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Towards an Innovative and Democratic Local Government; The case of “Göteborg 2021”
Get PDFMSc in Knowledge-based EntrepreneurshipThis paper describes how a public service development/innovation process can look like in a democratic environment. Additional emphasizes have been on finding process characteristics within this environment. A single-case study was conducted with data gathered from 16 unstructured interviews and relevant documents. A strategic selection of interviewees were made, selecting participants to represent the entire process as well as to represent different actors in the process. The case, “Göteborg 2021”, is an initiative taken by Gothenburg City Council to celebrate the 400th anniversary of the city in the year 2021 with the vision of being innovative, open and inclusive. Thousands of participants including politicians, academics, officials, voluntary organizations, members of the private sector as well as the public/citizens have been engaged in the process with the aim to develop the public service of the city. The study focus mainly but not exclusively on the relation between the public/citizens and the local authorities in the front-end process a stage in which opportunities are identified and concepts are developed.
Theories from the field of democracy, such as deliberative, representation, associative theories, and from the field of innovation and product/service development, such as the Stage-Gate model and the Componential theory of Creativity, were used and compared to the empirical findings. The findings identifies three main phases in the process: initiation, exploration and execution. The inclusion of the public/citizens has mainly been through a consultation participation role in the idea generation stage in which ideas were gathered by officials. The inclusion of other actors, such as the members from the private sector, academia, voluntary organization and other parts of public organizations, have been through deliberative processes in which the participants are given an expert consultancy role in the process. Tendencies were also observed towards using parallel stages during the exploration phase mainly by having a strategy stage while the idea generation and idea scoping/selection were conducted. Selection of promising ideas were based on finding a common strategic fit of themes and symbol projects rather than strictly using business criteria for each idea. Seven characteristics were identified: trust, expertise, engagement, courage, freedom, creative thinking skills and awareness. They highlights main characteristics found in a public process, mainly during an exploration phase, with considerations of being both democratic and innovative.
The study recognize a need for further studies in order to understand how democracy and public service development/innovation can coexist in local governments and to investigate how the process characteristics can correlate with one another
Public Participation in a Sustainable Paradise - A Case Study of an Eco-Village Project in Pointe aux Piments, Mauritius
No full textComme un moyen pour atteindre un développement durable, l'éco-village projet avec un accent sur la participation du public a été menée par le gouvernement mauricien dans neuf villages. En raison de plusieurs contraintes,un seul village, le village de la pointe aux piment était encore prévu pour être mis en oeuvre. Cette étude vise à acquérir des connaissances sur le concept d'un éco-village et principalement sur le rôle de la participation du public dans ce concept, mise en évidence par l'interprétation faite par le gouvernement, de la façon dont le projet a été constituée avec les habitants mais aussi les habitants" vue sur le village eco concept et ce qu'ils pensaient qu'il est important pour le développement de leur village. L'étude utilise un humain perspectives géographiques afin de répondre à ces questions et combine plusieurs méthodes un tel questionnaire, groupe de discussion, d'entrevues et de la littérature des études pour obtenir une meilleure compréhension.
Le diagnostic révèle une incertitude de concept par le gouvernement en raison de la dispersion sur l'interprétation de la eco concept de village. Le projet se concentrent principalement sur la dimension environnementale lorsqu'on parle de développement durable et sur la nécessité d'informer et d'éduquer le public et en espérant qu'à enpower. Les conclusions révèlent également le manque de connaissance et de sensibilisation de la population locale sur la définition de l'éco village et le développement durable, mais cela ne signifie pas que les habitants ne savent pas comment vivre une vie durable. Au lieu de cela, ils ont tendance à mettre en évidence l'importance d'autres aspects tels que la sécurité, l'éducation et les emplois alternatifs. La plupart des habitants n'ont pas eu l'impression d'avoir contribué au développement du village et ceux qui ne jugent plus axé sur la participation pratique tels que l'organisation des sports et non fondées sur des informations basé participation tels que l'amélioration de la qualité des décisions prises.
Les conclusions enfin révèle l'importance de la géographie au sein de l'eco village concept. Tout d'abord il y a une importance d'échelle - grand projet comme l'éco village pointe aux piment ont tendance à avoir des difficultés habilitant le public. Deuxièmement, il y a une grande importance institutionnelle - projets complexes doit avoir une communication réussie qui inclut la coopération de différents secteurs ( liens horizontaux) et entre les différents niveaux tels que national et local (liens verticaux). Il y a une importance de reconnaître les différences et de l'unicité du lieu - chaque lieu a ses propres défis et besoins donc ses solutions et les différences dans les besoins du village d'être reconnu. Enfin, il y a une importance spirituelle dans l'eco village qui est hautement spatial - une communauté appartenant consistent en un réseau de membres de la famille , des amis et des voisins taht partager la valeur et les intérêts. L'éco village comme un concept veut que les participants à faire leurs propres choix de l'engagement et ainsi acquérir une certaine façon de la vie, ce qui ne semble pas être le cas de pointe aux piment donc un autre type de concept de la durabilité qui correspondent mieux aux besoins du village est suggéré.As a way towards achieving sustainable development, an eco-village project with a focus on public participation was conducted by the Mauritian government in nine villages. Due to several constraints only one, the village of Pointe aux Piments, was still planned to be implemented. This study aims towards gaining knowledge about the concept of an eco-village and mainly on the role of public participation within this concept. This will be done by highlighting the interpretation made by the government, the way the project has been incorporated with the locals but also the locals´ view on the eco-village concept and what they felt has been important for the development of the village. The study uses a human geographical perspective to answer these questions and combines several methods such as a questionnaire, focus groups, interviews and literature studies to get a better understanding.
The findings reveal an uncertainty of concept by the government due to the diffuseness on the interpretation of the eco-village concept. The projects focus mainly on the environmental dimension when speaking about sustainable development and on the need to inform and educate the public and by that hoping to empower them. The findings also reveal a lack of knowledge and awareness from the locals on the definitions of an eco-village and sustainable development but this does not imply that the locals do not know how to live in a sustainable way. Instead they tend to highlight the importance of other aspects such as safety, education and alternative jobs. Most of the locals did not feel that they were contributing to the development of the village and the ones that did feel it focused more on practical participation such as organizing sports events and not on information-based participation such as improving the quality of the decisions made.
The findings finally reveal an importance of geography within the eco-village concept. First of all there is an importance of scale – larger projects such as the eco-village project in Pointe aux Piments tends to have difficulties empowering the public. Secondly there is an institutional importance – complex projects need to have a successful communication that includes cooperation between different sectors (horizontal links) and between different levels such as national to local (vertical links). There is also an importance of acknowledging differences and uniqueness of the place – every place has its own challenges and therefore needs its own solutions and differences within the village need to be recognized. Finally there is a spiritual importance in the eco-village concept that is highly spatial – a community belonging consists of a network of family, friends and neighbours that share the same value and interests. The eco-village as a concept wants the participants to make their own choices of commitment and together acquire a certain way of living. This does not seem to be the case in Pointe aux Piments and therefore another type of concept towards sustainability, that better fits the need of the village, is suggested
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Get PDFThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Variations on the Author
Get PDF“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Get PDFWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
Get PDFWe conducted a full-scale evaluative citation analysis study of scholars in the XML research field to explore just how different from each other author rankings resulting from different citation counting methods actually are, and to demonstrate the capability of emerging data and tools on the Web in supporting more realistic citation counting methods. Our results contest some common arguments for the continued
use of first-author citation counts in the evaluation of scholars, such as high correlations between author rankings by first-author citation counts and other citation
counting methods, and high costs of using more realistic citation counting methods that are not well-supported by the ISI databases. It is argued that increasingly available digital full text research papers make it possible for citation analysis studies to go beyond what the ISI databases have directly supported and to employ more
sophisticated methods
koamabayili/VECTRON-author-checklist: VECTRON author checklist
No full textWe have done our best to complete the author checklist relating to the use of animals in the hut study. Note that the objective for the hut study was to evaluate the IRS treatment applications for residual efficacy against Anopheles mosquitoes, including the local An. coluzzii mosquito population. Cows were only used to attract mosquitoes into the huts and no tests were carried out directly on the cows. The author checklist is intended for use with studies where experiments are carried out on animals, which is why we have had such difficulty in completing this for the hut study, as many of the questions do not relate to how the cows were used
Author-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.
No full textAuthor-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.</p
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