"This book is a collection of articles, written by both academics and practitioners as an evidence base for citizen engagement through information and communication technologies (ICTs). In it, the authors ask: how do ICTs empower through participation, transparency and accountability? Specifically, the authors examine two principal questions: Are technologies an accelerator to closing the "accountability gap" - the space between the supply (governments, service providers) and demand (citizens, communities, civil society organizations or CSOs) that requires bridging for open and collaborative governance? And under what conditions does this occur? The introductory chapters lay the theoretical groundwork for understanding the potential of technologies to achieving intended goals. Chapter 1 takes us through the theoretical linkages between empowerment, participation, transparency and accountability. In Chapter 2, the authors devise an informational capability framework, relating human abilities and well-being to the use of ICTs. The chapters to follow highlight practical examples that operationalize ICT-led initiatives. Chapter 3 reviews a sample of projects targeting the goals of transparency and accountability in governance to make preliminary conclusions around what evidence exists to date, and where to go from here. In chapter 4, the author reviews the process of interactive community mapping (ICM) with examples that support general local development and others that mitigate natural disasters. Chapter 5 examines crowdsourcing in fragile states to track aid flows, report on incitement or organize grassroots movements. In chapter 6, the author reviews Check My School (CMS), a community monitoring project in the Philippines designed to track the provision of services in public schools. Chapter 7 introduces four key ICT-led, citizen-governance initiatives in primary health care in Karnataka, India. Chapter 8 analyzes the World Bank Institute's use of ICTs in expanding citizen project input to understand the extent to which technologies can either engender a new "feedback loop" or ameliorate a "broken loop." The authors' analysis of the evidence signals ICTs as an accelerator to closing the "accountability gap." In Chapter 9, the authors conclude with the Loch Ness model to illustrate how technologies contribute to shrinking the gap, why the gap remains open in many cases, and what can be done to help close it. This collection is a critical addition to existing literature on ICTs and citizen engagement for two main reasons: first, it is expansive, covering initiatives that leverage a wide range of technology tools, from mobile phone reporting to crowdsourcing to interactive mapping; second, it is the first of its kind to offer concrete recommendations on how to close feedback loops."

Unleash the power of your new iPhone 4S or other iOS 5-driven iPhone and take it to the limit using powerful tips and techniques from the Apple experts at TUAW, Erica Sadun, Steve Sande, and Michel Grothaus. Fast and fun to read, Taking Your iPhone 4S to the Max shows you how to get the most out of your iPhone using Apple's new iOS 5. Whether you're using the new iPhone 4S or earlier iPhone that runs the new iOS 5, you'll find all the best undocumented tricks, as well as the most efficient and enjoyable introduction to the iPhone available. Starting with an introduction to iPhone basics, you'll quickly discover the iPhone's hidden potential, like how to connect to a TV, use Voice Control using Siri, have video chats with FaceTime, and call friends overseas with low-cost VoIP. From the unified e-mail inbox and surfing the Web with Mobile Safari, exploring the world of social networking, using the multitasking capabilities of iOS 5, taking and editing photos, shopping for apps, media, and books, or just managing phone calls--you'll find it all in this book. You'll even learn tips on where to get the best iPhone accessories.Get ready to take your iPhone 4S and earlier running the new iOS 5 to the max What you'll learn * Master the powerful multitasking capabilities of the new iPhone 4S and earlier iOS 5-enabled iPhones * Communicate with the world through FaceTime video chats, voice calls, SMS and MMS messaging, email, and social networking * Entertain yourself and friends with music, games, books, and videos--all in the palm of your hand * Customize your iPhone with your choice of hundreds of thousands of useful and fun apps Who this book is for Whether you use your iPhone for video chats with friends and relatives, playing games, keeping up with work, or capturing special moments in photos or video, we wrote this book with you in mind.Table of Contents SETUP 1: Selecting, Buying, and Activating Your iPhone 2: Putting Your Data and Media on Your iPhone MEET THE PHONE 3: Interacting with Your New iPhone 4: Placing Calls with iPhone GETTING ONLINE 5: Browsing with Wi-Fi and Safari 6: Staying in touch with FaceTime and Messages 7: Setting Up and Using Email MEDIA AND SHOPPING 8: Touching Your Music 9: Shopping at the Music Store 10: Shopping at the App Store 11: Reading and Buying Books with iBooks + Newstand PHOTOS, VIDEO AND THE CAMERA 12: Touching Your Photos and Videos (Photos, YouTube, Videos apps, AirPlay) 13: Recording the World Around You with the Camera ACCESSORIES 14: Staying On Time and Getting There with Clock, Calendar, and Maps 15: Leveraging Your Desk Set: Contacts, Calculator, Notes, Weather, Stocks, Voice Memos, and Reminders PREFERENCES 16: Customizing your iPhone (Settings & Accessibility)

Most books on network planning and optimization provide limited coverage of either GSM or WCDMA techniques. Few scrape the surface of HSPA, and even fewer deal with TD-SCDMA. Filling this void, Evolved Cellular Network Planning and Optimization for UMTS and LTE presents an accessible introduction to all stages of planning and optimizing UMTS, HSPA, and LTE cellular networks. Supplying a comprehensive explanation of the fundamental aspects of current and future cellular networks, the text starts with an overview of each type of network, including basic techniques and channel models. Next, it examines the challenges operators and vendors are likely to face-explaining the critical role network planning and optimization play in addressing these challenges. The book details effective system-level simulation methods, it also provides: A complete overview of UMTS, HSPA, and LTE networks Techniques for planning and optimizing cellular networks An examination of inter-operation issues with existing cellular networks Coverage of the challenges in deploying LTE and relay networks In addition to exploring the procedures for planning and optimizing each type of network, the text covers techniques for major mechanisms, trending, troubleshooting, and conducting radio performance analysis. Paying special attention to compatibility issues among these networks, this book provides the understanding required to deploy and optimize networks that meet the growing demands for mobile data solutions.

The iPhone is cool, and the iPhone is fun, but the iPhone also means serious business. For those of you who bought your iPhones to help get your lives organized and free yourselves from the ball and chain of desktop computing, iPhone at Work: Productivity for Professionals is the book to show you how.

There are plenty of general-purpose iPhone guides, but iPhone at Work: Productivity for Professionals shows you how to complete all the traditional smartphone tasks, like to-do lists, calendars, and e-mail, and become much more efficient and productive at work. You'll learn mechanisms for developing effective workflows specific to the features of the iPhone and also efficient strategies for dealing with the specialized aspects of business and professional lifestyles.

From the introduction and throughout the book, author Ryan Faas targets professional users of the iPhone. You'll tour the built-in applications and configuration options, always with work and productivity in mind, and discover all of the enterprise features of the iPhone, learning how to configure and use each one.

Then discover the App Store: source of all third-party software. There's something a bit daunting about the dominance of games and frivolous apps on the best-seller lists, but there are serious business and vertical applications also available, and you'll learn about some of the best and how to take advantage of this wealth of add-on and very professional functionality.

And for those administrators with the special job of deploying lots of new iPhones across the enterprise, this book concludes with two appendixes that provide information and resources for companies. The first is intended for organizations looking to perform larger-scale iPhone or iPod touch deployments complete with device management. The second is geared for those companies that wish to develop an iPhone platformoriented infrastructure through the use of customized in-house applications and iPhone/iPod touchspecific web services. What you'll learn Purchase and configure an iPhone specifically for business Integrate built-in iPhone platform features into an everyday professional workflow Access enterprise-wide data and computing features Pick up specific tips for different professions Deploy the iPhone platform across groups both large and small Discover the secrets of iPhone platform customization and personalization Who this book is for

You already have or are considering the purchase of an iPhone. You know it's the coolest smartphone around, but you actually want to use it to make your professional life more efficient, more productive, and more fun Clearly, the iPhone has inherent uses for a broad range of professions including management, sales, medical/dental, legal, real estate, training and education, human resources, and information technology, so there are many of you. Some of you are novice mobile device users, others are highly experienced mobile pros. No matter, because every professional iPhone user across this continuum of experience wants to learn to work smarter, better, and more efficiently. This book shows you how to use your iPhone to do this. Table of Contents Buying and Activating Your iPhone Using Your iPhone for the First Time Getting Online Phone Home (Or Work, Clients, or Anyone Else) Texting and Media Messaging for a Living E-mail Calendar Contacts Microsoft Exchange and ActiveSync Photos and Video Web Browsing with Mobile Safari Getting Around Using Maps iPod and iTunes The Remaining Built-In Apps Understanding iPhone Applications and the App Store General Business Applications Apps for Specific Professions

There is a growing body of interesting research exploring the social shaping of mobile phones, covering a wide range of topics, from new forms of communication, to the changes in time organization, the uses of public places, the display of emotions and the formation and sustaining of communities. This book evaluates the launch and adoption of mobile phones, drawing out lessons for the future. In particular, it explores how social scientists can collaborate with designers and engineers in the development of new devices and uses. It will interest people from both industry and academia. Those working in the mobile communications industry in strategy, design and marketing will find this book of particular interest. In academia, undergraduate and postgraduate students, as well as researchers in a wide range of social science fields will find it a useful reference: sociologists, economists, psychologists in areas such as Science and Technology studies; Cultural studies and New Media studies.

Softwaretests bekommen bei immer komplexer werdenden Programmen eine immer groessere Bedeutung fur den Projekterfolg. Obwohl Testkonzepte etabliert sind, werden sie haufig nur in geringem Masse in Unternehmen genutzt, da sie angeblich zu aufwandig und zu teuer sind. Neben einer intuitiven Einfuhrung in Testtechniken zeigt dieses Buch den einfachen Einstieg in das Testen von Java-Programmen mit Hilfe von einfach nutzbaren Open-Source-Werkzeugen. Dabei werden neben klassischen Programmen auch Vorgehensweisen und Werkzeuge fur Client-Server-Systeme, Web-Applikationen und Systeme mit Datenbankintegration betrachtet. Die Werkzeuge decken dabei funktionale Tests, Testuberdeckungen, Tests von Oberflachen, Performance- und Lasttests, sowie die Automatisierung von Testausfuhrungen ab. Alle Beispiele stehen als Download zur Verfugung.

Cloud Computing wird von nahezu allen fuhrenden Analysten als einer der Top-5-IT-Trends gesehen, der gegenwartig aus der Hype-Phase in den Status der praktischen betrieblichen Umsetzung ubergeht. Inzwischen wird nicht mehr diskutiert, ob Cloud Computing uberhaupt eine praktikable Moeglichkeit des IT-Sourcing ist, sondern vielmehr, wie diese Moeglichkeit sich sicher und mit hohem Nutzen fur Firmen einsetzen lasst. Es wird aufgezeigt, wo die Vorteile aber auch die Stolpersteine liegen und welche prinzipiellen Loesungen es gibt, um die Chancen zu realisieren und Risiken moeglichst zu umgehen.

The message of this book is simple: the mobile phone strengthens social bonds among family and friends. With a traditional land-line telephone, we place calls to a location and ask hopefully if someone is "there"; with a mobile phone, we have instant and perpetual access to friends and family regardless of where they are. But when we are engaged in these intimate conversations with absent friends, what happens to our relationship with the people who are actually in the same room with us? In New Tech, New Ties, Rich Ling examines how the mobile telephone affects both kinds of interactions--those mediated by mobile communication and those that are face to face. Ling finds that through the use of various social rituals the mobile telephone strengthens social ties within the circle of friends and family--sometimes at the expense of interaction with those who are physically present--and creates what he calls "bounded solidarity." Ling argues that mobile communication helps to engender and develop social cohesion within the family and the peer group. Drawing on the work of Emile Durkheim, Erving Goffman, and Randall Collins, Ling shows that ritual interaction is a catalyst for the development of social bonding. From this perspective, he examines how mobile communication affects face-to-face ritual situations and how ritual is used in interaction mediated by mobile communication. He looks at the evidence, including interviews and observations from around the world, that documents the effect of mobile communication on social bonding and also examines some of the other possibly problematic issues raised by tighter social cohesion in small groups.Rich Ling is Senior Researcher at the Norwegian telecommunications company Telenor and Adjunct Research Scientist at the University of Michigan. He is the author of The Mobile Connection: The Cell Phone's Impact on Society.

Fourth Generation (4G) wireless communication systems support current and emergent multimedia services such as mobile TV, social networks and gaming, high-definition TV, video teleconferencing, and messaging services. These systems feature the All-over-IP concept and boast improved quality of service. Several important R&D activities are currently under way in the field of wireless communications for 4G systems, but the coverage is widespread in the literature. Transmission Techniques for 4G Systems presents a compilation of the latest developments in the field of wireless communications for 4G systems, including evolved Multimedia Broadcast and Multicast Service (eMBMS). Topics include: Transmission schemes suitable for future broadband wireless systems Advances in transmission techniques and receiver design to support emergent wireless needs for 4G requirements Multiple-Input Multiple-Output (MIMO), base station cooperation, macro-diversity, and inter-cell interference cancellation Multihop relay techniques, hierarchical constellations, and multi-resolution techniques Advances using block transmission techniques for different propagation and multi-user environments System-level evaluation of 4G using different transmission techniques Exploring the key requirements of emergent services, this volume provides fundamentals and theory along with transmission and detection techniques and schemes transversal to many digital communication systems-including wireless, cellular, and satellite. If you're interested in or involved with 4G multimedia systems, this is the book you need on the latest R&D wireless activities so you can plan, design, and develop prototypes and future systems.

In 1876, Alexander Graham Bell uttered the words that would inaugurate a new era in human communication: 'Mr. Watson, come here, I want to see you'. Bell was speaking through his new invention: the telephone. Though his name is the first to be associated with this now ubiquitous device, Bell was not working in a vacuum or entirely on his own. The second half of the 19th century was a time of great innovation, during which many people were experimenting with various designs for machines to enable human communication over great distances. Bell was simply the first to win a patent. ""Alexander Graham Bell and the Telephone"" tells the story of the man who invented the telephone, the people who helped him, and the changes that came about because of one of the greatest inventions of all time.

There is a buzz going around the interactive media community, and it's all about the iPhone. Agencies are getting demands from their clients to build iPhone applications. End users are downloading millions of applications. Web developers who focus on building Flash applications are in a unique position to make the switch to building iPhone applications. They already have a keen understanding about programming for a visual environment, and they understand how to build applications and minigames for websites.

This book will serve as an introduction to Objective-C for those developers with an understanding of ActionScript. For a Flash developer who never developed for Mac OS X, contemplating this switch can be a daunting idea. When compared side by side, the environment used to build Flash applications and the iPhone SDK are not all that dissimilar, and this book will help Flash developers recognize those similarities and use that knowledge to create engaging iPhone applications for their clients.

This book will help anyone who is building Flash applications to add "iPhone applications" to their arsenal of skills. Learn how to develop for iPhone Transfer your skills from ActionScript to Objective-C Master the iPhone SDK What you'll learn

Readers of this book will learn how to use their existing knowledge about Flash development to more quickly learn how to write applications for the iPhone using the iPhone SDK and all of its tools. Create applications in Objective-C Identify the differences between ActionScript and Objective-C Identify the similarities between the languages and how to leverage ActionScript development knowledge in Objective-C Learn how to get the most out of the iPhone SDK Use iPhone-specific features such as the accelerometer, camera and GPS in your applications Deploy applications on the iPhone Who is this book for?

This book is for experienced Flash developers who are interested in starting to learn how to build applications for the iPhone.