This book is open access under a CC BY license. Interest in social innovation continues to rise, from governments setting up social innovation 'labs' to large corporations developing social innovation strategies. Yet theory lags behind practice, and this hampers our ability to understand social innovation and make the most of its potential. This collection brings together work by leading social…
Buku ini merupakan hasil dari Lokakarya Internasional ke-5 tentang Interaksi Simbiotik, Simbiotik 2016, yang diadakan di Padua, Italia, pada bulan Oktober 2016. 12 makalah lengkap dan 3 makalah pendek yang disajikan dalam volume ini ditinjau dan dipilih secara saksama dari 23 kiriman. Gagasan sistem simbiosis yang diajukan dalam lokakarya ini memanfaatkan kemampuan komputer untuk secara implisi…
Sistem-Sistem Teknis (Systems-of-Systems, SoS) – dalam bentuk sistem komputasi konstituen independen yang terhubung dan bekerja sama untuk sementara waktu guna mencapai tujuan yang ditetapkan dengan baik – membentuk tulang punggung sebagian besar infrastruktur saat ini. Jaringan energi, sebagian besar sistem transportasi, industri perbankan global, sistem pasokan air, peralatan militer, ban…
Internet adalah infrastruktur ilmu pengetahuan, teknis, ekonomi, dan kemasyarakatan yang paling penting yang ada dan berfungsi saat ini 2,5 miliar pengguna. Melanjutkan pengembangannya akan menjamin banyak inovasi dan kemakmuran yang akan datang dan akan mendukung pertumbuhan berkelanjutan dalam nilai dan volume ekonomi yang dibutuhkan di masa depan. Oleh karena itu, penelitian infrastruktur In…
This book is open access under a CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 IGO license. The Early Years analyzes the development of Latin American and Caribbean children and makes a compelling case for government intervention in what is instinctively a family affair. Spending on effective programs for young children is an investment that, if done well, will have very high returns, while failure to implement such pro…
The aim of this book is to document for the first time the dimensions and requirements of effective integrated groundwater management (IGM). Groundwater management is a formidable challenge, one that remains one of humanity’s foremost priorities. It has become a largely non-renewable resource that is overexploited in many parts of the world. In the 21st century, the issue moves from how to si…
A PDF version of this book is available for free in open access via the OAPEN Library platform, www.oapen.org. This book presents a new model of accountability which ensures that public-private partnerships don't erode public accountability. It defines concrete accountability standards for different types of partnerships.
This open access book explores how medieval societies conversed about the city and citizen in texts, visual imagery and material culture. It adopts a long-term, interdisciplinary, and cross-cultural perspective, bringing together contributions on the early, high, and later Middle Ages, covering both the medieval East and West, and representing a wide variety of disciplinary angles and sources. …
Terlepas dari apakah kita menggunakan metrik ekonomi atau sosial, Internet adalah salah satu infrastruktur teknis terpenting yang ada saat ini. Internet akan menjadi katalis bagi banyak inovasi dan kemakmuran kita di masa depan. Eropa yang kompetitif akan membutuhkan konektivitas dan layanan Internet di luar kemampuan yang ditawarkan oleh teknologi saat ini. Oleh karena itu, penelitian Internet…
This open access book offers an entangled history of hygiene by showing how knowledge of purity, health and cleanliness was shaped by evangelical medical missionaries and their encounters with people in West Africa. By tracing the interactions and negotiations of six Basel Mission doctors, who practised on the Gold Coast and in Cameroon from 1885 to 1914, the author demonstrates how notions of …