Managing natural resources for their human values

An information model for managing resources and their metadata

Today information is managed within increasingly complicated Web applications which often rely on similar information models. Finding a reusable and sufficiently generic information model for managing resources and their metadata would greatly simplify development of Web applications. This article presents such an information model, namely the Resource and Metadata Management Model (ReM). The i...

Managing Human Resources in a Decentralized Context

by moving government closer to the people, it brings public sector activities and decisions in line with popular preferences. Yet, in practice, the civil service—a critical component of government— rarely enters the decision calculus of decentralization design. The civil service is often recognized as an afterthought rather than seen as essential to successful decentralization. This is lamentab...

Managing natural resources using GIS: Experiences in India

GIS technology is considered an exciting tool in the context of governmental planning systems for natural resource management in developing countries. However, despite rhetoric to the contrary, its impact has been of little value to national processes of development. The Indian government seems to be in the process of making long-term commitments to using GIS for natural resource management. Na...

Tourism And Natural Resources

Managing Open Educational Resources

In the last few years, the international work on Massive Open On-line Courses (MOOCS) underlined new needs for open educational resources (OER) management within the context of the Web of Data. First, within MOOCs, all (or at least most) resources must be open and available on the Web through URIs, including the MOOCs themselves. Second the evolution of research and practice in the field of OER...