Ask any question about EPFL courses, lectures, exercises, research, news, etc. or try the example questions below.
DISCLAIMER: The Graph Chatbot is not programmed to provide explicit or categorical answers to your questions. Rather, it transforms your questions into API requests that are distributed across the various IT services officially administered by EPFL. Its purpose is solely to collect and recommend relevant references to content that you can explore to help you answer your questions.
The paper discusses from a conceptual standpoint the need for renewing the lenses through which looking at the phenomenon of ICT-enabled innovation in governance and policy-making, suggesting that a possible ‘new theory of public sector innovation ́ should ...
The common property meadows in the Swiss Alps have been managed by local self-organized governance systems since the Middle Ages, thus preventing their overuse. During the past century, socioeconomic developments, such as industrialization and rapid nonagr ...
Diverse authors defend the idea that stakeholders’ involvement is of crucial importance in most decision-making processes. Adequate selection and involvement of the actors of a given social system is a key issue to increase understanding of the problem, an ...
The IRGC Guidelines for Emerging Risk Governance describe key steps and associated methodologies for early identification and management of emerging risks. The process proposed in this report covers an overarching, flexible and adaptable set of guidelines ...
The concept of governance is generally understood to be the creation of a structure or an order that results from the interaction of a multiplicity of governing mechanisms and actors influencing each other. The notion is increasingly criticized mainly beca ...
This appendix to IRGC's main report "guidelines for emerging risk governance" provides (a) a review of existing framework for the governance of emerging risks and (b) a review of theoretical foundations of IRGC's guidelines. ...
International Risk Governance Council (IRGC)2015
The extractive sector now holds an even more predominant position for national economies following the adoption of the Sustainable Development Goals in 2015. The sector can make significant contributions to the achievement of a large number of these Goals. ...
Springer Heidelberg2017
Creating trust in connectivity including confidentiality, integrity and availability will be key to achieving the promises of the IoT, at least in the automotive and medical sector. Assessing vulnerability, implementing and assessing security controls, des ...
International Risk Governance Center (IRGC)2016
Social systems in mountain regions are exposed to a number of disturbances, such as climate change. Calls for conceptual and practical approaches on how to address climate change have been taken up in the literature. The resilience concept as a comprehensi ...
Resilience Alliance2016
,
The Internet is increasingly becoming a political place in the World whose governance is therefore changed. In fact, classical political governance mechanisms appears to be overwhelmed by the emergence of this new space and its growing impact on the redefi ...