drpi-canada virtual knowledge network monitoring human rights for people with disabilities in canada...
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DRPI-CanadaVirtual Knowledge Network
Monitoring Human Rights for People with Disabilities in Canada
Christo El Morr
• Definition– A group of individuals/organizations
– Dispersed over # remote areas
– with proper communications technology to connect them together to create, share and disseminate knowledge
• VKN Components in DRPI-Canada Canada– e-Dissemination
Search Engine: Policy, Statute, Case Laws, others• Newsletters
– e-Education• Training Manuals
e-CollaborationDocs Upload/DownloadDocs Co-EditForumEmail
• Administrators– Create/Modify/Delete communities– Create/Modify/Delete users– Assign users to communities
• Users– Publish
• Organize documents
• Upload documents
• Assign visibility to documents
– Collaborate• Meeting/chatting
• Doc. co-editing
• Email,
• Forum
– Search
• Knowledge Management– Knowledge “Push”
• Users can create alert using keywords – notify the users about the upload of documents containing these
keywords
• Users can create automatic alerts where the system will use their profile description (publication, navigation history, …)
• The platform also displays latest relevant documents on users’ pages and also provides a RSS Feed for each user
• Knowledge Management– Knowledge “Pull”
• Search Engine (online library)
– Knowledge creation• Matchmaking algorithm: suggests to members the
formation of new communities based on common inter-member affinity detected by the system
• Integration: – Search Engine (online library)
– CurrentlyTheme III (Monitoring Law & Policy) databaseTheme IV (Monitoring Survey Data Sets)Theme II (Monitoring Media)Theme I (Monitoring individual experiences)
• Integration: – Need:
• A common dictionary that relates the # KEYWORDS from the 4 themes
Theme III: keyword1 Theme IV: keyword2Theme II: keyword3Theme I: keyword4
• Keyword1 ↔ keyword2 ↔ keyword3 ↔ keyword4
– Cross-themes effort
DEMO
• Dissemination measurement– to evaluate the utility and effectiveness of the
project– Design
• A monitoring component monitors the knowledge dissemination on the platform
• Monitoring includes documents transfer, ease of access to information and users activities.
VKN Students5 Undergraduate students (York)
• Bhaskar Joshi, Arjun Jolly, Amila Kottege, Dawid Kasperowicz, Lung-Ching Jerry Huang
1 MSc. Student (York)• Natalia Bogdan
1 PhD student (INSA-Lyon, France) Julien Subercaze
Q&A