Influencing urban development through government demonstration projects

Transforming Governments through E-Government Projects

E-Government has been recognized as a powerful tool to help all types of economies – developed,developing and transition – to bring the benefits of the emerging global information society to the largest possible part of their respective populations. The E-Government Handbook for Developing Countries, published by November 2002 by the World Bank infoDev program, is a first attempt to bring toget...

An Overview of Ongoing Research, Development, and Demonstration Projects

Microgrids: An Overview of Ongoing Research, Development, and Demonstration Projects

Sustainable urban development through complete street policy implementation

Nowadays, the expansion of the cities is an inevitable necessity; increasing the dependence of the citizens on motor vehicles and, consequently, making development of the transportation networks a necessity rather than an option. Thus, increasing car ownership and car use has created many problems for the cities, such as increasing greenhouse gas emissions, environmental pollution, casualties o...

Mentoring through scholarship-based academic development projects

While there is definitely a place for centrally delivered Professional Development (PD), staff often don’t transfer what they have learned in the PD sessions and return to their workspace usually continuing as before. This paper describes an evidenceand scholarship-based model of PD, where academic developers work closely with teaching staff on projects designed to address teaching needs specif...