This study explores officials’ perspectives on Swedish policies for rural digital transformation (RDT). Through the lens of Social Acceleration and systems thinking, employing Critical Systems ...Heuristics collecting empirical data, we explore how officials perceive that Swedish digitalisation policies impacts inclusive RDT. We investigate whether the possibility to implement Swedish digitalisation policies support or hinder inclusive RDT. Our results emphasize the importance of Social Acceleration based on the aspirations of rural residents, encompassing technical acceleration, social change, and the pace of life. The rapid societal acceleration driven by digitalisation impacts the implementation of digital services in rural areas. Policies do not address the needs of tailored digital services; officials strive to manage this through creative methods despite inherent challenges.
Digital transformation (DT) has received increasing attention in recent years. Up until now, most of the current studies focus on digital transformation in advanced and dense societies, especially ...urban areas and technologies. Hence, the phenomenon of DT is under-researched in the context of rural and sparsely populated contexts. This study aims at exploring how a rural living lab (RLL) can be shaped and how this approach can be designed to support digital transformation processes in rural contexts. In so doing, following a design science research methodology (DSRM) approach, we have made an artefact (that is, RLL framework) that is an instantiation that supports user centric digitalization of rural areas. The designed framework is developed based on the key components of traditional and urban living labs, as well as empirical data which was collected within the context of the DigiBy project. The DigiBy project aims at conducting DT pilots in rural areas to elevate peoples understanding of digitalization and the application of digitalization opportunities for service development in rural areas in the north of Sweden. As a result of these studies, five key components that guide the design of digital transformation pilots in rural areas emerged, namely: 1) rural context, 2) digitalization, 3) governance, control, and business mode, 4) methods facilitating DT processes, and 5) quintuple helix actors. We also offer an empirically derived definition of the rural living lab concept, followed by avenues for future research.
...we invite you to attend ISPIM Connects Ottawa (ispim-connects-ottawa.com), which will be held in Ottawa, Canada, from April 7-10, 2019. ...there is a diversity of immediate challenges that need to ...be managed directly, but a long-term perspective is also required is to co-create a better society for all. In addition to describing the framework and the value it provides to practitioners seeking to develop business models and guide living lab activities, the authors provide three illustrative case studies from their overall sample of 40 living lab innovation projects that were used to iteratively develop this practical tool. Mari Runardotter is a PhD in Social Informatics from the Luleå University of Technology. Since 2009 she has been working as Senior Lecturer, at the division Computer Science, at Luleå University of Technology.
The opening up of public sector data has provided a new data resource for the citizens. However, the use of open data and its consequent societal value has proved not to be as extensive as initially ...hoped for, although multiple innovations have emerged; rather it is still considered problematic, and knowledge about open data use is scarce. Therefore, the aim of this paper is to clarify open data use and engagement by people outside the public sector, especially what motives exists and how different user types align to these motives. To achieve this, a document analysis has been carried out of reported use cases identified in EU topic reports between 2014 and 2016. By applying the theory of Relevant Social Groups (RSG), which focuses on the people's interpretation of the purpose with the technology, we identified five RSGs representing overall motives for open data use: 1) Exploring for creativity, 2) Creating business value, 3) Enabling local citizen value, 4) Addressing global societal challenges, and 5) Advocating the open data agenda. We also discuss differences between the relevant social groups and the included user types, issues and implications for understanding the evolvement of the open data field, and suggests research ahead.
•Five relevant social groups for open data use and engagement was identified.•The use of open data is seen to be highly heterogeneous and to cut across sectors.•Four metadirections for the evolvement of open data was identified and discussed.•Multiple forms of participation and engagement for the public task was seen.•Problem contextualization can potentially lead to more innovative open data use.
This paper explores knowledge infrastructures developed with the aim of opening cultural heritage institutions for public access and involvement. We concentrate on the new modes of ...knowledge production of professionals and amateur experts involved in the design and use of open archives and wiki communities as a part of transformations towards participatory digital public infrastructures. Ideas of crowdsourcing, policies of open data and engagements in community-based cultural heritage influence participants’ visions of future ways of generating, sharing and maintaining their knowledge. The paper identifi es how the concept of attachments may help us analytically to understand the dynamics of multiple situated knowledges that are played out when people embrace digital technologies and open-data policies to connect past, present and future orientation of cultural heritage engagements.Keywords: knowledge infrastructuring, attachments, future orientation
This paper explores knowledge infrastructures developed with the aim of opening cultural heritage institutions for public access and involvement. We concentrate on the new modes of knowledge ...production of professionals and amateur experts involved in the design and use of open archives and wiki communities as a part of transformations towards participatory digital public infrastructures. Ideas of crowdsourcing, policies of open data and engagements in community-based cultural heritage influence participants' visions of future ways of generating, sharing and maintaining their knowledge. The paper identifies how the concept of attachments may help us analytically to understand the dynamics of multiple situated knowledges that are played out when people embrace digital technologies and open-data policies to connect past, present and future orientation of cultural heritage engagements.
Information technology facilitates production and spreading of information, as well as enables the transformation towards e-government and e-services. As a consequence, numerous official documents ...are born digital, i.e. no paper originals exist. Although there is a lot of ongoing research in digital preservation and digital curation, how digital material is to be preserved for the long-term is still an issue. In the area most research concerns technological aspects. However, the point of departure for this thesis is that the challenge of long-term digital preservation also demands human, social and organizing considerations. This is explored on the basis of how people involved in digital preservation understand, experience and interpret the current situation. The methodological approaches for this thesis are found in interpretative and feminist technoscience perspectives. The Research is also influenced by design perspectives, such as participatory design and systems design, where the latter involves Viable System theories. The empirical material was gathered through participant observations, brainstorming, future workshops, and individual and group interviews. Additional contributions to this study consists of recurrent discussions with systems developers at the Long-term Digital Preservation Centre. The empirical material has been analyzed through ongoing interpretations, discourse analysis, by mapping actors and agendas, and also by themes that have arisen during the research. The research was initiated by exploring the current situation as understood, experienced and interpreted by archivists. Findings from the initial studies suggested that cooperation and communication around digital preservation were not functioning well in many organizations today. Also, responsibility questions were unclear, such as which functions and roles are responsible for digital preservation and what kinds of responsibility are then involved. These questions constituted the continuation of the research and additional studies were made, now from organizing perspectives. A governmental authority has contributed with a ‘best practice' case, which is demonstrated through the lenses of the Viable System Model (VSM) and its underlying theories. The VSM is in this research used as a plan for how to organize digital preservation. However, a plan needs recurrent revisions since people (and technologies) do not always act as supposed. Rather the actions tend to be based on available understandings and knowledges, i.e. situated actions. These in turn, can be viewed as related to ongoing reconfigurations of the world - agency. The main findings are that in order to organize for digital preservation, archival creating organizations should pay attention to humans, technology and the overall organization, and the interplay between these parts. There should be efforts for facilitating collaboration and communication among staff. Identification of preservation processes and where they take place in the organization is important. This can be the foundation for clarification of tasks and responsibilities, where the responsibilities are threefold; the practical, the technological and the strategic. When working on a plan for organizing digital preservation, it is also preferable to involve the staff concerned.Moreover, information technology makes possible the accessibility of the digital material in a totally different way than paper, or analogue archival material. This makes it necessary to modify the view of archives. Hence, a new view of archives is provided; as a more active and living part of the entire information assets held by an organization.
Godkänd; 2009; 20090504 (mar_run); DISPUTATION Ämnesområde: Informatik / Social Informatics Opponent: Dr /Docent Agneta Ranerup, IT-universitetet vid Göteborgs Universitet Ordförande: Dr/Professor Ann Hägerfors, Luleå tekniska universitet Luleå tekniska universitet Tid: Fredag 5 juni 2009, klockan 10:00 Plats: A-huset, sal A109, LTU
This thesis revolves around archivists' current situation, and the fact that information technologies nowadays are tools that creates digital official documents which must be preserved for long-term. ...I have studied how the technologies affects and eventually changes archivists work practice and situation, and what recommendations that can be identified, in order to make sure that archivists' work practice runs smoothly in the future. That is, the research involves how archivists experience their situation, how they look at information technologies and long-term digital preservation, and also which areas they mainly focuses on, or feels most concerned about. My research consists of participatory observations conducted while following an archivist a couple of times each month for more than a year, data gathering at an archival conference for county council archivists, a future workshop and finally a focus group interview with archivists working at an existing e-archive. During my research I have focused on things or phenomena that engage archivists and causes problems in their daily work practice. These phenomena I have divided into the following themes: work practice, cooperation and communication, organisation, professional roles and competence, resources, attitudes, information technology, and finally laws and regulations. My research shows that there is lack of knowledge in archival matters among other professional groups in the organisations, which makes the archivists work practice unwieldy. Archivists must constantly remind, educate and support other personnel involved in archiving. The archivists express that they are ascribed low status in their organisations and that archiving is neglected and low-prioritised - something that is conducted when other work task are done. Concerning long-term digital preservation the archivists ask for The Solution, since they lack knowledge in information technologies. Moreover, archivists express that there are lack of knowledge in archiving, mainly among management and IT-personnel. Meanwhile archivists work rather alone, with little or none cooperation with IT-personnel. IT-departments are said to run their own race and archivists get not enough support from management. Cooperation and communication seem to be non-existing among these groups. Today many organisations do not have any strategies for long-term digital preservation. Often it is the archivists that are regarded to be the problem owner of this issue. In connection to this I have found that archivists are unsure of their own role and mission, and what competence they should possess. They claim that archivists are mainly connected with paper, and thereby they are shut out from long-term digital preservation issues. Moreover, archivists are not involved when e.g. new computer based systems are to be designed or implemented. Because of this archivists cannot influence the archival creation from the beginning. Lack of resources is also expressed by archivists, and involves lack of time, finances, personnel and competence. Moreover, information technology has caused that the respect for laws and regulations are declining, and digital documents are not regarded as official. Conclusions drawn are that there is lack of understanding of archivists work practice among other professional groups in the organisations. Archivists are expected to take care of and preserve information that exists in technologies with which they are not comfortable. Organisations has left the responsibility for long-term digital preservation to archivists alone, since the organisations have not succeeded in establishing cooperation and communication among concerned professional groups, especially archivists, IT personnel and management. This could seem as a paradox, since archivists are not involved when computer based systems are at stake, systems that generates the official documents that the organisation is obliged to
Godkänd; 2007; 20070219 (evan)
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