[Air-l] Fwd: Ph.D. fellowship for research about "Social Research on ICT Technologies and Evaluation Methodologies for Digital Ecosystems"
Jeremy Hunsinger
jhuns at vt.edu
Mon Jul 17 03:43:28 PDT 2006
Begin forwarded message:
> From: Gianluca Miscione <dadalo at TISCALI.IT>
> Date: July 17, 2006 6:11:07 AM EDT
> To: CYBERSPACE-AND-SOCIETY at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
> Subject: Ph.D. fellowship for research about "Social Research on
> ICT Technologies and Evaluation Methodologies for Digital Ecosystems"
> Reply-To: Gianluca Miscione <dadalo at TISCALI.IT>
>
> APOLOGIES FOR CROSS POSTING
>
> The Doctoral School at the Sociology Department of the University
> of Trento - Italy will have a three-years fellowship -sponsored by
> Create-Net- for a Ph.D. research about
> "Social Research on ICT Technologies and Evaluation Methodologies
> for Digital Ecosystems"
>
> Digital ecosystems are emerging as a novel approach for the
> catalysis of regional growth, they are expected to be sustainable
> and scalable, the process should be be recursive and self-
> reinforcing. The OPAALS Network of Excellence, which Createnet is
> joining, is the first step in a recursive, reflexive, and self
> reinforcing community building process that will culminate with an
> Open Knowledge community of research and innovation.
>
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>
> Relevant links:
> Scuola di Dottorato in Sociologia e Ricerca Sociale
> http://www4.soc.unitn.it:8080/dsrs/content/e219/e820/index_ita.html
>
> Ufficio Dottorati di ricerca e formazione avanzata
> http://www.unitn.it/ricerca/dottorati_form_av.htm
>
> Create-Net
> http://www.create-net.org
>
>
>
> CALL FOR APPLICATION
> Deadline: August 29th, 2006
>
> Italian version
> .doc (http://www.unitn.it/ricerca/dottorati_form_av/ciclo_22/
> download/socio.doc)
> .pdf (http://www.unitn.it/ricerca/dottorati_form_av/ciclo_22/
> download/socio.pdf)
>
> English version
> .doc (http://www.unitn.it/ricerca/dottorati_form_av/ciclo_22/
> download/socio_eng.doc)
> .pdf (http://www.unitn.it/ricerca/dottorati_form_av/ciclo_22/
> download/socio_eng.pdf)
>
>
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>
> BRIEF PRESENTATION Social Research on Information and Communication
> Technologies, and Evaluation Methodologies for Digital
> EcosystemsPh.D. research – University of Trento and Createnet
>
> Research topic
> Abstract "Open Philosophies for Associative Autopoietic Digital
> Ecosystems"
>
>
> The two overarching aims of the OPAALS Network of Excellence are to
> build a sustainable interdisciplinary research community in the
> emerging area of Digital Ecosystems (DE) and to develop an
> integrated theoretical foundation for DE research, which spans
> three different disciplinary domains: social science, computer
> science, and natural science. DE are emerging as a novel approach
> for the catalysis of regional growth driven by SMEs. The main claim
> that OPAALS makes is that in order to achieve sustainable digital
> business ecosystems of SMEs and software components we need to
> understand in depth the collaborative processes and ICTs that
> underpin the continuous creation, formalisation, and sharing of
> knowledge in the form of business models, software infrastructure
> for e-Business transactions, and new formal and semi-formal
> languages. Because this process focuses on knowledge and
> innovation, it must be inclusive of research activities in a broad
> sense and not be limited just to Open Source software development.
> Because this process must be sustainable and scalable it must be
> recursive and self-reinforcing.
>
> The OPAALS Network of Excellence is the first step in a recursive,
> reflexive, and self reinforcing community building process that
> will culminate at the end of the project with an Open Knowledge
> community of research and innovation inclusive of all the
> stakeholders of digital ecosystems but mainly of academic
> institutions and SMEs.
>
> We will build together an Open Knowledge Space that can
> "organically" expand to the wider research community. We will
> integrate the research outputs in automatic code generation,
> autopoietic P2P networks, and distributed accountability, identity
> and trust into the existing infrastructure from the DBE project.
> These technical and scientific research activities will be balanced
> by research in the role of formal and semi-formal languages in
> epistemic communities and in new Open Source models emerging in
> public and commercial projects.
>
>
> Community networks (Opaals - WP7)
>
> A community network is a telecom infrastructure created and owned
> by some participation of a local or regional government. Community
> networks have evolved from the concept of "freenets" or "civic
> nets" in the last few years in North America and in Europe, and
> represent a dramatic shift from the current telecommunications
> business model, where the service providers own the network
> infrastructure and provide managed services for individual,
> institutional, business and government users for a fee. Through
> owning a community network, local governments can create the
> climate for attracting new businesses and increasing the adoption
> of advanced technologies and services for SMEs, generate revenues
> from alternative service providers, and can leverage the synergy
> with local universities and research centers. Thus a community
> network is (i) an infrastructure, (ii) a business model and (iii)
> the set of services it offers and provides.
>
> A large number of community networks have been deployed and are
> being planned worldwide, mainly in North America and Europe.
> Examples of community metropolitan area network already in place
> include Chicago's CivicNet, Stokab in Stockholm, and Hansenet in
> Hamburg. Moreover, community networks at regional level are
> gaining momentum recently across Europe, as demonstrated by the
> Scotland and Pyrénées Atlantiques initiatives that have been
> supported by the European Commission, having identified them as
> key drivers for their economic development and business growth.
> EUROCITIES Knowledge Society Forum (formerly Telecities), has
> recently published the "Broadband Manifesto", which underlines the
> role of an open, accessible, passive layer of infrastructure for
> the improvement of community and social life and for stimulating
> the local economy.
>
> The Autonomous Province of Trento, Italy, has started a community
> network project in 2002, to support the development of local
> industry, to serve the needs of the public administration, and to
> provide advanced communications services to the citizens. Due to
> the mountainous morphology of its territory and the absence of
> metropolitan areas, the business model applied by the local
> Trentino government foresees a public company (Trentino Network)
> which deploys, owns and operates the network, offers the transport
> infrastructure to the service providers, and provides
> communications services directly to serve the needs of the local
> public institutions (e.g. municipalities, hospitals, schools).
> Create-Net is participating in such a community network and will
> represent the link of OPAALS to such ongoing initiatives.
>
> Community network research represents a truly interdisciplinary
> area, requiring an integrated approach and a strong collaboration
> among researchers of different disciplines. However, research on
> technological, business and social aspects of community networks in
> the last few years has mainly focused on the needs of citizens and
> public bodies. The involvement of businesses and in particular of
> SMEs, in this process has not yet been investigated in depth. To
> foster local economic development we believe that now the community
> networks should enable ubiquitous, responsive and efficient access
> to services from SMEs. This could significantly support local
> enterprises in expanding and conducting networked businesses and in
> increasing their adoption and deployment of electronic Business-to-
> Business (B2B) capability. Our research goal is not only to
> evaluate and compare the alternative business models that could be
> adopted and to identify those that maximize SME participation. We
> will also experiment concretely SME involvement in a community
> network digital ecosystem in a testbed environment and establish an
> Open Knowledge community to stimulate their interest, configuring a
> kind of action research. Finally, in order to increase SMEs
> involvement in the governance of community networks, an important
> aspect to be analyzed is also the definition of technology and
> business models for the planning, implementation and operation of
> community networks with optimal public-private participation.
>
>
>
> Main references
>
>
> AUTOPOIESIS AND DIGITAL ECOSYSTEMS
>
>
>
>
>
> Sistemi sociali: fondamenti di una teoria generale
>
> N. Luhman
>
>
> Autopoiesis and cognition: the realization of the living
>
> HR Maturana, FJ Varela - 1980 - D. Reidel
>
>
> Understanding computers and cognition
>
> T Winograd, F Flores - 1986 - Ablex Publishing Corp. Norwood, NJ, USA
>
>
> Broadband Services
>
> Chlamtac et al., Wiley
>
>
>
> Position paper following the cycle of workshops 2005 and the on-
> line debate among the digital ecosystem community
> 2005; Paolo Dini et alii, The Digital Ecosystem research Vision:
> 2010 and Beyond, http://digital-ecosystems.org/events/2005.05/
> de_position_paper_vf.pdf
>
>
>
> Discussion paper which collected the first inputs and launched the
> digital ecosystem inititative
> 2002; Francesco Nachira et al. Towards a network of digital
> business ecosystems fostering the local development
>
> http://europa.eu.int/information_society/topics/ebusiness/godigital/
> sme_research/doc/dbe_discussionpaper.pdf
>
>
> More information:
>
> http://digital-ecosystems.org/de/refs/ref_books.html
>
>
>
>
>
> Code and Other Laws of Cyberspace
>
> L Lessig – 1999
>
>
> L'architettura del nuovo Web
>
> Berners Lee, Feltrinelli
>
>
>
> Comunità virtuali
>
> Reinhgold
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
> SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY STUDIES
>
>
>
> Reassembling the social: an introduction to actor-network-theory
> B Latour - 2005 - Oxford University Press
>
>
> We have never been modern
> B Latour - 1993 - Harvard University Press Cambridge, Mass
>
>
> The Social Study of Information and Communication Technology :
> Innovation, Actors, and Contexts
>
> Chrisanthi Avgerou, Claudio Ciborra, Frank Land (eds.) – 2004 –
> Oxford University Press
>
>
>
> Institutional Ecology, 'Translations' and Boundary Objects:
> Amateurs and Professionals in Berkeley's Museum of Vertebrate
> Zoology, 1907-39
> Susan Leigh Star, James R. Griesemer
> Social Studies of Science, Vol. 19, No. 3 (Aug., 1989) , pp. 387-420
>
>
> The Ethnography of Infrastructure
>
> SL Star - American Behavioral Scientist, 1999
>
>
> Some elements of a sociology of translation: domestication of the
> scallops and the fishermen of St Brieuc Bay
>
> Michel Callon
>
> First published in J. Law, Power, action and belief: a new
> sociology of knowledge? London, Routledge, 1986, pp.196-223.
>
>
> Of bicycles, bakelites, and bulbs: toward a theory of
> sociotechnical change
>
> WE Bijker - 1995 - Mitpress
>
>
>
>
>
>
> INFORMATION SYSTEMS AND ORGANIZATION
>
>
>
>
>
> The New Institutionalism in Organizational Analysis
>
> DiMaggio P. J. and Powell W. (eds.): 1991, The University of
> Chicago Press, Chicago
>
>
> The Labyrinths of Information: Challenging the Wisdom of Systems
>
> C Ciborra, Oxford University Press
>
>
> Social shaping of information infrastructure: on being specific
> about the technology
>
> E Monteiro, O Hanseth - Information Technology and Changes in
> Organizational Work, 1995
>
>
> Situated Learning: Legitimate Peripheral Participation
>
> J Lave, E Wenger
>
>
> La realtà come costruzione sociale
>
> Berger Luckmann
>
>
> The Knowledge Landscapes of Cyberspace
>
> D Hakken – 2003
>
>
> Information Systems and Global Diversity
>
> C. Avgerou, Oxford University Press
>
>
>
>
>
> OTHERS
>
>
>
>
>
> La logica dello sviluppo economico
>
> A. O. Hirschman
>
>
> The Rise of the Network Society
>
> M. Castells, Blackwell
>
>
> Stato, Governo e Società
>
> Bobbio, Einaudi
>
>
> I limiti dell'interpretazione
>
> Umberto Eco
>
>
>
> Notes
> Presentazione Scuola di Dottorato:
>
> http://www4.soc.unitn.it:8080/dsrs/content/e219/e820/index_ita.html
>
>
> Programma formativo:
>
> http://www4.soc.unitn.it:8080/dsrs/content/e219/e820/e852/e863/
> index_ita.html
>
>
> Create-net:
>
> http://www.create-net.org
>
>
>
> Main language: italian
>
>
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>
>
> Feel free to forward this message to who could be interested.
>
>
>
> Gianluca Miscione, Ph.D.
>
>
>
>
Jeremy Hunsinger
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