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DRPI-Canada Virtual Knowledge Network. Monitoring Human Rights for People with Disabilities in Canada Christo El Morr. Definition A group of individuals/organizations Dispersed over # remote areas
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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-Collaboration • Docs Upload/Download • Docs Co-Edit • Forum • Email
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 createautomatic 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) • Currently • Theme III (Monitoring Law & Policy) database • Theme 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: keyword2 • Theme II: keyword3 • Theme I: keyword4 • Keyword1 ↔ keyword2 ↔ keyword3 ↔ keyword4 • Cross-themes effort
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 Students • 5 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