People become involved in online communities (OCs) to obtain information, share ideas, or create knowledge. In an OC with a text-based and asynchronous communication environment, knowledge is created and embedded in the dialogues codified into text-format. While most extant studies in OCs focus on social, structural, and cognitive factors leading to knowledge creation, little effort has been ma...

Banjarmasin is known as a tidal waterfront city and it is called City of a Thousand Rivers. The city level was approximately -16 cm below the sea level and almost a swamp-land. The urbanization and the city development programs have changed the city’s physical and spatial plan from a wetland to a mainland structure. The issues of the city's transformation have changed the city structure from th...

In recent years, Aboriginal communities across Canada have begun to seek ways to increase their participation and control of research that affects them. Similarly, academics are seeking new methods to include parallel and complementary knowledge in their research, including traditional knowledge and community experience and expertise. New approaches, theories, and methods related to, or derived...

The practice of community based participatory research (CBPR) has evolved over the past 20 years with the recognition that health equity is best achieved when academic researchers form collaborative partnerships with communities. This article theorizes the possibility that core principles of CBPR cannot be realistically applied unless unequal power relations are identified and addressed. It pro...

The goal of the EVER project (Extraction and Processing of Procedural Experience Knowledge in Workflows), funded by the German Research Foundation, is to investigate new methods in Process-Oriented Case-Based Reasoning and related fields for extracting, representing, and processing procedural experiential knowledge in Internet communities. This paper summarizes the main achievements of the firs...

Lesbian, gay, and bisexual (LGB) individuals are members of a vulnerable group where health disparities have been identified. To gain a better understanding of the LGB college student healthcare experience and its contribution to the healthcare disparities found in LGB population, a community based participatory research (CBPR) approach was used to fill the gap. This paper will outline the CBPR...