LiteMap Outreach and Usage by Brazilian Universities

LiteMap is a cloud-based application for collaborative and individual knowledge mapping developed by the Knowledge Media Institute team. It was translated to Portuguese by the Colearn Community as part of the European ENGAGE project in Brazil in 2015. This report analyse data gathered from the COLEARN Community over two years -November 2015 to November 2017. It describes the range of users from Brazil who accessed LiteMap, their interests and expectations for the tools, some issues they have reported when using it and how was solved. They key outcomes of this report are: ● Growing interest of LiteMap in the postgraduate courses ● Adoption of LiteMap by undergraduates led by a group of lecturers ● Adoption of LiteMap for professional development of teaching staff ● Adoption of Litemap by research communities and PhD students ● Key factors for engaging users with LiteMap from case studies reported by users ● Obstacles faced and recommendation

Adoção de computação em nuvem: estudo de casos múltiplos

Cloud computing is considered a new computational paradigm by many researchers and practitioners. While the number of organizations that have adopted this technology has risen in recent years, it is still just emerging in Brazil. Being an innovative technology, the adoption of cloud computing has attracted the attention of both scholars and organizations. The present study intends to use a multiple case study method to analyze the factors influencing the adoption of cloud computing. The case studies were conducted among Brazilian organizations from different categories: a large retail corporation, a medium-sized mobile marketing company and a small IT services business. The results indicate that the decisive factors influencing the decision to adopt cloud computing are reliability, scalability and cost savings, while the factors security and privacy were also considered relevant. However, interoperability, network access and sustainability were found to be irrelevant in its adoption.Key words: IT adoption, cloud computing, SaaS, IaaS, public cloud, private cloud.A computação em nuvem é considerada um novo paradigma computacional da atualidade. Sua adoção vem crescendo nos últimos anos, contudo ainda é incipiente nas organizações brasileiras. Por se tratar de uma tecnologia inovadora, a adoção de computação em nuvem vem recebendo maior atenção da academia e das organizações. A presente pesquisa tem por objetivo analisar os fatores de adoção da tecnologia nas organizações por meio de estudo de casos múltiplos. Os casos foram realizados em diferentes tipos de organizações: uma grande corporação de varejo, uma média empresa de mobile marketing e uma pequena empresa de serviços de Tecnologia da Informação. Os resultados do estudo apresentaram como fatores primordiais de adoção de computação em nuvem confiabilidade, escalabilidade e economia. Os fatores privacidade e segurança foram considerados relevantes. Já interoperabilidade, acesso pela rede e sustentabilidade foram considerados fatores indiferentes na adoção da tecnologia.Palavras-chave: adoção de TI, computação em nuvem, cloud computing, SaaS, IaaS, nuvem pública, nuvem privada

Big Data Privacy Context: Literature Effects On Secure Informational Assets

This article's objective is the identification of research opportunities in the current big data privacy domain, evaluating literature effects on secure informational assets. Until now, no study has analyzed such relation. Its results can foster science, technologies and businesses. To achieve these objectives, a big data privacy Systematic Literature Review (SLR) is performed on the main scientific peer reviewed journals in Scopus database. Bibliometrics and text mining analysis complement the SLR. This study provides support to big data privacy researchers on: most and least researched themes, research novelty, most cited works and authors, themes evolution through time and many others. In addition, TOPSIS and VIKOR ranks were developed to evaluate literature effects versus informational assets indicators. Secure Internet Servers (SIS) was chosen as decision criteria. Results show that big data privacy literature is strongly focused on computational aspects. However, individuals, societies, organizations and governments face a technological change that has just started to be investigated, with growing concerns on law and regulation aspects. TOPSIS and VIKOR Ranks differed in several positions and the only consistent country between literature and SIS adoption is the United States. Countries in the lowest ranking positions represent future research opportunities.Comment: 21 pages, 9 figure

Overcoming Poverty through Digital Inclusion

A growing body of research is showing how digital inclusion can help communities overcome poverty and injustice. The main challenge lies in how best to achieve this goal. The authors argue that digital inclusion must occur in two distinct stages. The first stage is digital literacy, accomplished with the Symbiotic Computer (SC)-smartphones and tablets. The second stage will be professional capacity-building, accomplished with the more traditional Personal Computer (PC)

New Technologies and the Impact on Personality Rights in Brazil

As technology continues to evolve at an exponentially increasing pace, it transforms our lives and societies, thus shaping our perceptions of reality with high speed and impacting the relationship between the individual and the society, including businesses and, as a result, the legal system. The young area of law is trying to explore the effects of new technologies in our relationships with it, as well as identify the best use of new technologies to reduce the gap among new technology, new societal behaviors and various legal systems. The purpose of this paper is to examine the current uses of wearable technologies in Brazil and the legal issues emerging from the various uses of these technologies and their impact on personality rights. So, to what extent do the Brazilian users of emerging technologies appreciate the terms and conditions agreed by themselves and their impact on personality rights? The authors used empirical quantitative data from a cross-section of Brazilian users to explore the level of awareness in regards to the terms and conditions associated with the use of emerging technologies and the impact on their personality rights. The authors found that the large majority of these users of technology are unaware of the adverse impact of the agreed terms and conditions on their personality rights. Furthermore, they are also unaware of the basics of how the technology operates and therefore are unable to enforce their rights. The research is based on data collected by using only one survey with a sample of 500 students from three universities in three Brazilian States with an age range between 18 and 40 years old. This paper extends the previous research on the impact of emerging technologies on personality rights and demonstrates with empirical data that there is a serious risk of erosion of such rights. Furthermore, this research provides a unique insight into the users of emerging technologies in the emerging Brazilian market and the impact on the Brazilian legal system