Farmers learning process have not increased their awareness to understand own problems, potentials, and opportunities. The study aimed analyze participatory methods in the implementation of smallholder farmer empowerment programs. was designed as a quantitative method by survey methods, analysis technique used descriptive statistics. results showed that government's capacity develop small progr...

BACKGROUND The focus of this paper is the new broadened conceptualisation of community-based rehabilitation (CBR), which promotes the empowerment and inclusion of people with disabilities (PWDs) in diverse ways within their communities. New guidelines for CBR were launched in October 2010 by WHO/ILO/UNESCO/IDDC, and this paper describes part of the process by which these were produced using par...

The Making Design and Analysing Interaction track at the Participatory Innovation Conference calls for submissions from ‘Makers’ who will contribute examples of participatory innovation activities documented in video and ‘Analysts’ who will analyse those examples of participatory innovation activity. The aim of this paper is to open up for a discussion within the format of the track of the role...

Participatory Sensing concerns the sharing of sensor information within user communities, forming a body of knowledge that can be beneficial to the community itself, either directly or through specialized applications. We introduce a framework for a marketplace where such applications can sell and buy sensor information. We focus on the buyers’ side and we use various ideas from the cost-sharin...

The purpose of this study is to provide an integrated analysis of water distribution on Maui and the cross-sectoral impacts of policies and regulations aimed at rejuvenating and sustaining the deep-rooted culture on the island. Since the water diversion system was implemented in 1876 on the island of Maui, there has been contention among local interest groups over the right way to manage and al...