Enabling Virtual Knowledge Networks for Human Rights Monitoring for People with Disabilities

Abstract

Holistic disability rights monitoring is an imperative approach to permit translation of rights on paper into rights in reality for people with disabilities. However, evidence-based knowledge produced through such a holistic monitoring approach has to be accessible to a broad range of stakeholders, e.g., groups such as: researchers, representatives of disability community, people with disabilities, media, policy makers, and the general public. Besides, the collected evidence should contribute to building capacity within disability community around human rights questions. This article explains the design process of a Virtual Knowledge Network (VKN) as an operational tool to support mobilization and dissemination of evidence-based knowledge produced by the Disability Rights Promotion International Canada (DRPI-Canada) project. This VKN is embedded in the more general framework of DRPI, grounded in a human rights approach to disability that acknowledges the importance of creating knowledgeable communities in order to make the disability rights monitoring efforts sustainable.

Effectiveness of online mindfulness interventions on medical students’ mental health: a systematic review

“…Online communities [ 27 , 28 ], whether static or mobile, proved to play a major role in digital health [ 29 – 31 ], including mental health [ 11 , 32 , 33 ]. They have been proven to be effective in knowledge dissemination [ 34 ], health monitoring [ 35 ], self-management of health conditions [ 36 ] and chronic disease management [ 37 ].…”

“…Specifically, isolation had a major impact on the mental health of the population in general [ 49 ] and medical students in particular [ 50 ], so studying the effect of the sense of belonging to a community and the sense of isolation on mental health outcomes appears to be paramount. There are advanced techniques that might become useful in online communities, such as online agents [ 51 , 52 ] that allow notification based on user preferences [ 27 , 35 , 53 – 56 ]. It is important to note that frameworks to evaluate the successful implementation and adoption of online communities do exist [ 57 ].…”

Knowledge Management in Healthcare

“…In this context, Virtual Knowledge Communities present an efficient way to model KM in organization since it integrates the MAS approach and the ontological representation of Knowledge. Virtual model Knowledge Communities' model has been used for business (Subercaze, Pawar, Maret, & Calmet, 2008) as well as for health care purposes (El Morr, Subercaze, Maret, & Rioux, 2008).…”

Role of Knowledge Management in Providing Quality Care: A Conceptual Model

“…Ontological representations help healthcare practitioners to retrieve answers for powerful queries, knowledge manipulation and retrieval and discovery. Moreover the virtual knowledge communities used for business and healthcare purposes [12] insists a greater adaption to web technologies. Therefore, it is proposed that Proposition 3: Healthcare practitioner's adaption to use web technologies for knowledge management will influence the quality care to patients Healthcare practitioner need encouragement and has to be open minded without any fear to share knowledge.…”