Models to engage vulnerable migrants and refugees in their health, through community empowerment and learning alliance

The present report consists of four chapters: Chapter 1 provides the general context of My Health as a research project by presenting its background, main objectives-outputs and work packages, aim and criteria of the final report (D2.2) as per the Evaluation Plan, deliverables and milestones (MS6), the methods used for this evaluation and the team collaborating in the elaboration of the report. Chapter 2 discusses and responds to the five evaluation questions MyHealth outlined in its evaluation plan in month 4th. They are respectively: i) how did MyHealth face the main obstacles identified and solved? ii) how have both MyHealth outputs and outcomes improved the health situation of unaccompanied children and women? iii) what are the main criteria emerging from MyHealth regarding quality, effectiveness and sustainability when working with VMR, particularly WUM? iv) to what extent has the use of some components of the LA methodology contributed to the learning and strengthening of the impact of MyHealth as seen by the stakeholders? And finally, v) were expected outputs and outcomes of MyHealth achieved by June 2020? Why, or why not? Chapter 3 discusses the overall evaluation of MyHealth according to its relevance as a project, its efficiency, effectiveness, impact and sustainability. Chapter 4 provides a general conclusion to the report and includes a list of recommendations according to methodology, policy, women and unaccompanied minors (WUM), health promotion, EU projects on VMR-WUM, EU administrative procedures and dissemination. The report is complemented with eight annexes

Heterogeneity, High Performance Computing, Self-Organization and the Cloud

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Datafication, Fluidity, and Organisational Change: Towards A Universal ‘PSM 3.0’

The RIPE Reader series is ten years old. It's the publishing element of the ten year RIPE initiative (Reinvigorating the Public Media Enterprise). RIPE is a bi-annual conference and bi-annual Reader. The publisher is Nordicom

Heterogeneity, High Performance Computing, Self-Organization and the Cloud

application; blueprints; self-management; self-organisation; resource management; supply chain; big data; PaaS; Saas; HPCaa

Identifying Issues for the Bright ICT Initiative: A Worldwide Delphi Study of IS Journal Editors and Scholars

Information and communication technology (ICT) continues to change business as we know it. As ICT further integrates into our daily lives, it creates more opportunities to both help and hinder fundamental social problems throughout the world. In response to these growing and urgent societal needs, the Association for Information Systems approved the Bright ICT Initiative to extend IS research beyond a focus on business to take on the broader challenges of an ICT-enabled bright society. We conducted a Delphi study to provide guidance on where bright ICT-minded researchers might focus to produce their greatest impact. In this paper, we report on our findings. The Delphi panel comprised 182 globally distributed IS journal editors who participated in a three-round consensus-building process via the Internet. Our results provide a framework of eleven research priority areas and specific research topics for those engaged in future-oriented, socially conscious IS research

Heterogeneity, high performance computing, self-organization and the Cloud

This open access book addresses the most recent developments in cloud computing such as HPC in the Cloud, heterogeneous cloud, self-organising and self-management, and discusses the business implications of cloud computing adoption. Establishing the need for a new architecture for cloud computing, it discusses a novel cloud management and delivery architecture based on the principles of self-organisation and self-management. This focus shifts the deployment and optimisation effort from the consumer to the software stack running on the cloud infrastructure. It also outlines validation challenges and introduces a novel generalised extensible simulation framework to illustrate the effectiveness, performance and scalability of self-organising and self-managing delivery models on hyperscale cloud infrastructures. It concludes with a number of potential use cases for self-organising, self-managing clouds and the impact on those businesses

Comm-entary, Spring 2014 - Full Issue

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