optimal levels. Finally, we present the theoretical and practical implications of VE and the measures behind it, as well as illustrate VE’s capabilities by describing a quasi-experimental teaching activity (use scenario) in tandem with a detailed discussion of theoretical justification, methodological underpinning, and technological capabilities of the approach.
REDD+ Policy Network Analysis: Update and IntroductionCIFOR-ICRAF
Updates from CIFOR research on Policy Network Analysis of REDD+ (Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and forest Degradation). Read the papers at www1.cifor.org/gcs/about-gcs/national-redd-processes-and-policies/policy-network-analysis-actors-and-power-structures.html
MULTI-AGENT PARADIGM FOR LEADERSHIP SELECTION: A REVIEWEditor IJMTER
A Multi-agent System (MAS) is comprised of multiple interacting intelligent agents. Agents
in the MAS could all be of same type (homogeneous) or different (heterogeneous). MAS are used to
solve problems which are either difficult for an individual agent to solve or when the problem is
inherently comprised of multiple actors interacting together. However, the nature of MAS design
coordination among agents in MAS is always a core issue. Coordination and cooperation allows the
agents to manage their inter dependencies and the type and nature of interactions. Coordination and
cooperation differ in degree of inter-agent knowledge and beliefs. Agent coordination is usually
achieved in the backdrop of a communication system between agents. This paper is a based on the
review of various work on selection of multi-agent for various task domain.
The Global Knowledge Center Network (GKCN) with The Global University System ...Ed Dodds
Acknowledgements: The author’s sincere gratitude goes to extraordinary cooperation and help for
our projects given by Dr. Hans Rudolf Herren of Millennium Institute, Profs. Victor Lawrence and Ali Mostashari of Stevens Institute of Technology, Dr. Greg Cole of the University of Tennessee, Mr. Francisco Bozzano-Barnes, Mr. Daniel P. Molina and many others.
Takeshi Utsumi, Ph.D., P.E.
Chairman, GLObal Systems Analysis and Simulation Association
in the U.S.A. (GLOSAS/USA)
43-23 Colden Street, #9L, Flushing, NY 11355-5913
Tel: 718-939-0928, Cel: 646-589-1730
takutsumi0@gmail.com, http://www.friends-partners.org/GLOSAS/
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Secretariat, Emerging GLOBAL UNIVERSITY SYSTEM (GUS) CONSORTIUM
Chairman: Takeshi Utsumi, Ph.D.; Vice Chairman: Louis Padulo, Ph.D.;
Board Members: David Johnson, Ph.D., Peter Knight, Ph.D., Joseph Pelton, Ph.D., Tapio Varis, Ph.D.; Treasurer: Hisae Utsumi
Structured Public Involvement™ workshop Helsinki May 2009keironbailey
Structured Public Involvement workshop hosted at Helsinki City Auditorium, May 2009. Contains slides showing Arnstein Gap, overview of SPI process design, and summary results for various large civil infrastructure projects 1999-2008.
"Understanding Broadband from the Outside" - ARNIC Seminar April1 08ARNIC
"Understanding Broadband from the Outside"
Ricardo Ramírez
Freelance researcher and consultant, adjunct professor at the University of Guelph, Ontario, Canada
http://arnic.info/ramirezseminar.php
In order for the internet to play a greater role as an instrument for social and personal empowerment, we need to understand what the everyday life of an individual belonging to a minority or marginalized community encompasses. Such an approach calls for closer examination of the practices, system of relations and context of particular minority and marginalized users in order to figure out what is meaningful to them and how they use (or do not use) different forms of the internet for meeting their objectives. There is a need to acknowledge the multiple conceptualizations and forms of internet use as disadvantaged users apply these differently for meeting specific agendas.
This article presented three projects working with minority and marginalized users. In the context of future research on internet use, three broad sets of variables are closely connected and require careful attention:
• The type of marginalized group;
• The goals, expectations and identification of what particular marginalized users consider to be meaningful in their everyday life; and
• The selected method of research.
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Research paper impact evaluation for collaborative information supply chainKenny Meesters
Emerging technologies provide opportunities for the humanitarian responders’ community to enhance the
effectiveness of their response to crisissituations. A part of this development can be contributed to a new type of
information supply chains -driven by collaboration with digital, online communities- enabling organizations to
make better informed decisions. However, how exactly and to what extend this collaboration impacts the
decision making process is unknown. To improve these new information exchanges and the corresponding
systems, an evaluation method is needed to assess the performance of these processes and systems. This paper
builds on existing evaluation methods for information systems and design principles to propose such an impact
evaluation framework. The proposed framework has been applied in a case study to demonstrate its potential to
identify areas for further improvement in the (online) collaboration between information suppliers and users.
Icwsm10 S MateiVisible Effort: A Social Entropy Methodology for Managing Com...guest803e6d
A theoretically-grounded learning feedback tool suite, the Visible Effort (VE) Mediawiki extension, is proposed for optimizing online group learning activities by measuring the amount of equality and the emergence of social structure in groups that participate in Computer-Mediated Collaboration (CMC). Building on social entropy theory, drawn from Shannon’s Mathematical Theory of Communication, VE captures levels of CMC unevenness and group structure and visualizes them on wiki Web pages through background colors, charts, and tabular data. Visual information provides users entropic feedback on how balanced and equitable collaboration is within their online group are, while helping them to maintain it within optimal levels. Finally, we present the theoretical and practical implications of VE and the measures behind it, as well as illustrate VE’s capabilities by describing a quasi-experimental teaching activity (use scenario) in tandem with a detailed discussion of theoretical justification, methodological underpinning, and technological capabilities of the approach.
REDD+ Policy Network Analysis: Update and IntroductionCIFOR-ICRAF
Updates from CIFOR research on Policy Network Analysis of REDD+ (Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and forest Degradation). Read the papers at www1.cifor.org/gcs/about-gcs/national-redd-processes-and-policies/policy-network-analysis-actors-and-power-structures.html
MULTI-AGENT PARADIGM FOR LEADERSHIP SELECTION: A REVIEWEditor IJMTER
A Multi-agent System (MAS) is comprised of multiple interacting intelligent agents. Agents
in the MAS could all be of same type (homogeneous) or different (heterogeneous). MAS are used to
solve problems which are either difficult for an individual agent to solve or when the problem is
inherently comprised of multiple actors interacting together. However, the nature of MAS design
coordination among agents in MAS is always a core issue. Coordination and cooperation allows the
agents to manage their inter dependencies and the type and nature of interactions. Coordination and
cooperation differ in degree of inter-agent knowledge and beliefs. Agent coordination is usually
achieved in the backdrop of a communication system between agents. This paper is a based on the
review of various work on selection of multi-agent for various task domain.
For all our accumulated information there's a clear absence of understanding. Are sensemaking tools the next big thing?
(Keynote give at Big Design 12: http://bigdesignevents.com/sessions/to-boldly-go-from-information-to-understanding )
What's Your Perception Strategy? (Why It's NOT All About Content)Stephen Anderson
If we focus too much on content, we ignore what we know about how our associative brain comes to makes sense new information. Think about how many people respond before reading past the first sentence of an email, or how a magazine article doesn't get the same reaction when displayed in HTML. Or consider how knowing the author of a publication influences your judgement of that content.
Picking up from the session Stephen P. Anderson gave last year on "The Stories We Construct" (a biological look at the narratives that influence behavior), this session focuses on how we come to perceive—and respond to— information. From phantom limbs to magicians fooling our senses, Stephen proposes a model that makes sense of how we truly experience information. Practical? You'll leave with a deep understanding of everything UX is about and an awareness of common practices that don't account for this knowledge.
Euro IA Closing Plenary - What I'm Curious About…Stephen Anderson
What are you curious about? What do you want to know more about by this time next year?
Here's my answer to that question (c. 2012) and why I believe Curiosity is core to everything we do as a profession.
Researching Networks and Collaboration – reflections of a novice Tarry Asoka
Networks have become the flavour of our time as ‘wicked problems’ (large, messy, complex and systemic) require multi-stakeholder actors to work together to find a common solution. But how feasible are networks within the institutional contexts they are expected to function? An attempt to answer this question led one into an array of perspectives not only of networks but also about collaboration, which is seen as the ‘very essence’ of networks. Meanwhile, a developing insight is that to be successful, networks will have to be context specific, but useful learning can come from elsewhere where network implementation is advanced – since core elements of collaboration such as trust, social capital, reciprocity are human nature.
9 A Preliminary Theory of Interorganizational Network Effectivenes.docxransayo
9 A Preliminary Theory of Interorganizational Network Effectiveness: A Comparative Study of Four Community Mental Health Systems Keith G. Provan H. Brinton Milward This chapter presents the results of a comparative study of interorganizational networks, or systems, of mental health delivery in four U.S. cities, leading to a preliminary theory of network effectiveness. Extensive data were collected from surveys, interviews, documents, and observations. Network effectiveness was assessed by collecting and aggregating data on outcomes from samples of clients, their families, and their case managers at each site. Results of analyses of both quantitative and qualitative data collected at the individual, organizational, and network levels of analysis showed that network effectiveness could be explained by various structural and contextual factors, specifically, network integration, external control, system stability, and environmental resource munificence. Based on the findings, we develop testable propositions to guide theory development and future research on network effectiveness. The study of relations between organizations has been a major concern of organization theorists for at least the past 25 years. While most of the work in this area has focused on the determinants or predictors of interorganizational relations (see Oliver, 1990, for a review), as an understanding of the phenomenon has grown, the unit of analysis has gradually shifted from the dyad to the organization set, to the network. Especially in recent years, the study of organizational networks has proliferated. Much of this interest has been generated by an emerging recognition by academics that businesses, as well as organizations in the not-for-profit and public sectors, are increasingly turning to various forms of cooperative alliances as a way of enhancing competitiveness and effectiveness that would not be possible through the traditional governance mechanisms of market or hierarchy (Powell, 1990). While a good deal of what has been written about networks has been atheoretical, discussing the advantages of networks or examining issues of measurement and analysis, considerable theory-based research has also emerged (e.g., Cook, 1977; Burt, 1980; Granovetter, 1985; Jarillo, 1988; Williamson, 1991; Cook and Whitmeyer, 1992; Larson, 1992; Provan, 1993). In the organization theory literature, work on networks has been guided primarily by two theoretical perspectives: resource dependence, and related exchange perspectives, and transaction cost economics, with most recent work focusing on the latter approach. Each of these perspectives offers both complementary and contrasting views about the network form. For the most part, however, each perspective focuses essentially on the organizational antecedents and outcomes of network involvement, with little attention paid to the network as a whole, except for its governance and structure. This organizational view is understandable, sinc.
This document by Eelke Wielinga describes the FAN (Free Actor Network) approach and practical tools to promote effective networks where traditional planning is balanced with the energies, incentives and dreams of the members. Mr Wielinga was one of the speakers of the Systemic M&E webinar (Innovations in Measuring Impacts in Market and Financial Systems: rethinking the current paradigm). This webinar was organised by SEEP's MaFI in October 2012 and hosted in collaboration with USAID's Microlinks and FHI360. To know more about the FAN approach and Eelke's work go to www.toolsfornetworkers.nl
Where Can Public Policy Play a Role A Comparative Case Study of Regional Inst...iBoP Asia
Where Can Public Policy Play a Role A Comparative Case Study of Regional Institutions and Their Impact on Firm’s Innovation Networks in China and Switzerland
A general stochastic information diffusion model in social networks based on ...IJCNCJournal
Social networks are an important infrastructure for information, viruses and innovations propagation. Since users’
behavior has influenced by other users’ activity, some groups of people would be made regard to similarity of users’
interests. On the other hand, dealing with many events in real worlds, can be justified in social networks; spreading
disease is one instance of them. People’s manner and infection severity are more important parameters in
dissemination of diseases. Both of these reasons derive, whether the diffusion leads to an epidemic or not. SIRS is a
hybrid model of SIR and SIS disease models to spread contamination. A person in this model can be returned to
susceptible state after it removed. According to communities which are established on the social network, we use the
compartmental type of SIRS model. During this paper, a general compartmental information diffusion model would
be proposed and extracted some of the beneficial parameters to analyze our model. To adapt our model to realistic
behaviors, we use Markovian model, which would be helpful to create a stochastic manner of the proposed model.
In the case of random model, we can calculate probabilities of transaction between states and predicting value of
each state. The comparison between two mode of the model shows that, the prediction of population would be
verified in each state.
Media, information and the promise of new technologies in Knowledge Transfer ...maudelfin
Presented at the GLOBAL HEALTH RESEARCH INITIATIVE: TEASDALE-CORTI PROGRAM SYMPOSIUM - Innovations in Global Health Research -Global Social Justice and the Social Determinants of Health: Setting the Course for the Future
October 1-3, 2012 | Marriott Hotel | 100 Kent St, Ottawa, ON - http://www.mcgill.ca/trauma-globalhealth
Subscriber Churn Prediction Model using Social Network Analysis In Telecommun...BAINIDA
Subscriber Churn Prediction Model using Social Network Analysis In Telecommunication Industry โดย เชษฐพงศ์ ปัญญาชนกุล อาจารย์ ดร. อานนท์ ศักดิ์วรวิชญ์
ในงาน THE FIRST NIDA BUSINESS ANALYTICS AND DATA SCIENCES CONTEST/CONFERENCE จัดโดย คณะสถิติประยุกต์และ DATA SCIENCES THAILAND
FirstReview these assigned readings; they will serve as your .docxclydes2
First:
Review these assigned readings; they will serve as your scientific sources of accurate information:
http://www.closerlookatstemcells.org/Top_10_Stem_Cell_Treatment_Facts.html
http://www.closerlookatstemcells.org/How_Science_Becomes_Medicine.html
http://www.newvision.co.ug/news/649266-fighting-ageing-using-stem-cell-therapy.html
http://www.nature.com/news/stem-cells-in-texas-cowboy-culture-1.12404
http://www.cbc.ca/radio/whitecoat/blog/stem-cell-hype-and-risk-1.3654515
http://stm.sciencemag.org/content/7/278/278ps4.full
Next:
Use a standard Google search for this phrase: “stem cell therapy.” Do not go to Google Scholar. Select one of the websites, blogs, or other locations that offer stem cell therapies.
Save the link for your selected site.
Read the materials provided on your selected site and find out who the authors and sponsors of the site are by going to their “home” or “about us” pages.
Finally, submit your responses to the following in an essay of 500-750 words (2-3 pages of text—use a separate page for a title and for your references):
You are going to prepare a critique of the site you located and compare it to the scientific information available on this therapy.
Give the full title of the website, web blog, or other site that you selected, along with the link.
Describe the therapy that is being offered and what conditions it is designed to treat.
Who are the authors and sponsors of the site you selected?
Compare the claims about the therapy offered to what is said in the assigned readings about this type of therapy. You may have to use our library, as well, to determine what scientists and researchers have to say about the use of stem cells to treat this condition.
Would you say that the therapy you found is a well-established, proven technique for humans, or more of an experimental, unproven approach?
What about the type of language discussed in the Goldman article? Is the therapy you found using sensationalist claims and terminology that are not supported by the scientific research?
Would you recommend that a patient with this condition go ahead and participate in this treatment? Why or why not?
Literature review on how Information Technology has impacted governing bodies’ ability to align public policy with stakeholder needs
Nowadays, the governing bodies both in public and private sectors are dealing with complex systems on a day to day operations. These systems are made up of different components which present varying interactions and interrelationships with and/or among each other; therefore, making their management to be difficult or challenging. Indeed, Ruiz, Zabaleta & Elorza (2016), highlighted that public policymakers have to deal with complex systems which involve heterogeneous agents that act in non-linear behaviors making their management difficult. Neziraj & Shaqiri (2018) also stated that the policymakers are faced with problems which are complex and non-uniform due to a lot of uncertainties and risk situ.
Keynote 1: Teaching and Learning Computational Thinking at ScaleCITE
Title: Teaching and Learning Computational Thinking at Scale
Speaker:
Prof. Ting-Chuen PONG, Professor, Computer Science & Engineering Department, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
Time:
09:45-10:45, 9 June 2018 (Saturday)
Venue:
Rayson Huang Theatre, The University of Hong Kong
Sub-theme:
Computational Thinking
Chair:
Prof. Nancy Law, Deputy Director, CITE, Faculty of Education, The University of Hong Kong
http://citers2018.cite.hku.hk/program-highlights/keynote-pong/
Keynote 2: Social Epistemic Cognition in Engineering Learning: Theory, Pedago...CITE
Title: Social Epistemic Cognition in Engineering Learning: Theory, Pedagogy, and Analytics
Speaker:
Prof. Rosanna Yuen-Yan Chan, Member-at-Large, Board of Governors, IEEE Education Society
Department of Information Engineering, The Chinese University of Hong Kong
Time:
14:15-15:15, 9 June 2018 (Saturday)
Venue:
Rayson Huang Theatre, The University of Hong Kong
Sub-theme:
Learning design and learning analytics
Chair:
Dr. Gary Wong, Faculty of Education, The University of Hong Kong
http://citers2018.cite.hku.hk/program-highlights/keynote-chan/
Prof. Gerald KNEZEK: Implications of Digital Generations for a Learning Society CITE
Keynote:
Implications of Digital Generations for a Learning Society: New Technologies, Pedagogies, and Assessments
Speaker: Prof. Gerald Knezek, University of North Texas
Time: 14:30 – 15:30, 29 May 2015 (Friday)
Venue: Room 408A, 409A & 410, 4/F, Meng Wah Complex, The University of Hong Kong
citers2015.cite.hku.hk/keynote-knezek/
Invited Talk: Open Access: Promises and Reality
Speakers: Mr. Peter E SIDORKO, University Librarian, HKU; Mr. Fred CHAN, Research and Data Services Librarian, HKU
Time: 10:00-10:30, 29 May 2015 (Friday)
Venue: Room 408A, 409A & 410, 4/F, Meng Wah Complex, The University of Hong Kong
http://citers2015.cite.hku.hk/program-highlights/talk-sidorko/
Invited Talk:
Challenge-Based Learning: Creating engagement by learning from games and gamification
Speaker: Dr. David Gibson, Curtin University
Time: 9:15 – 10:00, 29 May 2015 (Friday)
Venue: Room 408A, 409A & 410, 4/F, Meng Wah Complex, The University of Hong Kong
http://citers2015.cite.hku.hk/program-highlights/talk-gibson/
Analogy, Causality, and Discovery in Science: The engines of human thoughtCITE
13 January 2015, Tuesday
12:45 pm – 2:00 pm
has been changed to RMS 101, Runme Shaw Bldg., HKU
By Professor Kevin Niall DUNBAR,
College of Education, University of Maryland, College Park, US
http://sol.edu.hku.hk/analogy-causality-discovery-science-engines-human-thought/
Educating the Scientific Brain and Mind: Insights from The Science of Learnin...CITE
9 January 2015, Friday
12:45 pm – 2:00 pm
RMS 101, 1/F., Runme Shaw Bldg., HKU
by Professor Kevin Niall DUNBAR,
College of Education, University of Maryland, College Park, US
http://sol.edu.hku.hk/educating-scientific-brain-mind-insights-science-learning-educational-neuroscience/
Science of Learning — Why it matters to schools and families?CITE
17 January 2015, Saturday
2:30 pm – 4:00 pm
Rayson Huang Theater, HKU
by Prof. Laura-Ann PETITTO,
Sin Wai-Kin Distinguished Visiting Professor in the Humanities, The University of Hong Kong;
Full Professor, Department of Psychology, Gallaudet University, Washington, D.C. USA
http://sol.edu.hku.hk/petitto-2015/
12 January 2015, Monday
6:30 pm – 7:30 pm
Theater T4, Meng Wah Complex, HKU
By Prof. Glyn HUMPHREYS,
Department of Experimental Psychology, Oxford University, UK
Distinguished Visiting Scholar, The University of Hong Kong
http://sol.edu.hku.hk/understanding-self-self-bias/
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2. Globally networked risks
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• Societies and organisations need
better ways to respond to sudden risk
that may emerge from multiple sources
which are interconnected and
interdependent (Helbing, 2013:Globally networked risks and
how to respond, Nature, 2 May, 51-59)
3. Networks and Information Flow
3
• Observations of interaction networks in life, engineering,
and the physical sciences suggest that the key functional
properties of these networks are:
• the flow of information they can support,
• the robustness of the flow to node failure, and
• the efficiency of the network
• Studies have also shown that certain network designs
perform better than others in each of these respects.
4. Complex Network Science: New Educational and Research Paradigm
4
• The solution to complex issues requires a holistic educational and research
delivery, which would cross the boundaries of social, economical, physical,
agricultural, media and communications, environmental, engineering as well
as medical and mental health systems disciplines.
• My ambition goes beyond simply being transdisciplinary in the sense of e.g.
combining sociology, political science and computational social sciences, but I
actually combine social science and natural science approaches in a more
profound sense to explore information flow in different systems.
• The outcome of my research agenda will provide a fundamental theoretical
and empirical basis for cross fertilization of robust network models across the
physical, life, socio-economic and computational science.
5. Why do we need to use Complex Systems Approach?
5
• Complex systems advocate that real-world systems are
made up from a large number of interacting components.
• this leads to complex behavior, which is difficult to
understand, predict and manage;
• Show emergence (behavior that is more than a sum of the
parts of the system alone) and self-organisation (there is no
external controller).
• It contributes to improvements in areas such as the internet,
innovation and diffusion process, sustainability, air traffic and
transport control, power systems, robotics, disease outbreaks,
irrigation and land management, security, manufacturing and
finance, as well as ecology and biology.
6. But control or mechanistic view advocates
“One of the most basic problems of modern management is that
the mechanical way of thinking is so ingrained in our everyday
conceptions of organization that it is often difficult to organize in
any other way” (Source: Morgan, 1986, p. 14)
From Kazys Varnelis, Triple Canopy
Wrong Way The organisation as a Machine
Max Weber: 1864–1920)
Org model of the Industrial era
Machine Bureaucracy
8. Questions guiding my research for the past 10 years
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• Investigating whether there is a relationship between social networks, maintenance
of the networks through ICT and its impact on performance outcomes for innovation
process, oragnisational effectiveness in stable and adversarial situations;
• Understand the formation and adaptation of hierarchical, non hierarchical, emerging
and self organized structures to explore organizational learning, innovation and
diffusion so that we can begin to characterise the types of adaptation process as
learning through feedback;
• Investigating formation and adaptation of coordinated response network involving
multi-organisational and -jurisdictional structures leading to innovative way to design
multi agency crisis response system;
• Support, equip, and enabling the ad-hoc networks (or open and user based
innovation system) of affected communities and other supporting organizations to
function effectively in crisis situations;
• Role and implications of ad-hoc networks in sharing local knowledge about the
affected areas so that warnings and intervention processes for coordination can be
effective.
9. Organic and Networked organizations are like
9
Parts fit in many ways Organic Networkeduild
Network as organising model
10. Therefore, we can unpack the complexity of organisations
and organising
› A set of actors & links between those actors
› The study of relationships between people
› Focus on measuring the interactions to determine
specific outcomes
› Allows for a prediction or forecast based on
network behaviour
› Insight into how and why information travels
› Insight into relationships and the quality and
necessity of ties
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Internet
Social Capital
Terrorism
Urban &
Community
Family,Kinship
& Friendship
Organisations
Delinquincy
Diffusion
Social Support
Infection &
Diseases
Health
12. Network principles applied to social, biological, innovation,
transport, market, computer and other systems
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Measure Social
Implications
Betweeness Control
Degree Activity
Closeness Independence
EgoEgo
13. Network principles applied to social, biological, innovation,
transport, market, computer and other systems
13
The role of centrality Consequences of Density
Strengths of Ties Networks with different efficiency
14. Predicting Hidden Links (Hossain, et al., 2012)
› Predicted core network of providers extracted from
real data with customers around them
14
15. Predicting Links in Health Systems (Hossain, et al., 2013)
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› Using ICD codes related to obesity from
health insurance data suggest nearly
2500 obese people averaging $5k total
in treatments, peaking at 30-40k/patient
resulting in grand total of $12.7m of full
procedure cost.
› Interestingly majority (75%+) of the
patients are female. Median of the first
treatment was at the age of 42.
› Difference between the age of patient
and the age when they had the first
treatment is about 3-6 years.
› Extended the base data set to family
members under the same policy, we
included over 7400 members, covering
850+ postcodes and 100+ hospitals.
› The graph is about 4% of the data
visualized based on 30 postcodes from
the vicinity of Sydney central. It can be
seen how obese people are connected
to the hospitals, their family members
and location. The link weights are the
dollar values, the more thick and red
they are the larger. Obese nodes are in
red, the others are blue.
16. Generic Networks models developed and applied
in different settings
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Emergence
Changing external environment
Complex Adaptive Behavior
Information IN Information OUT
Simple self organized local relationships
Information IN Information OUT
Positive feedback Negative feedback
Intervention
Adaptati
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Outcome
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Context
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t1
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t2
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Interventi
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Evaluation of
actors’ fitness
Network
Structure
Network
Structure
Tie Formation
Selection
Variation (Adaptation)
Retentio
n
Node
Structure (t1)
Network
Topology
(t1)
Dynamics of Networks
DynamicsonNetworks
Attachment rules
Node
Structure (t2)
Network
Topology
(t2)
Attachment rules
Node
Structure (tn)
Network
Topology
(tn)
Attachment rules
22. Learning from Emergency Response Network
- 173 people died
- 414 people were injured
- 7,562 people displaced
- Over 3,500 structures destroyed
- 450,000 ha (1,100,000 acres) burnt
Black Saturday bushfires in Australia
22
Emerging Networks
not only different organizations
(agencies) need to cooperate properly
internally (intra-team & inter-team)
but also they have to cooperate with
other organizations (inter-
organizational)
We wanted to understand what the
breakdowns are (from a network analysis
perspective, there is a need to
Evaluate which types of node failures
have high level of impact on
coordination performance
which will lead to develop a better
predicting model for understanding the
rate of node failure and attack.
IMT (Incident
Management
Teams)
Multi-
Emergency
Agencies
Count
ry Fire
Servic
es
Metropolit
an Fire
Brigades
Land
Manage
ment
Agencie
s
State
Emergenc
y
Agencies
Incide
nt
Contr
oller
Opera
tion
Logist
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25. Dynamics of disease outbreaks coordination (Bedir,
Hossain & Crawford, 2011; 2012)
› The Absence of unified approach results in different
management and coordination approaches leading
to high variability of infection rates; hence mortality
and morbidity rates.
› H109 infection in NSW) indicates that even within
the same state there were large discrepancies within
the same states with sometimes similar
demographics (by June 17- 2009)
› H1N109 infection rates in Australia
by June 17- 2009
25
26. Dynamics of disease outbreaks coordination (Bedir,
Hossain & Crawford, 2011; 2012)
› Therefore, we need to coordinate
between multiple agencies
dynamically in order to intervene
and contain dynamic form of
disease outbreaks in an evolving
environment
Modelling challenges of disease outbreak coordination
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27. Modelling challenges of disease outbreak coordination
› Informal coordination is an important
facet of emerging coordination which
is often ignored in coordination
research
› It capitalizes on the existing
coordination channels to circumvent
their complications, inefficiencies or
even their inaccuracies.
› It can be defined as “ when
individuals or organisations establish
communication networks outside the
standard coordination structure to
“get things done” (Baker 1981; Han
1983)”
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28. Protocol for capturing qualitative & quantitative network data
(Hossain, Bedir & Crawford, 2013)
28
29. Results of Inter-organizational disease outbreaks
coordination (Hossain, Bedir & Crawford, 2013)
› Organizations
involved and their
characteristics
› Organizational
links
› Links’ initiation
› Links’ intensity
› Links’ direction
› Links’ timeline
› Links’ purpose
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30. Inter-organizational disease outbreaks coordination
› Inbound case definition Communication › Cases inbound communication
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WHO
FederalChiefHealthOfficer
CDU:
NSW ChiefHealthOfficer/NSW-HSFAC
HNE
HNE-HSFAC
Inbound Monitoring
HSFAC
EOC
PHEOC
Sentinel
indicator
GPs
PHREDDS
Inpatient
flow system
Admits to
ICU
Work force
monitoring
Confirmed
cases via
SWABS
PHREDDS: Public Health
Respiratory Emergency
Department Data System.
SWABS: Sample taking system.
LAG LAG LAG LEAD LEAD
Front line
31. Inter-organizational disease outbreaks coordination
› Outbound Informal communication
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State Public Health
Unit
Case definition outbound
communication structure
HSFAC DCO
DCO: Director of clinical Operations.
DA: Director of Acute.
ED: Emergency Department
Org1 dotted to indicate that it operated at later stage
during the communication process.
Director
Acute
Director
D+C
Director
Mental
Health
7 Hospital
in HNE
Total 37 ED
EDs
Hospital Clusters
EDs
Mental
Hospital
Org1
Outbound Case communication
32. Current research projects
1. RIMS: Robust Information Management Systems
for Coordinated Response to Crisis;
2. BISoN: A Biologically-Inspired Social Network for
Coordinated and Adaptive Emergency Response;
3. Computational Behavioural Modelling of Markets
Systems;
4. CIMS: Innovation and Learning in Coordinated
Interventions for Mental Health Systems;
5. H1N1 and SARS Outbreaks: multi-organisational
coordinated surveillance and response;
6. CrisNet for Zoonotic and Foodbrone Outbreaks:
Socio-technical Crisis Information Networks for
Disease Outbreaks Coordination;
7. Behavioral Network Dynamics for understanding
Nutrition, Epidemiology and Immunity;
8. Social networks and health promotion:
Harnessing social networks to enhance the
effectiveness of peer counselling
› $1 million funding from Australian Capital Markets
CRC-Commonwealth Research Centre and HCF-
Hospital Contribution Fund to develop predictive
models for understanding future market systems
under crisis.
› $6.5M in competitively basic research funding (EU
FP 7 Framework, ARC Discovery, CRCs and
ARDA Advanced Research Development Agency
in the US).
› Submitted 2 major collaborative research grants
under EU FP7 framework.
- COST-action: Communication and Information Systems
Technology in European Emergency Management
- H.E.L.P Health Emergency Learning and Planning
› I am the founding Editor-in-Chief of Springer
International Journal “Crisis Communications”
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33. Possible Links with Education and Research
› Management
- Engineering Knowledge Management
Research
- Design, Engineering and Innovation
- Industrial Dynamics and Strategy
- Sustainability Research
- Climate Change and Sustainable
Development
- Climate resilient development
Business
- Innovation Management
› Environment: Sustainable use of (natural, physical and cyber)
infrastructure/resources
› Food: Innovation and leaning in sustainable food production;
coordination of foodbrone outbreaks
› Informatics: Bio-security, Cognitive Systems; SW Engineering
› Veterinary: coordination of zoonotic outbreaks
› Systems Biology: Biological optimisation model for social
networks; systems biology for exploring organisational and
community resilience networks
› Transport: complex modelling of transport networks
• In my research, I use methods and analytical techniques from mathematical sociology (i.e., social networks
analysis), social anthropology (i.e., interview and field studies) and computer science (i.e., information
visualization, graph theoretic approaches and data mining techniques such as clustering);
• Using this transdisciplinary approach, I explore innovation, knowledge management and coordination
systems in distributed and complex setting for understanding distributed work groups, organizational and
individual performance and knowledge sharing and management support process for innovation and learning
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