This study aims to redefine spaces of learning to places of learning through the direct engagement of local communities as a way to examine and learn from real world issues in the city. This paper exemplifies Smart City Learning, where the key goal is to promote the generation and exchange of urban design ideas for the future development of South Bank, in Brisbane, Australia, informing the crea...

& The Learning Grid refers to the promise of projects that pool together instructional materials on distant computers. The Grid provides a wide range of available and potential learning services and resources and does not simply refer to taking advantage of the multiplying effects of connectivity. It supports the personalized use of the collective intelligence provided by networked computers an...

With the advent of machine learning in applications critical infrastructure such as healthcare and energy, privacy is a growing concern minds stakeholders. It pivotal to ensure that neither model nor data can be used extract sensitive information by attackers against individuals or harm whole societies through exploitation infrastructure. The applicability these domains mostly limited due lack ...

This is the second special issue on the topic of “implementation of Spatial Data Infrastructures (SDI) in transitional economies.” In the introduction to the first special issue (Georgiadou, Bernard, & Sahay, 2006), we argued that the majority of SDI initiatives in developing countries are characterized by a technical focus and a journalistic discourse (more hype and grand visions and less of r...

21st century cyber infrastructures for distributed learning, communication, and knowledge sharing are unprecedented in the opportunities they provide for global citizens to come together to try to solve the great global crises of our time. Science and scientific research plays a critical role, yet to solve these crises requires a range of skills and understandings that include, yet go beyond sc...

Scientific computing relies heavily on e-Infrastructures as one of the cornerstones of today’s advancements in research. These e-Infrastructures include advanced IT architectures such as supercomputers, grids, clouds, and the networks interconnecting them. In order to deliver high-quality services provided by these systems to the users, adequate IT management is an essential requirement. The Le...