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Towards a participatory, co-operative and sustainable information society? A critical analysis of Swedish ICT policy discourses Universiteit Gent
Sweden – like the other Nordic countries – is recognized as a leading IT nation. For this reason it is important to evaluate the specificities of Swedish policy discourses on the information society. The development of the information society has been a key topic in policy debates since the mid-1990s. More recently, new concepts such as ‘sustainable’ or ‘green knowledge society’ have emerged. This puts forward new questions about which type of ...
Invasive Alien Species in Belgian marine waters: an information platform and checklist for science and policy support Vlaams Instituut voor de Zee
- Since 2006, the ‘VLIZ Alien Species Consortium’ has collected data and information on species that were introduced by humans in marine and brackish habitats and have established reproducing populations in the study area. The consortium consists of a network of experts in marine and brackish environments in Belgium, representing more than 22 different institutions and supported by a secretariat hosted at Flanders Marine Institute VLIZ. ...
The global sporting arms race. The nine sport policy factors leading to international sporting success. Pillar 9: scientific research. IASI (Ed). Proceedings of the World Sport Information Congress. Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Over the last few decades the power struggle between nations to be leading in major international competitions has intensified. This has led to national sports organisations and governments throughout the world spending increasing sums of money on elite sport. Several nations have indeed shown that elite sporting success can be produced by investing strategically in elite sport. Nations are searching for the keys to success by copying elite ...
Top-down policy implementation and social workers as institutional entrepreneurs : the case of an electronic information eystem in Belgium Universiteit Gent
Polarizing policy opinions with conflict framed information : activating negative views of political parties in a multi-party system Universiteit Gent
Dubious use or misuse of scientific information in commerce and policy making e.g. the swimsuit case Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Regardless the active resistance data acquisation variance between the Marine Test Station (Brussels-Wageningen) data, the Swimming Flume (Stockholm) findings, the Measuring Active Drag (MAD-Amsterdam), the device for measuring active drag (DAD-Beijing) or the Velocity Perturbation Method (VPM), these approaches do not interfere with the direct obtained values of passive drag e.g. Ds versus Dp and with our laminar and turbulent flow knowledge. ...
From Access to Documents to Consumption of Information. The European Commission Transparency Policy for the TTIP Negotiations KU Leuven
To increase transparency of the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) negotiations, the European Commission has reformed existing information sharing systems for trade policy. The Commission has moved from a strategy of providing transparency in the form of access to documents to one of access to information, geared specifically towards enhancing consumption of the available information. In both public and institutional ...
Information Frictions and Adverse Selection: Policy Interventions in Health Insurance Markets KU Leuven
© 2019 by the President and Fellows of Harvard College and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Despite evidence that many consumers in health insurance markets are subject to information frictions, approaches used to evaluate these markets typically assume informed, active consumers. We develop a general framework to study insurance market equilibrium in the presence of choice frictions and evaluate key policy interventions. We identify ...
On the use of predictive information in a joint maintenance and inventory policy KU Leuven
Industrial manufacturing equipment and systems are becoming more complex; this complexity introduces additional interdependencies between components and systems. To cope with this, new maintenance policies like condition monitoring and prognostics are developed to predict the remaining useful life (RUL) of components. However, decision making based on these predictions is still an underexplored area of maintenance management. Furthermore, ...