Good Intercultural Practices in Social Services Projects

Intercultural Comfort through Social Practices: Exploring Conditions for Cultural Learning

High-quality cross-ethnic interactions contribute to college students’ development, but knowledge is scant concerning campus settings and conditions that promote these interactions. This study indicates that distinct social practices in particular settings create such conditions. Phenomenological analysis of current and past members of a voluntary community service association (a pseudonym), ap...

Data Projects for “Social Good”: Challenges and Opportunities

One of the application fields for data analysis techniques and technologies gaining momentum is the area of social good or “common good”, covering cases related to humanitarian crises, global health care, or ecology and environmental issues, among others. The promotion of data-driven projects in this field aims at increasing the efficacy and efficiency of social initiatives, improving the way t...

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Social Web Applications for Intercultural Projects – Results of a Japanese-hungarian Collaborative Teaching Experiment

This paper presents a model for using an interrelated set of Web 2.0 applications for making intercultural learning a social cognitive process that constitutes a cycle of personal and social knowledge-building. Relationships between individual minds of different socio-cultural backgrounds are established through internet based, individual, pair and group work. Our model is based on the trialogi...

Good Architecture = Good (ADL + Practices)

In order to ensure the quality of their software development, companies incorporate best practices from recognized repositories or from their own experiences. These best practices are often described in software quality manuals which does not guarantee their implementation. In this paper, we propose a framework for the implementation of best practices concerning the design of the software archi...