Permacomputing is a nascent concept and a community of practice centred around design principles that embrace limits and constraints as a positive thing in computational culture, and on creativity with scarce computational resources. As a result, permacomputing aims to provide a countervoice to digital …

Globally, social inclusion of people with an intellectual disability has been a long-standing challenge. From the public stigma, lack of understanding and little societal exposure, to discrimination, maltreatment and abuse, all show to be examples of difficulties this minority group encounters all over …

Background: Follow‑up of curatively treated primary breast cancer patients consists of surveillance and aftercare and is currently mostly the same for all patients. A more personalized approach, based on patients’ individual risk of recurrence and personal needs and preferences, may reduce patient burden …

Background: Continuing professional development (CPD) in nursing is defined as ‘a life-long process of active participation in learning activities that assist in developing and maintaining continuing competences, enhancing professional practice and supporting achievement of career goals’. Research has …

The affordances of Open Educational Resources (OER) have resulted in various initiatives around the world, but most of them cease to exist once the initial project funding stops. Communities might be a means to create sustainable practices, yet, such communities can only function if their members perceive …

Privacy is a comprehensive notion which is hard to grasp for the layman. To make the privacy notion tangible, creating transparency about privacy practices is an important necessity. Transparency about privacy practices is traditionally (sought to be) established via providing privacy policies and privacy …

In Ghana, starting a business has problems such as capital availability and accessibility, a lack of planning, trained labour and suitable managerial abilities, a legal framework and social norms, beliefs, and values. These challenges affect both men and women, but women are in the most disadvantaged …

Background Tackling challenges related to health, environmental sustainability and equity requires many sectors to work together. This “intersectoral co-operation” can pose a challenge on its own. Research commonly focuses on one field or is conducted within one region or country. The aim of this study …

This explanatory sequential mixed methods study explores the perceptions of academic and administrative managers responsible for teacher training at a public university in Colombia, as well as their views on improving such training after learning about the performance of teachers student teachers in …