scholarly journals Panel on: Engaging Communities: The Role of ICTs

10.28945/2737 ◽  
2003 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stephen Tim ◽  
Scott A. Webber ◽  
Robert Luke
Keyword(s):  
Mobile Communications ◽  
Digital Literacy ◽  
Networked Systems ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Communications Technology ◽  
Access To Information ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Societal Needs ◽  
User Friendly

It is estimated that by the end of 2005, over two billion human beings will be connected to each other through networked systems of mobile communications devices. By that time, the amount of communication that takes place between and among machines will exceed the amount of communication that takes place between and among human beings. It is important, therefore, that we focus our efforts on matching communications technology with societal needs. This panel examines the various ways that ICTs can engage, instruct and empower communities in the 21st century. The topics on this panel include: developing more user-friendly access to information on the Internet; teaching democracy to the emerging class of cyber-citizens; promoting accessibility and digital literacy to ICT users with disabilities; and how NGOs can help foster civic engagement in Eastern Europe through ICTs.

scholarly journals Technological Democratization: The Potential Role of ICT in Social and Political Transformation in China and Beyond

2012 ◽  
Vol 11 (4) ◽  
pp. 456-479 ◽  
Author(s):  
Neal A. Palmer ◽  
Douglas D. Perkins
Keyword(s):  
Nongovernmental Organizations ◽  
Case Studies ◽  
Potential Role ◽  
Ecological Model ◽  
Technological Development ◽  
Information And Communications Technology ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Communications Technology ◽  
Political Transformation

AbstractThis paper seeks to understand the role of the Internet and information and communications technology (ICT) in potential democratic movements. We propose an ecological model of technological development and democratization which recognizes that change can occur (1) at individual as well as social levels; (2) on a continuum from oppression to freedom; and (3) in multiple social spheres. Using case studies from China, we suggest that ICT might facilitate democracy on account of its potential transformations and efficiencies in terms of individuals’ relationships to knowledge and information; governments; persons, groups, and nongovernmental organizations; and work and traditional social roles.

scholarly journals Smart Cities using Internet of Things: Recent Trends and Techniques

2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (9S) ◽  
pp. 24-28
Keyword(s):  
Internet Of Things ◽  
Smart Cities ◽  
Wearable Sensors ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Smart Building ◽  
Recent Trends ◽  
The Internet Of Things ◽  
Smart Infrastructure

A Smart Cities focuses on the way we live. Smart governments are also acknowledged as augmentations of electronic governments based on the Internet of Things (IoT). There are many existing challenges in the environment such as, research in gadgets, framework and programming etc. Particularly, the Smart Cities are facing difficulties with IoT frameworks, systems administration, independent registration, wearable sensors, gadgets and systematization of aggregates including human beings as well as programming specialists. This paper incorporates role of Smart Cities in various domains such as smart infrastructure, smart building, smart security and so on. Moreover, the work depicts the IoT technologies for Smart Cities and the primary components along with the features of Smart Cities. This paper is based on technologies for Smart Cities which will benefit citizens by facilitating a platform for integrating all the resources and prompt communication of information. Furthermore, merits, demerits and main challenges of Smart Cities are discussed.

scholarly journals Optimalisasi peran internet dalam mewujudkan digital citizenship dan implikasinya terhadap ketahanan pribadi siswa

2020 ◽  
Vol 17 (1) ◽  
pp. 29-39
Author(s):  
Armaidy Armawi ◽  
Darto Wahidin
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Digital Literacy ◽  
Age Groups ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Digital Citizenship ◽  
School Age ◽  
Vocational High School ◽  
Research Findings ◽  
Personal Resilience

Individu usia sekolah merupakan salah satu pengakses internet dengan menggunakan media sosial paling aktif. Akses internet menjadi sangat yang rawan, mengingat penggunaannya di dominasi oleh kalangan usia sekolah. Beredarnya isu hoax, fitnah, bahkan menghujat melalui media sosial yang dengan mudahnya di akses melalui internet, menunjukkan belum dewasanya dalam penggunaan internet.  Tujuan dalam penelitian ini mengetahui proses optimalisasi peran internet dalam mewujudkan digital citizenship di Kota Semarang dan mengkaji implikasi dari optimalisasi peran internet terhadap ketahanan pribadi siswa di Kota Semarang. Penelitian ini menggunakan pendekatan kualitatif. Temuan penelitian menunjukkan bahwa proses optimalisasi peran internet dalam mewujudkan digital citizenship di SMA Negeri 1 Semarang dan SMK Negeri 1 Semarang dilakukan dengan mengoptimalkan akses digital, digital literacy, dan perdagangan digital. Implikasi dari optimalisasi peran internet terhadap ketahanan pribadi siswa dengan adanya hukum digital dan mewujudkan digital citizenship. Sembilan kriteria dalam mewujudkan digital citizenship telah terpenuhi, namun masih harus ada perbaikan untuk mengoptimalkannya.-----School-age is the most active social media. Internet access is very vulnerable, considering that school-age groups dominate its use. Circulation of hoax, slander, and even blasphemy through social media easily accessed via the internet shows not yet mature in using the internet. The purpose of this study is to determine the process of optimizing the role of the internet in realizing digital citizenship in Semarang City and examining the implications of optimizing the role of the internet for the personal endurance of students in the city of Semarang. This research uses a qualitative approach. The research findings that the process of optimizing the role of the internet in realizing digital citizenship in SMA (Senior High Scholl) Negeri 1 Semarang and SMK (Vocational High School) Negeri 1 Semarang carried out by optimizing digital access, digital literacy, and digital commerce. Implications of optimizing the role of the internet on students' personal resilience in the presence of digital laws and realizing digital citizenship. Nine criteria in realizing digital citizenship have met, but there must still be improvements to optimize it.

Models of Political Representation for ICT Adoption in a Networked Society

2014 ◽  
pp. 66-80
Keyword(s):  
Political Representation ◽  
Online Communication ◽  
Global Network ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Ict Adoption ◽  
Democratic System ◽  
Ict Revolution ◽  
Networked Society

The Internet, a global network of digital technologies, is arguably the largest and most democratic system that human beings have ever created. It is often proposed that ICT revolution, particularly the Internet, could be well utilised by the parliamentarians to improve the responsiveness and efficiency of transactions between government and elected politicians, elected politicians and their constituents, public services and the citizen. Models of political representation in a networked society and the technological and the constitutional are addressed in this chapter. The former sees the transformative opportunities of the Internet, whereas the latter model sees the Internet as a support to existing relationships between parliamentarians and their constituents. To illustrate this, the chapter examines the role of parliament within contemporary democratic governance and political online communication. Different models of political representation and parliament as a symbol of political representation in the networked society is addressed.

scholarly journals A Case Study on Digital Literacy with Respect to India

2021 ◽  
pp. 1502-1512
Author(s):  
Dr. Pradipta Mukhopadhyay
Keyword(s):  
Digital Literacy ◽  
Research Work ◽  
Digital Technologies ◽  
Modern World ◽  
Access To Information ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Digital Platforms ◽  
Digital Devices ◽  
Clear Information

Digital Literacy means having the required knowledge and skills what human beings of modern world needs to learn and work in a society where communication and access to information is done through digital technologies like internet, social media etc, with the help of digital devices like computer, laptops, desktops, tablets, or mobile and refers to an individual’s ability to find, evaluate and compose clear information through writing and other media on various digital platforms. In this paper we will study the meaning of digital literacy along with the present status of digital literacy in the current world with a special reference to India. The current study has been casual, exploratory and empirical in nature and the data needed for research work has been collected by using both direct and indirect method of data collection.

scholarly journals THE ROLE OF INFORMATION AND ELECTRONIC TRANSACTIONS (ITE) LAW (LAW NO. 11 OF 2008) AND CYBER ETHICS: NURTURING POSITIVE BEHAVIOR IN THE CYBERSPACE ACCORDING TO PANCASILA FOR THE PEOPLE OF TANGERANG CITY

2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 159
Author(s):  
Adi Rio Arianto ◽  
Jerry Indrawan ◽  
Gesti Anggraini ◽  
M. Chairil Akbar Setiawan
Keyword(s):  
Digital Literacy ◽  
Negative Impact ◽  
Positive Behavior ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Free Access ◽  
Digital Ethics ◽  
The People ◽  
Electronic Transactions ◽  
Cyber Ethics

<p>This paper aims to find out the factors behind the lack of awareness toward digital literacy and cyber ethics among the people of Tangerang City – specifically, those who live in Neighborhood (RT 03) and Community Associations (RW 01) in Sandratex Street No. 106, Rempoa Urban Village, East Ciputat Sub-district, South Tangerang City, Banten Province, Indonesia. Digital literacy is related to the positive and negative impact of the internet. This paper employs a qualitative method and collects data through an interview and survey with forty people, which is consisted of 30 students, 5 Karang Taruna Rempoa activists, and 5 students’ parents. This paper finds that the implementation of ITE Law has positively impacted the people of Tangerang through various means: <em>first</em>, the people of Tangerang City can make a contribution by becoming a social agent that can prevent and address online radicalism, hoax and online persecution in their neighborhood. This is possible because the ITE Law improves students’ and the community’s cyber literacy significantly; <em>second</em>, the people of Tangerang City can understand about ethics and legal foundation through the socialization of “The Role of ITE Law (Law No. 11 of 2008) and Cyber Ethics” as part of the efforts to prevent online radicalism, hoax and online persecution resulting from free access to the cyberspace; <em>third</em>, the people of Tangerang City can act upon the values of nationalism, national defense and Pancasila that are all contained within the ITE Law (Law No. 11 of 2008) in order to nurture positive behavior in the cyberspace; and <em>fourth</em>, the people of Tangerang City are more aware about the importance of cyber law and ethics in the cyberspace to control positive internet behavior and prevent the negative impact of the internet in all walks of life.</p><p><strong>Keywords: </strong>Cyber, Digital, Ethics, Information and Electronic Transactions<strong> (</strong>ITE) Law, Pancasila, Tangerang.<strong></strong></p>

Viewpoint: design well and the users will come

2007 ◽  
Vol 32 (4) ◽  
pp. 3-3 ◽  
Author(s):  
Karen Latimer
Keyword(s):  
21St Century ◽  
New Age ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Access To Information ◽  
Electronic Information ◽  
The Past ◽  
Architectural Review ◽  
Library Buildings

As the 21st century dawned, bringing with it an unprecedented explosion in networked electronic information, the doomsayers were predicting the end of libraries as we know them and a declining need for new library buildings. Certainly there has been a shift in focus from the collection-based libraries of the past to a more user-centred approach where access to information takes precedence over its storage, but the libraries in cyberspace have not had it all their own way. Peter Davey, writing in the Architectural review in September 2001 on the role of cultural and art institutions in the new age of the Internet, pointed out that despite the power of digitisation and the availability of a wealth of information in electronic versions, ‘we need physical libraries and the books they contain because culture is far more complex than acquisition and assembly of facts. It is about thought and sensation’. He went on to say, in the context of Snøhetta’s design for the Biblotheca Alexandrina, that ‘it must provide a place in which scholarship is fostered, not just functionally, but socially as well’.

scholarly journals Teacher Resources Online

2012 ◽  
Vol 14 (2) ◽  
pp. 62 ◽  
Author(s):  
Susan Nichols ◽  
Amy Maynard ◽  
Christopher Brown
Keyword(s):  
Digital Literacy ◽  
Literacy Practices ◽  
Teacher Professionalism ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Teaching Resources ◽  
Literacy Teaching ◽  
Teacher Resources ◽  
Online Resource ◽  
Resource Networks

The role of the internet is becoming ever more significant in the production and circulation of resources for literacy teaching, and in the process is changing teachers’ relationships with educational resources and professional communities. In this paper, we present case studies of four online resource networks established specifically for educational practitioners: TeacherTube, TES, TWRC Tank and Teacher Toolbox. We explore how and why the managers of these sites engage teachers, the online activities of educators using the sites, and the kinds of literacy teaching resources that are available to them. Based on an analysis of literacy teaching resources and associated activity on these websites, we argue that teacher professionalism in contemporary times involves new digital literacy practices in addition to conventional modes of using textual resources in teaching.

Design Architecture

2005 ◽  
pp. 22-37
Author(s):  
Edward A. Fox ◽  
Hussein Suleman ◽  
Ramesh C. Gaur ◽  
Devika P. Madalli
Keyword(s):  
Information Retrieval ◽  
Best Practices ◽  
Digital Library ◽  
Digital Libraries ◽  
Historical Perspective ◽  
Information Sources ◽  
Networked Systems ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Access To Information ◽  
Distributed Information

Digital libraries evolved in response to the need to manage the vast quantities of electronic information that we produce, collect, and consume. Architects of such systems have adopted a variety of design approaches, which are summarized and illustrated in this chapter. We also introduce the following three chapters, and provide suitable background. From a historical perspective, we note that early systems were designed independently to afford services to specific communities. Since then, systems that store and mediate access to information have become commonplace and are scattered all over the Internet. Consequently, information retrieval also has to contend with distributed/networked systems in a transparent and scalable fashion. In this context, digital library architects have adopted various interoperability standards and practices to provide users with seamless access to highly distributed information sources. This chapter looks at current research and emerging best practices adopted in designing digital libraries, whether individual or distributed.

scholarly journals Threats to Marriage Institution in the Modern World: Islamic Panacea

2019 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 127-147
Author(s):  
Samuwilu Alade Owoyemi
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
20Th Century ◽  
Married Couples ◽  
Modern World ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Spiritual Support ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Role Of Government ◽  
Distinguishing Features

Marriage, a universally recognized union between a man and a woman, has been continually evolving, undergoing changes and redefinitions in the modern world. Towards the end of the 20th century, other forms of unimaginable unions emerged and were consequently legalized thereby constituting threats to marriage. Issues like gay union, high cost of wedding feast, indiscriminate use of contraceptives by the unmarried, accessibility to free porn, sex video, sex dolls and sex games on the Internet/social media and a host of others are seen as threats and challenges to the institution of marriage. It seems that the legal union between man and woman is being re-interpreted and discouraged. Discussing the marriage institution from Islamic perspective, this paper, adopting analytical method, critically examines the threats against marriage and makes a concise attempt to identify ways of combating them. The paper, which also highlights divergent views of Muslim jurists on marriage, offers Islamic panacea to what constitutes threat to marriage; with a view to sustaining the institution through, the establishment of marriage counseling units, complimentary role of government, the Imams/missionaries, relatives and friends in offering financial and spiritual support for the unmarried and married couples. Realizing the distinguishing features between human beings and animals, the paper offers recommendations towards preserving the institution of marriage and as well discouraging all other forms of unions that are forbidden in Islam.

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