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The DRPI-Canada Virtual Knowledge Network (VKN) aims to facilitate knowledge sharing and collaboration among individuals and organizations focused on monitoring human rights for people with disabilities. Utilizing advanced communication technology, the VKN provides a comprehensive platform for e-dissemination, training, document management, and collaborative tools. This initiative promotes research, education, and effective policy monitoring through an integrated approach, involving various themes related to law, media, surveys, and individual experiences.
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DRPI-CanadaVirtual Knowledge Network Monitoring Human Rights for People with Disabilities in Canada Christo El Morr
Definition • A group of individuals/organizations • Dispersed over # remote areas • with proper communications technology to connect them together to create, share and disseminate knowledge
VKN Components in DRPI-Canada Canada • e-Dissemination • Search Engine: Policy, Statute, Case Laws, others • Newsletters • e-Education • Training Manuals • e-Collaboration • Docs Upload/Download • Docs Co-Edit • Forum • Email
Administrators • Create/Modify/Delete communities • Create/Modify/Delete users • Assign users to communities
Users • Publish • Organize documents • Upload documents • Assign visibility to documents • Collaborate • Meeting/chatting • Doc. co-editing • Email, • Forum • Search
Knowledge Management • Knowledge “Push” • Users can create alert using keywords • notify the users about the upload of documents containing these keywords • Users can createautomatic alerts where the system will use their profile description (publication, navigation history, …) • The platform also displays latest relevant documents on users’ pages and also provides a RSS Feed for each user
Knowledge Management • Knowledge “Pull” • Search Engine (online library) • Knowledge creation • Matchmaking algorithm: suggests to members the formation of new communities based on common inter-member affinity detected by the system
Integration: • Search Engine (online library) • Currently • Theme III (Monitoring Law & Policy) database • Theme IV (Monitoring Survey Data Sets) • Theme II (Monitoring Media) • Theme I (Monitoring individual experiences)
Integration: • Need: • A common dictionary that relates the # KEYWORDS from the 4 themes • Theme III: keyword1 • Theme IV: keyword2 • Theme II: keyword3 • Theme I: keyword4 • Keyword1 ↔ keyword2 ↔ keyword3 ↔ keyword4 • Cross-themes effort
Dissemination measurement • to evaluate the utility and effectiveness of the project • Design • A monitoring component monitors the knowledge dissemination on the platform • Monitoring includes documents transfer, ease of access to information and users activities.
VKN Students • 5 Undergraduate students (York) • Bhaskar Joshi, Arjun Jolly, Amila Kottege, Dawid Kasperowicz, Lung-Ching Jerry Huang • 1 MSc. Student (York) • Natalia Bogdan • 1 PhD student (INSA-Lyon, France) Julien Subercaze