Posts Categorized: ICT

Notes from “The Hacker Ethic: The New Culture after the Current Global Economic Crisis”

Today I have the great opportunity to attend at a research seminar entitled “The Hacker Ethic: The New Culture after the Current Global Economic Crisis” led by Prof. Pekka Himanen, who is currently a Visiting Professor at Internet Interdisciplinary Institute. After a very inspiring presentation, Prof. Himanen has encouraged us to keep the discussion online… Read more »

Towards Health Mass-Self Communication

On 26th October I have the opportunity to act as a moderator in a symposium called Communication in health 2.0, organized by the Institute for Continuing Education (IDEC) and the University of Pompeu Fabra’s Science Communication Observatory (OCC). First of all, I would like to thank Vladimir de Semir, Gemma Revuelta and Clara Armengou for… Read more »

People living with chronic disease and the Internet in Catalonia Working in Progress

UPDATE Following Ismael Peña advises I have drawn new graphics that represents the relationship between people living with chronic disease and the Internet in Catalonia . It looks like the inverse care law could be also applied to these citizens. I have started to explore and analyse the relationship between people who live with chronic disease… Read more »

Measuring digital development for policy-making: Models, stages, characteristics and causes

Yesterday I had the pleasure to attend the defence of Ismael Peña‘ thesis Measuring digital development for policy-making: models, stages, characteristics and causes, “which deals about the digital economy and whether governments should help in its development for it might have a positive impact on the real economy and on the society at large”. Measuring… Read more »

The inverse care law and the use of e-consultation

I have read Nijland, N., van Gemert-Pijnen, J. E. W. C., Boer, H., Steehouder, M. F., & Seydel, E. R. (2009). Increasing the use of e-consultation in primary care: Results of an online survey among non-users of e-consultation. International Journal of Medical Informatics, In Press, Corrected Proof. Abstract Objective To identify factors that can enhance… Read more »

The Ranking Web of World Hospitals

Nowadays, there are several directories and rankings almost for everything. Information flows, mashups, user-generated contents and collaboration tools, among others,  have facilitated the development and the dissemination of these kind of information services. Nevertheless, I would say (it’s just a hypothesis) that most of these rankings or directories do not mention clearly how they have… Read more »

Knowledge, networks and economic activity: an analysis of the effects of the network on the knowledge-based economy

I would like to disseminate a paper entitled Knowledge, networks and economic activity: an analysis of the effects of the network on the knowledge-based economy written by Joan Torrent, director of ICTs Interdisciplinary Research Group (i2TIC), brand new research group I belong to. This paper contextualises the disruptive change of the transition to a knowledge-based… Read more »

From Excluded to Networked Citizens… The Inverse Care Law

On Wednesday 8th I’m presenting Health and the Internet: Autonomy of the User in the World Internet Project Macao 2009. I have finished the presentation and I would like to share a graphic that clearly represents the difference between Access, Use and Assessment of ICT used by Catalonia citizens (based on a representative survey of… Read more »

World Internet Project and Health

I’m so excited about World Internet Project 2009 Macao (July 8 – 10) where I’m presenting a paper done with Dra. Rita Espanha entitled Health and the Internet: Autonomy of the User. Abstract: Information access and distribution are growing and the ways in which this information and knowledge democratisation occurs are many, scattered and diverse…. Read more »

Open call for blogs on death and dying for agnostics and atheists

Today I have started my day reading [Air-L] blogs on death and dying for agnostics and atheists and I can’t stop thinking about it. Hi AoIRers! My father was diagnosed 6 months ago with Stage III esophageal cancer. After one round of radiation and chemotherapy, he recently decided to enter hospice. He’s a retired psychology… Read more »