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Cambiamento climatico e diritti umani delle generazioni presenti e future: Greta Thunberg (e altri) dinanzi al Comitato sui diritti del fanciullo
No full textThis short comment addresses the recent communication submittedto the CRC Committee by a small group of young activists against climate change. The communication tackles the conduct of 5 States in particular (Argentina, Brazil, France, Germany, and Turkey), accused not only of having failed to prevent the negative pitfalls of climate change via the adoption and implementation of short-sighted policies on carbon emission and fossil fuels, but also of having made things worse, by perpetuating said conduct, hence violating the respondents' right to life and health, as well as the obligation to prioritize the best intersts of the child and to protect indigenuous groups' young members' rights, obligations provided for under the 1989 UN Convention on the rights of the child
Stakeholder management in open innovation projects: a multiple case study analysis
No full textPurpose: In recent years, companies have started to open up their Research and Development (R&D) and their innovation activities to external partners. They aim to access new resources and capabilities and to gain shorter time-to-markets. However, as several studies have shown, it can be difficult to manage collaborative (open) innovation projects to achieve desired outcomes. Starting from this premise, the paper investigates how project stakeholder management is different in open innovation projects from traditional R&D projects. Design/methodology/approach: The study has a qualitative nature and is based on the interpretative paradigm with an inductive orientation. The paper leverages interviews with experts involved in open innovation projects conducted in two Science and Technology Parks between Sweden and Italy. Findings: The analysis shows how companies manage multiple stakeholders in open innovation projects and the peculiarities project stakeholder management faces in these projects when compared with traditional R&D projects. The paper shows how the relationships with external partners in open innovation projects are regulated by informal identification and analysis frameworks, which reduce the tensions deriving from these multiple collaborations. In addition, it underlines a set of good practices, and project management aspects for developing effective absorptive capacity of know-how, resources, and capabilities from external stakeholders in open innovation projects. Originality/value: The paper analyzes for the first time how companies manage multiple stakeholders in open innovation projects in a different way from traditional R&D projects. Furthermore, the paper introduces a shift in the focus of the analysis: it focuses on the level of the project conducted through multiple collaborations instead of on the level of the firms involved in the project. Finally, the paper integrates open innovation research with project management research
COVID-19: le decisioni più significative delle Corti straniere
No full textÈ ormai noto che nel mondo il Covid-19 è diventato un'emergenza di salute pubblica con pochi precedenti, almeno nella storia contemporanea in tempi di pace. È inevitabile che durante questo periodo vengano prese alcune decisioni controverse, tanto sotto un profilo etico quanto giuridico. Occorrerà tempo per comprendere se i provvedimenti adottati sotto la pressione della pandemia da parte dei governi siano stati appropriati e se la risposta della giurisprudenza alle impugnazioni sia stata giustificata. Di seguito si segnalano alcune tra le decisioni più interessanti adottate recentemente
Public administration and information technology
No full textThe services provided by smart cities are based on complex information infrastructures composed of a broad range of interdependent but loosely coupled technological, organizational, institutional and legal systems. The development and evolution of information infrastructures enabling smart services provision follows logics and paths that are substantially different from the ones of self-contained technologies or plug and play applications. In this chapter, we argue that the investigation of these phenomena needs to be carried out with a case study approach, which looks not only at development but also at longer-term evolution dynamics. At the same time, a better understanding of information infrastructures logics and paths is highly relevant for policy makers and project managers, in order to be able to govern such initiatives. For the purpose of showing some of the key feature of this infrastructural dimension, this chapter analyses the development of an e-Prescription system in Italy. As many other digital services provided by smart cities, digital prescription service is the result of practices distributed across a network of actors and digital solutions, which work across organizations. In addition, they are at the intersection of multiple logics which aim at the creation of different public values such as economic-through expenditures control and efficient allocation of resources-, legal-through transactions traceability and doctors' accountability-, and service quality-providing the users with better services through a smarter management of the information and resources. Thus, this case provides the occasion to examine the multilevel infrastructural complexity upon which smart cities initiatives are built, showing the mix of local, regional and national layers enabling a smart prescription services provision
