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Three Essays on Collective Forms of Organizing for Production and Innovation

Joana Rodrigues Pereira

This dissertation focuses on collective forms or organizing that through crowds or communities undertake production or innovation activities. Such organizations deviate from the traditional notions of hierarchy, authority, and control; however, they are st ...

EPFL2017

Creating a competing demand for waste resources: a strategy for waste minimization in Nigeria

Solid waste management in Nigeria is a social and public health concern. Waste problems are more serious in cities as the communities lead a non-indigenous lifestyle with respect to resource consumption and wastage. Nigerian municipal waste has organic bio ...

A World Resources Forum Production, PSI2017

Delineating policies: governing spaces with no coextensive institutions

Thomas Charles Marie Pierre Favre-Bulle

Many policies are spatially targeted: they attempt to foster or incent policy actions in areas meeting specific criteria. The identification and delineation of the spatial reality of interest is a major challenge to spatially targeted policies. In many cas ...

EPFL2017

“What’s the frequency, Kenneth?” Defining the crowd organization

Christopher Tucci, Gianluigi Viscusi, Joana Rodrigues Pereira

In this paper, we provide guidelines for strategically using crowds as part of a crowdsourcing strategy and an open innovation portfolio. We start by defining crowd organisations as sustained through a crowd of loosely coupled and equally aligned agents th ...

2016

These lectures present a research that investigates the representation of communities, and the way to foster their understanding by different audiences. Communities are complex multidimensional entities intrinsically difficult to represent synthetically ...

2016

Shifts in diversity and function of lake bacterial communities upon glacier retreat

Hannes Markus Peter

Global climate change is causing a wastage of glaciers and threatening biodiversity in glacier-fed ecosystems. The high turbidity typically found in those ecosystems, which is caused by inorganic particles and result of the erosive activity of glaciers is ...

Nature Publishing Group2016

“What’s the frequency, Kenneth?” Defining the crowd organization

Christopher Tucci, Gianluigi Viscusi, Joana Rodrigues Pereira

In this paper, we provide guidelines for strategically using crowds as part of a crowdsourcing strategy and an open innovation portfolio. We start by defining crowd organizations as sustained through a crowd of loosely coupled and mutually aligned agents t ...

2015

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Sébastien Marcel, André Anjos, Laurent El Shafey

Idiap2012

This paper is intended to stimulate discussion about the creation of a standard for a community participation model of terminology development. It begins with a discussion of why the current state of terminology development in Africa brings forth the need ...

2011