A PHENOMENOLOGICAL MULTIPLE CASE STUDY OF SCHOOL DISTRICT LEADERS SUPERVISING ENGLISH LANGUAGE LEARNER / MULTILINGUAL SERVICES ON LONG ISLAND, NEW YORK

This study was an inquiry into the ways in which the lived experiences of school district leaders (SDLs) of English language learner/multilingual learner (ELL/ML) services informed their leadership approaches, challenges, successes, and impact. The methodology involved collecting artifacts and Seidman’s (2019) Three Series Interview protocol with member checking. The three participants of this study were SDLs of ELL/ML services from a specific region of New York State (i.e., Long Island). The purpose of this study was to understand the essence of the meanings derived from participants’ comprehensive descriptions. I provided structural and textural reports and a synthesis of the universal nature of participants’ shared experiences, which the author described as the essence. As the researcher, I designed a conceptual framework guided by: (a) advocacy, (b) best instructional practices, (c) best leadership practices, and (d) compliance and summarized data accordingly. This study also expanded understanding of culturally responsive leadership paradigms and how they disrupt past and current educational leadership in helping or hindering ELL/ML services. Federal and state efforts to support student achievement have shifted educational regulations. The roles and responsibilities of SDLs of ELL/ML services are complex. They are stewards of the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) and the New York State Education Commissioner Regulations (CR) Part 154 2 of their school districts. These specific educational leaders have developed a range of strategies that enabled them to navigate the multidimensional aspects of their background as it correlated with the past, present, and future culture of their school district, and the education system at large. Furthermore, this study explored these experts’ predictions and plans for the future of ELL/ML services. This inquiry’s findings can significantly contribute to the educational leadership literature on a spectrum that begins with directly narrowing the ELL/ML achievement gap to tangentially enlightening society

Young people, emerging eID services and privacy concerns

This presentation deals with the results of quantitative research conducted with the Institute for Prospective Technological Studies (IPTS ) exploring EU young people\u27s behaviours and attitudes towards electronic identification system (eID) and eID-enabled services in particular. eID is \u27a system adopted by an organization (business or government) for the issuance and maintenance of electronic identities of individuals\u27. eID-enabled services include currently available services (connecting to friends via mobile phone SIM card, Social networking sites such as Facebook, Skype, online banking and online grocery shopping) and more advanced services (RFID tags may advise people on purchases as they walk past; travel agents may suggest additional sightseeing based on customer GPS position; biometric, e.g. eye-scanning may be used to access physical areas); all these services, present and future, require the ability for the user to be identified, authenticated, and, in many cases, profiled. Hence eID transactions raise crucial issues in relation to trust, privacy, data control, transparency, awareness, all of which affect the fruition (and the supply) of eID enabled advanced services. The main aim of the survey was to investigate the way people take the decision to adopt (or not) a new service including electronic identification means. This sheds light on the future adoption of eID-based service and on the barriers, enablers and circumstances of such adoption. The survey aims to identify key factors supporting the development of actual and potential eID systems, in the views of young European consumers. The study comprised desk research, focus groups in four countries, an expert workshop, a survey pre-test and an online survey conducted in four countries and involving more than 5,000 young people. The questionnaire was sent to more than half a million young people ages 15 to 25 in France, UK, Spain and Germany, exploring perceptions, attitudes towards and intent to adopt eID services. It obtained 5,265 full responses and about 6,000 additional partly completed responses. This presentation gives main findings from the literature review and main results of the survey

Business Value of IT Investment: The Case of a Low Cost Airline’s Website

Using the case of a low cost airline company’s website we analyze some special research questions of information technology valuation. The distinctive characteristics of this research are the ex post valuation perspective; the parallel and comparative use of accounting and business valuation approaches; and the integrated application of discounted cash flow and real option valuation. As the examined international company is a strategic user of e-technology and wants to manage and account intangible IT-assets explicitly, these specific valuation perspectives are gaining practical significance

Technologies and solutions for location-based services in smart cities: past, present, and future

Location-based services (LBS) in smart cities have drastically altered the way cities operate, giving a new dimension to the life of citizens. LBS rely on location of a device, where proximity estimation remains at its core. The applications of LBS range from social networking and marketing to vehicle-toeverything communications. In many of these applications, there is an increasing need and trend to learn the physical distance between nearby devices. This paper elaborates upon the current needs of proximity estimation in LBS and compares them against the available Localization and Proximity (LP) finding technologies (LP technologies in short). These technologies are compared for their accuracies and performance based on various different parameters, including latency, energy consumption, security, complexity, and throughput. Hereafter, a classification of these technologies, based on various different smart city applications, is presented. Finally, we discuss some emerging LP technologies that enable proximity estimation in LBS and present some future research areas

How 5G wireless (and concomitant technologies) will revolutionize healthcare?

The need to have equitable access to quality healthcare is enshrined in the United Nations (UN) Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), which defines the developmental agenda of the UN for the next 15 years. In particular, the third SDG focuses on the need to “ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages”. In this paper, we build the case that 5G wireless technology, along with concomitant emerging technologies (such as IoT, big data, artificial intelligence and machine learning), will transform global healthcare systems in the near future. Our optimism around 5G-enabled healthcare stems from a confluence of significant technical pushes that are already at play: apart from the availability of high-throughput low-latency wireless connectivity, other significant factors include the democratization of computing through cloud computing; the democratization of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and cognitive computing (e.g., IBM Watson); and the commoditization of data through crowdsourcing and digital exhaust. These technologies together can finally crack a dysfunctional healthcare system that has largely been impervious to technological innovations. We highlight the persistent deficiencies of the current healthcare system and then demonstrate how the 5G-enabled healthcare revolution can fix these deficiencies. We also highlight open technical research challenges, and potential pitfalls, that may hinder the development of such a 5G-enabled health revolution

Geospatial information infrastructures

Manual of Digital Earth / Editors: Huadong Guo, Michael F. Goodchild, Alessandro Annoni .- Springer, 2020 .- ISBN: 978-981-32-9915-3Geospatial information infrastructures (GIIs) provide the technological, semantic,organizationalandlegalstructurethatallowforthediscovery,sharing,and use of geospatial information (GI). In this chapter, we introduce the overall concept and surrounding notions such as geographic information systems (GIS) and spatial datainfrastructures(SDI).WeoutlinethehistoryofGIIsintermsoftheorganizational andtechnologicaldevelopmentsaswellasthecurrentstate-of-art,andreflectonsome of the central challenges and possible future trajectories. We focus on the tension betweenincreasedneedsforstandardizationandtheever-acceleratingtechnological changes. We conclude that GIIs evolved as a strong underpinning contribution to implementation of the Digital Earth vision. In the future, these infrastructures are challengedtobecomeflexibleandrobustenoughtoabsorbandembracetechnological transformationsandtheaccompanyingsocietalandorganizationalimplications.With this contribution, we present the reader a comprehensive overview of the field and a solid basis for reflections about future developments

Efficient energy management for the internet of things in smart cities

The drastic increase in urbanization over the past few years requires sustainable, efficient, and smart solutions for transportation, governance, environment, quality of life, and so on. The Internet of Things offers many sophisticated and ubiquitous applications for smart cities. The energy demand of IoT applications is increased, while IoT devices continue to grow in both numbers and requirements. Therefore, smart city solutions must have the ability to efficiently utilize energy and handle the associated challenges. Energy management is considered as a key paradigm for the realization of complex energy systems in smart cities. In this article, we present a brief overview of energy management and challenges in smart cities. We then provide a unifying framework for energy-efficient optimization and scheduling of IoT-based smart cities. We also discuss the energy harvesting in smart cities, which is a promising solution for extending the lifetime of low-power devices and its related challenges. We detail two case studies. The first one targets energy-efficient scheduling in smart homes, and the second covers wireless power transfer for IoT devices in smart cities. Simulation results for the case studies demonstrate the tremendous impact of energy-efficient scheduling optimization and wireless power transfer on the performance of IoT in smart cities

The Digitalisation of African Agriculture Report 2018-2019

An inclusive, digitally-enabled agricultural transformation could help achieve meaningful livelihood improvements for Africa’s smallholder farmers and pastoralists. It could drive greater engagement in agriculture from women and youth and create employment opportunities along the value chain. At CTA we staked a claim on this power of digitalisation to more systematically transform agriculture early on. Digitalisation, focusing on not individual ICTs but the application of these technologies to entire value chains, is a theme that cuts across all of our work. In youth entrepreneurship, we are fostering a new breed of young ICT ‘agripreneurs’. In climate-smart agriculture multiple projects provide information that can help towards building resilience for smallholder farmers. And in women empowerment we are supporting digital platforms to drive greater inclusion for women entrepreneurs in agricultural value chains