Developing E-Business Information Without a Business School

Caltech Engineering and Science librarians describe their experiences exploring, learning and teaching business information research on a campus with minimal business resources and no business program. Caltech faculty, eager to educate sci-tech students in the business management of high technology startups, have created new curriculum with this goal in mind. Brainstorming on ways to meet the information needs of these budding entrepreneurs, two engineering librarians took the initiative to propose integrating business information resources into an innovative e-business class under development by an engineering professor. Our successful proposal challenged us to apply our information skills to a new subject area at Caltech - the fast paced arena of e-business. The result was a highly tailored class and Web site for e-business information resources. This experience, in turn, has provided a springboard for regular instructional sessions on business that address the broader needs of the Caltech community and have aided us in our awareness of other business development activities on campus. This paper also reports on how a team of non-business librarians were able to utilize skills and experience gained primarily in science and engineering and apply them to provide targeted business information resources to clients on a science and engineering campus. It also illustrates the inherent strengths of librarians in surveying, evaluating, organizing and teaching the information infrastructure of a new subject area. In one year, the Caltech Library System has not only acquired new information resources and added more business titles to its collection, it has increased its visibility to different constituencies on campus

Selecting a Shared 21st Century Management System

This paper describes the factors that led the Orbis Cascade Alliance, a 37 institution academic library consortium in the Pacific Northwest, to move to a shared library management system. The steps that the Alliance and its 37 member libraries took over a period of years are summarized, including the work of several research and planning groups and a formal Request for Information process. A subsequent Request for Proposal (RFP) process ended in the selection of Ex Libris Alma management system and Primo discovery services for Alliance libraries. The paper also describes the Alliance’s vision for the shared library management system, including collaborative technical services and cooperative collection development

THE EVALUATION OF ACCOUNTING INFORMATION SYSTEM FOR DPK IN DISTRIBUTING AND MONITORING THE STUDENT FUND TO STUDENT CLUB IN UNIVERSITY OF SURABAYA

The purpose of this research is doing evaluation of implementation accounting information system for DPK (Direktorat Pengembangan Kemahasiswaan) in distributing and monitoring the Student Fund (Dana Kemahasiswaan) to Student Club (Unit Kegiatan Mahasiswa) in UBAYA. DPK is the division that take responsible to distribute the funds. When the student club want to held an event, one of their source funding is come from university fund called student funding. The researcher want to evaluate the system whether it can be improve in effective and efficient ways, and also give the recommendation for the problem occurred. This research use the qualitative method by gathering information toward observation, interview both to UKM and DPK, also by documentary analysis as the collection method. The process being reviewed is from proposal process until the accountability report (Laporan Pertanggung Jawaban) of event submitted to university

THE EVALUATION OF ACCOUNTING INFORMATION SYSTEM FOR DPK IN DISTRIBUTING AND MONITORING THE STUDENT FUND TO STUDENT CLUB IN UNIVERSITY OF SURABAYA

The purpose of this research is doing evaluation of implementation accounting information system for DPK (Direktorat Pengembangan Kemahasiswaan) in distributing and monitoring the Student Fund (Dana Kemahasiswaan) to Student Club (Unit Kegiatan Mahasiswa) in UBAYA. DPK is the division that take responsible to distribute the funds. When the student club want to held an event, one of their source funding is come from university fund called student funding. The researcher want to evaluate the system whether it can be improve in effective and efficient ways, and also give the recommendation for the problem occurred. This research use the qualitative method by gathering information toward observation, interview both to UKM and DPK, also by documentary analysis as the collection method. The process being reviewed is from proposal process until the accountability report (Laporan Pertanggung Jawaban) of event submitted to university

THE EVALUATION OF ACCOUNTING INFORMATION SYSTEM FOR DPK IN DISTRIBUTING AND MONITORING THE STUDENT FUND TO STUDENT CLUB IN UNIVERSITY OF SURABAYA

The purpose of this research is doing evaluation of implementation accounting information system for DPK (Direktorat Pengembangan Kemahasiswaan) in distributing and monitoring the Student Fund (Dana Kemahasiswaan) to Student Club (Unit Kegiatan Mahasiswa) in UBAYA. DPK is the division that take responsible to distribute the funds. When the student club want to held an event, one of their source funding is come from university fund called student funding. The researcher want to evaluate the system whether it can be improve in effective and efficient ways, and also give the recommendation for the problem occurred. This research use the qualitative method by gathering information toward observation, interview both to UKM and DPK, also by documentary analysis as the collection method. The process being reviewed is from proposal process until the accountability report (Laporan Pertanggung Jawaban) of event submitted to university

Monitoring Portugal’s Recovery in the COVID-19 Pandemic and Post-Pandemic Context. A Conceptual Model and Methodology for Monitoring the Economic and Social Recovery

The Research Project 'Monitoring Recovery - Proposal of a Conceptual Model and Methodology for Monitoring the Economic and Social Recovery of Portugal in the COVID-19 Pandemic and Post- Pandemic Context' was carried out by the Public Policy Monitoring Unit [UMPP] of the University of Évora between October 1, 2021 and October 1, 2022 and was funded by the Technical Assistance Operational Program [POAT] of the Partnership Agreement Portugal 2014-2020 [PT2020]. The results achieved by this Research Project are divided into a set of documents and specific studies, which, as a whole and in an integrated manner, aimed to formalise a concrete guidance proposal - albeit conceptual - for the design, operationalization and implementation of a Monitoring System to support pursuit of the 'Portugal 2030 Strategy' and the mix of public policy instruments contributing to its achievement. In this context, a roadmap for action structured around six key components is presented: 1) Definition of Objectives and Scope of the Monitoring System; 2) Mobilization of Stakeholders and Definition of the Governance Model; 3) Systematization of the Public Intervention’s Rationale; 4) Identification of Information Needs; 5) Definition of Indicators and Methods for Information Collection; 6) Design of Communication Products and Dissemination of Results.Funded by the Technical Assistance Operational Program [POAT] of the Partnership Agreement Portugal 2014-2020 [PT2020]

A proposal for an Atmospheric Discharge Protection System (ADPS) for a Public School in the City of Manaus-AM

The present study sought to highlight the importance of protection against electric discharges to a school in the public school of the city of Manaus-AM, based on the basic recommendations and guidelines for making decisions presented in the elaboration of a ADPS proposal. The methodology of the work was based on the collection of information on the subject from the theoretical-bibliographic research, as well as the accomplishment of the field research in the school through the technical visits for data collection. The results of the research were presented in the technical verification report of the ADPS need at school, so the study carried out a detailed study on the protection risk management, the analysis of the risk components to the atmospheric discharges, general risk assessment, evaluation the design of the protection system. Based on the report, the research presented the appropriate recommendations to assist school management in decision making, considering the importance of protecting the public heritage from the damages caused by the atmospheric discharges

Big Data – Opportunities and Challenges for Education

Report published in the Proceedings of the National Conference on "Education and Research in the Information Society", Plovdiv, May, 2015The paper reveals the potential of Big Data applied in education. The specifics of Big Data in educational contexts and different sources for their extraction are described. The power of innovative tools for data collection, management, and analysis by which to identify best practices or problems in the educational process is shown. Considering these findings, a conceptual proposal for an example of educational system using Big Data is presented. The possible effects of the implementation of Big Data in education are discussed.Association for the Development of the Information Society, Institute of Mathematics and Informatics Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Plovdiv University "Paisii Hilendarski

Proposal to Strenghern Health Information System [HIS]

\ud The HMIS Program described in this document aims at improving and strengthening the current Health Management Information System (HMIS) in Tanzania, known as MTUHA. The consortium behind the HMIS Program is headed by the Ministry of Health & Social Welfare (MOHSW) and consists of the following additional partners; Ifakara Health Research and Development Centre, University of Dar es Salaam and the University of Oslo, representing national and international capacity in HMIS. The HMIS Program is linked to the Payment for performance (P4P) funding scheme which is initiated by the Norway Tanzania Partnership Initiative. The P4P has a focus on maternal and child health and relies upon quality indicators on performance in these areas from health facilities and districts. The provision of quality data and indicators on MDG 4 & 5 is therefore a key target for the HMIS Program. The chosen approach is, however, to derive these data from the HMIS and not to establish a separate data collection structure, hence the HMIS Program. Quality information by way of essential indicators, such as for monitoring the Millennium Development Goals 4 & 5, are crucial for health services delivery and program management as well as for M&E. Currently, however, the HMIS is not providing such needed data of sufficient completeness, timeliness and quality, leading health programs and funding agencies to establish their own structures for data collection, and thus creating fragmentation and adding to the problem. The HMIS Program aims at changing this negative trend and turning the HMIS into the key source of shared essential quality information in Tanzania by; focusing on action oriented use of information for management at each level of the health services and by providing timely quality information to all stakeholders, including all health programs and funding agencies in the HMIS strengthening process – making it an all-inclusive national process, focusing on capacity development; on-site support and facilitation, short courses and continuous education, building capacity in the MOHSW and establishing a national network of HMIS support, and by building on experience, methods and tools from Africa’s “best practices” HMIS, such as South Africa – and Zanzibar Within this proposal the aim is to carry out the HMIS strengthening process in 1/3 of the districts in the country, 7 regions, during the first 3 years. The objective, however, is to cover the entire country during the 5 years duration of the NTPI. By aiming at quick and tangible results, the expectation is that other funding agencies will join forces and thereby ensuring national coverage.\ud \u

Towards the interoperability of computerised guidelines and electronic health records: an experiment with openEHR archetypes and a chronic heart failure guideline

Clinical guidelines contain recommendations based on the best empirical evidence available at the moment. There is a wide consensus about the benefits of guidelines and about the fact that they should be deployed through clinical information systems, making them available during clinical consultations. However, one of the main obstacles to this integration is the interaction with the electronic healthrecord system. With the aim of solving the interoperability problems of guideline systems, we have investigated the utilisation of the openEHR standardisation proposal in the context of one of the existing guideline representation languages. Concretely, we have designed a collection of archetypes to be used within a chronic heart failure guideline. The main contribution of our work is the utilisation of openEHR archetypes in the framework of guideline representation languages. Other contributions include both the concrete set of archetypes that we have selected and the methodological approach that we have followed to obtain itThis work has been supported by Fundaci´o Caixa Castell´o-Bancaixa, through the research project P11B2009-3