Agenda for Session 9 (updated 27Mar11)

Miscellaneous

• Discuss mid-semester feedback  (to be added on Thurs Morning)
• Questions on analysis paper
• Consultation to discuss your project once your analysis is about half done and thinking of your solution.
• When to hold debate 2

Networks and Telecommunications

• Networking concepts 

• Types of networks (peer-to-peer, LAN, commercial networks, Internet, intranet, extranet) (cables, fiber, electric lines, etc.)

• ‘Always on’ wireless connectivity via video phone & multimedia computers (Wi-Fi, 10-50 yd) (WiMax, Several hundred feed in densely populated areas to over a mile in suburban areas) 

• Software as a Service (SaaS) Cloud computing, web2.0

Multiagency networking

• Application service providers
• Automated data exchange and XML and the intelligent human service delivery system
  • Example, HUD HMIS
  • Example, multistate XML effort in child welfare
  • http://www.nrccwdt.org/nrc_conf/pres2003/pres_sessione4/pres_sessione4_p1.html
  • http://www.cdph.ca.gov/PROGRAMS/AIDS/Pages/OAARIESHome.aspx
  • http://www.tcaccess.org/
• All services heavily networked   (O'looney and Interoperability articles) – impact on service network and clients
• Service taxonomies are critical, see AIRS example
• Problems & issues of sharing data

The Social Web

• Social networking sites such as Facebook and LinkedIn

• SMS services such as Twitter

• Other social web features, e.g., blogs, events listings, RSS feeds, etc.

• Sharing of videos and pictures, e.g., YouTube, etc. 

• Social Web  Interview, Gina Bianchini, CEO of Ning

Nature of Cyberspace Culture and the Social Web

• Text is primarily cerebral (cognitive brain) with few visual, auditory, and no olfactory cues
• New uncharted norms (case of confession of murder in chat room)
• Many advantages yet many dangers (like being on a superhighway)
  • Advantages = Access to information, alerts, bots, organizational learning, global standards and taxonomies, etc.
  • Dangers = security, few laws, predators, failures, scams, etc.
• Links on nature and dangers of cyberspace
  • http://www.cyberangels.org/
  • http://www.stopcyberbullying.org/index2.html
  • http://www.cyberbully.org/
  • Readings on the psychology of cyberspace

Implication of Networking for projects

• Q & A regarding projects and networking.