Improving quality of life perception with ICT use and technological capacity in Europe

Peña, Domingo Nevado; Ruiz, Víctor Raúl López; Navarro, José Luis Alfaro

doi:10.1016/j.techfore.2019.119734

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“…Quality of life is used for the assessment of individuals and societies of overall well-being [94]. "ITS applies advanced communication, information, and electronics technology to solve the global transportation problems such as congestion, transport efficiency, safety, and environmental concerns" [95].…”

Section: -5-quality Of Life Contextmentioning

confidence: 99%

Exploring Critical Success Factors for Blockchain-based Intelligent Transportation Systems

Çaldağ

Gökalp

2020

Emerg Sci J

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Utilization of Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS) provides increasing demands on decreasing traffic congestions, transportation safety, and environmental problems as well as increasing transportation capacity. Over the past few years, one of the most disruptive and transformational technologies, blockchain technology, has emerged. As a result of offering more security, privacy, traceability, transparency, and decentralized authority, the utilization of blockchain technology in ITS have increased drastically. Despite this increase, there is a lack of a good understanding of what are the Critical Success Factors (CSF) to support IT providers for designing their products properly, and to provide industry leaders to focus on the main drivers of their outstanding projects. This study aims to explore and analyze CSFs that can facilitate the success of blockchain-based ITS, which has so far been neglected despite its remarkable relevance. In doing so, eleven primary studies, identified as a result of conducting a systematic literature review (SLR), were taken as a baseline to develop the model of CSFs. Additionally, since the number of existing studies related to CSFs for blockchain and ITS are limited, an expert panel was formed to evaluate and contribute to the model. The developed model of CSF for blockchain-based ITS, having a comprehensive approach, consists of 29 CSFs defined under five main contexts, namely technical, management, governance, quality of service, and quality of life. Doi: 10.28991/esj-2020-SP1-03 Full Text: PDF

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Section: -5-quality Of Life Contextmentioning

confidence: 99%

Exploring Critical Success Factors for Blockchain-based Intelligent Transportation Systems

Çaldağ

Gökalp

2020

Emerg Sci J

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“…The enormous annual growth of ICT capabilities, based on data storage and computational capacities (Hilbert and López, 2006), clearly reveals a variety of potential for different life spheres. ICT influences the way people work, provides new options for learning, is capable of improving social and economic development (Thapa and Saebø, 2014;Dasuki and Abbot, 2015), and fosters perceptions of a higher quality of living (Nevado-Peña et al, 2019).…”

Section: A Garden On the Internet -Virtually Farming Remotely Controlled Plotsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…The manifold dimensions of agricultural food production, whether on an industrial, globalised scale or on local, family farming levels, attract attention of social and rural geography (Paniagua, 2021), Agro-Food Studies (Ermann et al, 2018:96 f.), and the geographies of food (Kneafsey et al, 2021). Theoretical perspectives on technology use and its socio-spatial impacts continuously shape discourses about nature and culture, agency, and identity of farmers and technology, knowledge, consumption, and power relations (e.g.…”

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I have a garden on the Internet! Searching for the farmer in a remotely controlled farming enterprise

Preininger

Häfner

2021

Geogr. Helv.

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Abstract. The paper examines the conceptual implications of using Smart Farming Technologies and digitalisation in small-scale food production, exemplified by the Austrian start-up “myAcker”. The company runs a hybrid system of gamified, remote-controlled agriculture, where its customers assume the role of “online gardeners” and take care of their own vegetables. Conceptually, it combines two different logics, namely the technology focus of vertical farming and algorithm-based control over operational processes, and the participatory, values-based elements of Alternative Food Networks like connectivity, sustainability, and ownership developed by online gardeners. Consequently, the dividing lines between producers, customers, and technology, as well as between virtual and physical, become blurred. Thus, the agency of technology becomes a co-constituent of agricultural work, life, and identity, which is itself co-constituted by human actors in a network of social relations. The case study shows the new potential and pitfalls of small-scale smart farming and digitalisation, making it necessary to conceptually revisit human–environment relations in the Actor Network Theory by more explicitly including technology as a bridging element.

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“…The conceptual analysis of the term "quality of life" indicates that it can be interpreted in two dimensions: objective -physical, social, economic, etc. ; subjective -as a psychological feeling of satisfaction [Nevado-Peña et al 2019]. The subjective approach refers to how people use resources available to them [Kahneman, Deaton 2010] and is a result of the possible opportunities they have [Sen 2011].…”

Section: Urban Quality Of Life In the Light Of The Theorymentioning

confidence: 99%

The impact of the cohesion policy on the quality of life in big cities in Mazovia

Maćkiewicz¹,

Szczech-Pietkiewicz²

2020

MSR

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Contemporary urban policies pay great attention to improving the quality of life of the inhabitants. Such an increasing interest in the quality of life is caused by its crucial importance for the location decisions of households and businesses. In recent years, urban development has been largely financed by EU cohesion policy funds. The paper intends to identify the areas in which the quality of life of the inhabitants of large cities in Mazovia has improved thanks to the implementation of cohesion policy. The study took into account large cities in Mazovia with over 100,000 inhabitants, i.e. Warsaw, Radom and Plock. The survey is based on data collected for the research project: ‚The impact of the cohesion policy on urban development in 2007–2013’, provided by the Ministry of Development. This includes in-depth interviews with representatives of units responsible for development strategy in the cities covered by the survey and a questionnaire survey among beneficiaries of projects co-funded by EU funds. An analysis of databases of projects implemented in large cities in Mazovia, financed with the participation of EU funds, as well as a research of literature on the quality of life in cities in Mazovia were also conducted. The results indicate that the inhabitants see the most improvement in the quality of life in connection with better transport in the cities. The quality of life has increased thanks to faster and more comfortable commuting to work, which leaves more time for other activities and spending free time.

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Improving quality of life perception with ICT use and technological capacity in Europe

Cited by 70 publications

References 52 publications

Exploring Critical Success Factors for Blockchain-based Intelligent Transportation Systems

Exploring Critical Success Factors for Blockchain-based Intelligent Transportation Systems

I have a garden on the Internet! Searching for the farmer in a remotely controlled farming enterprise

The impact of the cohesion policy on the quality of life in big cities in Mazovia

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