Title :
A framework for collaborative social, economic and environmental development: Building a digital ecosystem for societal empowerment
Author :
Huang, J.S. ; Hsueh, Karen ; Reynolds, Alan
Author_Institution :
Tech. Staff Strategic Stand., AT&T Services, Inc., San Ramon, CA, USA
Abstract :
Traditional approaches to Social, Economic and Environmental Development (SEED) have historically employed a closed, top-down model in which problems are viewed narrowly and the input of local stakeholders is rarely sought. More recent efforts to address development from a holistic, multidisciplinary perspective-while a major step in the right direction-have been hindered by a lack of appropriate tools and well-defined processes to enable disparate resources to work effectively together towards common goals. The proposed SEED Framework leverages and expands the mandate of Digital Agenda set forth by several nations, and the resulting technology development with additional design patterns for the purpose of building a collaborative SEED Digital Ecosystem. The framework aims to effectively support self-organizing, multidisciplinary collaborations and, most importantly, to translate concepts and ideas into actions for holistic and sustained social, economic and environmental development with a deep awareness of the local culture.
Keywords :
cultural aspects; groupware; object-oriented methods; social aspects of automation; sustainable development; collaborative SEED digital ecosystem; collaborative social-economic-and-environmental development; community development; design patterns; digital agenda; local culture; multidisciplinary collaborations; self-organizing collaborations; societal empowerment; sustainable development; technology development; Collaboration; Communities; Economics; Ecosystems; Investment; Technological innovation; Semantic knowledgebase; community development; governance; impact investment; sustainability science; sustainable development; value networks;
Conference_Titel :
Digital Ecosystems and Technologies (DEST), 2013 7th IEEE International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Menlo Park, CA
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4799-0784-7
DOI :
10.1109/DEST.2013.6611348