e-Services Toward a New Model of (Inter)active Community
This book explores various e-Services related to health, learning, culture, media and the news, and the influences the Web and related technologies have had and continue to have in each of these areas, both on service providers and service users. It provi
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e-Services Toward a New Model of (Inter)active Community
e-Services
Alfredo M. Ronchi
e-Services Toward a New Model of (Inter)active Community
Alfredo M. Ronchi Politecnico di Milano Milano, Italy
ISBN 978-3-030-01841-2 ISBN 978-3-030-01842-9 https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-01842-9
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Preface
The editorial series “e-Citizens: Being Human in the Digital Age” aims to explore the rich set of technologies and applications that characterise the living environment of citizens in the digital age and is intended to call attention to fundamental transformations in social organisation and structure. The main technologies and issues have been carefully described in volume one; applications devoted to e-Democracy are the core of volume two; the present volume is devoted to e-Services, encompassing Health, Learning, Culture, Media and News. In order to introduce this volume, let us review a little bit of the history of information technology. One of the most significant changes to occur in the field of information technology over the last few decades was the implementation of real-time communication and information exchange between computers—in one word: networking. A computer was originally considered to be like Leibniz’s1 “monad”, an ultimate atom without windows and doors: a sealed entity. Intercommunication processes enabled external access to these monads, allowing information and data exchange between them and thus multiplying their added value; networks of comp
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