DIGITAL SPATIAL COMPETITION IN THE GLOBAL INFORMATION SPACE

Spatial Analysis of the Global Digital Divide

The global pattern of social, economic, and political influences on technology utilization is analyzed through a combination of linear regression and spatial analysis. The conceptual framework is based on prior research findings on the global digital divide, including non-spatial determinants and on geographic differences. The theory posits that higher levels of technological utilization are ba...

Membrane Research in a Global Context Requires Collaboration, not Competition!

Power and Politics in the Global Health Landscape: Beliefs, Competition and Negotiation Among Global Advocacy Coalitions in the Policy-Making Process

Background Advocacy coalitions play an increasingly prominent role within the global health landscape, linking actors and institutions to attract political attention and resources. This paper examines how coalitions negotiate among themselves and exercise hidden forms of power to produce policy on the basis of their beliefs and strategic interests.   Methods This paper examines the beliefs and ...

Using ISO-Space for Annotating Spatial Information

In this paper, we describe ISO-Space, an annotation language currently under community development for encoding spatial and spatiotemporal information as expressed in natural language text. After reviewing the requirements of a specification for capturing such knowledge from linguistic descriptions, we demonstrate how ISO-Space aims to address these problems. ISO-Space is an emerging resource t...

SICS in Global Competition