title: Energizing entrepreneurs: Resourceful communities and economic pathways

authors: Murthy, Vikram

subjects: entrepreneurship

abstract: INTRODUCTION This paper illustrates the relevance for the non-profit sector of moving beyond its traditional roles into entrepreneurial community economic development. Its approach aligns with conceptualizations of sustainability through the self-help galvanization and development of enterprise opportunities, education pathways, and labour market outcomes for the community, by the community.
METHOD It develops the concept of social entrepreneurship as a hybrid form between private, non-profit, and public sectors, in line with examples of non-profit organizations with entrepreneurial offshoots, generating revenue for the organization’s social objectives. ANALYSIS The article operationalizes these ideas through the design, creation, roll-out, and achievement of a community enterprise incubation program for urban Polynesians in Aotearoa/New Zealand. It examines the challenges, how they were resolved, and analyzes how both challenges and reforms contribution to the body of knowledge.
RESULTS Through the project’s demonstrable initial successes, the authors argue that it offers clear signposts to government, the public sector, and the private sector in how to move beyond simple capacity building to sustainable enterprises and by entrepreneurs in the community who have been created, energized, and given experience by participation in the process. They present the project as a prototype on how to resource community groups and organizations embarking on their community economic development journeys and how to liberate the self-motivating entrepreneurial energies of communities.

text: Energizing entrepreneurs: Resourceful communities and economic pathways INTRODUCTION This paper illustrates the relevance for the non-profit sector of moving beyond its traditional roles into entrepreneurial community economic development. Its approach aligns with conceptualizations of sustainability through the self-help galvanization and development of enterprise opportunities, education pathways, and labour market outcomes for the community, by the community.
METHOD It develops the concept of social entrepreneurship as a hybrid form between private, non-profit, and public sectors, in line with examples of non-profit organizations with entrepreneurial offshoots, generating revenue for the organization’s social objectives. ANALYSIS The article operationalizes these ideas through the design, creation, roll-out, and achievement of a community enterprise incubation program for urban Polynesians in Aotearoa/New Zealand. It examines the challenges, how they were resolved, and analyzes how both challenges and reforms contribution to the body of knowledge.
RESULTS Through the project’s demonstrable initial successes, the authors argue that it offers clear signposts to government, the public sector, and the private sector in how to move beyond simple capacity building to sustainable enterprises and by entrepreneurs in the community who have been created, energized, and given experience by participation in the process. They present the project as a prototype on how to resource community groups and organizations embarking on their community economic development journeys and how to liberate the self-motivating entrepreneurial energies of communities.

year: 2006

title: Risks and challenges of non-domestic data centres for isolated countries

authors: Wanyonyi, Peter

abstract: Small and isolated nations have been significant early adopters of Cloud Computing services, driven in part by the potential for cost savings and the convenience of not having to build their own Internet and computing infrastructure. This move into the Cloud has not been without challenges - indeed, while these services offer scalability, flexibility, and cost-efficiency, they also expose these nations to unique risks and vulnerabilities. Many of these nations are at significant distances from the Data Centres whose services they consume, introducing unavoidable transmission challenges as well as legal and geopolitical issues for these nations, given their lack of control or enforcement capability over the foreign-hosted data centres whose services they consume.
As case studies, in this work we identify, measure and investigate some of the technical challenges posed by reliance on foreign Cloud Data Centres, and also analyse and discuss the non-technical challenges faced by nations that rely on such facilities. In those case studies, this work also explores how small and isolated nations can navigate these challenges, and recommends courses of action that provide actionable options for such nations. This dissertation also examines the disadvantages and risks associated with the reliance on nondomestic data centres by small, geographically or politically isolated nations where studies of such characteristics are possible, such as New Zealand and Taiwan.

text: Risks and challenges of non-domestic data centres for isolated countries Small and isolated nations have been significant early adopters of Cloud Computing services, driven in part by the potential for cost savings and the convenience of not having to build their own Internet and computing infrastructure. This move into the Cloud has not been without challenges - indeed, while these services offer scalability, flexibility, and cost-efficiency, they also expose these nations to unique risks and vulnerabilities. Many of these nations are at significant distances from the Data Centres whose services they consume, introducing unavoidable transmission challenges as well as legal and geopolitical issues for these nations, given their lack of control or enforcement capability over the foreign-hosted data centres whose services they consume.
As case studies, in this work we identify, measure and investigate some of the technical challenges posed by reliance on foreign Cloud Data Centres, and also analyse and discuss the non-technical challenges faced by nations that rely on such facilities. In those case studies, this work also explores how small and isolated nations can navigate these challenges, and recommends courses of action that provide actionable options for such nations. This dissertation also examines the disadvantages and risks associated with the reliance on nondomestic data centres by small, geographically or politically isolated nations where studies of such characteristics are possible, such as New Zealand and Taiwan.

year: 2024

title: Participatory design in Māori cultural contexts

authors: Bowen, Judy

subjects: computer science

abstract: The Hakituri project aims to develop practical and ethical wearable monitoring solutions for workers in hazardous industries. We identified specific challenges pertinent to our participatory design process for this project which relate to the indigenous participants, cultural expectations and data sovereignty. As we developed the ideas for our design process, further challenges became evident. In this paper we explore the challenges that unfolded and describe how we began to mitigate them and develop ideas for similar future challenges.

text: Participatory design in Māori cultural contexts The Hakituri project aims to develop practical and ethical wearable monitoring solutions for workers in hazardous industries. We identified specific challenges pertinent to our participatory design process for this project which relate to the indigenous participants, cultural expectations and data sovereignty. As we developed the ideas for our design process, further challenges became evident. In this paper we explore the challenges that unfolded and describe how we began to mitigate them and develop ideas for similar future challenges.

year: 2020