This half-day tutorial, to be delivered in English, provides practical answers to the questions: – Monitoring digital health: how to produce comparable statistical data for assessing the adoption of digital technology in healthcare establishments? – What should be assessed in healthcare establishments' websites? and – How should it be assessed?
The internet has become the source of information that most people generally prefer. This is also true in the field of health sector where patients and their relatives search for information on hospitals websites before visiting them. These websites are the link between patients and hospitals and should be a reliable source of information and a centre of interaction where users can trust. In Greece, there are 240 hospitals, both in the public and private sector, which have a functional website. All these websites were assessed using the Health Sector Website Assessment Instrument (HSWAI), a four dimensional-criterion evaluation tool which was created for this exact purpose: to assess hospitals websites. In this paper, we present the results of this assessment where important and interesting conclusions emerged and various comparisons were made. This assessment evidences that Greek hospitals, while they have very good technological features they do not provide good and quality services to their users, which is the most important. Specific assessment aspects that should be reconsidered are also identified. We strongly believe that our findings could help designers, owners or even administrators of these websites to identify their weaknesses and find the areas that need to be improved in order to provide better services to their users. Finally, the specific case can be used as a guide for application in other countries where HSWAI application can provide comparable results.
Mobility has been a big issue in the cities. Nowadays, urbanization has extended its branches to rural communities to improve agricultural businesses. This research develops an experimental application of a cognitive model to test the right to food sovereignty and to enable rural families to develop their subsistence farming activity through integrated territorial planning, as well as technological and governance solutions that facilitate affordable and safe mobility for women farmers and promote fair trade. A qualitative-based experimental methodology was used for testing the model in the Cuenca city parish of Sinincay, Ecuador. Early outcome was picked using the mobile application named Allpa Warmi, which establishes eight cognitive strategies with use scenarios of empowerment of women farmers. The validated scenarios allow female farmers to manage the sales activities of their agricultural products, to promote sustainable mobility between the city and the countryside through unnecessary travel, with new marketing network circuits.
Zero-rating is the practice of mobile network operators in which data traffic generated by specific applications does not count towards a subscriber's Internet data allowance. This practice has received considerable attention in the discussion about net neutrality. Although in South America, some Network Neutrality laws have zero-rating restrictions, those are not absolute and have become increasingly popular among operators. However, some scholars highlight that the practice could violate network neutrality principles, and users' rights, while others argue that it allows users to access the Internet at a lower cost. The present article analyses the zero-rating offers in four South American countries using a political-economic and developmental approach to identify the possible effects on access, competition, use, and affordability. The empirical results reveal positive and negative effects, depending on a specific market, where zero-rating could be partially positive for Colombia and Ecuador but not for Chile and Brazil.
This paper outlines a research plan that aims to build resilient and adaptive systems for public sensemaking through conversational agent-enabled, narrative-based, autonomous self-actualization interventions. Our research follows a design science research (DSR) methodological approach that is comprised of iterative design cycles (DC) and provides design principles (DP) and testable propositions (TP) as an outcome. The individual-centered approach serves as a basis to explore ways to harness these narrative-based interventions for large-scale public sensemaking. The proposed DP have yet to be fully evaluated as testable propositions in an experimental setting, but we are considering future directions for improving the developmental intervention or allowing for easier evaluation.
