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Practices of Using Blockchain Technology in ICT under the Digitalization of the World Economy
Abstract. Pursuing the purpose of effective functioning in today's conditions, the business is forced to transform rapidly, to modernize at all levels. The world
is changing, erasing the limits of its certainty. Companies need quality transformations and strategies that are effective in the face of rapid change towards
"deep" digitization. Massive corporate management systems increasingly need the flexibility to keep pace with change. And companies with an innovative culture
are more in need of creative tasks than implementing detailed regulations.
In the post-industrial time of digital economy, issues related to the development
of the information sphere, the media and communications, the usage of modern
information systems to develop the economy and stabilize social development
as a whole, come first. The basic principles of practical application of Blockchain
are investigated in the work. The stages of development of Blockchain
technology, the stages of development of Blockchain technologies by time, the
application of distributed registry technology in Blockchain applications, the
principles of construction and operation of Blockchain have been specified. The
benefits of using NEM for business are substantiated and the components of
Proxima X technology, protocols and service layers, on-line and off-line protocols,
decentralized applications are exposed
Will 5G See its Blind Side? Evolving 5G for Universal Internet Access
Internet has shown itself to be a catalyst for economic growth and social
equity but its potency is thwarted by the fact that the Internet is off limits
for the vast majority of human beings. Mobile phones---the fastest growing
technology in the world that now reaches around 80\% of humanity---can enable
universal Internet access if it can resolve coverage problems that have
historically plagued previous cellular architectures (2G, 3G, and 4G). These
conventional architectures have not been able to sustain universal service
provisioning since these architectures depend on having enough users per cell
for their economic viability and thus are not well suited to rural areas (which
are by definition sparsely populated). The new generation of mobile cellular
technology (5G), currently in a formative phase and expected to be finalized
around 2020, is aimed at orders of magnitude performance enhancement. 5G offers
a clean slate to network designers and can be molded into an architecture also
amenable to universal Internet provisioning. Keeping in mind the great social
benefits of democratizing Internet and connectivity, we believe that the time
is ripe for emphasizing universal Internet provisioning as an important goal on
the 5G research agenda. In this paper, we investigate the opportunities and
challenges in utilizing 5G for global access to the Internet for all (GAIA). We
have also identified the major technical issues involved in a 5G-based GAIA
solution and have set up a future research agenda by defining open research
problems
Maker Movements, Do-It-Yourself Cultures and Participatory Design: Implications for HCI Research
Falling costs and the wider availability of computational components, platforms and ecosystems have enabled the expansion of maker movements and DIY cultures. This can be considered as a form of democratization of technology systems design, in alignment with the aims of Participatory Design approaches. However, this landscape is constantly evolving, and long-term implications for the HCI community are far from clear. The organizers of this one-day workshop invite participants to present their case studies, experiences and perspectives on the topic with the goal of increasing understanding within this area of research. The outcomes of the workshop will include the articulation of future research directions with the purpose of informing a research agenda, as well as the establishment of new collaborations and networks
Introduction to This Special Issue on Open Design at the Intersection of Making and Manufacturing
What is ‘open design’ and who gets to say what it is? In the emerging body of literature on open design, there is a clear alignment to the values and practices of free culture and open source software and hardware. Yet this same literature includes multiple, sometimes even contradictory strands of technology practice and research. These different perspectives can be traced back to free culture advocates from the 1970s to the 1990s who formulated the ideal of the internet as inherently empowering, democratizing, and countercultural. However, more recent approaches include feminist and critical interventions into hacking and making as well as corporate strategies of “open innovation” that bring end-users and consumers into the design process. What remains today seems to fall into two schools of thought. On one hand, we have the celebratory endorsements of ‘openness’ as applied to technology and design. On the other hand, we have a continuous and expanding critique of these very ideals and questions, where that critique identifies persisting forms of racial, gender, age, and class-based exclusions, and questions about the relationship between open design, labor and power remain largely unanswered
Scaling Participation -- What Does the Concept of Managed Communities Offer for Participatory Design?
This paper investigates mechanisms for scaling participation in participatory
design (PD). Specifically, the paper focuses on managed communities, one
strategy of generification work. We first give a brief introduction on the
issue of scaling in PD, followed by exploring the strategy of managed
communities in PD. This exploration is underlined by an ongoing case study in
the healthcare sector, and we propose solutions to observed challenges. The
paper ends with a critical reflection on the possibilities managed communities
offer for PD. Managed communities have much to offer beyond mere generification
work for large-scale information systems, but we need to pay attention to core
PD values that are in danger of being sidelined in the process
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