It is disappointing to note that pathetic Slum settlements meet the housing needs of a substantial urban population in large metro cities in countries like India. They have grown beyond management due to widespread poverty, rising prices of accommodation and inadequate housing bank loan and land...

The author assets that the poverty removal should be the first priority for every policy maker. Taking examples from India, the author mentions SHG and women empowerment as tools for poverty removal. The author also mentions about financial inclusion and other initiatives. The author assets that...

The authors discuss the meaning, need and importance of diversity and discusses a case study about impact of diversity. The authors recommend policies for promotion of diversity in organizations. The authors mention a few areas where organizations must promote suitable policies to foster...

The paper aims to facilitate a discussion around how big data technologies and data from citizens can be used to help public administration, society, and policy-making to improve community’s lives. This paper discusses opportunities and challenges of big data strategies for government,...

This chapter will present the main intellectual property (IP) issues in the Internet of Things (IoT) and concentrate on one of them, that has been framed as ‘death of ownership’ by Joshua Fairfield in Owned, a seminal book that will provide an initial framework to understand this issue....

Prior research has emphasized the importance of bringing together quadruple helix (QH) actors (academia, industry, government and civil society) to strengthen regional innovation. The QH model forms an integral part of European innovation policy, which aims to create sustainable and inclusive...

We identify an important feature of current digital governance systems: "third-party funded digital barter": consumers of digital services get many digital services for free (or under- priced) and in return have personal information about themselves collected for free. In addition, the digital...

In this paper we argue that there is an extensive number of studies examining how firms obtain new products from their interactions with scientific agents, but other type of benefits has been overlooked. Specifically, we add to previous literature by considering not only product innovation, but...

Hackathons as events for participative, creative problem solving, originating from software development have been adapted to many other industries in recent years, among them museums. A series of hackathons was implemented in museums in different countries in the Baltic Sea region, in an...