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Imagining Sustainable Futures

open access: yesAN-ICON
This essay examines the transformative im- pact of Green Immersive Virtual Reality (IVR) experiences designed by artists to spread environmental literacy and societal change.
Eleonora Stacchiotti
doaj   +1 more source

Effects of Outsourced Agricultural Extension Services on the Technical Efficiency and Financial Returns of Soybean Farms in Northern Cameroon

open access: yesAgribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In the agricultural landscape of most developing countries, the last decade has witnessed the expansion of outsourced agricultural extension services. Private firms and nongovernmental organizations focused on delivering agricultural extension and advisory services to farmers have emerged.
Boris D. Soh Wenda   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Blockchain‐Based Smart Contracts in US Specialty Crop Marketing: Grower Preferences and Adoption Potential

open access: yesAgribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Using survey and discrete choice experiment data, we examined US specialty crop growers' preferences for marketing contract attributes in the context of emerging blockchain‐based technologies and expanding traceability initiatives. Results show that farmers preferred traditional written contracts but might be willing to accept digital ...
Elizabeth Canales   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Everyone has a view of literacy : learners' perceptions of literacy and their practices at home and at school [PDF]

open access: yes, 2007
Includes bibliographical references (leaves 90-93).This is an ethnographic study of how learners write about, speak about, depict and value their literacy activities at home and how this links with their performance at school.
Kendal, Charmaine Allana
core   +1 more source

Development tendencies and turning points of futures studies

open access: yesEuropean Journal of Futures Research
In honor of its 50th anniversary, the World Futures Studies Federation (WFSF) held its XXV World Conference in Paris. The conference provided a venue for reviewing earlier developments and reevaluating prospective directions in the futures field ...
Tamás Kristóf
doaj   +1 more source

Literacy of the Future

open access: yes
This entry summarizes the development of the literacy concepts most commonly associated with LIS, namely information literacy, digital literacy, and media literacy, which frame a synthesis of the future perspectives of these and other literacies that have been proposed in the literature .
openaire   +2 more sources

Cross‐Sectoral AI Integration Is Essential to Tackling Food Waste and Food Insecurity: A Roadmap for Developing Resilient Food Systems

open access: yesAdvanced Intelligent Systems, EarlyView.
As food insecurity and global food demands surge, artificial intelligence (AI)‐based technologies offer promising opportunities to reduce food loss and waste. In this perspective, current AI adoption across the food supply chain is assessed using various academic, industry, and policy sources.
Akansha Prasad   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Metaphors in futures research

open access: yes, 2016
This special issue, as might be expected in a networked world, searching for proof that collaboration can work, is edited by four of us. It began with a conversation in 2014 over bland conference food in Helsinki between Osmo Kuusi, Matti Minkkinen and ...
Aleksandra Izgarjan   +7 more
core   +1 more source

Responsible Artificial Intelligence in Courts: A Four‐Test Framework

open access: yesAI &Innovation, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT A structured framework for responsible AI applications relating to judicial decision‐making and the adjudicative functions of courts requires the satisfaction of multiple context‐specific safeguards. This article proposes a four‐test framework designed to evaluate whether AI systems used in courts operate in accordance with legal, procedural ...
Kwan Yiu Cheng
wiley   +1 more source

Kitambaa: A Convivial Future-Oriented Framework for Kinangop’s Learning Hub

open access: yesEducation Sciences
The aim of this paper, and more generally, our project “Impact from the ground” (a multi-stage ongoing project), is to reimagine education so that it transcends the walls and harsh constraints of a “universal one size fits all” education. To achieve this,
Caroline Kuhn   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

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