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Presentation at 2013 World Summit on the Information Society multistakeholder review event (WSIS+10)
UNESCO, Paris, 25-27 February 2013
ISSC Session: Critical Social Sciences in the Digital Age
Memorial lecture "Joaquim da Costa Ribeiro" given by Prof. João A. H. da Jornada (IF-UFRGS) on September 10, 2017 in Gramado (Brazil) during the opening of the XVI B-MRS Meeting.
A presentation on innovation that sought to examine, in particular, the purpose and triggers of social innovation, as well as the roles of social context, networks, and trust in innovation.
This is the briefing presentation of the lecture seminar that Dr Calzada from the University of Oxford (UK) Future of Cities & COMPAS and Ikerbasque, Basque Foundation for Science and Dr Casado from the University of the Basque Country, Philosophy Department delivered at the University of Iceland in Reykjavik on the 27th Sept 2013. They presented the #research #project titled #Basque & #Iceland #Connection after one week of full time #fieldwork #research conducting interviews in Reykjavik from 22nd-29th Sept. The procedure will continue in the Basque Country with the same methodology.
This presentation became a paper that will be published shortly.
Growing Communities in the Arts and Humanities. The experience of the DARIAH-...Francesca Morselli
DARIAH-EU is the European research infrastructure for the arts and humanities. In 2016 it was recognised as an ERIC5 and it comprises 17 Members and several Cooperating Partners in eight non-member countries. The activities of DARIAH comprise four main strands, namely: 1. training and education; 2. resources, tools and methods made available by and for the research community; 3. policy and advocacy support (on topics such as open science); and finally, 4. a growing transnational community of researchers.
This paper will focus on the fourth aspect and aims at exploring the case study of the DARIAH-EU Working Groups (henceforth WG) as a model in which research communities organize themselves, given the boundaries and the assets provided by a research infrastructure such as DARIAH. The DARIAH-EU WG are transnational, grass-rooted, self-organized, collaborative groups which have their roots in existing communities of practice. They form the heart of the DARIAH-ERIC community, but at the same time they maintain the existing ties with the (national and local) institutions where the WG members are based.
The creation of new DARIAH WGs follows the need of communities to foster innovative scholarly practices and to provide the infrastructure to support them. In turn, participation in existing WGs is a means to consolidate infrastructure and scholarship in certain areas of research, and to create or reinforce the network of expertise inside DARIAH. The WG level enables an organizational structure which is not just flexible and dynamic, but also driven by feedback and as such it helps DARIAH to be sustainable. Furthermore the value of the working groups lies in the fact they allow a better alignment between research institutions functioning on a national basis (universities, data centers, data archives, libraries, archives, projects etc...) and the research interests that emerge in international collaborations - the WGs are therefore able to optimize their own research environment by harnessing both national and international horizons.
In addition, the work of the WGs is considered so central in the development of the Research Infrastructure that in 2017 DARIAH-EU established a funding scheme to provide financial support for their activities, including travel to WG meetings, core developments such as the creation of tools, policy documents or dissemination material.
This paper will therefore examine the European landscape of the DARIAH WGs, firstly
by charting their evolution since 2015 and secondly, by identifying those dynamics of
the research community that are the basis for successful collaboration, exchange of
information and experiences.
This presentation also aims to reflect on what the challenges are in the creation and
maintenance of such dispersed communities, and therefore it wishes to contribute to
a fruitful discussion with other national and international experiences.
Lourenço F. & Nimita P. | Edward Lorenz
28 Jan, 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm GMT
ZOOM online
LECTURE-4: THEORETICAL FOUNDATIONS OF NATIONAL SYSTEMS OF INNOVATION
by
Dr. Lourenço Galvão Diniz Faria, Copenhagen University, Denmark.
&
Dr. Nimita Pandey, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore.
CHAIR:
Professor Edward Lorenz, Aalborg University, Denmark & University of Johannesburg, SA.
+177 more
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Introduction
2. The Emerging Open Education Paradigm
3. The History of ‘Openness’ in Education: From the Open Classroom to OCW
4. Bergson, Popper, Soros and the Open Society
The New Paradigm of Social Production
Conclusions
Présentation de Blanca MIEDES UGARTE, Celia SANCHEZ LOPEZ (Univ. de Huelva), "Beyond social economy : distinctive characteristics of social-ecological production and exchange initiatives", dans l'Atelier 2 "L’impact social, approches polydisciplinaires" de la XVe conférence INTI XVe Conférence Annuelle Internationale INTI « Économie Sociale et Solidaire dans les territoires », 22-25 novembre 2016, Charleroi et Liège, Belgique.
Presentation at 2013 World Summit on the Information Society multistakeholder review event (WSIS+10)
UNESCO, Paris, 25-27 February 2013
ISSC Session: Critical Social Sciences in the Digital Age
Memorial lecture "Joaquim da Costa Ribeiro" given by Prof. João A. H. da Jornada (IF-UFRGS) on September 10, 2017 in Gramado (Brazil) during the opening of the XVI B-MRS Meeting.
A presentation on innovation that sought to examine, in particular, the purpose and triggers of social innovation, as well as the roles of social context, networks, and trust in innovation.
This is the briefing presentation of the lecture seminar that Dr Calzada from the University of Oxford (UK) Future of Cities & COMPAS and Ikerbasque, Basque Foundation for Science and Dr Casado from the University of the Basque Country, Philosophy Department delivered at the University of Iceland in Reykjavik on the 27th Sept 2013. They presented the #research #project titled #Basque & #Iceland #Connection after one week of full time #fieldwork #research conducting interviews in Reykjavik from 22nd-29th Sept. The procedure will continue in the Basque Country with the same methodology.
This presentation became a paper that will be published shortly.
Growing Communities in the Arts and Humanities. The experience of the DARIAH-...Francesca Morselli
DARIAH-EU is the European research infrastructure for the arts and humanities. In 2016 it was recognised as an ERIC5 and it comprises 17 Members and several Cooperating Partners in eight non-member countries. The activities of DARIAH comprise four main strands, namely: 1. training and education; 2. resources, tools and methods made available by and for the research community; 3. policy and advocacy support (on topics such as open science); and finally, 4. a growing transnational community of researchers.
This paper will focus on the fourth aspect and aims at exploring the case study of the DARIAH-EU Working Groups (henceforth WG) as a model in which research communities organize themselves, given the boundaries and the assets provided by a research infrastructure such as DARIAH. The DARIAH-EU WG are transnational, grass-rooted, self-organized, collaborative groups which have their roots in existing communities of practice. They form the heart of the DARIAH-ERIC community, but at the same time they maintain the existing ties with the (national and local) institutions where the WG members are based.
The creation of new DARIAH WGs follows the need of communities to foster innovative scholarly practices and to provide the infrastructure to support them. In turn, participation in existing WGs is a means to consolidate infrastructure and scholarship in certain areas of research, and to create or reinforce the network of expertise inside DARIAH. The WG level enables an organizational structure which is not just flexible and dynamic, but also driven by feedback and as such it helps DARIAH to be sustainable. Furthermore the value of the working groups lies in the fact they allow a better alignment between research institutions functioning on a national basis (universities, data centers, data archives, libraries, archives, projects etc...) and the research interests that emerge in international collaborations - the WGs are therefore able to optimize their own research environment by harnessing both national and international horizons.
In addition, the work of the WGs is considered so central in the development of the Research Infrastructure that in 2017 DARIAH-EU established a funding scheme to provide financial support for their activities, including travel to WG meetings, core developments such as the creation of tools, policy documents or dissemination material.
This paper will therefore examine the European landscape of the DARIAH WGs, firstly
by charting their evolution since 2015 and secondly, by identifying those dynamics of
the research community that are the basis for successful collaboration, exchange of
information and experiences.
This presentation also aims to reflect on what the challenges are in the creation and
maintenance of such dispersed communities, and therefore it wishes to contribute to
a fruitful discussion with other national and international experiences.
Lourenço F. & Nimita P. | Edward Lorenz
28 Jan, 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm GMT
ZOOM online
LECTURE-4: THEORETICAL FOUNDATIONS OF NATIONAL SYSTEMS OF INNOVATION
by
Dr. Lourenço Galvão Diniz Faria, Copenhagen University, Denmark.
&
Dr. Nimita Pandey, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore.
CHAIR:
Professor Edward Lorenz, Aalborg University, Denmark & University of Johannesburg, SA.
+177 more
‘Openness’ and ‘Open Education’ in the Global Digital Economy: An Emerging Paradigm of Social Production
Introduction
2. The Emerging Open Education Paradigm
3. The History of ‘Openness’ in Education: From the Open Classroom to OCW
4. Bergson, Popper, Soros and the Open Society
The New Paradigm of Social Production
Conclusions
Présentation de Blanca MIEDES UGARTE, Celia SANCHEZ LOPEZ (Univ. de Huelva), "Beyond social economy : distinctive characteristics of social-ecological production and exchange initiatives", dans l'Atelier 2 "L’impact social, approches polydisciplinaires" de la XVe conférence INTI XVe Conférence Annuelle Internationale INTI « Économie Sociale et Solidaire dans les territoires », 22-25 novembre 2016, Charleroi et Liège, Belgique.
Roberts: Neoliberalism, Knowledge and Inclusiveness
1. Peter Roberts (2004): Neo-liberalism,
Knowledge and Inclusiveness
Forms of knowledge and the language of politics
2. New Zealand: from Welfare Innovation
to Global Competition
„Social Laboratory“ - long tradition in innovations
in welfare
Economic decline in the 70s (UK turning away)
OECD „Model State“ in speed of neo-liberal reform
process (Reduced incomes, withdrawal of state
services, radical lowering of taxes
Results: growing unemployment (e.g. 40% of
Maori population lost jobs btw. '87 and '91), welfare
recipients tripled btw. '81 and '92
3. Knowledge Economy in NZ
• After 15 years of neo-liberal reform, NZ lagged
behind in economic, social, educational
development (OECD)
• New strategy: Socio-technical innovation,
research, skill development, „networked
lifestyle“
• Built on a traditional narrative of strong
community with shared interests and goals
(„kahikatea“)
4. Analysis through Postmodern Lens
• LYOTARD:The Postmodern
Condition (1984)
Focus: Research & Education
• Critical of meta- or grand narratives,
contextuality of knowledge
• Strongly oppposing universalist claims
of Enlightenment and Science
• First mention of postmodernism in philosophical terms:
"Simplifying to the extreme, I define postmodern as
incredulity towards metanarratives"
5. Tools of Analysis: Forms of Knowledge
• Narrative Knowledge
- traditional knowledge for which legitimation is
considered unnecessary
• Scientific Knowledge
- legitimised by pragmatic criteria internal to itself, no
transcendental meta-narrative (unlike religion,
ethics)
- in the absence of these, struggle for wealth and
power structure choices
- knowledge->innovation->wealth->investment in
research for ->innovation (drive to optimize the
system: performativity)
6. • Market Knowledge (introduced by Roberts?)
- now dominant over both other forms
- draws on other forms in sustaining itself
- coherent philosophical framework and concept
structure (client-provider, input-output etc etc)
7. Case Studies (NZ)
• Foresight Project: „run by the Ministry of Research,
Science and Technology in New Zealand during 1998/99,
focused on exploiting knowledge for our future prosperity and
well-being, and our development as a knowledge society“
• Tertiary Education Strategy:long-term strategic
priorities for tertiary education (2000-2002), aimed at
8. Example for Analysis 1
„In a nation of kahikatea, standing
together, individuals have shaped a
new society by translating shared
concerns into common goals, while
elsewhere in the world, new
technologies and globalisation have
increased fragmentation of
communities.“ (Foresight Project)
9. Example for Analysis 2
„Education provided by tertiary
education providers, businesses, and
community groups is vitally important
to New Zealand in building a true
knowledge society and achieving the
economic benefits for such a society.
The quality of our knowledge and skills
base will determine New Zealand's
future success in the global economy
and as a cohesive society. (TEAC 2000)
10. :
Roberts' Analysis (example)
• „Diversity is acceptable, provided it accords with –
or, indeed, helps fuel the dominant narrative of
harnessing knowledge to become more
economically competitive“
• „Social cohesion instead of equal opportunities:
recognition of unequal distribution of market
knowledge“
• „Forms of social harmony incompatible with neo-
liberal practices and policies in NZ. They appeal to
an older form of narrative knowledge: a story New
Zealanders used to tell about themselves before the
arrival of the market.“
11. References
• ROBERTS, PETER (2004) Neo-liberalism, Knowledge and Inclusiveness,
Policy Futures in Education, 2(2), 350-364.
http://dx.doi.org/10.2304/pfie.2004.2.2.9
• http://www.brightstar.co.nz/whitepapers/new-zealand-social-laboratory
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Postmodern_Condition
• http://userwww.service.emory.edu/~mhalber/Research/1styrpapr/pci-lyotard.html
• http://www.nistep.go.jp/achiev/ftx/eng/mat077e/html/mat0778e.html
• http://innovato.wordpress.com/2012/06/21/knowledge-economy/#more-42