"Google is a champion of cultural democracy, but without culture and without democracy." In this witty and polemical critique the philosopher Barbara Cassin takes aim at Google and our culture of big ...data. Enlisting her formidable knowledge of the rhetorical tradition, Cassin demolishes the Google myth of a "good" tech company and its "democracy of clicks," laying bare the philosophical poverty and political naiveté that underwrites its founding slogans: "Organize the world's information," and "Don't be evil." For Cassin, this conjunction of globalizing knowledge and moral imperative is frighteningly similar to the way American demagogues justify their own universalizing mission before the world.
While sensitive to the possibilities of technology and to Google's playful appeal, Cassin shows what is lost when a narrow worship of information becomes dogma, such that research comes to mean data mining and other languages become provincial "flavors" folded into an impoverished Globish, or global English.
THE IMPACT OF IT ON PRODUCTION MANAGEMENT DUICĂ MIRCEA CONSTANTIN; DUICĂ ANIŞOARA
Analele Universităţii Constantin Brâncuşi din Târgu Jiu : Seria Economie,
05/2014, Letnik:
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Special number - Information society and sustainable development
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The integration of computer applications into industrial enterprises is imposed by the necessity of real-time decision making in order to meet the frequent changes within a business environment. In ...this paper, we have tried to identify the impact that IT has on production management as well as the need for planned changes enabling effective implementation of integrated information systems. At present, the integration of software applications has developed into CIMOSA type (Computer Integrated Manufacturing Open System Architecture), which allow computer modelling of business processes, taking into account their knowledge bases. The implementation of such computer models facilitate the use of expert systems and other forms of artificial intelligence, capable of reasoning through a problem in order to reach a conclusion.
The paper examines the behaviour of the yield curve of the knowledge considered as production factor. The concepts of complementarity and substitutability among classical production factors are ...revisited in order to put the bases to analyse the special production factor (a species of the neo-production factors) namely knowledge. In this context, some distinctions are made between information and knowledge putting in view the added value of knowledge related to information. Some graphical construction and algebraic formalisms are convoked in order to better ground the final conclusions regarding the increasing nature of the knowledge yield curve in the knowledge-based society. The approach is preponderantly logic and conceptualized, trying to get general results which could then be tested, by other researchers, in order either to corroborate or to reject them.
Nowadays, in the knowledge based society, purchasing management has become one of the most important tool for improving the profitability of organizations. Because of its important role, purchasing ...is the function that has a tremendous impact on these efforts to create value in the organizations. This article summarizes the main value that can be provided by the purchasing function to the organizations. The paper starts with the presentation of the evolution stages of purchasing management Furthermore, we present the strategic role of the purchasing management in the knowledge based society. Based on the results of a questionnaire we summarized the main value added by purchasing in the companies from Maramures county. Finally, we draw conclusions and we elaborate some guidelines for managers.
There is more to the knowledge‐based society (KBS) than an increasing use of new information and communication technologies (ICTs). It involves a new production paradigm and, therefore, a ...redefinition of how our societies function. In the political debate a direct linear causality has been established between the move towards the KBS and social cohesion. We discuss this assumption using the concrete example of gender equality. There are three processes at the very core of the paradigmatic change in the production system: new forms of knowledge (demand for ICT skills, but also social competences), a transformation in the type of products in demand (tertiarization of the economy), and new modes of regulation (new forms of work organization and new types of work). We discuss the main conclusions of the prolific debate that has recently taken place concerning the gender impact of these processes and present a statistical analysis of the gender dimension of the KBS resulting from them. This analysis demonstrates that progress in gender equality is not balanced. While it is important when accessing employment, it is much more limited as far as pay and childcare are concerned. Making headway in one of these dimensions of gender equality is not necessarily associated with progress in others. Secondly, this analysis shows that there is not necessarily a direct connection between a high educational level and gender equality. Finally, it shows that the role played by institutional factors is very significant, although it varies depending on the equality dimension considered.
Higher education has been considered both an ‘engine’ for innovation and a ‘catalyst’ for sustainability development; the integration of both the innovation engine and sustainability catalyst roles ...are discussed in a recently published Special Issue on the theme of Higher Education in Innovation Ecosystems in the journal Sustainability. Based on 16 articles contributing to the Special Issue from various perspectives, the Special Issue editors have developed an overarching framework about the relationships between higher education and innovation ecosystems. In the framework, we re-define the concept of innovation ecosystem and identify emerging roles of universities in developing sustainable innovation ecosystems. Re-conceptualization of innovation ecosystems In the editorial of the Special Issue, innovation ecosystem is defined as: co-innovation networks in which actors from organizations concerned with the functions of knowledge production, wealth creation, and norm control interact with each other in forming co-evolution and interdependent relations (both direct or indirect) in cross-geographical contexts and through which new ideas and approaches from various internal and external sources are integrated into a platform to generate shared values for the sustainable transformation of society. Compared with most commonly cited definitions of innovation ecosystem, our definition highlights three new aspects of interactions in co-innovation networks: cross-sectoral, transnational, and indirect, drawing insights from the literature including innovation, geography, and biology studies. The roles of universities in innovation ecosystems The emerging roles of universities in innovation ecosystems are as follows: (1) The role of universities is changing from being a central player in technology transfer to being an anchor in knowledge exchange; (2) universities are assuming a new role in trust-building between actors in innovation ecosystems; and (3) universities are not merely an entrepreneurial universities but are also institutional entrepreneur in the innovation ecosystem. The three emerging roles all indicate that universities are becoming the catalysts for sustainable development in innovation ecosystems. Knowledge exchange is crucial for sustainability; trust is the foundation of the sustainable networks; social entrepreneurship is indispensable for sustainable social change. Evidence in wider contexts A total of 44 authors from 10 countries contributed to the discussions on the changing roles of higher education in innovation ecosystems from varying perspectives. They also report transformations within higher education and universities’ responses to both external and internal transformations. When addressing these issues, the studies provide both theoretical and methodological contributions to the research on higher education in innovation ecosystems. The 16 articles can be generally placed into four categories: (1) new demands for universities arising from the transformation in society toward innovation ecosystems, (2) transformations within higher education responding to emerging societal demands, (3) dynamics of the interaction of university with other innovation actors in a transnational context, and (4) academic and student mobility for higher education innovation. Calling for a new research agenda While societal changes demand broader roles of universities, they also call for and leads to substantial changes within the internal fabric of the university. The innovations in both society and the universities necessitate a renewed understanding of higher education in society, which has become a new research agenda in studies on innovation in higher education. We hope our Special Issue will inspire and encourage more scholars to join the research field.
Los cambios producidos por la Sociedad y la Economía del Conocimiento están presentes también en las políticas educativas que reducen la importancia de las enseñanzas artísticas y la música en los ...currículos. En este artículo se revisa la bibliografía sobre la educación musical actual, encontrándose dos enfoques contrapuestos: económico y ciudadano. El segundo se incluye en una educación que pretende desarrollar las múltiples facetas del ser humano para participar en la sociedad actual. La música contribuye a este enfoque ciudadano, pero para ello se necesita elaborar un pensamiento filosófico sobre educación musical capaz de fundamentarla y que responda a temas relevantes, generando conocimiento y acción a través de la música para producir cambios.
In the field of scientific knowledge, through this research topic, we have aimed at building an index to diagnose organisational behaviour in the knowledge-based society. Regarding the empirical ...research plan, the originality of the work is that of presenting a qualitative study that allowed for an outline of the Romanian context of organisational behaviour in this society. Among the qualitative methods with phenomenological, comprehensive orientation of the scientific research methodology, we used the focus group, and to identify Romania’s position in international rankings that identify progress towards the knowledge-based society, we used the qualitative content analysis. The research was performed through secondary data analysis collected in reports and studies of international organisations.
Geoinformatics represented by its most powerful technology - Geographic Information Systems (GIS) has become an important part of many disciplines and cuts across all areas of modern information ...society. Geoinformation industry has seen in the last few years a huge boom. Development of spatially oriented databases, Web map services, navigation and localization using GNSS have brought leap in the use of GIS technology general public. With the development of GIS is directly related to the need for training in GIS issues in higher education. Education of GIS experts in the field of development services using GIS technology requires the establishment a quality bachelor and engineering study programs. Study program with such orientation was established in 2005 at the Faculty BERG, Technical University of Kosice (Slovakia) titled “Surveying and Geographic Information Systems”. Since its establishment the program has been improved several times and his corpus reflects the current needs of the European knowledge-based society. Study program educates mainly GIS professionals with a focus on geodesy and cartography, but graduates are also applicable in other areas of the European labor market too.
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