"This paper explores how and to what extent women and men have benefited from the build-up of social capital in technology uptake, and the role of women in this process. Using a case study on Groundnut Production Technology (GPT) in Maharashtra, India, a systematic documentation of the process...

Partizipation wird in den letzten Jahren in vielen Zusammenhängen ein wachsender Stellenwert beigemessen. In zahlreichen Projekten der Gesundheitsförderung und der Stadtentwicklung zeigte sich, dass ein partizipativer Ansatz gewinnbringend für die Projektentwicklung und -umsetzung war. Der...

This article explicates the idea of conversation as the primary opening for learning to occur in all domains of society. The “age of conversation” emerges in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. This historical analysis is followed by a discussion of the features of “good...

Fast moving technology products (FMTP), for instance mobile applications, have been characterized as a category which has a high churning rate. This makes customer loyalty one of the major concerns for FMTP marketers. The current study develops and validates an integrated model of loyalty...

Technologies designed to access our personal worlds have the potential to profoundly influence the way we live and to promote human flourishing. They also require an ethical approach to their design that takes human values into account. Mobile technologies for psychological wellbeing present...