Inclusion through the Digital Economy

通过数字经济实现包容性

• 批准号: EP/G066019/1
• 负责人: Paul Watson
• 金额: $ 1544.97万
• 依托单位: Newcastle University
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Research Grant
• 财政年份: 2009
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2009 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=EP%2FG066019%2F1
• 关键词: Inclusion; through; Digital; Economy

Our aim is to transform lives by creating a centre of excellence in Inclusion through the Digital Economy. We will do this by building a world-leading multi-disciplinary research team with expertise ranging across technology, business, society, homecare, transport and the creative arts. To date the main thrust of UK and European policy regarding an inclusive information society has focused on increasing uptake of ICT (the internet, broadband, etc.) and significant progress in this respect has been made in the UK. However, less emphasis has been placed on how technology is used and in particular how technology can be used in to transform lives. This is the role of the proposed Digital Economy Hub.Currently, the potential benefits of the Digital Economy are not being realised by all members of society; it is recognised that digital exclusion mirrors many aspects of more general social exclusion. That is, not just poverty, but the mutually reinforcing consequences of citizens enduring unemployment, discrimination, poor housing, crime, bad heath and family breakdown. In order to develop transformative applications, it is necessary to understand the problems of, and opportunities for, inclusion through the digital economy from technological, social and economic (business) perspectives. We will therefore assemble a multi-disciplinary team who will work together to address these challenges. The research programme focuses on three key sectors for the excluded: Homecare, Creative Industries and Transport. It will engage with, and be driven by, end users of these services, as well as those traditionally involved in delivering technologies and services in these sectors (in both the public and private sectors).Users will be at the centre of our investigations. While recognising the different needs and concerns of these users, our methodologies will seek to bring out commonalities through genuinely interactive and iterative approaches that engage all users from the very start. This means involving users in both the formulation of the research strategy and the research itself. Our user-centred and user-driven programme of research will address key research questions, yielding innovations, across technology, social science and business. An important feature of this proposal is that the Hub will develop an internationally unique and carefully profiled panel of 3,000 people that will represent technology end-users. Drawn from the greater Newcastle and Dundee areas, the panel will contribute to the formulation of the research strategy and evaluate the research outputs, as well as being engaged in participatory design, co-design and evaluation activities to ensure that tangible outputs of our research programme are both meaningful and usable. Some panel menbers will represent disabled users, having vision, hearing, mobility, cognitive processing, or literacy issues that serve to limit their access to much of today's digital economy. In addition, the panel will have a large number of older adults who have needs as technology novices (some of whom are terrified of the new technologies) as well as issues of acquired disability associated with ageing. As well as evaluating and steering work within the Hub, this panel will also provide a unique resource to other research projects and companies working in the digital economy, providing them with information that will help them meet the needs of those who might otherwise be excluded.

我们的目标是通过数字经济创建一个卓越的包容中心来改变生活。我们将通过建立一个世界领先的多学科研究团队来实现这一目标，该团队的专业知识涵盖技术，商业，社会，家庭护理，交通和创意艺术。到目前为止，英国和欧洲关于包容性信息社会的政策的主要重点是增加信息和通信技术（互联网、宽带等）的吸收。英国在这方面取得了重大进展。然而，较少强调如何使用技术，特别是如何利用技术改变生活。这就是拟议中的数字经济枢纽的作用。目前，数字经济的潜在好处并没有被所有社会成员意识到;人们认识到，数字排斥反映了更普遍的社会排斥的许多方面。也就是说，不仅仅是贫困，而且是公民忍受失业、歧视、住房条件差、犯罪、健康状况不佳和家庭破裂所造成的相互强化的后果。为了开发变革性的应用程序，有必要从技术、社会和经济（商业）角度了解通过数字经济实现包容的问题和机会。因此，我们将组建一个多学科团队，共同努力应对这些挑战。该研究方案侧重于被排斥者的三个关键部门：家庭护理、创意产业和运输。它将与这些服务的最终用户以及传统上参与这些部门（公共和私营部门）提供技术和服务的人接触，并由他们驱动。用户将是我们调查的中心。在认识到这些用户的不同需求和关注点的同时，我们的方法将寻求通过真正的互动和迭代方法，从一开始就吸引所有用户，从而带来共性。这意味着让用户参与研究战略的制定和研究本身。我们以用户为中心和用户驱动的研究计划将解决关键的研究问题，在技术，社会科学和商业领域产生创新。该提案的一个重要特点是，该中心将建立一个国际上独特的、经过仔细分析的3,000人小组，代表技术最终用户。该小组来自大纽卡斯尔和邓迪地区，将有助于制定研究战略和评估研究成果，并参与参与设计，共同设计和评估活动，以确保我们的研究计划的有形产出既有意义又有用。一些小组成员将代表残疾用户，他们有视力，听力，行动能力，认知处理或识字问题，这些问题限制了他们对当今数字经济的大部分访问。此外，小组将有大量老年人，他们需要成为技术新手（其中一些人害怕新技术）以及与老龄化有关的后天残疾问题。除了评估和指导中心内的工作外，该小组还将为在数字经济中工作的其他研究项目和公司提供独特的资源，为他们提供信息，帮助他们满足那些可能被排除在外的人的需求。

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