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Trafficking and technology : exploring the role of digital communication technologies in the Belgian human trafficking business Ghent University
Digital transition in rural emergency medicine: Impact of job satisfaction and workload on communication and technology acceptance KU Leuven
BACKGROUND: Tele-emergency physicians (TEPs) take an increasingly important role in the need-oriented provision of emergency patient care. To improve emergency medicine in rural areas, we set up the project 'Rural|Rescue', which uses TEPs to restructure professional rescue services using information and communication technologies (ICTs) in order to reduce the therapy-free interval. Successful implementation of ICTs relies on user acceptance and ...
Special Issue: Questioning Modern Surveillance Technologies: Ethical and Legal Challenges of Emerging Information and Communication Technologies Vrije Universiteit Brussel
This Special Issue explores ethical and legal challenges of existing and emerging ICTs used in the context of security and surveillance from the vantage point of several disciplines and interpretive paradigms. The contributions discuss issues and gaps existing in current regulatory frameworks and planned policy measures designed to address the challenges associated with the promotion of digital technologies in society. They address the need to ...
Information and Communication Systems to Tackle Barriers to Breastfeeding: Systematic Search and Review KU Leuven
Background: Breastfeeding has many benefits for newborns, mothers, and the wider society. The World Health Organization recommends mothers to feed newborns exclusively with breastmilk for the first 6 months after birth, but breastfeeding rates in many countries fail to align with the recommendations because of various barriers. Breastfeeding success is associated with a number of determinants, such as self-efficacy, intention to breastfeed, and ...
Introduction to the Special Issue Questioning Modern Surveillance Technologies: Ethical and Legal Challenges of Emerging Information and Communication Technologies Vrije Universiteit Brussel
This Special Issue explores ethical and legal challenges of existing and emerging ICTs used in the context of security and surveillance from the vantage point of several disciplines and interpretive paradigms. The contributions discuss issues and gaps existing in current regulatory frameworks and planned policy measures designed to address the challenges associated with the promotion of digital technologies in society. They address the need to ...
Journal of Information, Communication and Ethics in Society, Vrije Universiteit Brussel
The purpose of this paper is to discuss whether existing organisations that seek to integrate a range of stakeholders (i.e. senior citizens, industry, academics, public authorities, civil society organisations and the media) in the ?eld of information and communication technology (ICT) and ageing are adequately meeting the needs of each of these stakeholder groups, and to determine whether a new, or re-organised, mechanism is needed to better ...
Information and communication technologies to provide agricultural advice to smallholder farmers University of Antwerp KU Leuven
Agricultural advisory services generally rely on interpersonal knowledge transfers by agricultural extension agents who visit farmers to provide information. This approach is not always effective and has proved hard to scale sustainably, particularly in highly dispersed smallholder farming systems. Information and communication technologies (ICTs) have been advanced as a promising way to overcome many of the problems associated with conventional ...
Use of information and communication technologies (ICTs) in cancer multidisciplinary team meetings: an explorative study based on EU healthcare professionals KU Leuven
OBJECTIVES: Multidisciplinary teams in cancer care are increasingly using information and communication technology (ICT), hospital health information system (HIS) functionalities and ICT-driven care components. We aimed to explore the use of these tools in multidisciplinary team meetings (MTMs) and to identify the critical challenges posed by their adoption based on the perspective of professionals representatives from European scientific ...
Methodology for the Integration of Information, Communication and Automation Technologies in Housing Rehabilitation University of Antwerp
This paper addresses the integration of Information, Communication and Automation Technologies (ICAT) in the dwelling space in order to meet the user's needs. We describe an ongoing PhD research which deals with the rehabilitation of the existing housing stock in order to fulfil the new needs of dwellers in the current Information Society as well as the impact of the integration of ICAT in dwellings. For this purpose we establish a ...