The term crowdsourcing was introduced by Jeff Howe (2006). It is the act of a company or organisation to take a function once performed by employees and outsourcing it to an undefined, and usually large, network of people in the form of an open call. As communication tools to organize work have become …

The European principle of free movement of people enables European citizens to travel and reside freely in other member states. This applies also to students. Besides this legal establishment of rights, the process of harmonization of higher education in Europe has contributed to the ease with which …

De Content Management Organisatie is onderdeel van de Dienst Publiekszaken (DPZ) van de gemeente Den Haag. De CMO is verantwoordelijk voor de digitale communicatie en dienstverlening via het platform DenHaag.nl. De afdeling CMO zorgt onder meer voor kwaliteitsbeheersing van deze website. De afdeling …

Environmental threats and scarcity of energy resources have become major issues of the 21st century. Therefore, the call for energy efficiency emerged as a valuable solution to these challenges. With the popularization of the ideas of energy efficiency, a new market was formed- the market of energy efficiency …

Binnen de afdeling Internet Verkoop van SNS Bank heeft het webmasterteam als één van zijn voornaamste werkzaamheden het maken, vullen, bijhouden en onderhouden van de digitale uitingen van de organisatie. Individuen of afdelingen binnen de organisatie die een vraag of opdracht hebben, geven die door …

People suffering from mild dementia may get lost during a walk, which can be dangerous for them and adds to the anxiety felt by their informal caregivers. TalkMeHome is a new service that allows these people to get home safely in such situations using their mobile phone. They can call a remote care professional …

Assessing the effectiveness and progress of efforts to ‘build states in order to build peace’ (Call and Wyeth, 2008) is inevitable for several reasons. Politicians want to know what is being achieved with the resources that they have allocated to the state building endeavours abroad. They want to judge …

Preprint submitted to Information Processing & Management Tags are a convenient way to label resources on the web. An interesting question is whether one can determine the semantic meaning of tags in the absence of some predefined formal structure like a thesaurus. Many authors have used the usage data …

The internet is becoming a tightly interwoven part of our everyday lives. There is a growing market for web services which augment the daily life of users trough products with an internet connection. We call these real world extensions of the web embedded media. In the last couple of years we explored …

In this article, the author will question the seemingly obvious boundary between civil disobedience, as conceptualised by Rawls and Arendt, and several examples of criminal, or simply annoying, activities which don't meet their criteria, such as the case of the ‘Top 50'. The ‘Top 50' are multi-problem …