The metadata infrastructure of a statistical office should provide different kinds of metadata, serving the needs of different kinds of users. The metadata systems need to be organized in such a way that metadata can be captured and processed in an efficient way, without too much manual work and with efficient computer support. The paper describes on-going efforts at Statistics Sweden to achiev...

We adapt game theoretic methods for studying the security of two evoting systems: the Estonian E-Voting System (EstEVS) and Secure Electronic Registration and Voting Experiment (SERVE) performed in the United States of America. While these two systems are quite similar from technical side, security experts have made totally different decisions about their security—EstEVS was indeed used in prac...

The paper investigates augmented reality as a perspective on the design of computer support for process control in a distributed environment. Based on empirical studies of work in a wastewater treatment plant, three technical approaches on augmented reality — augmenting the user; the object of work; and the environment — are examined in terms of a collection of design scenarios .We conclude tha...

The two main reasons cited by the U.S. tech industry for hiring foreign workers­­remedying labor shortages and hiring "the best and the brightest"­­are not supported by the data, even after excluding the Indian IT service firms. Instead, the primary goals of employers in hiring the foreign workers are to reduce labor costs and to obtain "indentured" employees. Current immigration policy is caus...

There is growing interest in providing computer support for an organisation’ s business processes such as customer order processing, product support, stock taking and so forth. Workflow systems are normally used for this purpose to co-ordinate and monitor execution of multiple tasks arranged to form business processes. In this context computer support for work activity co-ordination will be tak...

This paper reports the findings of a study that examines the evolving relationships between the state’s entrepreneurial role and market factors such as business support services, business training and professional development, technological and information support services and SMEs’ development in Vietnam. This study uses an institutional approach to study how the entrepreneurial state influenc...

Here we describe “Innovation and Entrepreneurship in Medicine” (IEMed), a short elective course that exposed medical students to innovation and entrepreneurship. We assess students’ self-rated familiarity with various learning objectives after the course and report survey outcomes. Students were most interested in further educational offerings focused on startups and innovation. However, studen...

In this article, I examine HP’s e-Inclusion program and its implementation in India to show how the high-tech industry’s efforts to alleviate poverty proatably are guided by C. K. Prahalad’s ideas about the Bottom of the Pyramid (BoP), and are framed as digital corporate citizenship activities. While the BoP highlights the importance of new markets for high-tech companies, the discourse of digi...

All Authors contributed equally; they appear in alphabetical order. Abstract Continuous improvement is a well known method for improving an organization step by step. This paper shows that with computer support even an improvement process can be improved. It presents a long-term study of GSS use in the Hohenheim Computer Aided Team (CATeam) room. Over two years the authors observed a natural gr...

In this paper, we describe a unique approach to the creation of a system to provide electronic performance support and training for electronics technicians. This work starts with a survey of relevant approaches to knowledge elicitation and modeling for performance support, and a review of other systems that have been created to assist with electronics troubleshooting. We then describe a system ...