Miles Conrad Award 2020: A panel discussion with James Neal, Deanna Marcum, and Todd Carpenter

2020 ◽  
Vol 40 (3) ◽  
pp. 237-249
Author(s):  
James G. Neal ◽  
Deanna Marcum ◽  
Todd Carpenter
Keyword(s):  
Panel Discussion ◽  
Information Access ◽  
Global Information ◽  
Policy Advocacy ◽  
Information Industry ◽  
Access Policy ◽  
Policy Awareness ◽  
Future Success ◽  
Common Interests ◽  
And Control

This paper is based upon a panel discussion that took place after James G. Neal gave his 2020 Miles Conrad Award address during the inaugural NISO Plus conference that was held in Baltimore, MD (USA) from February 23–25, 2020. The discussion was a thoughtful conversation among three information industry leaders - Neal, Deanna Marcum, and Todd Carpenter - that touched upon many of the issues that continue to swirl within the information community today, such as information literacy, information access, policy awareness and advocacy, digital preservation, collaborative initiatives, diversity, information access and control, etc. There were no clear solutions to the issues, but there was general agreement that the future success of all stakeholders requires that we identify those things where we have common interests and common concerns and build the capacity for legal, legislative, and policy advocacy that will allow all stakeholders to be players not only in their communities, but also, and perhaps even more importantly, in Washington, D.C. and in international venues where global information policies are being set.

scholarly journals Humanitarian Action and Intra-Continental Migrant Children’s Education: Evidence from the Governance at the Grassroots in Nigeria

2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 1
Author(s):  
Taiwo Akanbi Olaiya
Keyword(s):  
Emergency Response ◽  
Basic Education ◽  
Crime Control ◽  
Migrant Children ◽  
Policy Advocacy ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
Humanitarian Action ◽  
Common Interests ◽  
Functionalist Theory ◽  
New Location

How does humanitarian action at the grassroots shape support for children of intra-continental migrant? Despite a large volume of research outputs and public policy advocacy on migration, there has been little work on the crucial nexus between local humanitarian efforts and migrant children’s educational needs. Conceptually, we viewed humanitarian action beyond the traditional definition as a tool for emergency response. We included efforts aimed at dignifying migrant children with basic education and enhancement of their integration in the new location. Cross-sectional data obtained from agencies of government at the grassroots were employed to measure the effects of local humanitarian action on the education of migrant children. The finding showed that institutionalised humanitarian efforts provide real-time support for basic education of migrant children. Also, burdensome obligations and lack of financial independence for governance at the grassroots curtailed the magnitude of assistance rendered by local authorities. Using Talcott Parson’s functionalist theory, we suggested three mutually transformative approaches. First, constraints by the upper levels of government– State and Federal tiers– exacerbate financial incapacitation and, ultimately, impede humanitarian effort at the grassroots. Second, provision of critical humanitarian needs, such as migrant children’s education, fosters social integration and crime control among migrants. Finally, intra-continental migration is not debased by acculturation. The findings showcase the need for strengthening the financial capacity of governance at the grassroots to reinforce common interests between migrants and host communities.

Panel discussion: ways forward and major challenges

2013 ◽  
Author(s):  
Maxine Berg
Keyword(s):  
Panel Discussion ◽  
The State ◽  
Global History ◽  
History Writing ◽  
Imperial History ◽  
Global Identities ◽  
And Control

John Darwin has assessed the contributions offered by archives of imperial history in analysing connections, interpretations, and control of empires over their conquered territories. Megan Vaughan has discussed the marginal place of Africa in current global history writing. Peer Vries has challenged the recent focus of global historians on connections, networks, exchanges and transfers. This history leaves out wars, violence, conflicts, and especially the state. Sufumi So and Billy Kee-Long So have sought more use of transnational biographies and narratives of individuals across time and place in Asia as well as Europe. Did some of these perceive themselves within wider world and global identities?

Information Access and Control Operations in Multi-agent System Based Process Automation

2005 ◽  
pp. 144-153 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ilkka Seilonen ◽  
Teppo Pirttioja ◽  
Antti Pakonen ◽  
Pekka Appelqvist ◽  
Aarne Halme ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Information Access ◽  
Multi Agent System ◽  
Process Automation ◽  
Agent System ◽  
Multi Agent ◽  
And Control

The Global Commons and Common Interests: Is there Common Ground?

2021 ◽  
pp. 13-45
Author(s):  
Nilufer Oral
Keyword(s):  
Common Ground ◽  
Biological Diversity ◽  
Outer Space ◽  
Sustainable Use ◽  
The Moon ◽  
Global Commons ◽  
National Jurisdiction ◽  
Common Interests ◽  
And Control ◽  
High Seas

The global commons, or common areas, are those areas that lie beyond the national jurisdiction and control of any state. In general, these areas include the deep seabed, the high seas, the atmosphere, the Moon and outer space, and Antarctica. However, other than falling under a common nomenclature there is no common regime that applies to these common areas, or global commons. This chapter examines the different regimes of common heritage, common concern, and the freedom of the high seas, as they apply to the different global commons looking at the specific case of the new international legally binding instrument for conservation and sustainable use of biological diversity in areas beyond national jurisdiction under negotiations at the United Nations. In conclusion the legal landscape that emerges for the global commons is one more of variation than commonality.

scholarly journals Information Access and Control in an Age of Big Data

2016 ◽  
Vol 93 (2) ◽  
pp. 269-272 ◽  
Author(s):  
Edward L. Carter ◽  
Laurie Thomas Lee
Keyword(s):  
Big Data ◽  
Information Access ◽  
And Control

Global information access

Kybernetes ◽  
1999 ◽  
Vol 28 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
B.H. Rudall
Keyword(s):  
Information Access ◽  
Global Information
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