Many activities related to cybercrime operations do not require much secrecy, such as developing websites or translating texts. This research provides indications that many users of a popular public internet marketing forum have connections cybercrime. It does so by investigating the involvement in population interested marketing, both at micro and macro scale. The starts with case study three ...

This paper reviews international law and policy regarding the rights of indigenous peoples and local communities that are defining the role of traditional and indigenous knowledge in the management and conservation of biodiversity. The most influential forums occur within the United Nations system, particularly the Working Group on Indigenous Populations and the Convention on Biological Diversi...

When facilitating asynchronous discussion forums, should online instructors be encouraged to take a prominent ‘sage on the stage’ role, a more constructivist ‘guide on the side’ role, or an ultra low profile as ‘the ghost in the wings’? There is no shortage of anecdotal advice on how to conduct discussion forums in online education, but there appears to be very little research available so far ...

In the 2010s Russia, government-organized local, regional and national youth forums have become major sites for state-youth interaction. These typically weeklong summer camps are organized across attracting up to one million participants annually. Although diverse foci, they all formal platforms of participation, aimed at young people engaging in ‘compliant’ forms activism. Drawing from qualita...

Chapter 3 of the Constitution South Africa makes provision for cooperative system governance between three tiers government: national, provincial and local. In higher education this finds expression through Higher Education Act 101 1997 institutional statutes. Cooperative public universities pivots around key actors as part democratisation governance. is an important twentieth-century innovatio...

Abstract The exchange of information among organizations is the lifeblood governance networks. It a necessary condition for successful governance. Political divides between often impede exchange. We ask which are most likely to broker across political divides. consider survey ( n = 312) evidence technical in Swiss water Bayesian exponential random graph modeling results show that scientific pla...

Social media such as online forum and weblog are composed of dense interactions between user and content where network models are often appropriate for analysis. Using Markov logic network, user participation models can be developed to help us gain insights on the latent base topics of online discussions. Furthermore, joint non-negative matrix factorization model of participation and content da...

This paper examines efforts to provide low cost Internet access devices for the poor in the light of debates about the appropriate role of information and communication technologies in development and the priority that should be given to enabling the poor to become connected to global networks. A critical analysis of recent private sector initiatives to design low cost laptop computers is offer...

This 24-nation European–US study (1999–2000) of the democratic political values, attitudes, and behavior of adolescents uncovers a generally high level of self-predicted future political participation as adults. Four of five14-year-olds regard themselves as future voters, and 61% predict involvement in protest activities. Moreover, law breaking as an act of protest is almost as attractive in th...