Analysis,modeling, and the management of international negotiations

Negotiation management, a framework for practical implementation of computer-based support to negotiators and their staffs, is defined and described in this paper. In particular, three integrated tools and their underlying methodologies, are illustrated. The collaborative use of computers and information techniques in complex negotiation is framed in terms of a discovery and design paradigm in which parties engage in dialogue, learn, and develop trust that can support the negotiation itself through a process of joint analysis and modeling.     

The use of analytical methods and tools in international negotiations: A practitioner's perspective

This paper presents a practitioner's perspective on the use of systematic analytical techniques to improve the practice of international negotiations, primarily in a multilateral context. A generic model of the negotiation process is presented and the utility of various analytical methodologies is evaluated against the component functions described by the model. Overall, analytical tools for negotiation support are viewed as most useful in the prenegotiation phase. Conclusions are based primarily on practical experience, not on theories of negotiation.     

Information and communications technology use in rural child welfare work

This study explores the impact of information and communications technology (ICT) use on rural child welfare practice using a technology-in-practice framework to derive the social structures that are instantiated by rural child welfare workers (CWWs) and to examine their agency as actors. ICT use was tracked, and interviews were conducted with rural CWWs who work with children and families to gain an understanding of and describe their day-to-day ICT use at the practice level. Findings demonstrate that CWWs enact social structures along four frames: bureaucratic structure, family centricity, ICT context and information–documentation culture. In terms of agency, CWWs not only are constrained by but also exert some influence on the social structures they enact through facilities (material resources), norms and interpretive schemes. These findings have implications for how ICT can be used to facilitate the CWW–client relationship and the need in rural areas for increased infrastructure to support CWWs.     

信息技术与媒体革命

以因特网为龙头的信息技术正在全球范围内为传播媒体带来一场前所未有的革命,如新闻工作者的工作方式与新闻媒体的管理方式将产生重大变革、人才竞争日趋激烈等。面对这一革命,政府应积极调整和制定相关对策,以期在竞争中处于主动地位。     

信息产业发展趋势及中国信息化建设战略

信息化带动工业化战略是中国发展国民经济的重要战略。在新经济挑战下,以信息化带动工业化,以工业化促进信息化,加快信息化与工业化协调并进,既是我国调整优化经济结构,改造提升传统产业,大力发展高新技术产业的目标要求,又是新世纪我国实现社会生产力跨越式发展的必然选择。     

高校科研成果转化中的信息化平台建设研究

信息化建设已逐渐渗透到社会生活的每一个领域,高校在管理上也日渐采用信息化手段来提高管理效率,而高校科研成果转化的信息化建设也一直是高校科研管理的重点。结合多年的成果转化经验,针对目前成果转化平台建设存在的问题,提出了一整套的成果转化信息化平台建设解决方案,以期对高校科研成果转化的信息化建设提供参考。     

Group decision and negotiation support in evolving,nonshared information contexts

Based on evolutionary systems design (ESD), group decision and negotiation support in evolving, nonshared information contexts is discussed. A non-shared information context — one without full information sharing — is associated with what has been loosely called a noncooperative context in the group decision and negotiation support systems (GDNSS) literature. Without full information sharing, we have a game with incomplete information that, in general, is evolving. The paper discusses how the GDNSS, MEDIATOR, supports evolution of the group problem representation — a process of consensus seeking (through information sharing, here partial) subject to problem adaptation and restructuring within which compromise is possible.     

对信息时代教育技术的解读

21世纪是中国基础教育彻底变革的时代,也是世界范围内教育技术飞速发展的时期,中国实施的课程改革正经受着教育技术的强烈冲击和影响。因此,改革的视野和立意应该从"学习过程"和"教学资源"有机结合的角度,全方位探讨教育技术与课程整合的途径和方法,实现用信息时代的教育理念引领课程改革实践,赋予教育技术以信息时代的内涵。     

信息化条件下城市空间演化的特征研究

信息化条件下城市空间演化正呈现出新的趋势和特征。信息化的加剧使城市空间演化的进度加快,演化方式由"量"的外在扩大向"质"的内在结构延伸,并且演化内容正逐步趋向于城市内部结构的重新布局和调整。城市空间演化这些新的特征主要表现在:选址自由度被有限制地放大、产业结构调整更加合理、劳动力结构和层次发生变迁、居民生活方式发生变革,等等。信息化也正是通过对选址、产业结构、劳动力、居民生活方式产生作用进而影响到城市空间演化,从而日益成为城市空间演化的新的内在动力。     

生产方式、信息方式与后现代哲学思潮

“信息方式”是美国学者波斯特 (M .Poster)针对当今信息社会中信息技术 ,特别是电脑和互联网技术的发展而提出的一个新概念。信息方式是对后工业社会之后 ,信息技术尤其是网络技术的发展对当今社会日益增大的影响及其重要地位的理论反映。波斯特从后结构主义的理论出发 ,把现代技术 ,特别是电子媒介技术的发展与后现代哲学思潮 ,特别是后结构主义理论结合起来 ,论证了信息方式及其理论成立的可能性和意义 ,并试图用此概念来取代马克思的“生产方式”概念。本文作者认为 ,信息技术的发展的确与后现代哲学思潮的出现有着密切的关系 ,但这并不意味着信息方式理论就能取代马克思的生产方式概念。相反 ,马克思主义有关生产的技术方式观点 ,对理解当今的信息技术社会仍具有重要的理论意义。同时 ,我们应该从更高的层次上来看待信息方式与后现代主义之间的关系     

战略管理会计--战略管理的信息支持

当今 ,企业战略及其管理日益重要。然而无论是战略的制定 ,还是其实施的监控 ,都离不开明晰、可靠的信息支持 ,战略管理会计就是为适应这一要求而产生的。战略管理会计的方法有所有者价值分析、价值链分析、非财务指标绩效测量、寿命周期成本规划等     

技术治理的运作机制研究——以上海市L街道一门式电子政务中心为案例

本文试图从信息技术与组织结构之间互动机制的角度,对中国政府改革进程中信息技术促进基层公共部门革     

Improved Risk Information,the Demand for Cigarettes,and Anti-Tobacco Policy

This paper purports to develop a simple microeconomic model designed to shed light on behavioral change induced by improved information about smoking risks. It predicts the conditions in which improved information indeed increases the demand for cigarettes. After recalling the economic rationale of an anti-tobacco policy, the article points out a few startling implications of improved information about the risks of smoking.     

Success of University Student Volunteers in Obtaining Consent for Reviewing Private Health Information for Emergency Research

This study aimed to determine the success of university student volunteers in obtaining consent from parents to allow review of their child’s personal health information (PHI) for emergency research screening. This study also aimed to examine the variables associated with successful consent. This was a prospective cross-sectional study conducted at a pediatric emergency department (ED). University students, who functioned as delegates of the health information custodian, approached parents for consent. Of 2,506 parents, 1,852 (73.9%) provided consent to allow review of their child’s PHI for research screening. Variables associated with successful consent were high (≥12 months) versus low (<12 months) volunteer experience (OR = 2.0), research related (vs. unrelated) to the child’s chief complaint (OR = 2.0), child treated regularly by specialists at the study institution (OR = 1.7), and ED presentation mid-week vs. weekend (OR = 1.7) and morning vs. evening presentation (OR = 1.4). When approached by a university student volunteer, about 25% of parents declined to have their child’s PHI reviewed for research screening. This model of obtaining consent may put some emergency research at risk for selection bias. Variables that increase the odds of successful consent can be considered in program design to improve the effectiveness of this model.     

SPECIAL ISSUE： ANTI-CORRUPTION STRATEGIES IN TRANSITIONAL CHINA --Implications of the Financial Crisis for China＇s Information Supervision and Curbing of Financial Corruption

美国次贷危机（金融危机）彰显了现有金融监管模式对于系统性风险的防范失败。次贷危机的根源,很大程度上可以归咎于金融信息披露严重失范滋生的金融腐败。作为一种规制金融信息披露、通过透明度约束降低腐败的需求与供给的监管方式,信息监管对于遏制金融腐败具有重要作用。比较美国新的金融监管体制改革,立足中国实践,重构金融监管体制,可以以信息监管为中心,进一步完善金融机构的信息披露制度,努力构建一个统合的金融信息平台,建设有效的信息共享机制,整合监管资源,形成金融反腐防腐的强大合力。     

小语种专业大学生信息素养教育研究--广东外语外贸大学西语、东语学院信息素养教育实践

小语种专业大学生的信息素养教育是一个难点,游离于常规信息素养教育之外。本文结合广东外语外贸大学图书馆西语、东语学院信息素养教育实践,探讨了小语种专业大学生信息素养教育的内容和教学模式,包括教学内容的设计原则,教学的主要内容是信息素养通识教育和小语种信息资源,及以专题培训为主要形式的本研分层教学模式等。最后反思了小语种专业大学生信息素养教育的发展。     

Government support for Indigenous cultural and natural resource management in Australia: The role of the Working on Country program

In Australia national concerns about climate change, biodiversity loss, water quantity and quality and land degradation have high priority on the government's environment agenda. With this comes the opportunity to strategically integrate Indigenous land and sea management into plans for tackling these challenges, not least because the Indigenous estate—which includes some of the most biodiverse lands in Australia—continues to increase as a result of successful land and native title claims and the declaration of more Indigenous Protected Areas. This paper explores government support for Indigenous land and sea management focusing on the Commonwealth government's Working on Country program. The paper outlines the development of formalised Indigenous cultural and natural resource management, and the emergence of the Working on Country program is discussed in the past and current policy context. The opportunities and challenges for the future of the program, and formalised Indigenous land and sea management in Australia more broadly, are outlined. To finish, a note of cautious optimism: while an expanded Working on Country program underpinned by community‐led priorities and aspirations has the potential to simultaneously ameliorate Indigenous poverty and ensure natural resource management occurs, this will require targeted investment and a more holistic and less sectoral approach from government.     

Children's services in the iron cage of performance management: street‐level bureaucracy and the spectre of Švejkism

Wastell D, White S, Broadhurst K, Peckover S, Pithouse A. Children's services in the iron cage of performance management: street‐level bureaucracy and the spectre of ?vejkism Int J Soc Welfare 2010: 19: 310–320 © 2010 The Author(s), Journal compilation © 2010 Blackwell Publishing Ltd and International Journal of Social Welfare. Recent UK government reforms have introduced a range of measures to regulate practice in child welfare, with professional work increasingly structured into formal processes embedded in information technology. This prompts obvious anxieties about the erosion of professional discretion. Using Lipsky's concept of the street‐level bureaucrat, we report on an ethnographical study examining how social workers organise their practice in an atmosphere of performance management. Clear indications of attenuated discretion are revealed, reflecting the shift to a managerial model of control. Of concern is the emergence of a pattern of formally conformant behaviour in which the letter of the organisational law is obeyed but without genuine commitment. Drawing on the anti‐hero of Ha?ek's celebrated satire, we denote this form of passive resistance ‘?vejkism’. While showing up the absurdities of excessive managerial power, such behaviours are ultimately dysfunctional for the organisation; an alternative governance paradigm, based on professional values, is briefly outlined.