SU_FLOSS Syracuse University Free/Libre Open Source Software Research Team
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STS Science and technology studies
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climate_change articles pertaining to climate change
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Software-Architecture Topics on architectural styles, quality attributes, design practices, architecture analysis and evaluation methods, etc.
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Web2-0_Education Web 2.0 Technology in Education
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Integrative Expertise for Global Health ***This group lists publications in the area of integrative expertise for health care and its enterprise architecture. These publications cover the needs and resources, interests and technology of multiple stakeholders (from the WHO to the poorest patient). Together the full scope of the health enterprise is to be considered: access to resources: knowledge, medication, instruments, money; strategy to operations; from persons' livelihoods to public-private interactions, technology interfaces and component families. *** Here follow some key events/resources that are pertinent to this groups growth. +++++ 2009/28/09: group renamed after reading the article by M. MacLachlan: http://www.citeulike.org/group/4365/article/5328779
+++++ 2009/05/22: Broad Plan On IP, Innovation In Developing Countries Approved At WHO. For details, see http://www.ip-watch.org/weblog/2009/05/22/who-committee-approves-broad-plan-on-ip-innovation-in-developing-countries/ : NGOs Health Action International and IQsensato issued a proposed way for countries to monitor implementation of the strategy and action plan. See: http://www.iqsensato.org/?page_id=49
+++++ 2009/03/08: For updates on recent advances in the broad area, see: WHO | eHealth Intelligence Report: http://www.who.int/goe/ehir/en/
+++++ 2009/02/21: Researchers and practitioners interested in the topics of this group are invited to take note of the existence of: ++
HIF-net < http://d2.dgroups.org/groups/hif-net >: a Dgroup facilitated collaboration of INASP and the Global Forum for Health Research working together to improve access to reliable information for health researchers and healthcare providers in developing and emerging countries. ++ HR4D-net (Health Research for Development) < http://d2.dgroups.org/groups/HR4D-net >: a global email discussion group dedicated to promoting health research to improve the health of people in developing countries. ++ ProHealth 2009 (3d Int. Workshop on
Process-oriented information systems in healthcare; < http://mis.hevra.haifa.ac.il/~morpeleg/events/prohealth09/ >.
+++++ 2008/11/25: The Bamako Call to Action ON RESEARCH FOR HEALTH reflects the level of consensus reached at the Global Ministerial Forum in Bamako, Mali (see http://www.tropika.net/svc/specials/bamako2008/call-for-action/call). This citeulike group offers "grassroots" services in support of the action points 3, 6, 7, 12 and 20 of the Call to Action.
+++++ 2008/10/7: There was a presentation on Global Health Enterprise Architecture at the 21st CODATA conference ( http://www.codata.org/08conf/ ); focus is on the "Global Health Enterprise Architecture" descriptors that reflect (elements) of http://www.citeulike.org/user/jago/article/2930315, a document that has served as an input for the Global Strategy and Plan of Action on Public Health, Innovation and intellectual property; this plan of action was endorsed by the World Health Assembly on May 24, 2008 (WHA61.21, see: http://www.who.int/gb/ebwha/pdf_files/A61/A61_R21-en.pdf ); progress regarding its implementation is available from http://www.cohred.org/main/briefing/COHRED_BRIEFING10_JUNE2008.pdf . A supporting topic is in this group's Forum.
+++++ 2008/WINTER: Prior to developing and deploying a global health knowledge utility (for providing health (care) related knowledge, especially to deprived stakeholders). Clarifying note: enterprise architecture answers questions (Why? When? Who? Where? How? and What?) for stakeholders (users, owners, planners, designers, builders, sub-contractors).
Health care system performance, health worker capacity, access to health knowledge, improved decision and policy making process and better health outcomes for patients are among the areas where ICT-based solutions promise to deliver results (WHO, 2007).
Development and transition under a "Global Health Enterprise Architecture" is indispensable in order for all health-stakeholders to maximize value (health outcomes) and mitigate risks (health and livelihood erosion). The target services of a health knowledge utility include evidence/benchmarking/assessment enhanced medical guideline services (approved by national and international Public Health institutions) over heterogeneous device networks, such that action and reporting by (para-) medical practitioners (and patients) are guided, generated (workflow reflecting the means in the clinical theatre) or aggregated (reporting).
Enterprise architecture helps stakeholders to align change interventions in data and knowledge intensive work processes. An increasingly explicit and common resource base to guide and align ICT-enabled change interventions in health care is emerging. Alongside medical online resources such as provided by NIH, PubMed, HINARI (WHO), and local health knowledge not captured or accessible through formal methods, the resource base includes public sector architectural frameworks, including the Federal Enterprise Architectural Framework of the US Government (FEAF; http://www.whitehouse.gov/omb/egov/a-1-fea.html ), the industry driven Integrated Health Enterprise (IHE; http://www.ihe.net/ ) and the UK cross government enterprise architecture and its application in the health care sector(Grewal, 2007). Future clinical practice (bed-side, home or community care, telemedicine, electronic health record (EHR), health management information system (HMIS)...) will be delivered in myriad socio-technical settings (community, hospital, homes, telekiosk, the research lab,...), and it will involve medical knowledge and health data provided via service "carpets" on heterogeneous device networks (computer networks, PDAs, mobile phone - e.g. android-enabled, Laptops..).
References:
Conway, M. D., Gupta, S., Khajavi, K., (2007), “Addressing Africa’s health workforce crisis”, The McKinsey Quarterly, November.
Geels, F. W., Schot, J., (2007), “Typology of sociotechnical transition pathways”, Research Policy 36, pp. 399-417.
Grewal,J. (2007) NHS Connecting for Health, presented at the OASIS Open Standards forum in London, http://events.oasis-open.org/home/sites/events.oasis-open.org.home/files/Jagdip.v2.ppt
Madon T.,. Hofman, K. J., Kupfer, L., Glass, R. I., (2007), „Implementation Science”, Science, Vol. 318., no. 5857, pp. 1728 – 1729.
WHO, "Building foundations for eHealth: Progress of Member States," World Health Organization, Geneva 2007.
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RFID deployment This group brings together research publications that are pertinent to the landscape-wide deployment of rfid technology in logistic and service systems. Focus is on: (i) computation independent models for business operations and business intelligence; (ii) the articulation of reusable landscape models (e.g., incorporating regulations) and industry models (sector models, incorporating industry reference models); (iii) techniques and tools for refining and configuring the computation independent models to meet company-specific logistics and service requirements.
Recommended tags: (A) LEVEL: Macro/Meso/Micro/Pico (from Multi-level perspective (see Geels & Schot, 2007) extended: macro (landscape); meso (industry/regime/sector); micro (firm, organization); pico (person, product/resource individual).
(B) Activity Realm: Diagnostic (paper is concerned with Why?: what problem, opportunity or directive justifies the rfid deployment? ) ; Therapeutic (How must rfid be deployed in the socio-technical system of interest, i.e. the firm, the industry, the plant?)
(C) Industry: use one of the industry (sector) names listed by the World Economic Forum on
http://www.weforum.org/en/knowledge/Industries/index.htm
(D) Models: Textual, ValueRisk, OperationsModel, RequirementsModel
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Convention on Knowledge Commons This group lists publications that offer background to the drafting of a Convention on Knowledge Commons. Drafting proceeds at www.conventionknowledgecommons.org .
Publications are concerned with the fitness of industrial-age institutions for the globalizing and knowledge-intensifying economy.
Focus is on the software, content and intellectual property sectors.
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Patent_Reform +++ August 27, 2009 +++ During last July, WIPO has presented its draft 2010-2011 Programme/budget (http://www.ip-watch.org/weblog/2009/07/23/wipo-members-scrutinise-draft-2010-2011-programme-budget/ ).
+++ May 4, 2009 +++ For perspectives on the context in which the discussion on global patent pools should be fitted, see http://www.epo.org/topics/patent-system/scenarios-for-the-future.html , including a large collection of interviews. A two page visual summary is at: http://www.jpo.go.jp/iken_e/pdf/iken_e_innovation_wg/english.pdf +++ Spring 2008 +++ This group lists publications that are relevant to the study of global patent pools as a means of accelerating the construction of (societal) value from privately owned knowledge as captured in patent systems.
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Pervasive Healthcare Papers concerning pervasive computing within healthcare
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Global Health This group will focus on manuscripts that deal with global health issues.
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Method_Engineering_Services This library will list literature on the architecture description and realization of a Method Engineering Service Environment. A roadmap for a global transition builds upon the enactment and diffusion of this environment. The aimed-for global transition is from a society where most ICT systems operate as islands of automation, to one in which these systems are interoperable. For all members of society, i.e. citizens, firms and public authorities, this interoperability will vastly increase the value construction and risk-reduction that can be achieved with the support of ICT.
For background, see:
http://interop-vlab.eu/ei_public_deliverables/interop-noe-deliverables/tg6-methods-requirements-and-method-engineering-for-interoperability/
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e-maintenance Web and wireless enabled information systems are becoming the backbone of the knowledge society, they are contributing to the creation of value and the mitigation of risks in any collaborative endeavour. For complex electromechanical and software-intensive equipment, the transition to e-maintenance involves original equipment manufacturers, the owners and operators of industrial facilities, and their service providers. Narrowly scoped technological and intra-organisational approaches fail to overcome the slow deployment of ICT in maintenance and repair processes.
This group collects references to publications that are relevant to a broad-based transition to e-maintenance.
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OER_Open_Educational_Resources 2009-08--09: for OER in Health Care, see: www.globalhealthlearning.org has a number of well-tailored online courses, including on reproductive health; more details at: http://www.citeulike.org/group/5647/article/5400512
+++++ 2009-07-02: Pls. check the MANTHAN AWARD; Call for nominations open until July 31, 2009; http://www.manthanaward.org/ ; See also: http://www.contentxchange.in/page/about
+++++ 2009-04-16: take a look at http://www.nationalschool.gov.uk/virtualschool/ ; http://www.ocwconsortium.org/members/consortium-members.html ; and at MIMA search facility at http://ocw.u-tokyo.ac.jp/category/eng_mimasearch
+++++ 2009-03-21: pls note http://globaltext.terry.uga.edu/books
+++++ 2009-02: please note the three-week open discussion on the subject of access to OER. The discussion will take place from 9 to 27 February 2009 and is open to all; check out: http://oerwiki.iiep-unesco.org/ the site that was originally created by the UNESCO International Institute for Educational Planning (IIEP) as a place where members of the UNESCO OER Community can work together on questions, issues and documents.
+++++ Open Educational Resources (OER) was adopted at a UNESCO meeting in 2002 to refer to the open provision of educational resources, enabled by information and communication technologies, for consultation, use and adaptation by a community of users for non-commercial purposes. The participants expressed "their wish to develop together a universal educational resource available for the whole of humanity" and the "hope that this open resource for the future mobilizes the whole of the worldwide community of educators".
For more details, see: http://oerwiki.iiep-unesco.org/index.php?title=Main_Page
This group collects relevant literature in this area.
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Simulation of operations and interactions This group collects references to publications in the broad area of simulation of operational processes and of interactions found in markets and eco-systems.
It is targeted at industrial engineering and management science students and junior researchers who have taken a course in simulation modeling and analysis following the book by Averill M. Law and W. David Kelton (2000) (http://www.citeulike.org/group/4984/article/2702174 )
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Poverty Alleviation from Access to Knowledge August 9, 2009 +++ www.globalhealthlearning.org has a number of well-tailored online courses, including on reproductive health; more details at: http://www.citeulike.org/group/5647/article/5400512 +++
July 23, 2009 +++ WIPO has created aRDi - Access to Research for Development and Innovation - http://www.wipo.int/ardi/en/ ; to complement the earlier initiatives: HINARI - The Access to Research Initiative - http://www.who.int/hinari/en/ ;
AGORA - Access to Global Online Research in Agriculture - http://www.aginternetwork.org/en/ ;
and OARE - Online Access to Research in the Environment - http://www.oaresciences.org/en/ +++
July 2, 2009 +++ Pls. check the MANTHAN AWARD; Call for nominations open until July 31, 2009; http://www.manthanaward.org/ ; See also: http://www.contentxchange.in/page/about +++ Spring 2008 ++++ This group lists publications that are relevant for the further development of the "Knowledge for Poverty Alleviation" (KPA) framework that has been introduced in http://www.citeulike.org/user/jago/article/2801083
and is further supported at http://kpa.cclfi.org/index.php/Learn/2/
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Participatory_Methods_for_Development This group lists publications on participatory methods for development.
+++ Sept. 4, 2009: Participatory Learning and Action (http://www.planotes.org ) is an established source of practical ideas and experience about participatory learning, action, approaches and methods. It reaches over 20000 readers in 121 countries.
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UNFCCC For details on the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, see: http://unfccc.int/2860.php. +++
This group gathers references to publications related to the drafting and implementation of this and related conventions. +++
At http://www.linkedin.com/groups?home=&gid=2357900 , there is a linked-in group UNFCCC Friends where news on the UN Climate Talks is bundled, and the pertinence of scientific outcomes to the agreement draft texts is commented upon. Any linkedin member can join UNFCCC Friends. +++
At http://unfccc.wikidot.com , there is a wiki that may help in better understanding the contents of the ongoing UN Climate talks, it also offers a forum to contribute viewpoints. It would be great if scientists could look into the details of the drafting and voice implications of their work and knowledge on agreement clauses. +++
For some comments on these negotiations see http://www.ip-watch.org/weblog/2009/08/28/informal-un-climate-talks-indicate-continued-divergence-on-ip-issues/ .
The importance of TRIPS (Trade Related aspects of Intellectual Property Rights) is addressed in publications such as World Economic and Social Survey 2009 ( http://www.un.org/esa/policy/wess/ ) as explained in IP Watch 2009/09/01 (http://www.ip-watch.org/weblog/2009/09/01/un-climate-report-envisions-modified-trips-as-governments-seek-progress/ ).
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DIISM Publications related to the Design of Information Infrastructure Systems for Manufacturing. These IFIP-sponsored working conferences were held in Tokyo (Japan, Nov. 1993, Kaatsheuvel (Netherlands, Sept. 1996), Arlington (TX, May 1998), Melbourne (Australia, Nov. 2000), Osaka (Japan, Nov. 2002) and Toronto (Canada, Nov. 2004.
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CBD Convention on Biological Diversity For details on the Convention on Biological Diversity, see: http://www.cbd.int/
This group gathers references to scholarly and high-impact publications related to the drafting and implementation of this and related conventions.
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