In this paper we present an attempt of engaging social media population for bringing crowdsourcing model into a mobile context. The proposed social media crowdsourcing platform leverages the existing social networking applications to rapidly allocate microtasks to a wide network of crowdworkers, and visualizes the geotagged result data in order to create a sort of visual information pool for pu...

the main purpose of this survey was to identify and analyze the barriers in women’s economic participation in the rural regions of the zanjan province. the study was an analytical- explanatory research regarding its method. the statistical population of the study were consisted of all the rural women in the abhar-rod rural district (n= 1300). according to the krejcie and morgan table, a sample ...

the main questions of paper are what are indicators of social development? what is the weight of each of the selected social development indices with weights valuation (entropy), based on 2007 data in iran? how is rating of social development indicators based on the weight of them in iran's provinces and what is the relationship between the scores of social capital and social development s...

community participation, as one of the basic components of sustainable development in a community. this study aimed to determine patterns of community participation, identify factors associated with their social and civic engagement, and examine the relation between the factors and community engagement patterns. patterns of citizen participation were determined in social and civic engagements. ...

participation can be defined as a decision making process influencing on life. this term has been used and discussed more or jess by other scholars but recently it has got new versions of application. one of the recent versions can be called children's social participation which came to existence in recent decades following children rights convention. this fact can be brought into account ...

The present study investigates the relationship between social capital, political participation and socialization of female employees of Educational Department of Bojnourd. The statistical population includes all female employees of Educational Department of Bojnourd who were 150 and were selected by total counting sampling. In term of purpose this is applied research and the method is descript...

the main aim of this study was to investigate the relationship of students' social capital components and entrepreneurship intention. the statistical population of this study consisted of all students of university college of agriculture and natural resources, university of tehran (n=2600) among which 155 students where accessed based on cochran formula and through convenient sampling. data wer...

participation is a process in which people involved to make endeavors aiming at a common goal; and they do this actively, freely with awareness and accountability. women participation as one of the principles for development can be studied from different perspectives. the objective of the present study is to investigate social and cultural factors influencing social participation of rural women...