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Developing a Participatory Approach to Accessible Design
Laitano, María Inés - In: International Journal of Sociotechnology and Knowledge … 9 (2017) 4, pp. 1-11
This article describes how accessibility to ICTs is understood as conformity to standards, which usually ends in designs that do not consider the singularities of people. This article delves into a participatory approach to accessible design, as an alternative to design guided simply by...
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Excellence in Practice through a Socio-Technical, Open Systems Approach to Process Analysis and Design
Welch, Christine; Bednar, Peter M.; Milner, Christopher - In: International Journal of Systems and Society (IJSS) 3 (2016) 1, pp. 110-118
Nowadays, organizations pursue their aims in a context of distributed collaboration, creating a need not only for supporting work systems, but for a human-centred focus in which individual and group sense-making and learning are supported by appropriate toolsets. The authors argue that...
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From High Frequency Trading to Self-Organizing Moral Machines
van Lier, Ben - In: International Journal of Technoethics (IJT) 7 (2016) 1, pp. 34-50
Technology is responsible for major systemic changes within the global financial sector in general and particularly in the trade in financial products. The global financial sector has already developed into a comprehensive network of mutually connected people and computers that are constantly...
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A New Printing Revolution? 3D Printing as an Agent of Socio-Political Change
Rumpala, Yannick - In: International Journal of Technoethics (IJT) 7 (2016) 2, pp. 105-123
-political effects, as a consequence of their impact on the material practices of production and consumption. The first part of this …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012048322
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Eventuality of an Apartheid State of Things: An Ethical Perspective on the Internet of Things
Sholla, Sahil; Mir, Roohie Naaz; Chishti, Mohammad Ahsan - In: International Journal of Technoethics (IJT) 9 (2018) 2, pp. 62-76
Notwithstanding the potential of IoT to revolutionise our personal and social lives, the absence of a solid framework of ethics may lead to situations where smart devices are used in ways uncongenial to the moral fabric of a society. In this work, the authors seek to provide a conceptual...
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Small Responsible Innovators and Open Innovation towards Sustainability: Networks Conditions
Geenhuizen, Marina Van; Ye, Qing - 2013
with a conceptual reflection on responsible innovation and open innovation practices in the frame of transitions towards …
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Growing grassroots innovations: Exploring the role of community-based social movements for sustainable energy transitions
Seyfang, Gill; Haxeltine, Alex - 2010
civil society-based social movements in a transition to a low-carbon sustainable economy in the UK. We present new empirical … research from a study of the UK´s Transition Movement (a 'grassroots innovation') and assess its attempts to grow and diffuse … with theories of social movements and social practices. …
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Knowledge Mobilisation in Communities through Socio-Technical System
Hasan, Helen M.; Crawford, K. - 2007
Enterprises in both the public and private sector undertake knowledge management (KM) initiatives through which they hope to engender a new, more adaptive and flexible culture of learning and innovation in their organisations. Creative activities involving social learning and innovation are,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009457417
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Reassessing the Role of Shared Mobility Services in a Transport Transition: Can They Contribute the Rise of an Alternative Socio-Technical Regime of Mobility?
Ruhrort, Lisa - In: Sustainability 12 (2020) 19, pp. --
Recent years have seen a proliferation of platform-based “shared mobility services” (SMS) such as car-, bike-, and e-scooter-sharing in many cities in Germany and around the world. At the same time, these services have become the subject of intense debates: Are they replacing private car...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012312942
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The Sharing Economy in Europe: Developments, Practices, and Contradictions
Česnuitytė, Vida (contributor);  … - 2022
This open access book considers the development of the sharing and collaborative economy with a European focus, mapping across economic sectors, and country-specific case studies. It looks at the roles the sharing economy plays in sharing and redistribution of goods and services across the...
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