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Information and communication technologies for humanitarian services

This book provides new developments, innovations, and research outcomes; case studies and lessons learned; and other considerations for the creation and deployment of effective ICTs to provide humanitarian services for the resource-constrained and vulnerable populations in the world in order to impr...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Nazrul Islam, Muhammad (Associate professor) (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Stevenage Institution of Engineering and Technology 2020
Colección:IET telecommunications series ; 89.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo

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520 |a This book provides new developments, innovations, and research outcomes; case studies and lessons learned; and other considerations for the creation and deployment of effective ICTs to provide humanitarian services for the resource-constrained and vulnerable populations in the world in order to improve their lives. It contains contributions from researchers, professionals in humanitarian assistance, postgraduate students, and from academia and industry, with varied backgrounds working in the area of ICTs and humanitarian services. The chapters are particularly designed as a series of independent modules, whereas each chapter explores some aspect of humanitarian services through ICTs. Topics of this book include connectivity and communications technologies for humanitarian services; ICTs in disaster mitigation, relief, and recovery; humanized and inclusive education; technologies for the women, disabled, and aged populations; IoT, big data, and blockchain for humanitarian engineering; adopting and adapting ICTs in humanitarian sectors; and other technological advancements for humanitarian assistance 
505 0 |a Cover -- Contents -- About the editor -- Foreword -- 1. Introduction -- 1.1 Motivation for this book -- 1.2 Overview of chapters -- References -- 2. Where are the women? How to design information and communication technology to be inclusive of women and girls in humanitarian settings -- 2.1 Introduction -- 2.2 Know the starting point for women and girls -- 2.3 Systemic barriers to inclusive access -- 2.4 Sample studies on inclusion: Lebanon and Uganda -- 2.4.1 Ownership and possession -- 2.4.2 Barriers to use -- 2.4.3 Affordability/prohibitive cost 
505 8 |a 2.4.4 Disapproval: restrictive social norms/security and safety -- 2.4.5 Relevance and literacy -- 2.4.6 Access matters -- 2.5 Recommendations: design for inclusivity -- 2.5.1 Build an inter-disciplinary team -- 2.5.2 Woman-and girl-centered design -- 2.5.3 Consider guiding principles -- 2.5.4 Mind the gap (assess locally) -- 2.5.5 Address the barriers (do not treat male culture over women's as the accepted norm) -- 2.5.6 Focus on women and girls' participation -- 2.6 Conclusion -- References 
505 8 |a 3. Profound technologies: towards exploring the technological disruption and the challenges for a more humanized and inclusive education -- 3.1 Analysis of technology as cultural anthropology -- 3.2 Modernity and postmodernity: an incomplete cultural transition -- 3.2.1 Main characteristics of modernity -- 3.2.2 Positive macro consequences of modernity -- 3.2.3 Negative macro consequences of modernity -- 3.2.4 The idea of postmodernity -- 3.3 The context of technological disruption and the challenges of humanization -- 3.3.1 Main characteristics of disruptive technologies 
505 8 |a 3.3.2 A deeper look into disruptive technologies -- 3.3.2.1 Technological disruption -- 3.3.2.2 Intelligent cities -- 3.3.2.3 Collaborative economies and work automation -- 3.3.2.4 AI and education -- 3.4 Two reference models to explain the dynamics of the globalized world -- 3.4.1 The pedagogical circuit model of knowledge management -- 3.4.2 The 5R model -- 3.5 The 3D man and the new pyramid of needs -- 3.6 Reflections on a humanized and inclusive appropriation of technologies in society, culture and education -- 3.7 Conclusions -- References 
505 8 |a 4. New frontiers of human wisdom: information, communication and consciousness empowered decision-making under the broader realm of reality -- 4.1 Neural network-assisted information system dynamics for business decision-making -- 4.1.1 Data interface of SD-ANN -- 4.1.2 Decision interface -- 4.1.3 Direction for future research -- 4.2 Science of cognitive consciousness and decision-making: a convergent systemic interface to ANN and GA -- 4.2.1 Dynamics systems approach towards cognitive consciousness -- 4.2.2 GA: consciousness gene 
590 |a Knovel  |b ACADEMIC - General Engineering & Project Administration 
590 |a Knovel  |b ACADEMIC - Software Engineering 
650 0 |a Humanitarian assistance. 
650 0 |a Information technology. 
650 0 |a Cryptography. 
650 0 |a Disasters. 
650 0 |a Distributed databases. 
650 0 |a Educational technology. 
650 0 |a Emergency management. 
650 2 |a Disasters 
650 2 |a Educational Technology 
650 6 |a Aide humanitaire. 
650 6 |a Technologie de l'information. 
650 6 |a Cryptographie. 
650 6 |a Catastrophes. 
650 6 |a Bases de données réparties. 
650 6 |a Technologie éducative. 
650 7 |a information technology.  |2 aat 
650 7 |a disasters.  |2 aat 
650 7 |a Information technology  |2 fast 
650 7 |a Humanitarian assistance  |2 fast 
650 7 |a Cryptography  |2 fast 
650 7 |a Disasters  |2 fast 
650 7 |a Distributed databases  |2 fast 
650 7 |a Educational technology  |2 fast 
650 7 |a Emergency management  |2 fast 
650 7 |a Big Data  |2 inspect 
650 7 |a cryptography  |2 inspect 
650 7 |a disasters  |2 inspect 
650 7 |a distributed databases  |2 inspect 
650 7 |a educational technology  |2 inspect 
650 7 |a emergency management  |2 inspect 
650 7 |a Internet of Things  |2 inspect 
650 7 |a social aspects of automation  |2 inspect 
653 |a humanitarian engineering 
653 |a blockchain 
653 |a big data 
653 |a IoT 
653 |a women 
653 |a disabled population 
653 |a aged population 
653 |a humanized education 
653 |a inclusive education 
653 |a disaster recovery 
653 |a disaster relief 
653 |a disaster mitigation 
653 |a humanitarian assistance 
653 |a resource-constrained populations 
653 |a vulnerable populations 
653 |a humanitarian services 
653 |a information and communication technologies 
653 |a ICTs 
700 1 |a Nazrul Islam, Muhammad  |c (Associate professor),  |e editor. 
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