The rest of the world: Capacity building in the international context

10.1002/pf.35 ◽  
2003 ◽  
Vol 2003 (40) ◽  
pp. 89-101
Author(s):  
Ben Imdieke
Keyword(s):  
Capacity Building ◽  
International Context ◽  
The World

scholarly journals PLATFORM COOPS NOW!: A team entrepreneurship capacity building program to create platform coops

2021 ◽  
pp. 135-156
Author(s):  
Liher Pillado Arbide ◽  
Ander Etxeberria Aranburu ◽  
Giovanni Tokarski
Keyword(s):  
Capacity Building ◽  
Sharing Economy ◽  
Digital Platforms ◽  
New School ◽  
Digital Era ◽  
The World ◽  
Set Up ◽  
The One ◽  
Building Program ◽  
Capacity Building Program

Traditional labour relationships have been disrupted due to the digital platforms based businesses. This article aims on the one hand to share the consequences the sharing economy has generated for workers, and how MONDRAGON’s principles as one of the best examples of worker owned business group in the world, can be applied within the new digital era. On the other hand, this paper provides a literature review on how digital platforms can operate with fairer principles based on the framework that platform coops consist of. Last but not least, Mondragon University and The New School have set up a capacity building program on team entrepreneurship and an online incubation program that aims to support the creation of platform coops, whose results after two editions and future opportunities for research are shared.

scholarly journals The WHO European health for all database

2003 ◽  
Vol 7 (6) ◽  
Author(s):  
Keyword(s):  
World Health ◽  
Health Statistics ◽  
Regional Office ◽  
International Context ◽  
Health Trends ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
The World ◽  
European Health ◽  
Health Organization ◽  
Health Situation

The European health for all database provides easy and rapid access to a wide range of basic health statistics (indicators) for the 51 Member States of the World Health Organization (WHO) European Region. It was developed by the WHO Regional Office for Europe in the mid 1980s to support the monitoring of health trends in the Region. The database is a helpful tool for international comparison and for assessing the health situation and trends in any European country in an international context.

Youth Orchestras

2012 ◽  
pp. 859-877
Author(s):  
Margaret Kartomi
Keyword(s):  
Music Education ◽  
Educational Outcomes ◽  
Musical Training ◽  
Social Function ◽  
Cultural Significance ◽  
International Context ◽  
Youth Orchestras ◽  
The World ◽  
Youth Orchestra

Youth orchestras are central to the music education of tens of thousands of children and teenagers throughout the world, yet studies of their social function, cultural significance, and pedagogical value remain largely unexplored. Even if students receive their principal musical training through individual lessons and school ensembles, participating in a separate youth orchestra can be a life-changing experience for many musicians. This article defines youth orchestras in an international context, and then articulates and measures the pedagogical value of them in one particular case study: the ethos and educational outcomes of the Young Australian Concert Artists program of the Australian Youth Orchestra.

Standards Development as Hybridization and Capacity Building

2015 ◽  
pp. 211-224
Author(s):  
Xiaobai Shen ◽  
Ian Graham ◽  
Robin Williams
Keyword(s):  
Intellectual Property ◽  
Capacity Building ◽  
Mobile Phones ◽  
Chinese Government ◽  
The West ◽  
Systems Of Innovation ◽  
National Systems Of Innovation ◽  
The World ◽  
Indigenous Innovation ◽  
National Systems

While users in the rest of the world have been offered 3G mobile phones based on either the CDMA2000 or W-CDMA standards, users in China have the additional option of using phones based on the TD-SCDMA standard. As a technology largely developed by Chinese actors and only implemented in China, TD-SCDMA has been seen as an “indigenous innovation” orchestrated by the Chinese government and supported by Chinese firms. China's support for TD-SCDMA was widely viewed in the West as a ploy to keep the “global” 3G standards, W-CDMA and CDMA2000, out of China, but in 2009, the Chinese government licensed the operation of all three standards. The authors argue that Chinese support for TD-SCDMA, rather than being a defensive move, was a proactive policy to use the TD-SCDMA standard to develop Chinese industrial capacity, which could then be fed back into the global processes developing later generations of telecommunications standards. Rather than being an indigenous Chinese technology, TD-SCDMA's history exemplifies how standards and the intellectual property and technological know-how embedded in them lead to a complex hybridization between the global and national systems of innovation.

A liberal narrative

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tamas Wells
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Civil Society ◽  
Capacity Building ◽  
Future Orientation ◽  
International Aid ◽  
Aid Workers ◽  
Transitional Countries ◽  
The World ◽  
Formal Procedure ◽  
International Aid Agencies

This chapter unpacks a liberal narrative of democracy. It grounds and locates the ways that many aid workers in Myanmar understood and communicated about democracy. The chapter outlines three elements of this narrative. First, most international aid workers involved in the research pointed toward the challenge of ethnic and religious divisions in the country. These aid workers described how divisions in Myanmar were perpetuated by a personalised political culture where formal institutions of democracy were insufficiently embedded. Second, aid agency representatives often expressed a vision of a formal procedure-based democracy supported by liberal values of human rights, pluralism and the protection of minorities. This vision also had a future orientation, where proponents of this narrative saw Myanmar’s democratisation as being set within the context of other transitional countries around the world – moving away from traditional systems toward a democratic future. Third, many aid workers emphasised a strategy of government and civil society capacity building led by international aid agencies.

India’s Kochi Biennale: sponsorship, patronage, and art’s resistance

2019 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 16-31
Author(s):  
Annamma Joy ◽  
Russell Belk
Keyword(s):  
Contemporary Art ◽  
Art World ◽  
Future Directions ◽  
Role Of Government ◽  
International Context ◽  
Content Type ◽  
The World ◽  
The Government ◽  
Financial Power

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to examine the meaning, in both local and international context, of the Kochi-Muziris Biennale (KMB), the first international exhibit of contemporary art in India. Kochi Biennale Foundation (KBF), which administers the KMB, identifies art as a means for transforming society, with a mission to bring global contemporary art to India and to present India’s modern art to the world. The authors further investigate the role of government sponsorship and corporate patronage in funding the KMB, and investigate how resistance through art is key to the KMB’s identity. Design/methodology/approach This study focuses primarily on published materials relating to the KMB. One of the authors attended the 2016 KMB and interviewed fellow attendees. Additionally, the authors reviewed and assessed social media postings regarding the 2016 KMB. Findings The authors argue that government sponsorship and corporate patronage are never solely about political or financial power. Rather, a generalized reciprocity among the three entities – corporations, the government and the artists – allows the KMB to flourish. For the artists involved, the KMB, co-founded by activist artists, sustains interest in and awareness of resistance. Originality/value Extant literature on biennales is sparse on ways in which these exhibits extend their impact beyond the art world. The authors examine issues such as India expanding its position on the world stage through art, and the implications of political resistance embraced by Indian artists on future directions for the KMB, that have heretofore been unaddressed.

scholarly journals La inversión en la elite deportiva versus la práctica popular: Europa y España = Investment in sports elite versus popular practice: Europe and Spain

2018 ◽  
pp. 173
Author(s):  
Alvaro Rodríguez Díaz
Keyword(s):  
Comparative Analysis ◽  
Physical Exercise ◽  
Quantitative Research ◽  
Market Liberalization ◽  
Social Content ◽  
International Context ◽  
Mega Events ◽  
Public Facilities ◽  
Historical Series ◽  
The World

Resumen: En España, en la primera década del régimen de 1978 las políticas deportivas se implementaron con un fuerte contenidos social, mejorando las instalaciones públicas dentro de un proceso de democratización del deporte. Posteriormente, en los primeros 1990s, Europa liberalizó los mercados y se apostó por invertir en la alta competición, construir grandes estadios y organizar mega-eventos. España potenció esa política y ello permitió el éxito deportivo de muchos atletas españoles que se integraron en la elite mundial. Contradictoriamente, hubo un aumento del ejercicio físico entre la población como recreación y por razones de salud, más que por competir, y que no tenían una oferta pública adecuada  para realizar su actividad. Esta necesidad popular no fue resuelta por las políticas deportivas ni en Europa ni en España. La metodología de la investigación se basó en la investigación cuantitativa y el análisis comparativo. Los datos analizados proceden de fuentes oficiales y series históricas.Abstract: In Spain, in the first decade of the 1978 regime, sports policies were implemented with a strong social content, improving public facilities within a of democratization process. Subsequently, in the early 1990s, in an international context of market liberalization, the Spanish governments began investing in high competition, building large stadiums and organizing mega-events. There was a sporting success of many Spanish athletes who were integrated into the world elite. Contradictorily, there was an increase in physical exercise among the population, as recreation and for health reasons, rather than competing. But this popular demand was not resolved by sports policies. The methodology was based in quantitative research and comparative analysis. The data analyzed come from official indirect sources using historical series.

Panel 2.9: Repair and Recovery of Health Systems

2005 ◽  
Vol 20 (6) ◽  
pp. 428-431
Author(s):  
Bjorn Melgaard ◽  
Maria Cristina Profili ◽  
Peter Heimann ◽  
Aryono Pusponegoro ◽  
Edward O'Rourke ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Needs Assessment ◽  
World Health Organization ◽  
Capacity Building ◽  
Health Systems ◽  
Local Communities ◽  
Lessons Learned ◽  
World Health ◽  
Tsunami Disaster ◽  
The World ◽  
Health Organization

AbstractThis is a summary of the presentations and discussion of Panel 2.9, Repair and Recovery of Health Systemsof the Conference, Health Aspects of the Tsunami Disaster in Asia, convened by the World Health Organization (WHO) in Phuket, Thailand, 04–06 May 2005. The topics discussed included issues related to the repair and recovery of health systems as pertain to the damage created by the Tsunami. It is presented in the following major sections: (1) needs assessment; (2) coordination; (3) filling gaps; (4) capacity building; (5) what was done well, and what should have been done better; (6) lessons learned; and (7) recommendations. Recommendations included: (1) how to make health systems better prepared for coping with disasters; and (2) how to support preparedness in local communities.

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