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The profile of digital exclusion in Brazilian society
Get PDFA exclusão digital vem ganhando destaque nos últimos anos. As atenções começam a se voltar para este assunto, que já é visto como causa e conseqüência da exclusão em nossa sociedade. O Brasil é palco de desigualdades que criam uma demanda por políticas de transferência e geração de renda. Porém, não basta disponibilizar os meios; é importante mostrar às pessoas como as tecnologias podem contribuir para suas tarefas e atividades, trazendo conhecimento e novas oportunidades. Este trabalho, baseado em pesquisa bibliográfica reflexiva e qualitativa, aborda aspectos que estão normalmente associados com a exclusão digital, como a exclusão social, a sociedade do conhecimento, o e-gov e a economia contemporânea, dentre outros, além de fatores que devem ser levados em consideração para elaboração de políticas de combate à exclusão digital. Como resultado desta reflexão, identificam-se algumas das reais conseqüências e o significado da exclusão digital na sociedade brasileira. O fator motivador deste trabalho foi a observação dos impactos que a tecnologia da informação exerce sobre o trabalho e a vida dos cidadãos brasileiros.The digital exclusion comes gaining prominence in the last years. The attentions are converging to this subject that is already seen as a cause and consequence of exclusion in our society. Brazil has a lot of inequalities that creates a request for politics of transference and income generation. However, it is not enough become the ways available, it is important show to people how the technologies can contribute for their tasks and activities, bringing knowledge and opportunities. This work, based on bibliographical, reflexive and qualitative researches, approaches the aspects that are usually associated with digital exclusion, as the social exclusion, the knowledge society, the e-gov and contemporary economy, among others, and the factors that need to be taken in consideration to prepare combat politics for digital exclusion. As a result of this reflection, its possible to identify some of the real consequences and the meaning of the digital exclusion in the Brazilian society. The motal of this work was the observation of impacts that information technology over work and the Brazilian citizens\u27 life
Using e-collaboration to improve management education: three scenarios
Get PDFThis paper explores the potential impact of collaborative technologies in improving management education. The first goal is to expose students to tools and practices that not only assist them with their current studies, but also serve to reinforce individual and team competencies that can facilitate their entry into the workforce. In their positions as future managers they will be expected to not only be familiar with common business practices but also to understand the implications of information technology for business; in this case with emphasis on tools and techniques that can help businesses flourish in the networked economy. With an ever-increasing recognition that e-learning tools are important for (re-)training employees, these three scenarios offer examples of how business schools might expand the boundaries of e-collaboration to help their students. These experiments have been conducted in management programs. In the first two scenarios, students use collaborative platforms in some of their daily work. The third experiment is based on a student-centred design of a learning portal. Our experience reinforces a certain number of hypotheses influencing the impact of collaborative technologies in management education. To begin with, information systems are often flawed mirrors of the managerial system that they are designed to represent. Secondly, the potential value of collaborative technologies is strongly influenced by organizational contexts, both in and between the university and the business community. Thirdly, the effectiveness of collaborative technologies depends to a large degree upon the depth and coherence of learning objectives fixed for learning and work places. Finally, improving the effectiveness of collaborative technologies requires aligning the design of learning environments with the corporate cultures and visions we are trying to reproduce
Operations strategy and cost management
Get PDFIn the globalized world, companies seek for new operations strategies to ensure world corporate success. This article analyzes how the cost management models - both traditional and activity-based -, aid the planning and management of corporate globalized operations. The efficacy of the models application depends on their alignment with the competitive strategy. Companies must evaluate the nature of the competition and its competitive priorities; they should then define the necessary and sufficient dependence level on costs information. In this article, three dependence levels are presented: operational, decision support and strategic control. The result of the research shows the importance of alignment between the cost management model and the competitive strategy for corporate success, and confirms the adequacy of the activity-based costing model as a supporting tool for decision taking in a global strategy. Case studies in world class companies in Brazil are presented
Sistema para la investigación académica
Get PDFGenerally, documental research depends on written bibliographical note cards that help find important text for a given research. However, the manual search for frequently used data such as author, publisher, topic, gets complicated as records increase resulting in a time consuming process that hinders the desired brainstorming. The software here presented solves two main issues: it allows a smoother and quicker data entry, and the flexibility to search by multiple criteria matching information for a specific author, publisher, topic, subtopic and date. The software also eases text transcription and builds the documental references that will be cited on research papers. The software is based on the object oriented (OO) programming philosophy using Microsoft Access as a widely used relational database system.Tradicionalmente la investigación documental ha dependido de la elaboración de fichas manuscritas cuya estructura permita la localización de textos que sean importantes para cualquier trabajo que se base en aportaciones bibliohemerográficas. Sin embargo, la localización manual de las fichas por autor, editorial, tema, o sub-tema se dificulta conforme su número se incrementa, obstaculizándose el aprovechamiento de ideas y aportaciones valiosas contenidas en fichas cuya ubicación física requiere mucho tiempo y re-lecturas. El módulo de fichas que aquí se presenta resuelve dos aspectos fundamentales de los ficheros: permite una elaboración mucho más rápida de las fichas y proporciona, en cualquier momento, la posibilidad de realizar consultas exhaustivas por múltiples criterios de búsqueda, a través de los propios textos o de cualesquiera de las combinaciones de los datos inherentes a las fichas, así, por ejemplo, se puede seleccionarse fichas correspondientes a un o varios autores, editoriales, temas, sub-temas, y fechas determinadas. Además, el módulo facilita la transcripción de los textos, registra el uso de los mismos y construye las referencias bibliohemerográficas que acompañan a los trabajos d investigación; todo ello conforme a las fichas seleccionadas para un determinado propósito. El módulo está desarrollado epistémicamente mediante la Orientación a Objetos (OO) y técnicamente a través de la utilización de Access como un manejador de base de datos de uso generalizado. Uno de los propósitos principales de este trabajo es el de motivar un reencuentro con uno de los instrumentos más necesarios para realizar investigación científica
Philosophical and methodological reflection on database capacity planning: a controllership standpoint
Get PDFThis paper analyzes the capacity-planning process of database management systems focusing the theoretical decision models that considers the variables constraints that could be taken slightly and other variable constraints that are indispensable during upgrade. In order to proceed with the aforementioned, we assume that capacity planning decision, which considers the general corporate, technical, users and executive views aiming at prioritizing a measurable relative importance of the planning constraints is capable of giving more economic added-value decision elements to the management. Thus, the optimization multicriteria analysis leads us to infer upon the reasonableness of the decision taken in regard to implementing budgetary planning in moment of business uncertainties. Results of this study indicate that corporate strategic views in decision-taking processes some times override some technical, users and executive views as relating to capacity planning in information technology management environment
Grupo de pesquisa brasileiro de XBRL eXtensible Business Reporting Language TECSI EAC FEA USP - SP/Brasil 2º workshop brasileiro de XBRL 05 de outubro de 2005 TECSI EAC USP - SP/Brasil Resultados do 2º workshop brasileiro de XBRL
No full textFrom idea to BLAH! understanding mobile services development as interactive innovation
Get PDFMobile communications are permeating virtually every aspect of our lives. The market is experiencing rapid improvements in technologies, while mobile operators are trying to figure out new ways their infrastructures can provide services to the customers. Furthermore, user-innovation with new ways of using these technologies generates powerful feedback loops back into the innovation processes. In this turbulent environment it is difficult to capture and conceptualize how newness comes about and what the main characteristics of innovation are. The aim of this paper is to illustrate how the concept of interactive innovation can be applied to explain the development of mobile services. This study adopts the perspective of the developer rather than the user. Moreover, through the social construction of technology lens, the concepts of sense-making and bricolage are applied to explain the innovation appropriation process during the mobile data value chain improvement process. One of the conclusions drawn is that in the rapidly changing and complex context of mobile services development, the traditional notion of \u27interactive innovation\u27 cannot fully explain this phenomenon that takes place
Competency-based university undergraduate teaching management
No full textThe human resources societies and their organizations can count on are more and more relevant. In that sense, a major challenge faced by universities is to give students the appropriate background to be professionals with the profile the current scenario requires. This article focuses the management of university careers. Historically, many careers have emphasized knowledge, especially abstract knowledge. Today, the trend is to address aspects that reach beyond cognition, and focus the attention in effective competencies that include procedures and attitudes. Such approach allows the opportunity of defining a holistic management of careers, reaching beyond the sheer teaching of disciplines. Concurrently, the availability of information methods and tools will contribute for the definition and implementation of a design process that can work with explicit criteria and transformations. The article proposes a conceptual model to represent the objects, and their attributes and associations that are considered of interest for the management of university teaching under a competency focus. A second stage should implement such model through the construction of an information system that supports the management of corresponding careers.En las sociedades y sus organizaciones cada vez cobra mayor relevancia el capital humano con que se cuenta. En tal sentido uno de los mayores desafíos que enfrentan las universidades es la formación de profesionales con los perfiles que el entorno demanda. Este artículo se sitúa en el ámbito de la gestión de carreras universitarias. Históricamente, en muchas carreras el énfasis ha estado puesto en los conocimientos, particularmente los abstractos. En la actualidad se observa una tendencia a abordar aspectos que van más allá de los cognitivos, centrando la atención en la posesión de competencias efectivas, que incluyen capacidades procedimentales y actitudinales o interpersonales.Lo anterior genera la oportunidad de definir un esquema de gestión holístico de las carreras, que vaya más allá de la mera administración a las asignaturas. Al mismo tiempo, la disponibilidad de métodos y herramientas informáticas posibilita la definición e implementación de un proceso de diseño que opere con criterios y transformaciones explícitas.En el artículo se propone un modelo conceptual que represente los objetos, sus atributos y asociaciones, que se estiman de interés para la gestión del proceso de la docencia universitaria bajo un enfoque de competencias. En una segunda fase se deberá implementar dicho modelo mediante la construcción de un sistema informático que apoye la gestión de las correspondientes carreras