The discussion on ICT for developing countries often focuses on interface design to include marginalized users. However, this is only part of the challenge the development of ICT in such contexts face. Based on two past projects and an ongoing one, this position paper categorizes the diverse challenges the provision of financial infrastructures for rural and underserved societies encounter. Man...

Knowledge spillovers are a central part of knowledge accumulation. The open source model is a form of software development with source code that is typically made available to all interested parties. At the core of this process is a decentralized production process. Using data from Sourceforge.net, the largest repository of Open Source Software (OSS) projects and contributors on the Internet, w...

When starting my investigation of Swedish printing on demand last year in March, I could find one (1) Swedish project marketing and selling print on demand produced books on the Internet. Today there are four similar projects and one more is taking shape as I speak. Even though these four projects in motion have not got more than a year to produce and make progress, I think it is possible to di...

In this paper we discuss issues involved in creating art and cultural heritage projects in Virtual Reality with particular reference to one interactive narrative, “The Thing Growing”. In the first section we will briefly discuss the potential of VR as a medium for the production of art and the interpretation of culture. In the second section we describe “The Thing Growing” project. In the third...

Notions of identity in Taiwan are configured in relation to numbers. I examine the polyvalent capacities of enumerative technologies in both the production of ethnic identities and claims to political representation and justice. By critically historicizing the manner in which Aborigines in Taiwan have been, and continue to be, constructed as objects and subjects of scientific knowledge producti...

We suggest a novel approach to modelling and solving production planning (PP) problems in make-to-order production environments. This approach unifies the capacity and the material flow oriented aspects of PP. Orders are modelled as projects that compete for limited resources. The projects consist of networks of variable-intensity activities which may require several resources at the same time....

the rycroft-malone paper states that co-production relies on ‘authentic’ collaboration as a context for action. our commentary supports and extends this assertion. we suggest that ‘authentic’ co-production involves processes where participants can ‘see’ the difference that they have made within the project and beyond. we provide examples including: the use of design in health projects which see...

The TCS-08, ITOP, and PREDICT field programs provided a rich set of data including Eldora radar data (TCS-08) and dropsondes (all projects) from a variety of platforms. We have analyzed the data from all three of these projects, focusing on the production of the three-dimensional variational analyses (3D-VAR) of winds and thermodynamic data for all potential cyclogenesis cases. From these analy...

Many recent accelerator projects call for the production of high energy bunches of electrons or positrons that are simultaneously short, intense, and have small emittances. Examples of such projects are the Self-Amplified Spontaneous Emission (SASE) FEL’s, such as the Linac Coherent Light Source (LCLS). A major challenge is keeping in check forces that increase beam emittances in accelerator co...

3D reconstruction technologies have gained importance as tools for the research and visualization of no longer extant historic objects during the last decade. Within such reconstruction processes, visual media assumes several important roles: as the most important sources especially for a reconstruction of no longer extant objects, as a tool for communication and cooperation within the producti...