Wereldwijd onderzoek: Hoe gebruiken nieuwsmedia social media? Jongeren lezen geen krant meer, ze kijken op hun smartphone die ze altijd bij de hand hebben. Binnen het lectoraat social media en reputatiemanagement van NHL hogeschool te Leeuwarden heeft een groep internationale studenten in 12 landen onderzoek gedaan. Hierbij hebben ze meer dan 150 social media sites bestudeerd van nieuws media. De resultaten maken deel uit van een internationaal onderzoek van NHL Hogeschool en Haaga Helia University. De onderzoeksvraag was: Wat speelt zich af in de nieuwsmedia? Persbureaus kunnen het overzicht gebruiken om hun social media te optimaliseren. En voor ieder die journalistiek een warm hart toedraagt is het interessante informatie over de nieuwsmedia in een overgangssituatie (2nd edition)
Purpose Currently, most technology (robotics, smart homes, etc) that has been developed for the healthcare sector are difficult in use, expensive and often not affordable for individual persons in their home situation. Affordable innovations that activate people instead of taking tasks over can be a major breakthrough intervention in several treatments for different patient groups. On the other hand the already existing assistive innovations in home situations still don’t reach a large population (1). Scaling up innovations in public sectors, has more challenges in comparison with private sectors (2,3). The hypothesis of this study is that technical innovations need a social innovative approach to improve the availability and the use of technology by a larger population of people living with dementia. Method A Dutch Ecosystem research model for Dementia Care (EDC) was created. The main building blocks of social innovation in the EDC are communities of practice (CoP). In these CoPs, representatives of companies, knowledge institutes, healthcare organizations and governmental bodies are collaborating to study how people with dementia can be sufficiently supported based on three key principles: shared values, shared knowledge, shared savings. Per CoP case-studies are done. One CoP and accompanying case study focussed on putting ambulant nursing students as linking pin between assistive technology and people living with dementia at home. Results & Discussion A CoP seems to be a strong vehicle to tackle and gain knowledge on a specific issue, in this case reducing the gap between innovative assistive technology and people living with dementia. One major barrier (Table 1) for clients is to ask for help in learning to use technology. Healthcare students appear to be the linking pin between stakeholders’ perspectives and overcome the barrier of hesitant to ask for help. The huge intrinsic drive to come up with solutions from different stakeholder perspectives is structurally facilitated by the EDC.
This PhD research project is about how Dutch development NGOs use social media for their development projects. For this, the following research question has been investigated: how do Dutch development NGOs use social media to further the development activities of their organisations? The purpose of this study is to understand how development NGOs are trying to get to grips with social media. Given the exploratory nature of this research, a qualitative research approach was adopted. Both case studies and the grounded theory method were used for this study. This combination is ideal because with a case study one tries to understand, or explore a phenomenon, whereas, in grounded theory studies, one tries to build theory. Given that this study is concerned with how Dutch development NGOs perceive social media for their development projects, an interpretive paradigm seems appropriate. The grounded theory methodology for this research is consistent with the epistemology of interpretivism. The combination of case study research and grounded theory works well for theory building and has been applied in Information Systems and ICT for Development studies before. As the use of theory before data collection is in opposition to the principle idea of the grounded theory methodology, in which theory emerges from the data, this needs to be addressed when combining case studies and grounded theory. This issue was resolved by using an initial highlevel conceptual framework as a guiding instrument for both the noncommittal literature research and for the conceptualisation of the research problem, whilst not distorting the emergence of theory from the data. This study focuses on formally organised development NGOs who receive funding from the Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs for their development projects. From the approximately 100 organisations, fourteen NGOs were selected for this study. The choice of fourteen NGOs was driven by a theoretical sampling strategy. Data was collected via semi-structured interviews with 18 respondents and field-notes of meetings or events of 14 development NGOs. The data was analysed using the Glaserian coding procedure of grounded theory, starting with open coding, followed by selective coding, and ending with theoretical coding. Three major themes (or core categories as they are called in the grounded theory method), were identified. This study's first contribution is captured in the theme ‘NGO Enacting Values in Development’. This is about how an organisation’s values are enacted in the context of international development. The organisational mixture of development mind-sets influences organisational activities in development. The ideological trends that are stimulated by societal and technological changes have an impact on the organisation’s development strategy and the strategic collaboration network of development NGOs. The second contribution of this study is captured in the theme ‘NGO’s Views on Social Media Use’. This core category discusses the organisation’s view on the meaning of social media and includes the four following categories: technological, individual, collective and contextual views attributed to organisational social media. The four categories empirically demonstrate the concept of affordance clusters and the connections between them. The study’s third contribution is captured in the theme ‘NGO’s Use of Social Media in Development’, encompassing the social media activities of the studied development NGOs in their development projects. This has led to an assessment framework of organisational social media use by development NGOs, constructed by cross-referencing the organisational goals of development NGOs to the social media activity areas in the context of development. These themes represented by three core categories are inter-related. Feedback loops between NGO’s values in development, views on social media, and the actual uses of social media for development purposes have been discerned. This grounded theory study aims to build an initial theory of how NGOs might approach the use of social media in a development context. This qualitative study has produced some new concepts. This study has led to a substantive theory in the context of international development. Furthermore, this substantive theory is compared with three theory lenses, when applied on the data collected for this PhD research, in their ability to identify similar concepts as reached with the substantive theory following the grounded theory method. Finally, the thesis presents some avenues for future research that may help expand the substantive theory that has been developed under this research to formal theory
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Due to societal developments, like the introduction of the ‘civil society’, policy stimulating longer living at home and the separation of housing and care, the housing situation of older citizens is a relevant and pressing issue for housing-, governance- and care organizations. The current situation of living with care already benefits from technological advancement. The wide application of technology especially in care homes brings the emergence of a new source of information that becomes invaluable in order to understand how the smart urban environment affects the health of older people. The goal of this proposal is to develop an approach for designing smart neighborhoods, in order to assist and engage older adults living there. This approach will be applied to a neighborhood in Aalst-Waalre which will be developed into a living lab. The research will involve: (1) Insight into social-spatial factors underlying a smart neighborhood; (2) Identifying governance and organizational context; (3) Identifying needs and preferences of the (future) inhabitant; (4) Matching needs & preferences to potential socio-techno-spatial solutions. A mixed methods approach fusing quantitative and qualitative methods towards understanding the impacts of smart environment will be investigated. After 12 months, employing several concepts of urban computing, such as pattern recognition and predictive modelling , using the focus groups from the different organizations as well as primary end-users, and exploring how physiological data can be embedded in data-driven strategies for the enhancement of active ageing in this neighborhood will result in design solutions and strategies for a more care-friendly neighborhood.
Anne4Care is een virtuele assistent ontwikkeld door Virtual Assistant BV. Zij biedt ondersteuning aan mensen met cognitieve problemen bij het behouden van dagstructuur, het onderhouden van sociale contacten en uitvoeren van betekenisvolle dagactiviteiten. De instructiematerialen zijn in de Nederlandse taal beschikbaar en gericht op gebruikers met een Nederlandse achtergrond. Anne4Care wordt op dit moment geïmplementeerd bij een dagbesteding van IMEAN Care in Almelo voor migrantenouderen. IT-professionals van Anne4Care en de zorgprofessionals van de dagbesteding van IMEAN hebben behoefte aan instructiematerialen en leermethoden die aansluiten op de behoeften van de groep migrantenouderen. Met als doel de introductie, acceptatie en het gebruik van Anne4Care zo optimaal mogelijk te laten verlopen. Dit zal resulteren in een betere ondersteuning van migrantenouderen en daarmee sociale inclusie en zinvolle dagbesteding bevorderen. Het consortium bestaat uit mbk-partners IMEAN Care (praktijk) en Virtual Assistant BV (technologieontwikkelaar) en de lectoraten Technology, Health & Care en Verpleegkunde van hogeschool Saxion. Samen met eindgebruikers (migrantenouderenouderen, hun mantelzorgers en zorgprofessionals) worden instructiematerialen en leermethoden ontwikkeld voor het gebruik van Anne4Care. Op basis van (1) observationeel en (2) literatuuronderzoek wordt een programma van eisen opgesteld. Vervolgens worden in co-creatie met eindgebruikers de instructiematerialen en leermethoden ontwikkeld en geëvalueerd. Tot slot zal virtuele assistent Anne4Care zelf een rol krijgen als instructrice waarbij een onboarding faciliteit wordt gecreëerd. De resultaten van dit project zijn: - Programma van eisen waaraan de instructiematerialen en leermethoden aan moeten voldoen - Instructiematerialen en leermethoden passend bij de wensen en behoeften van migrantenouderen, hun mantelzorgers en zorgprofessionals - Onboarding faciliteit op de tablet: Anne4Care als ‘instructrice’ in eigen (Turkse) taal - Inzicht in het gebruik en het gemak van Anne4Care en de instructiematerialen - Inzicht in de invloed van de instructiematerialen en leermethoden op het gebruik van Anne4Care.
Due to the existing pressure for a more rational use of the water, many public managers and industries have to re-think/adapt their processes towards a more circular approach. Such pressure is even more critical in the Rio Doce region, Minas Gerais, due to the large environmental accident occurred in 2015. Cenibra (pulp mill) is an example of such industries due to the fact that it is situated in the river basin and that it has a water demanding process. The current proposal is meant as an academic and engineering study to propose possible solutions to decrease the total water consumption of the mill and, thus, decrease the total stress on the Rio Doce basin. The work will be divided in three working packages, namely: (i) evaluation (modelling) of the mill process and water balance (ii) application and operation of a pilot scale wastewater treatment plant (iii) analysis of the impacts caused by the improvement of the process. The second work package will also be conducted (in parallel) with a lab scale setup in The Netherlands to allow fast adjustments and broaden evaluation of the setup/process performance. The actions will focus on reducing the mill total water consumption in 20%.
