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Weinberger, V. P., C. Quiñinao, and P. A. Marquet. "Innovation and the growth of human population." Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 372, no. 1735 (October 23, 2017): 20160415. http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2016.0415.
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Biodiversity is sustained by and is essential to the services that ecosystems provide. Different species would use these services in different ways, or adaptive strategies, which are sustained in time by continuous innovations. Using this framework, we postulate a model for a biological species ( Homo sapiens ) in a finite world where innovations, aimed at increasing the flux of ecosystem services (a measure of habitat quality), increase with population size, and have positive effects on the generation of new innovations (positive feedback) as well as costs in terms of negatively affecting the provision of ecosystem services. We applied this model to human populations, where technological innovations are driven by cumulative cultural evolution. Our model shows that depending on the net impact of a technology on the provision of ecosystem services ( θ ), and the strength of technological feedback ( ξ ), different regimes can result. Among them, the human population can fill the entire planet while maximizing their well-being, but not exhaust ecosystem services. However, this outcome requires positive or green technologies that increase the provision of ecosystem services with few negative externalities or environmental costs, and that have a strong positive feedback in generating new technologies of the same kind. If the feedback is small, then the technological stock can collapse together with the human population. Scenarios where technological innovations generate net negative impacts may be associated with a limited technological stock as well as a limited human population at equilibrium and the potential for collapse. The only way to fill the planet with humans under this scenario of negative technologies is by reducing the technological stock to a minimum. Otherwise, the only feasible equilibrium is associated with population collapse. Our model points out that technological innovations per se may not help humans to grow and dominate the planet. Instead, different possibilities unfold for our future depending on their impact on the environment and on further innovation. This article is part of the themed issue ‘Process and pattern in innovations from cells to societies’.
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Szymańska, Elżbieta, and Eugenia Panfiluk. "DETERMINANTS OF TECHNOLOGICAL INNOVATIONS IN HEALTH TOURISM ENTERPRISES." Business: Theory and Practice 21, no. 1 (May 25, 2020): 348–59. http://dx.doi.org/10.3846/btp.2020.11104.
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The research problem is the implementation of technological innovations in health tourism services. The main purpose of the paper is diagnosing determinants of technological innovativeness of enterprises that provide health tourism services. Two detailed objectives were laid down – specifically, an indication of these determinants in respect of the range and type of a technological innovation. The methods applied in the research are: Delphi method, comparative analysis, the range method and the standardised interview method. In order to indicate determinants the following research techniques were used: Kruskal - Wallis test, factor analysis, analysis of medium-rank test, Spearman’s rank order correlation test. The primary result is diagnosing determinants affecting technological innovativeness of the subjects under study which are: quality of endogenous human capital of the surveyed entities and inflow of external information. The research is of ground-breaking nature since until now, technological innovations in health tourism have not been described in economy literature. The results have an impact on the development of economics and management sciences, contributing to the development of innovation theory and enterprise management. Moreover, the results potentially contribute to the practical aspect by means of their application by practitioners – organisers of health tourism.
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Indrawati, Henny, Caska, and Suarman. "Barriers to technological innovations of SMEs: how to solve them?" International Journal of Innovation Science 12, no. 5 (November 30, 2020): 545–64. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/ijis-04-2020-0049.
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Purpose This study aims to analyze the inhibiting factors of small and medium enterprises (SMEs’) technology innovation, supporting institutions for SMEs technology innovation development, SMEs’ technology innovation development model and strategies for developing SMEs in technology innovation. Design/methodology/approach This is a mixed-method research project conducted through a survey of SMEs in Riau Province, Sumatera Indonesia (primarily in the districts of Siak, Kampar and Pelalawan) from April to July 2019. SMEs that have been operating for at least five years were chosen purposively as samples. Based on the requirement, there are 277 entities used in this study. A focus group discussion (FGD) was also conducted to formulate SME models and development strategies in technological innovation. In addition, in-depth interviews and observations were also carried out on technological innovations undertaken by respondents. Findings It was found that there are five inhibiting factors of SMEs’ technology innovation: government support, quality of human resources, funding of technological innovation, economic conditions and business partners. The biggest inhibiting factor remains to be the funding of technological innovation. Therefore SMEs provide independent technological innovation costs to develop technological innovations for business sustainability. Supporting institutions for developing SME technology innovation consist of government institutions, private institutions, financial institutions (banks) and nonbank financial institutions. To survive and excel amid competition, SMEs need to pay attention to technological innovation. The business strategy that needs to be done is to improve services to consumers and improve their attitude toward innovation in the implementation and development of SMEs’ businesses. Research limitations/implications This research is limited to research on the inhibiting factors for SME technology innovation from the aspect of the production sector. This research has not studied various business fields in the trade, service and digital SME sectors. Future studies can reveal factors inhibiting SME technological innovation, except production aspects and various SME business fields. In addition, this study has not analyzed the cost of technological innovation provided by SMEs. Therefore, future studies could also reveal the large costs of technological innovation provided by SMEs. Originality/value This research investigates barriers hindering the SMEs’ technological innovations in Southeast Asia, including Indonesia as a maritime country. It also formulates strategies to reduce the barriers to SME’s technological innovation and contributes to the development of knowledge of technological innovations in SMEs. Moreover, this paper involves investigating government support from a nonfinancial aspect. To the best of the authors’ knowledge, this aspect has not been much discussed by studies on innovation at SMEs till now.
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Tsukerblat, D. M. "Intellectual property is a key for innovations." Bibliosphere, no. 3 (September 30, 2017): 95–99. http://dx.doi.org/10.20913/1815-3186-2017-3-95-99.
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To ensure the effective functioning of the national innovation system it is required an appropriate innovation infrastructure, which is a set of economic entities providing technical, informational, human, financial, organizational-methodical and (or) other support to subjects of innovative activity necessary to create knowledge, technologies, transformation them into new products and services. A key part of the regional innovative infrastructure is a structure of patent information support of innovation processes undertaken by the State Public Scientific Technological Library of the Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences. Analytical and patent information play a leading role in strategic planning and management of innovation and intellectual property, scientific-technological and marketing problems, understanding the general level of achievements in the field of science and technology. In this regard, the most important activity of infrastructure elements of the innovation patent information support is to ensure access of economic entities to a variety of resources to effectively address issues of protection, disposition and use of rights to results of intellectual activity. These elements of the innovation infrastructure should become so called «connecting bridges» from knowledge to innovation. The author proposes the exchange mechanisms for commercialization of scientific-technological developments. Launching the project Novosibirsk Center to Support Innovation and Technology created on the base of the State Public Scientific Technological Library of the Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences plans to change the approach to innovations that should help to solve the regional basic problems.
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Ageev, Aleksandr I., and Alexander V. Putilov. "Humanitarian and Technological Revolution: Experience and Challenges of Engineering Evolution." Economic Strategies 152 (March 25, 2020): 54–63. http://dx.doi.org/10.33917/es-2.168.2020.54-63.
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Changing the priorities of economic development in transition to post-industrial society inevitably causes reviewing approaches to the role of innovation in modern economy. If in the era of industrial development of society innovations are considered mainly as a factor of technological development, in case of a post-industrial society innovations should be considered in a broader perspective. Innovative technologies in all their diversity are being introduced not only in the technological sphere, but also in education, in the service industry, housing and communal services, life support sphere, etc. The problem of shifting regions and separate territories to innovative development approaches is one of the key issues in forming an economy based on knowledge. “Nuclear” cities, where development of nuclear technologies is implemented both for defense and civilian purposes (nuclear power plants, nuclear fuel production, etc.), can be ideally used as territories of advanced social and economic development (TASED) primarily thanks to human potential of these cities. The article analyzes recent humanitarian and technological changes, called the “humanitarian technological revolution” (HTR), and their impact on the speed and effectiveness of innovative changes in this area.
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Verhun, Volodymyr, Darya Glukhova, and Yaroslav Humeniuk. "SOCIAL COMPONENT IN THE MODERN NATIONAL INNOVATION SYSTEM." Baltic Journal of Economic Studies 9, no. 1 (March 31, 2023): 35–45. http://dx.doi.org/10.30525/2256-0742/2023-9-1-35-45.
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With the intensification of globalization processes and the high level of competition in international, regional and national markets, innovation has acquired the status of a major advantage for any country and has become the basis for ensuring its sustainable economic development. The use of new knowledge and technologies provides an opportunity to implement and intensify innovation and, as a result, to build an efficient and competitive innovation economy. Based on the above, the question arises of building a fundamentally new national innovation system, adapted to the socio-technological challenges, which should determine the competitive position of the national economy in the global arena. In this context, social capital, as a factor of readiness for technological transformations of the state and strengthening of competitive positions in the international markets, forms the basis for the expansion of research and transformation of the NIS. The purpose of the article is a theoretical substantiation of objective processes of transformation of NIS, taking into account modern trends and identifying the role and place of the social component in it. Given the fact that scientific and technological progress is an inevitable process, the relationship between the center and the periphery of the global economic system is characterized by unequal scientific and technological exchange, in which the peripheral countries are forced to pay intellectual rents contained in imported goods and services, as well as to act as a raw material and production appendage of the developed countries. The subject of the article is the transformation processes that take place in modern innovation systems under the influence of global challenges, as well as the social component, which is undoubtedly the driving force in the modern world for the promotion of domestic innovations, the development of high-tech business, and the increase of the level of technological readiness of society. The methodological basis of the study is the historical-logical method, the system-structural analysis of economic processes and phenomena, and the methods of qualitative comparison. Results. Social capital in NIS acts as a kind of litmus test, reflecting its efficiency and competitiveness, since the functionality and social role of the innovation system is expressed in providing society with innovations, technological goods, products and services that effectively satisfy the entire spectrum of human needs.
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Jesevičiūtė-Ufartienė, Laima. "APPLICATION OF INNOVATIONS IN THE SECTOR OF ACCOMMODATION SERVICE." Laisvalaikio tyrimai 1, no. 5 (2015): 1–8. http://dx.doi.org/10.33607/elt.v1i5.217.
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Research background. During these days the innovations are a more and more used definition in the business, especially in the market research, human resource management, new products and service development, etc. Frequently innovations are related with the application of new technology and new ideas as well as creation of new methods. Even more, innovations are related with the development of existing processes and products (Bigliardi, Dormio, 2009). Innovations are important in the sector of tourism industry, which is expanding every time combining more and more different areas of business. According to Melnikas (2011), discontent and necessity of changes are some persuasive factors to begin an activity of innovation. Thus, it could be the reason for the application of innovations in the sector of accommodation service to become essential. Importance of innovations is discussed pretty widely in the scientific literature (Bigliardi, Dormio, 2009; Hall, Williams, 2008; Inauen, Schenker-Wicki, 2011; Notaro et al., 2012), but innovations in tourism sector have been discussed only recently (Nagy, 2012; Ravar, Iorgulescu, 2013). This article is relevant because application of innovations in the sector of accommodation service is not enough discussed in Lithuania as it is done by some foreign scientists (Sundbo et al., 2007; Hall et al., 2008; Ravar, Iorgulescu, 2013). The object of the research is innovations in the sector of accommodation service, and the aim is to determine the activeness of innovations’ application in the sector of an accommodation service. Research methods. This article deals with the application of innovations in the sector of accommodation service using the method of scientific literature analyses and quantitative empirical research – the method questionnaire survey. The research respondents were the employees of Kaunas city organizations of accommodation service. The author of this article is grateful to her student Martynas Bruzas who collected 270 filled in questionnaires. Results and discussion. Innovations are the most frequently described as an application of technologies creating new products, new services, and new processes of activity in the market. Innovations are combined with technological changes in the products, services and their creation processes. The research results revealed that services of accommodation business were restricted by just using electronic mail, the electronic page of business and electronic page of socialization. The research results revealed that services of accommodation business performed just slight changes of innovations according to some novelties in the market. On the other hand, employees of these organizations were enough sure that their organizations were applying innovations, but at the same time they thought that innovations could be more combined with the qualifications of organizations’ employees. Conclusions. According to research results, we suggest that most Kaunas city accommodation services presume that they are active in the application of innovations, but there were only some technological changes of innovations. The research results revealed that usually innovations were related to IT programs of accommodation service, wireless internet, telephone, television, touch tabs, room infrastructure and the systems of reservations. Keywords: innovations, innovations of accommodation sector, development.
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Janagam, Srujan G., Smitha T. Kaniyampady, and Anupama N. Shetty. "Early identification of high-risk pregnancies in rural areas of Karnataka through maternal obstetric monitoring program." International Journal Of Community Medicine And Public Health 7, no. 10 (September 25, 2020): 4153. http://dx.doi.org/10.18203/2394-6040.ijcmph20204389.
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Maternal mortality rate (MMR) has been one of India’s key priority areas. Over the years. several national programs have addressed issues of accessibility and affordability of antenatal care. Major gaps in the system include shortage of trained human resource and technological infrastructure in providing essential diagnostic ante-natal care. High risk pregnancies (HRP) owing to various factors, account for 70-80% of maternal deaths. This case study describes the clinical and workflow process innovation in ante-natal care in Shorapur taluka, a rural region of Northern Karnataka. Maternal obstetric monitoring (MOM) through a defined protocol for high-risk pregnancy identification aided by ultrasound scans, was introduced at the sub-district hospital. In parallel, system strengthening was done through capacity building activities, installation of blood storage unit and provision of ultrasound services. The model demonstrates that process and technological innovations can be leveraged on to facilitate and make available specialist medical services in rural areas, which is key to identification and timely management of high-risk pregnancies.
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Maiorov, Andrey A. "Management of a higher education institution and ways to implement effectively its innovation policy." Economic Consultant 34, no. 2 (June 1, 2021): 42–51. http://dx.doi.org/10.46224/ecoc.2021.2.5.
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Introduction. The utilization of innovation activity mechanisms increases the competitiveness and quality of educational services. The necessity to develop an innovative environment, to intensify the innovative activity of higher education institutions determines the relevance of research in the field of innovative management. The purpose of the article is to identify ways to implement effectively the innovation policy of a higher educational institution. Materials and methods. A theoretical analysis of research materials (data of ratings of technological innovations in education, publications in periodicals, conference proceedings, and analytical materials) was used. Results. The main innovative educational factors and technologies were identified: educational virtual and media technologies, human resource management, balanced scorecard as an innovative technology, bimodal educational systems. Discussion. The main functions of the educational knowledge management system are in solving interrelated problems: in the formation of innovative and self-learning corporate human capital; in social conditions, within which this capital realizes itself in the creation of innovations demanded by the market and other consumers in the form of educational products.
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Convery, Elizabeth, Jason Heeris, Melanie Ferguson, and Brent Edwards. "Human–Technology Interaction Considerations in Hearing Health Care: An Introduction for Audiologists." American Journal of Audiology 29, no. 3S (September 18, 2020): 538–45. http://dx.doi.org/10.1044/2020_aja-19-00068.
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Purpose Innovations in user-driven hearing technology and services have placed greater control in the hands of the patient. While these advances could address issues of hearing health care accessibility, their success rests on the assumption that patients possess sufficient technological competence to self-manage these products and services successfully. The purpose of this tutorial is to highlight the importance of focusing on usability, rather than just performance outcomes, during the design, development, and evaluation of user-driven hearing technology and services. Method This tutorial explores human–technology interaction and usability and discusses practical methods for applying these concepts in hearing health care research and development. Two case studies illustrate how usability can inform the design and development of interactive educational materials for patients and the evaluation of a commercially available mHealth app. Conclusions In order to derive benefit from innovations in hearing health care, products and services must be intuitively usable in addition to being accessible and affordable. The discipline of human–technology interaction provides a relevant and useful framework to guide future research and development efforts in user-driven hearing health care.
Dissertations / Theses on the topic "Human services – technological innovations"
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Bruer, Ruth A. "Public-private partnership in the transfer of technology to human service programs by Ruth A. Bruer." Diss., Virginia Tech, 1990. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/39895.
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The purpose of this dissertation is to describe the transfer of a specific technology to a program intended to benefit a segment of the older population. The study interprets the implications of this transfer process for human service programs responsive to the public interest. This provides a lucrative realm for examining the process as an outgrowth of public-private partnerships. Analysis of a partnership in five case studies illustrates the dynamics between nonprofit and for-profit organizations and potential tensions related to differing goals, means, and values. Theoretical grounding draws on relevant organization theory that guides the consideration of prominent concepts, such as responsiveness to the public and the potential for cooptation of public goals in public-private organizational partnerships. With this as a base, the dissertation provides implications for the development of theory on technology transfer in the delivery of human services.Ph. D.
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Schafermeyer, Erich Reinhardt. "An IR and RF Based System for Functional Gait Analysis in a Multi-Resident Smart-Home." PDXScholar, 2017. https://pdxscholar.library.pdx.edu/open_access_etds/3502.
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Changes in the gait characteristics, such as walking speed and stride length, of a person living at home can be used to presage cognitive decline, predict fall potential, monitor long-term changes in cognitive impairment, test drug regimens, and more. This thesis presents a novel approach to gait analysis in a smart-home environment by leveraging new advances in inexpensive sensors and embedded systems to create novel solutions for in-home gait analysis. Using a simple, non-invasive hardware system consisting entirely of wall-mounted infrared and radio frequency sensor arrays, data is collected on the gait of subjects as they pass by. This data is then analyzed and sent to a clinician for further study. The system is non-invasive in that it does not use cameras and could be built into the molding of a home so that it would be nearly invisible. In a finished prototype version, the system presented in this thesis could be used to analyze the gait characteristics of one or more subjects living in a home environment while ignoring the data of visitors and other non-subject cohabitants. The ability to constantly collect data from a home environment could provide thousands of observations per year for clinical analysis. Providing such a robust data set may allow people with gait impairment to live at home longer and more safely before transitioning to a care facility, have a reduced fall risk due to better prediction, and live a healthier life in old age.
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Sugolov, Pavlo. "Are mobile and fixed line telephone services substitutes or complements? evidence from transition economies /." Burnaby B.C. : Simon Fraser University, 2005. http://ir.lib.sfu.ca/handle/1892/2020.
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Verma, Audrey. "The role of digital technologies in human-nature relationships." Thesis, University of Aberdeen, 2016. http://digitool.abdn.ac.uk:80/webclient/DeliveryManager?pid=230594.
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While technology has widely been formulated as antithetical to nature, there has been an increased adoption of digital set-ups to promote and enact environmental conservation. This thesis thus examined a range of digital technologies more commonly used for nature-related activities (for example, mobile applications for crowdsourcing data, satellite tracking and mapping facilities, and visual imaging equipment such as cameras and sonar devices) with two objectives. First, at an applied level, the research sought to locate the new set-ups being used, and to unfold the technical, practical and relational issues emerging from this use. Second, at a more abstract level, the research aimed to better understand the sociological implications of deploying these technologies, in terms of the definitions of 'nature' being 'produced' and how the devices might be (re)shaping human-nature relationships. Four areas were studied: wildlife monitoring and recording, public engagement efforts by conservation organisations, conflict management, and digital art production. These contexts form the data chapters of this thesis, and the findings result from an inter-disciplinary qualitative social scientific research enquiry, framed by a constructionist perspective. With regard to the first aim, this research found that the technologies used by organisations and practitioners had the capacity to increase public participation as well as the quantity and quality of nature-related data and information, and could contribute to the formulation of environmental conservation strategies. However, these capacities did not come without issues such as the relegation of public participants to passive roles and struggles over legitimacy in terms of production and interpretation of data wrought from new devices. In relation to the second aim, this research found that digital technological set-ups (re)configured the ways in which wildlife in particular was seen and understood, and revealed both enmeshment and persistent binaries along the emotion/cognition and nature/culture axes. These findings highlight the role of emotions in conservation, and point to increasing complexities in how humans define and relate to nature.
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Makitla, Mokone Ishmael. "A conceptual model of an access-technology-agnostic delivery mechanism for ICT4D services." Thesis, Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/10948/d1019756.
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Information and Communication Technology for Development (ICT4D) is an emerging research area that is concerned with the beneficial applications of Information and Communications Technology (ICT) to achieve developmental goals. ICT4D is thus concerned with designing and developing innovative technologies for resource-constrained environments for applications in key areas of social development such as health, agriculture and education. The ICT4D initiatives, therefore, are driving three main tasks, namely developing the required infrastructure (connectivity, electricity and computing devices) sustainably, building the required ICT human capacity, and providing access to digital content and services. Each of these three main thrusts necessitates innovation. This study addresses the evident lack of delivery mechanisms to facilitate access to digital content and services to end-users through the technologies that these end-users already possess. This lack of innovative delivery mechanisms is both an impediment to achieving equitable access to digital content and service and an opportunity to innovate. Therefore, drawing from the theoretical background of ICT4D, this study develops a set of technical and socio-technical requirements that the missing delivery mechanisms should satisfy. The study also explores the Service Delivery Platform (SDP) concept as a technically viable basis for the required delivery mechanisms. The study then develops a conceptual model of an Access-Technology-Agnostic Delivery Mechanism as a possible delivery mechanism that facilitates equitable access to digital content and services within an ICT4D context. The relevance of the conceptual model is established and, through a prototype implementation, the technical feasibility and utility of the conceptual model is demonstrated. The conceptual model is demonstrated through a proof of concept implementation using standards-based open source technologies. The proof of concept clearly demonstrates that the access-technology-agnostic delivery of digital content and services is achievable, thus making the same service accessible through different access technologies. In developing the Access-Technology-Agnostic Delivery Mechanism, this study contributes through innovation to providing access to digital content and services in an access-technology-agnostic manner.
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Francis, Neville. "Essays on human capital and technology shocks /." Diss., Connect to a 24 p. preview or request complete full text in PDF format. Access restricted to UC campuses, 2001. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/ucsd/fullcit?p3013694.
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Oguz, Fatih Moen William E. "An exploration of the diffusion of a new technology from communities of practice perspective web services technologies in digital libraries /." [Denton, Tex.] : University of North Texas, 2007. http://digital.library.unt.edu/permalink/meta-dc-3930.
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Askins, Stephen Alexander. "Modeling of digital clay for evaluation of coordinated control." Thesis, Georgia Institute of Technology, 2003. http://hdl.handle.net/1853/19541.
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Van, Heerden Jeanne-Marie. "The impact of the implementation of E-HRM on the human resource management function." Thesis, Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/10948/d1021239.
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The purpose of the research was to improve the use of electronic human resource management in South African businesses by investigating that there is a positive impact when implementing e-HRM on the human resource management function. The research was carried out within a South African business, whose parent business concern is based overseas and has branches operating within South Africa The research was significant as it shaped the researcher’s concern as to whether electronic human resource would be beneficial to a South African business if the business superiors decide to implement e-HRM within their business opinion and what impact it would have. The methodological components that guided the research were a structured questionnaire that was distributed by using a combination of convenience, snowball, and judgemental sampling techniques. Certain aspects highlighted in the literature review were used as the framework for the development of a questionnaire to assess how people perceive the implementation of e-HR on their working environment and if e-HR has helped the business run more efficiently and effectively. Six hypotheses were tested and all were accepted. The potential for generalisations of the findings are that given the potential that e-HRM has for the transformation of human resource, it is reasonable to expect that the sizeable changes required, both in organisation and mindset, are likely to provoke resistance from various end users. What was learned was that HR is often hindered by a multitude of manual, paper based processes and transactions, such as tax, payroll and benefits information, that are costly, prone to errors and time-consuming to manage. This makes it difficult for HR organisations to focus on higher value business in initiatives that may help to drive the profitability and efficiency of the organisations. The implication of the findings about the impact of the implementation of e-HR on the Human Resource Management function was that firms need to figure out how to make technology feasible and industrious, as managers and Human Resource professionals are responsible for redefining how work at their firms or business flow as they need to keep ahead of the information curve and therefore learn how to influence information for business results to be more efficient and effective. The theoretical and practical implications of the findings are discussed and recommendations based on these findings are provided.
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Kenny, Peter. "News agencies as content providers and purveyors of news: A mediahistoriographical study on the development and diversity of wire services." Thesis, Stellenbosch : University of Stellenbosch, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/1616.
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Thesis (MPhil (Journalism))--University of Stellenbosch, 2009.This study examines the history, development and diversity of news agencies. It studies the major agencies and pinpoints how smaller wire services that sometimes purvey niche news seek to offer a more diverse global news-flow. The linkage between news agencies and technological developments, and how wire services have helped advance technology, is examined since the first agencies began in the 1800s, up to the current era of the Internet. The rise of television and the subsequent ascent of the Internet prompted new demands for more diverse news procurement. This accelerated the convergence of different media and has exposed challenges and opportunities to news agencies, large and small. Alongside the telegraph, news wire services expanded from supplying news and information locally to being global players, helping the world shrink. The mediahistoriographical approach engages a critical examination of literature sources regarding the development of the major wire services, and some of the smaller players. The literature, along with interviews with news agency experts, provides the material to examine wire services. The study shows how some original agencies leveraged opportunities offered by their standing in powerful nations to become dominant transnational players. The ascendancy of the mega-agencies compounded limited news-flows from developed to poorer nations, while an expansion of diversified news-flows has not matched technological progression. This study concludes by recommending greater recognition of the importance of news agencies and more scholarly examination of them, as studies on them appear scarce compared to those on other media branches, such as newspapers, the electronic media and the Internet. More studies into the development of both mainstream and alternative news agencies would pave the way for a better understanding of how they function and could provide clues as to how they might be able to better sustain themselves as more diverse entities for the benefit of the public discourse. Through the above, this dissertation seeks to contribute, in a small way, to rectifying a knowledge disparity regarding a key component of the mass media, namely the news agency.
Books on the topic "Human services – technological innovations"
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Elizabeth, Harlow, and Webb Stephen A. 1956-, eds. Information and communication technologies in the welfare services. London: Jessica Kingsley Publishers, 2003.
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Su-yŏng, Kim. Tijit'ŏl sidae ŭi sahoe pokchi p'aerŏdaim: Net'ŭwŏk'ŭjŏk chŏpkŭn : Han'guk sahoe ŭi kujo pyŏnhwa wa mirae taeŭng. Sŏul-si: Chimmundang, 2021.
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United States. National Weather Service. Human resources and position management plan for the National Weather Service modernization and associated restructuring. [Washington, D.C.?]: National Weather Service, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, U.S. Dept. of Commerce, 1993.
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José, Manzanares, Federación de Banca, Ahorro, Seguros y Oficinas (Spain), Unión General de Trabajadores de España., and Seminario "Los Impactos Socio-Laborales de las Nuevas Tecnologías" (1984 : Madrid, Spain), eds. Trabajo y nuevas tecnologías. Madrid: Los Libros de Fundesco, 1985.
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United States. Congress. Senate. A bill to direct the Secretary of Health and Human Services to implement a National Neurotechnology Initiative, and for other purposes. Washington, D.C: U.S. G.P.O., 2008.
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J, MacFadden Robert, ed. Web-based education in the human services: Models, methods, and best practices / Robert J. MacFadden ... [et al.]. New York: Haworth Press, 2005.
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L, Jarmon Gloria, and United States. General Accounting Office, eds. Federal health care: Comments on H.R. 4401, the Health Care Infrastructure Investment Act of 2000 : statement of Joel C. Willemssen, Director, Civil Agencies Information Systems, and Gloria L. Jarmon, Director, Health Education, And Human Services, Accounting and Financial Management Issues, Accounting and Information Management Division, before the Subcommittee on Government Management, Information and Technology, Committee on Government Reform, House of Representatives. Washington, D.C.]: U.S. General Accounting Office, 2000.
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Urbana-Champaign), Clinic on Library Applications of Data Processing (22nd 1985 University of Illinois at. Human aspects of library automation: Helping staff and patrons cope. [Urbana]: Graduate School of Library and Information Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1986.
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Clinic on Library Applications of Data Processing (22nd 1985 University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign). Human aspects of library automation: Helping staff and patrons cope. [Urbana]: Graduate School of Library and Information Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1986.
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1963-, Miozzo Marcela, and Miles Ian, eds. Internationalization, technology and services. Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar, 2002.
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Straßmann, Carolin, Sabrina C. Eimler, Isabel Peltzer, Julia Hermann, Aysegül Dogangün, and Simone Roth. "User-Centered Robots for Municipal Services: What Do Customers and Service Experts Expect from Robots in Municipal Institutions?" In Human-Computer Interaction. Technological Innovation, 639–55. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-05409-9_46.
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Zhang, Shengchen, and Xiaohua Sun. "Designing Social Interactions for Learning Personalized Knowledge in Service Robots." In Human-Computer Interaction. Technological Innovation, 656–71. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-05409-9_47.
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Panitz, Robert, and Johannes Glückler. "Introduction: Knowledge and Digital Technology." In Knowledge and Digital Technology, 1–13. Cham: Springer Nature Switzerland, 2024. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-39101-9_1.
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AbstractDevelopment happens as a society undergoes structural transformation. Structural change in a society’s culture, institutions, and technologies is driven by new ways of thinking, new knowledge, and innovations. Although the latest wave of technological change, often referred to as the fifth Kondratieff cycle (Schumpeter, 1961), has been transforming world society since the 1990s, innovative uses of digital technology have continued to yield radical and disruptive changes. Digitization has been central to shaping new ways of observing (e.g., by collecting big data and augmenting reality), knowing (e.g., supported by machine learning), and transforming (e.g., by automation and robotics) our environment. As humanity uses its knowledge to advance technologies, which in turn have an effect on human knowledge and our ways of learning, we have dedicated this book to the reflexive relationship between knowledge and technology. In addition, geography is an important, yet frequently neglected, context for the ways in which people and organizations generate new knowledge, how they adopt and use new technologies, and how the use of these technologies affects their knowledge. Coincidently, technological advances have an immediate impact on human knowledge of geography and space. Whereas people once used maps and compasses to find their way around, today GPS-based navigation services take over all the work, with the effect of gradually diminishing both human cognition of space (Yan et al., 2022) and spatial knowledge acquisition (Brügger et al., 2019). This 19th volume in the Springer Series of Knowledge and Space has brought together leading interdisciplinary expertise, new empirical evidence, and conceptual propositions on the conditions, impact, and future potential of digital technologies for varying geographies of human society.
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Vieri, Marco, Daniele Sarri, Stefania Lombardo, Marco Rimediotti, Riccardo Lisci, Valentina De Pascale, Eleonora Salvini, Carolina Perna, and Andrea Pagliai. "Local Ecosystem Key Actors." In Manuali – Scienze Tecnologiche, 47. Florence: Firenze University Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.36253/978-88-5518-044-3.47.
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Effective use of technologies is strictly related to direct and ancillary supports. The reliability of technological support system is essential; and territorial development of these skills is fundamental for a trustworthy introduction of innovation. The performances of the introduced technologies depend on an appropriate support at local and enterprise level: any technology requires providers and services (HD and SW) to be maintained, repaired and set up, which means well-trained consultants and human capital by the appropriate educational system. The efficiency of the local ecosystem, which supports the introduced technologies, is determined by the skills growth and competences and the Local Ecosystem Readiness Level (LERL), required by the new introducing technology, defines it.
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Swamy, K. R. M. "Technological Innovations in Cashewnut Production." In The Basics of Human Civilization, 383–417. London: CRC Press, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1201/9781003246237-30.
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Stewart, Ellen Greene. "Technological Innovations in Rural Mental Health Services." In Mental Health in Rural America, 182–87. New York : Routledge, 2018.: Routledge, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781315189857-17.
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Blanquart, Corinne, and Thomas Zéroual. "New Innovative Rail Services: Stakes and Perspectives." In Non-technological Innovations for Sustainable Transport, 47–65. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2014. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-09791-6_4.
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da Costa Alexandre, António, and Luís Moniz Pereira. "Ethics and Development of Advanced Technology Systems in Public Administration." In Ethics and Responsible Research and Innovation in Practice, 224–47. Cham: Springer Nature Switzerland, 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-33177-0_14.
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AbstractThis article analyses aspects related to the implementation of advanced technology systems in Public Administration, taking into account the scope of action of its entities and services, as well as its main distinction with the private sector, which lies in the pursuit of the public interest, understood as justification for the execution of public policies, but also in the broader scope of the human development index. The difficulties and resistance to the adoption and use of technology in Public Administration will be examined, also in the light of practical situations whose implementation proved to be inadequate, resulting in the analysis of ideas for the future. We approach the evolution of public management models that are emerging through the action of technology. We prepare the ground for machine ethics in Public Administration by framing ethics in public services in general terms, with reference to AI systems designed in line with mainstream ethics. Of the various ethical issues that arise in this domain, we pay attention to the issue of privacy and the balance that needs to be achieved so that the use of data can contribute to ethical, beneficial and reliable technologies. We sound alerts in the field of discrimination and prejudice that the bias of technology can show. The explainability and transparency of technological systems provide confidence to decision-makers and citizens, helping to clarify responsibilities in the decisions of Public Administration agents, and the researchers working for them .
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Slik, Jesper, and Sandjai Bhulai. "Understanding Human Mobility for Data-Driven Policy Making." In Innovations for Community Services, 155–67. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-06668-9_12.
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Vischi, Alessandra. "Employability and Transitions towards Work: MSc Degree Programme in Educational Planning and Human Resource Development, Catholic University of the Sacred Heart of Brescia." In Employability & Competences, 471–80. Florence: Firenze University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.36253/978-88-6453-672-9.50.
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The acceleration of changes underlines the need to enhance our efforts to adapt education to the dynamics of the current economic situation and the issue of employment. In the framework of the circular economy, pedagogy, which is based on the educability of individuals, takes into consideration forms of educational planning to identify a long-lasting balance between economic prosperity, social wellness, and environmental development. The challenge of the future is the possibility of increasing youth employment; this calls for pedagogical expertise and organizational planning to ensure that everyone’s development is authentic and holistic. To this end, the MSc Degree programme in Educational Planning and Human Resource Development offered by the Catholic University trains graduates to become professional figures with expertise in coordinating and managing the development of human resources (guidance, selection, personal services); the professional training and retraining of project managers in social and educational contexts for both academic and corporate spheres. The guiding vision behind the MSc in Educational Planning and Human Resource Development is fully in line with the Catholic University of the Sacred Heart’s educational project, to support a culture of responsibility and creativity, entrepreneurism and collaboration, multi-disciplinary knowledge and skills, and scientific research for the purpose of holistic human development. Educational planning, in a period of socio-economic and social change, involving the whole planet in many respects, can relaunch an ‘integral model of development’, based on long-term wellbeing, technological innovation, ‘human development’, and the dignity of work
Conference papers on the topic "Human services – technological innovations"
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Papulová, Zuzana, Dávid Smolka, and Silvester Krcméry. "Trends and Challenges in Healthcare in Context of Industry 4.0 and New Emerging Technologies." In 8th International Conference on Human Interaction and Emerging Technologies. AHFE International, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.54941/ahfe1002811.
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Industry 4.0, also known as the Fourth Industrial Revolution, is currently represen- ting one of the main driving forces in environment. Industry 4.0 and new emerging technologies already affect many business areas, stimulate innovations and increase innovation activities. In many sectors, organizations are actively preparing for the chal- lenges and changes associated with this revolution and its dynamicity. It is also the case of healthcare sector. This technological revolution is expected to bring a num- ber of trends that will fundamentally change the way healthcare works, such as the use of communication tools for patients and medical teams to intensify the transfer of treatment from hospital to home without interrupting outpatient services. Many studies show that developments in healthcare are mainly influenced by the digital transformation. Innovations are primarily focusing on prevention, early diagnosis and on improvement of quality of life and health. Technologies, such as the use of artifi- cial intelligence, telemedicine, smart devices, and robotics, will simplify and speed up processes and services in healthcare. The aim of the paper is to examine the trends and innovations in healthcare in the context of Industry 4.0 and new emerging tech- nologies and to measure their level of application and satisfaction within healthcare providers. To collect the data, we used a questionnaire survey, that was performed on 100 healthcare providers from Slovak Republic.
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Braun, Franziska, Sebastian Stegmüller, David Agola, Carolin Hamel, Paul Gerlach, and Fabian Edel. "The vehicle as an immersive device to enhance the mental health to a peak state." In 15th International Conference on Applied Human Factors and Ergonomics (AHFE 2024). AHFE International, 2024. http://dx.doi.org/10.54941/ahfe1005260.
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As a result of technological progress, environmental aspects and social change, the automotive industry is undergoing a radical transformation. The focus is no longer on the product "vehicle" but much more on the mobility service itself and the users individual experience and well-being during travel time. In that field of innovation, the study deals with a explorative investigation of using the travel time for a improvement of the mental health of the passenger. The vision is to integrate breathwork relaxation in combination with a human centric lighting scenario as an immersive service within luxury ride-hailing vehicles to enhance the mental health during automated rides and utilizing the time spent in cars for personal pleasure. To enable a user-centered and experimental approach, a test vehicle from the non-profit company bq.Labs was equipped with the bq breath work app and a spezialized LED-based lighting screen that was developed by Fraunhofer. The effects were tested on randomly selected and voluntary users in a guerrilla testing at three different locations in San Diego. The tests explored user acceptance of the innovative technologies by combining surveys, vital data collection, qualitative interviews and observations. Initial data analysis provides insights into the feasibility and potential effects on well-being and user perception. The study illustrates those innovations in the field of mobility, involve systemic dependencies and considerations beyond technology, encompassing social and psychological dimensions. It underscores that successful innovations require a holistic, user-centered approach that considers technological, social, and psychological dimensions. The findings lay the groundwork for future research and development of innovation strategies in the evolving field of mobility and personalized strength.
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Markopoulos, Evangelos, Kwame Ofori, and Hannu Vanharanta. "Understanding corporate innovation readiness and frequency factors with the Democratic Survival, Mirrored and Compulsive (DSMC) Framework." In 13th International Conference on Applied Human Factors and Ergonomics (AHFE 2022). AHFE International, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.54941/ahfe1001510.
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Innovation, and technological innovation in particular, seems to be the driving force in the modern entrepreneurial revolution that stated at the beginning of this century. The .net phenomenon with the rise of the internet active users made the word flat, increased the business opportunities but also decreased the success rate. Blue oceans strategies have been replaced by Green and Pink oceans strategies in a continuous effort to stay current with the global innovation trends, needs and expectations. Most of the businesses across all industries seek micro-innovations to improve their product or services delivery but not necessarily to make a breakthrough. However, their innovation rate and pace differ from one another ranging from a year to five years. The distance to deliver innovation is related with the distance organizations have from democratic organizations cultures that ignite and utilize internal knowledge contributions which can lead to innovative processes, products, and services. The company’s DNA and philosophy is primarily responsible for the innovation pace and effectiveness, but this is also affected by internal and external factors. The ability or inability to create democracy organizational cultures has positive and negative consequences that need to be assessed in relation to the company’s’ finances, workforce knowledge and maturity, industry readiness and openness, and other factors. To understand the reasons and the business innovation frequency, an academic and critical literature review has been conducted. The results led to the formulation of a framework taking into consideration several weighted internal and external factors. Furthermore primary research has been conducted to better understand their innovation motives innovation frequency by gathering and analysing data from 66 individuals such as university innovation hub coordinators, entrepreneurs and product developers.This paper introduces the Survival, Mirrored and Compulsive (SMC) Framework, a step-by-step guide to help businesses understand their innovation readiness status. The framework calculates several attributes and plots the results on a graph indicating the factors to be considered in at the company’s innovations strategy. The primary findings indicate factors that impact the innovation frequency such as the available R&D facilities, financial position and stability, cumulative organizational knowledge, policy direction, and the industry the organizations operate, among others. The analysis of these factors in the SMC framework revealed that survival mode is what impacts organizational innovation frequency. Organizations tend to either reduce or postpone innovation initiatives until they feel comfortable for their existence or learned from their mistakes, neglecting however the fact that innovation driven by democratic internal development and utilization of the human intellectual capital costs less, is more likely to succeed, and can be attempted continuously. Therefore, the paper extends the SMC framework to the Democratic SMC (DMSC) that aligns the SMC phases with the Company Democracy Model innovation evolution levels by relating and categorizing the SCM innovation factors to the CDM levels. This helps to understand the organizational innovation DNA and also the culture and philosophy that impacts the company’s human intellectual capital production frequency and the utilization frequency of this capital as well. The paper refers limitations on both the SMC framework and DSMC model at their current development stages and identifies areas of further research for their maturity through applications and optimization.
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Abul Kalam Siddike, Md, and Jens Neuhüttler. "Towards Cognitive Service Systems–a framework for conceptualizing AI-supported value co-creation." In 15th International Conference on Applied Human Factors and Ergonomics (AHFE 2024). AHFE International, 2024. http://dx.doi.org/10.54941/ahfe1005084.
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Service systems are evolving from traditional service systems to smart service systems to cognitive service systems based on the evolution of technological capabilities. However, humans in service systems might change work or life situations, have cognitive capabilities, and suffer from bounded rationality. In addition, humans face acute problems like knowledge burden, half-life of information, and being flooded by data, information, as well as knowledge. To overcome these problems, traditionally humans learn and acquire skills, knowledge, and experience through entrepreneurship and innovations. But modern technologies like AI, generative AI, and IoT usher a new horizon to overcome those problems through the harmonious interactions between humans and generative AI. In this research, we propose a framework of cognitive service systems that focuses on the following aspects: Humans interact with generative AI harmoniously and consider these technologies as assistants, collaborators, coaches, and mediators in the cognitive service system. Therefore, the proposed model of cognitive service system is described by developing a hierarchical topology of tools, assistants, collaborators, coaches, and mediators (TACCM), which ultimately expands the evolution of service systems with the co-evolution of technological capabilities. Practically, the TACCM topology supports humans regardless of industries and their professions, race, creed, and gender to co-create value through harmonious interactions with technologies.
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Viviani, Sara, Rocco Furferi, and Alessandra Rinaldi. "The hospitalization experience design using gamification applied to a pediatric 3d scanner for compound fractures." In 13th International Conference on Applied Human Factors and Ergonomics (AHFE 2022). AHFE International, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.54941/ahfe1002114.
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Physical, social and mental well-being is the basic assumption which allows children to experience hospitalization positively. In this age of medical-scientific progress and technological development on hospital equipment, the designers of instruments for healthcare focus their activities on developing a coherent patient-centered approach which aims to consider the person globally. Currently, the rigors of the humanization of pediatric care are elaborating products which have both technological innovation and effective design specifications on children’s implicit needs and expectations. Mainly, the active, collaborative, and coordinated presence and accessibility of the family and of the pediatric patient in the care setting are unachieved goals in this field. The article presents the research project Oplà, a 3D acquisition system, as a demonstration of how emerging technologies, culture, communication and collaboration can help significantly in mapping out new diversification measures in standard clinical practice, to enhance the assistance services, by adopting a Human-centered approach strengthened by the iterative process of design thinking.
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Sadigov, Rahim. "CONCEPTUAL BASES OF STRATEGIC HUMAN RESOURCE MANAGEMENT." In THE LAW AND THE BUSINESS IN THE CONTEMPORARY SOCIETY 2020. University publishing house "Science and Economics", University of Economics - Varna, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.36997/lbcs2020.62.
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The main purpose of the research paper is to study the strategic management of human resources in industrial enterprises, career development and stimulation in the activity. Labor resources are active elements in the production of goods, the creation of material wealth and the provision of services to society. Human resources are important ones in all areas of the national economy. Human resources act as a creative component in the organization and management using their mental, spiritual and psychological capabilities. Human resources study and analyze technical, technological possibilities and financial sources, make management decisions as a leading resource in any organization. Research methodology is related in personnel policy and the comprehensive study of strategic human resource management. Human resource management in industrial enterprises is the main subsystem management system. This issue affects on the development of the enterprise, increasing the quality of products, economic efficiency and profits. The importance of the research paper - is to apply the results in the management of industrial enterprises. Human resource management contributes to sustainable operation in enterprises and organizations. The scientific novelty of the research is the definition of a successful personnel policy in the enterprise. Thus, the article identifies strategic goals in human resource management, and develops a corporate concept in this area. The article discusses the application of new technologies for career development. The application of innovations and methods in the implementation of management functions is the basis for motivating the workforce in an organization. All functions and management methods are applied in the process of strategic management of human resources. Management methods are social in nature, as well as ensure the direct development of employees, labor resources and actively influence on the outcome. Management methods lead to the expansion of financial and economic activities of the enterprise, the development of economic activities, the growth of labor resources. Management methods allow to increase competitiveness, as well as to attract partners, suppliers, customers and others. In this regard, our research can be commended in terms of the application of innovation in management.
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Kangilaski, Taivo, Ingrid Pappel, Markus Sihvonen, and Marina Weck. "Cross-Border Communication and Service Provision within Silver Economy Domain: How to Sustain a Collaborative Platform for Seniors Services." In 13th International Conference on Applied Human Factors and Ergonomics (AHFE 2022). AHFE International, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.54941/ahfe1002275.
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The paper examines technological and organizational complexity related to cross-border data exchange and communication among public entities, private sector and seniors on the platform called Silver Hub. We need to look at challenges raised while designing architecture and business cases supporting service provision within the silver economy domain. In this project we have identified the main obstacles related to creation of the sustainable business strategy for the collaborative platform during its development. It is relatively easy to create a sustainable software architecture for the platform. However, creating a sustainable business model is much more complex. In addition to the business plan, it also requires a well-thought-out architectural vision which responds to stakeholders’ requirements. In order to be competitive, transparent and compliant, it makes sense to pursue ISO 9001, which in turn leads to the need for risk-based process management and continuous improvement. To make the platform sustainable, the external context must be analyzed to identify risks and opportunities. Based on the business plan, the organizational objectives and KPIs must be developed. Taking into consideration the business objectives, the strategic action plan will be created. Additionally, the business processes must be analyzed to determine the bottlenecks and main obstacles to achieve determined KPIs and objectives. Identified risks should be evaluated and mitigation action ought to be planned, as well as processes must be changed accordingly. As process-based risks are related to people, partners, customers, assets, IT, documents, resources, legislation, etc., the risk management approach must be determined via an internal control system, which monitors business functions. Thus, the organization and processes supporting the developed platform are much more complicated and quite often such complicity is underestimated.Moreover, in Enterprise Architecture management we need to focus on topics like sustainable process management and continuous improvement, organization and competence management, documented knowledge management, IT and risk management.In addition, there is a clear need to understand the problems a service user or a service provider could encounter. Developed Silver Hub platform helps to distribute innovative solutions to the problems faced by the aging population helping seniors live more independent and comfortable life with the use of digital means. However, we see the platform is tackling the challenges to meet the seniors needs that the governments are currently facing. Involvement of the seniors and their representatives more in their co-creative activities and wider participation during the implementation stages of service innovation helps overcome the gap.Thus, this experience research paper presents main findings that occurred during different project phases, based on what we derived recommendations with a relevant business plan, which contributes to the enterprise architecture designing cycle. That also includes the understanding of the country-based specifics with respect to cultural, political and legal context. Additionally, we have designed a framework as a structure for building collaboration and cross-border data exchange between innovation actors within the silver economy domain in the Baltic Sea Regions.
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Carmosino, Giuseppe, Arianna Bionda, and Andrea Ratti. "The Design of Human Smart Ships. How design-driven approach can foster future development and innovation in the cruise sector." In 14th International Conference on Applied Human Factors and Ergonomics (AHFE 2023). AHFE International, 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.54941/ahfe1003324.
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The radical transition from 'fun ships' to 'smart ships' is a complex phenomenon, involving technological, social and design aspects, which require systemic and complex thinking. The theoretical investigation of this research aims to fill an existing gap in design processes applied to cruise ships by providing a 'service + spatial’ perspective in the interpretation of the smart phenomenon, integrated in a multidisciplinary approach with ICT and Social Sciences. The new concepts of customer experience, cultural diversity, immersive technologies, cyber-physical systems and environmental commitment denote a strong connection of spaces and services with users and related human factors. In this sense, design has a collaborative and human-centered approach, as it considers users' experience and involves them as an active part of the design process. The results of this research show how a design-driven approach, rather than a technology-push or market-pull one, can drive towards radical changes in designing innovative and more sustainable ships through a better use of human capital and the multicultural richness of cruise passengers. Guidelines for design-driven research in the cruise industry can help companies move from closed and low transparent to new holistic approaches to innovation, guided by a critical attitude towards radical changes in the industry.
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Markopoulos, Evangelos, Ines Selma Kirane, and Hannu Vanharanta. "Metaverstic Innovation Management: The World Innovation Stock Exchange Democratic Incubator." In 13th International Conference on Applied Human Factors and Ergonomics (AHFE 2022). AHFE International, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.54941/ahfe1001523.
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Since the first ideation of the World Innovation Stock Exchange in 2015, the business landscape has drastically changed. The world witnessed the introduction the Metaverse as the pioneer of cyber-parallel worlds. Societies endured a global pandemic and the subsequent socio-economic crises of unprecedented force. All happened under an ambient banalization of individual entrepreneurship as a shaping capacity with increasing impact power on the Collective (physical, cultural, and digital society). Under the phenomena of globalization and financialization, the contribution to knowledge and innovation is becoming more and more organic, since citizens themselves endorse an entrepreneurial proactiveness in tackling challenges of varied scale. The contemporary global technologic and social disruptions are changing the game of innovation management. Emerging and existing technologies of the Industrialisation 4.0 not only provide a platform to the digital world, but also augment it, thereby augmenting the impact a sole individual, a simple organization, or a remote business can have in innovating globally. Moreover, global crises have accelerated both the already occurring evolution of work-places & work-practices, and the capacity stakeholders have in endorsing collectively and holacratically projects to solve commonly faced challenges. More than ever before, the digital world enables to collaboratively develop, control and monetise one another’s Innovation. The diversity in stakeholder’s collaboration is a consequence of these structural changes. Indeed, it is no longer surprising that eminent businessmen now collaborate individually with start-up incubators, celebrities partner with social enterprises, and eminent scholars pair up with MNCs to come up with developmental programs. Above the previously mentioned technological, social, and economic disruptions, a superseding revolution has occurred. One that is structurally reshaping individual and social relationships to knowledge and knowledge management: the democratisation of intellectual capital. Nowadays, anyone connected to the web can collaborate and expose its ideas formally or informally on a variety of social media and professional platforms. The number of innovators with unique profiles, in age, geographic location, and social status has sprung. The power of metaverstic-like processes in knowledge management relies on its democratic nature, inclusively welcoming a diversity of profiles and ideas. How to take sporadic ideas and contributions internationally, expressed on a web platform, and instantaneously match them, ideally structure them, and coordinate their protagonists’ actions to pursue them? How to facilitate and incentivise the evolution idea-innovation? How to optimally take ideas on a page to a lifechanging service? Since innovation management is becoming gamified, the is an evident need to develop Metaverstic project management tools that encompasses not only AI-facilitated holacratic teaming, but also blockchained project management in all its phases (from ideation to market launch), while taking into account the critical component of innovation monetisation. In 2015, the World Innovation Stock Exchange already set the bases of such Metaverstic platform of innovation management: this Exchange structures the meeting of the minds, just as any financial stock exchange does, while following the Shared Values principles. To extend on the premises of this novel Exchange, this paper describes in detail how a component of the W.ISE will have to be developed, namely the World Innovation Stock Exchange Democratic Incubator (WISE-DI). It describes how it operates conceptually and to which extent it answers structural guidelines to practically develop this W.ISE. It addresses the critical notion of Innovation tokenization with the MarkPoints cryptocurrency, the securitization of project management via the W.ISE blockchain, and the monetization of the launched-to-market innovations in the real economy*. The ultimate benefit of the W.ISE-DI platform relies on both its smart structuring capacity and user-friendly/ interactive interface, which enable to manage intellectual contribution ownership and incentivise R&D collective financing.
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Hees, van, Marco, Inge Oskam, and Nancy Bocken. "Business models of collaborative urban upcycling initiatives: Understanding how strategic partnerships accelerate upcycling of discarded furniture and interior design products." In New Business Models 2023. Maastricht University Press, 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.26481/mup.2302.22.
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This study examines the business models of collaborative urban upcycling initiatives in European cities, which aim to reduce local solid waste streams. The study identifies various types of partnerships in urban upcycling, including partnerships with public stakeholders and private partnerships between local entrepreneurs and larger corporations. The value propositions of upcycling initiatives are largely based on providing services, such as creative-technical capabilities, knowledge, creative design skills, community or platform access, or repair skills. Partnerships focus on availability of material, human and technological resources, and innovation capabilities. The study concludes that a wide variety of financial revenue models occur in urban upcycling collaborations, and its findings may support policy makers in creating new incentives for stimulating urban upcycling practices.
Reports on the topic "Human services – technological innovations"
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Aboal, Diego, and Paula Garda. Technological and Nontechnological Innovation and Productivity in Services vis a vis Manufacturing in Uruguay. Inter-American Development Bank, December 2012. http://dx.doi.org/10.18235/0006944.
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In this paper, the links between the investment in innovation activities, innovation outputs (technological and non-technological innovation), and productivity in services and manufacturing are explored using innovation survey data from Uruguay. This is the first attempt to study these links for a developing country. The size of firms, their cooperation on R&D activities, the use of public financial support, patent protection, and the use of market sources of information, are the variables that are more consistently associated with the decision to invest in innovation activities across sectors. The main determinants of technological and non-technological innovations are the level of investment in innovation activities and the size of firms. The results indicate that both technological (i.e., product and process) and non-technological (i.e., marketing an organizational) innovations are positively associated to productivity gains in services, but nontechnological innovations have a more important role. The reverse happens for manufacturing; technological innovations are the relevant ones for productivity.
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Zahler, Andrés, Roberto Alvarez, and Claudio Bravo Ortega. Innovation and Productivity in Services: Evidence from Chile. Inter-American Development Bank, December 2012. http://dx.doi.org/10.18235/0006945.
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This paper analyzes empirically the relationship between innovation and productivity in the Chilean services sector. Consistent with recent evidence on developed countries, we find that services firms are as innovative as firms in the manufacturing industry. In the basic model, we also find that both industries have similar determinants of the investment in innovation and the probability of introducing innovations (products or process), such as size and export status. In several extensions we find similar roles for technological and non-technological innovation in labor productivity and for determinants such as skill intensity and financial restrictions. In general, our evidence suggests that that innovation input and output is associated with improvements in productivity in both sectors. Since we do not find clear-cut differences, it might be the case that even larger efforts need to be done to have better measures of innovation and productivity in the services industries.
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Aboal, Diego, and Ezequiel Tacsir. Innovation and Productivity in Services and Manufacturing: The Role of ICT Investment. Inter-American Development Bank, December 2015. http://dx.doi.org/10.18235/0011715.
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Several studies have highlighted information and communications technology (ICT) as a driver of firm productivity in developed countries. However, evidence of the impacts of ICT on services and manufacturing, particularly in developing countries, is scarce. This paper analyzes the determinants of investment in ICT at the firm level and how investments in ICT ultimately affect innovation and productivity in Uruguayan service firms compared to manufacturing firms. The results show that investments in ICT are subject to economies of scale to a greater degree than other types of investments. They are also important for product or process innovations in the service sector. The absence of investment in ICT conspires against non-technological (e.g., organizational or marketing) innovations. ICT and other innovation investments are positively associated with productivity in services, but only ICT affects productivity in manufacturing. The absence of investment in ICT is associated with lower levels of productivity.
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Gallego, Juan Miguel, Rodrigo Taborda, and Hernando Gutiérrez. Innovation and Productivity in the Colombian Service Industry. Inter-American Development Bank, June 2013. http://dx.doi.org/10.18235/0006955.
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This paper presents the results of a study on the ways that innovation and productivity are connected in the Colombian manufacturing and service industry. Using data from the Manufacturing Innovation Survey (2007-2008) and the Service Innovation Survey (2008-2009), the paper addresses two main questions: first, whether patterns of innovations differ among manufacturing and services industries, and second, whether service firms innovate, and, if so, whether their innovation approach differs from that of manufacturing. The main findings are (1) that service firms engage in process innovation, both technological and nontechnological; (2) that the probability of undertaking innovation increases with investment in R&D labs and firm size, regardless of the industry; and (3) that the more intensive the investment in innovation, the higher the probability of introducing innovations. The econometric results show that the response is higher in manufacturing than in services. Finally, labor productivity is greatly enhanced by the introduction of innovations, although surprisingly the estimated coefficient shows that the effect is larger for service industries than for manufacturing industries.
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Khene, Caroline, and Kevin Hernandez. Digitalisation of State Services in Bangladesh. Institute of Development Studies, May 2024. http://dx.doi.org/10.19088/clear.2024.001.
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The government-led digital strategy in Bangladesh began well before the Covid-19 pandemic; the pandemic itself simply accelerated the digitalisation of public services globally. This report examines digital innovations across essential public services in Bangladesh, particularly those spurred on by the Covid-19 pandemic. It highlights major accountability and access outcomes, especially for marginalised groups across different capacities, identities, and geographic regions. The report looks at digitalisation experiences in key areas, including education, health, social protection, accountability, and addressing violence against women. While the pandemic accelerated these efforts, it also revealed persistent digital inequalities in terms of access, capacity, and structural factors such as human capital, political economy, and social and cultural norms. Rather than framing technology as an automatically efficiency-enhancing tool, the report illustrates on the ground realities and constructs a more nuanced perspective. It positions technology as an enabler in realising better futures together, while also underscoring challenges around digital rights and government oversight. The report calls for deliberative approaches in designing digital public services, enabling digital ethics in regulation, and gathering critical data on minority groups, connectivity, and actual digital service users. This frames technology as part of a broader, inclusive development agenda, rather than an ends in itself.
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Southwell, Brian, and Vanessa Boudewyns, eds. Curbing the Spread of Misinformation: Insights, Innovations, and Interpretations from the Misinformation Solutions Forum. RTI Press, December 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.3768/rtipress.2018.cp.0008.1812.
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Although many people now have access to more accumulated information than has ever been the case in human existence, we also now face a moment when the proliferation of misinformation, or false or inaccurate information, poses major challenges. In response to these challenges and to build collaboration across disciplines and expertise and a more effective community of learning and practice, the Rita Allen Foundation partnered with RTI International and the Aspen Institute along with Craig Newmark Philanthropies, Democracy Fund, and Burroughs Wellcome Fund to hold the Misinformation Solutions Forum in October 2018 at the Aspen Institute in Washington, DC. This forum brought together academic researchers, technology professionals, data scientists, journalists, educators, community leaders, funders and a set of graduate student fellows to explore promising ideas for curbing the spread of misinformation. We issued an open call for ideas to be featured in the forum that sought interventions focused on reducing behaviors that lead to the spread of misinformation or encouraging behaviors that can lead to the minimization of its influence. Interventions with technological, educational, and/or community-based components were encouraged, as were projects involving science communication, public health and diverse populations. A panel of expert judges assessed submissions through a blind review process; judges included representatives from the Rita Allen Foundation, as well as external institutions such as the Democracy Fund, the National Institutes of Health, the Poynter Institute, First Draft, and academic institutions. Authors developed the essays presented here based on both original submissions and the iterative collaboration process that ensued.
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Wada, Yasutaka. Working Paper PUEAA No. 3. Parallel Processing and Parallelizing Compilation Techniques for "Green Computing". Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Programa Universitario de Estudios sobre Asia y África, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.22201/pueaa.001r.2022.
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The fourth technological revolution has brought great advances in manufacturing processes and human communications. Although processors have become increasingly efficient, both in speed, capacity and energy consumption, their functionality regarding this last point has yet to improve. The latest innovations represent an opportunity to create "green computing" and not only more environmentally friendly electronics and software, but also to use their new efficiency to improve our daily activities, as well as the designs of our cities themselves to make them more environmentally sustainable. These new computerized systems must also be applied in accordance with the socioeconomic factors that must be taken into account in order to be modified in favor of sustainability and efficiency.
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Yadav, Mukesh, and Deepika Jha. Re-Examine the Model to Manage Revenue Court Cases in Uttar Pradesh. Indian Institute for Human Settlements, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.24943/remmrccup03.2022.
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The Board of Revenue (BoR), Government of Uttar Pradesh, with the technical support of the National Informatics Centre (NIC)–UP, launched an online portal—Revenue Court Computerised Management System (RCCMS)—in the year 2013. Given the services offered by the portal, it is quite evident that the RCCMS has improved the transparency and efficiency in the functioning of revenue courts in Uttar Pradesh. Based on a study conducted by the Indian Institute for Human Settlements (IIHS), the team has found that this portal has the scope for further improvement, despite its technological advancements. This policy brief compares the national level portal (the Supreme Court) and one state (Madhya Pradesh) for such improvisation.
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Khan, Samir. Redefining Space Commerce: The Move Toward Servitization. 400 Commonwealth Drive, Warrendale, PA, United States: SAE International, January 2024. http://dx.doi.org/10.4271/epr2024002.
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<div class="section abstract"><div class="htmlview paragraph">“New Space" is reshaping the economic landscape of the space industry and has far-reaching implications for technological innovation, business models, and market dynamics. This change, aligned with the digitalization in the world economy, has given rise to innovations in the downstream space segment. This “servitization” of the space industry, essentially, has led to the transition from selling products like satellites or spacecraft, to selling the services these products provide. This also connects to applications of various technologies, like cloud computing, artificial intelligence, and virtualization.</div><div class="htmlview paragraph"><b>Redefining Space Commerce: The Move Toward Servitization</b> discusses the advantages of this shift (e.g., cost reduction, increased access to space for smaller organizations and countries), as well as the challenges, such as maintaining safety and security, establishing standardization and regulation, and managing risks. The implications of this may be far-reaching, affecting not only the space industry but also related fields, such as defense, telecommunications, and activity monitoring. This report also explores the transformative changes happening in the space sector and their impact on economic evaluation and space policy.</div><div class="htmlview paragraph"><a href="https://www.sae.org/publications/edge-research-reports" target="_blank">Click here to access the full SAE EDGE</a><sup>TM</sup><a href="https://www.sae.org/publications/edge-research-reports" target="_blank"> Research Report portfolio.</a></div></div>
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Schreiner, Clara. International Case Studies of Smart Cities: Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Inter-American Development Bank, June 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.18235/0006533.
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This case study is one of ten international studies developed by the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB), in association with the Korean Research Institute for Human Settlements (KRIHS), for the cities of Anyang, Medellin, Namyangju, Orlando, Pangyo, Rio de Janeiro, Santander, Singapore, Songdo, and Tel Aviv. At the IDB, the Competitiveness and Innovation Division (CTI), the Fiscal and Municipal Management Division (FMM), and the Emerging and Sustainable Cities Initiative (ESCI) coordinated the study. This project was part of technical cooperation ME-T1254, financed by the Knowledge Partnership Korean Fund for Technology and Innovation of the Republic of Korea. At KRIHS, the National Infrastructure Research Division coordinated the project and the Global Development Partnership Center provided the funding. The case study includes the experience of the city of Rio de Janeiro in smart city initiatives, focusing mainly on Rio Operations Center Project-COR. The methodology was based on field research, site visits, publications, and interviews held with representatives of local government of the City of Rio de Janeiro. The report addresses the city backdrop, the main urban challenges, the history of digital initiatives, and their evolution over time. For the Rio Operations Center, the general model of participation, organizational aspects, the keys functions, the monitored events, the mechanisms for access, dissemination of information, and the decision-making process are described, as well as the typologies of existing systems and their integration with COR. The study concludes that it is a successful model with a high degree of maturity, and that sharing the experience of Rio de Janeiro with other cities is very important. However, the model needs to continue evolving and rely on strong institutional support so that Rio de Janeiro's population can increasingly enjoy the benefits of technological innovations applied to the city's daily challenges.