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-CollaborationDocs Upload/DownloadDocs Co-EditForumEmail

• 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 create automatic 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)

– CurrentlyTheme III (Monitoring Law & Policy) databaseTheme 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: keyword2Theme II: keyword3Theme I: keyword4

• Keyword1 ↔ keyword2 ↔ keyword3 ↔ keyword4

– Cross-themes effort

DEMO

• 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 Students5 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

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