Building Human-Centered Systems

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Author(s): José L. Moutinho (Technical University of Lisbon, Portugal)and Manuel Heitor (Technical University of Lisbon, Portugal)
Copyright: 2005
Pages: 13
Source title: Encyclopedia of Developing Regional Communities with Information and Communication Technology
Source Author(s)/Editor(s): Stewart Marshall (The University of the West Indies, Barbados), Wal Taylor (Cape Peninsula University of Technology, South Africa)and Xinghuo Yu (Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, Australia)
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-59140-575-7.ch010

Keywords: Global Information Technology / Government & Law / Information Science Reference / Urban & Regional Development

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Within the current socio-economic paradigm, in which engineering systems are key for the sustainable development (Moses, 2003), the region is considered the place of untraded interdependencies, meaning “…conventions, informal rules, and habitats that coordinate economic actors under conditions of uncertainty. These assets are a central form of scarcity in contemporary capitalism, and hence a central form of geographical differentiation” (Storper, 1998) and economic growth. The actors include “firms, organizations and institutions [that] interact in the generation, diffusion and use of new—and economically useful—knowledge in the production process” (Fischer, Diez, & Snickars, 2001). Some of these interactions are based on information and communication technologies (ICT) in terms of digitally-enabled knowledge networks, which have been developed through ill-defined communities of practice (CoPs).

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