Resum In the context of a Citizen Lab, this paper describes how a vanguard of activists, designers, scholars and participation practitioners were involved in a participatory prototyping process. As a result, they designed CoGovern an online participation tool whose focus is to incorporate citizen preferences in local policy making. CoGovern is aimed at supporting informed and transparent partic...

identifying role of extension system in adoption of new technologies have important role to developing favorable extension systems. for supporting sustainable agriculture in iran needs extension systems to be carefully thought and accurately implemented. the purpose of this is analyzing role of extension activities in adoption of sustainable agriculture. based on the results the attending agric...

A widely accepted approach in supporting the development of new software is user participation. Many different techniques have been suggested that cover analysis and prototyping. However, software development in general includes changing and extending software that is already in use. In addition, the further development of existing prototypes and pilot systems is the basis for evolutionary soft...

This qualitative study explores the religious development and spiritual formation of African American gay men living with AIDS. In response to an in-depth interviewing approach, 10 men described their experiences of church participation. The participants' data reveal their religious initiation and participation as well as their need to extinguish their affiliation with the black church as a res...

This paper discusses examination, focusing on the possibilities available in ALN based learning. ALN is an acronym for asynchronous learning networks and in this research this means a web based learning environment supporting anywhere/anytime learning. The notion of mandatory participation in learning activities is argued to be more viable in ALNs rather than traditional classrooms. Mandatory p...

the findings revealed that about 31 percent of women were below and 69% were above the food poverty line. comparison of averages of some variables including education status, employment (head of household), income, banking facilities such as credit and loans, property and assets, savings, economic skills, economic participation, government supports, husband's attitude, self-confidence, self-est...

INTRODUCTION Lack of appropriate electronic tools for supporting patient involvement and collaboration with care professionals is a problem in health care. METHODS Care and rehabilitation processes of post-discharge stroke patients were analysed using the concept of interaction points where patients, next-of-kin and care professionals interact and exchange information. Thirteen interviews wit...

BACKGROUND Children with disability engage in less physical activity compared to their typically developing peers. Our aim was to explore the barriers and facilitators to participation in physical activity for this group. METHODS Ten focus groups, involving 63 participants (23 children with disability, 20 parents of children with disability and 20 sport and recreation staff), were held to exp...

When patients take an active role in their healthcare, the results may be better, safer care. That is the premise behind the Ontario Hospital Association's (OHA) "Your Health Care--Be Involved" campaign. Launched in September 2005 by the OHA's Patient Safety Support Service, the campaign encourages active two-way communication between patients and providers and highlights the important role of ...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to present a statement about the involvement of patients in the education of health and social care professionals developed at an international conference in November 2015. It aims to describe the current state and identify action items for the next five years. Design/methodology/approach – The paper describes how patient involvement in education has devel...