Embodied technology transfer and learning by exporting in the Ethiopian manufacturing sector

Ahmad, Abdi Yuya; Lee, Keun

doi:10.1080/2157930x.2016.1197330

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“…Prison monitoring ankle bracelets are rarely framed as wearables and items such as smart pills are emerging as ingestible forms of computing. Building on previous research on embodied forms of technology and technological knowledge (Ahmad and Lee, 2016; Boer et al , 2015; Bucksbarg and Carter, 2012; Mainzer, 2012; Riva, 2008; Rosenberger, 2012; Sorensen and Levold, 1992; Watson, 2013), embodied computing in the FABRIC database calls attention to wearables, ingestibles, implantables and embeddables and widens the scope of their discourse to include examples, both positive and negative, of social impact.…”

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The fabric of digital life

Iliadis

Pedersen

2018

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Purpose This paper aims to examine how metadata taxonomies in embodied computing databases indicate context (e.g. a marketing context or an ethical context) and describe ways to track the evolution of the embodied computing industry over time through digital media archiving. Design/methodology/approach The authors compare the metadata taxonomies of two embodied computing databases by providing a narrative of their top-level categories. After identifying these categories, they describe how they structure the databases around specific themes. Findings The growing wearables market often hides complex sociotechnical tradeoffs. Marketing products like Vandrico Inc.’s Wearables Database frame wearables as business solutions without conveying information about the various concessions users make (about giving up their data, for example). Potential solutions to this problem include enhancing embodied computing literacy through the construction of databases that track media about embodied computing technologies using customized metadata categories. Databases such as FABRIC contain multimedia related to the emerging embodied computing market – including patents, interviews, promotional videos and news articles – and can be archived through user-curated collections and tagged according to specific themes (privacy, policing, labor, etc.). One of the benefits of this approach is that users can use the rich metadata fields to search for terms and create curated collections that focus on tradeoffs related to embodied computing technologies. Originality/value This paper describes the importance of metadata for framing the orientation of embodied computing databases and describes one of the first attempts to comprehensively track the evolution of embodied computing technologies, their developers and their diverse applications in various social contexts through media archiving.

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The fabric of digital life

Iliadis

Pedersen

2018

JICES

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“…Access to global knowledge and technology pools including the most advanced is helpful to catch-up in knowledge intensive industries (Abraham, 2014;Colli and Corrocher, 2013;Dadush, 2008;Park and Lee, 2006;Schiller, 2011); so is access to global resources and market opportunities (Fan, 2011). Access to latest foreign technology is deemed important (Lee et al, 2005(Lee et al, , 2011 and this can also be in the form of imported capital goods (Ahmad and Lee, 2016). Access to internet coverage and ICT platforms (Campisi et al, 2013;Conte, 2001;Gruber, 2001) and access to finance (Pšeničny et al, 2014) can be crucial for catch-up.…”

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confidence: 99%