Online communities are popular sites for collective sensemaking. This study explores sensemaking in one such community following the closure of Olint Corp, a highly successful Jamaican investment club. After Olint’s disbanding, Jamaicans reconnected through online communities to make sense of their financial losses, to make sense of Olint – seen variously as an altruistic endeavour, a global cu...

This paper presents a mobile handheld device, called “Ponycom”, for virtual community access and communication purposes. The research approach is user centred, i.e. the needs and requirements of a specific user group, namely the members of virtual stables, are examined. Based on the results, a design concept of a dedicated mobile handheld device for active members of virtual stables is presente...

Anonymous database search protocols allow users to query a database anonymously. This can be achieved by letting the users form a peerto-peer community and post queries on behalf of each other. In this article we discuss an application of combinatorial configurations (also known as regular and uniform partial linear spaces) to a protocol for anonymous database search, as defining the key-distri...

This article attempts to explore the way of caste-based transformation in Mudkhu Tarkeshwor Municipality Kathmandu. The method was developed with interpretive research paradigm as narratives had immeasurable potentialities construct meaning socio-cultural situations Dalits’ lives and transformation. I, narrative inquirer, studied Dalit based caste on occupation, educational system cultural prac...

Teacher professional development, as a burgeoning term, has attracted a surge of interest in English language teaching. In second language (L2) professional development, the common orthodoxy has been one which considers teachers as that of knowledge consumers. It is commonly argued that top-down approaches to teachers’ professional development has done little to maximize teachers’ professionali...

BACKGROUND Maternal death reviews have been utilized in several countries as a means of identifying social and health care quality issues affecting maternal survival. From 2005 to 2009, a standardized community-based maternal death inquiry and response initiative was implemented in eight Indian states with the aim of addressing critical maternal health policy objectives. However, state-specific...