At the level of individual projects, each ESPRIT project is contracted to a consortium of organisations, with a minimum of two partners from different member states; projects are typically contracted to 4 to 8 partners. A major difference for the participants is also that the Community supports 50% of the project budget, as opposed to 100% with DARPA. The other 50% contributions come from the o...

The structural contingency perspective has been widely used in information systems development (ISD) project risk management research. This paper develops an integrative model to explore the moderating effects of uncertainty on the relationship between risk management and IS development project performance from a vendor perspective, rather than the client perspective that is mainly employed in ...

Abstract: The United States Agency for Development in Bolivia (USAID/Bolivia) created in 2002 PROSALUD- Partners for Development Project (PfD) with the aim of improving the population's well-being. The project used three components: small grant scheme, technical assistance and database system management. Through the small grants scheme, the PfD supported a Community Participation Strategy (CPS)...

This paper describes the Structure-Agency Model of User Participation Practice, which incorporates objective and subjective elements of user participation and is inspired by Orlikowski’s Structurational Model of Technology. The research question concerns how the objective-subjective dichotomy can be overcome in user participation research. To test the model, nine in-depth open interviews were c...

Does Promoting School Attendance Reduce Child Labour? Evidence from Burkina Faso’s BRIGHT Project Using data from BRIGHT, an integrated program that aims to improve school participation in rural communities in Burkina Faso, we investigate the impact of school subsidies and increased access to education on child work. Regression discontinuity estimates demonstrate that, while BRIGHT substantiall...

INTRODUCTION A new form of family practices was introduced in 2011 through a pilot project introducing nurse practitioners as members of team and determining a set of quality indicators. The aim of this article was to assess the quality of diabetes and hypertension management. METHODS We included all family medicine practices that were participating in the project in December 2015 (N=584). Th...

As a solution to declining political and civic participation, many governments are seeking to increase the number of citizens who participate in policy-making and governance. Contrary to early expectations, recent research suggests that new information and communications technologies (ICTs) may not increase participation rates in formal organisations, and so may not improve participation rates....

One of the cornerstones of the R system for statistical computing is the multitude of packages contributed by numerous package authors. This amount of packages makes an extremely broad range of statistical techniques and other quantitative methods freely available. Thus far, no empirical study has investigated psychological factors that drive authors to participate in the R project. This articl...

BACKGROUND A large trial to investigate the effectiveness of population based screening for chlamydia infections was conducted in the Netherlands in 2008-2012. The trial was register based and consisted of four rounds of screening of women and men in the age groups 16-29 years in three regions in the Netherlands. Data were collected on participation rates and positivity rates per round. A model...

The hydraulic design of the Yuansantze Flood Diversion Works (YFDW) project was considerably important for flood mitigation in Taiwan, and positive outcomes of the public hearings played a major role in the success of the project. In the beginning of the project, communication between decision makers, engineers and the public was tenuous due to excess engineering details and a lack of integrate...