COST269 WORKING GROUP

Capabilities Targets
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Goals

General goals of the workgroup are (Minutes - Stockholm 2000 meeting):

• Defining in detail the research framework for the workgroup, in order to create a discussion paper and possibly using this framework as a research tool.
• Gathering and mapping relevant research, literature and references on the social, economic, cultural, political and technological aspects of capabilities for the adoption and use of ICT.
• Discussing methodology to do research on the adoption and use of ICT and the capabilities needed.
• Getting new insights by exchanging experiences with regards our own research activities and with other workgroups or experts

Action points

The workgroup related action points are (Minutes - London 2000 meeting):

AP1: Definition of 'capabilities' (Jo)

AP2: Paper about utility (Tomaž)

AP3: 'Kitchen gate' (Lajla)

AP4: 'Competences at home'; questionary and preliminary results (Carina)

AP5: Influencing development of ICTs ('How scenarios can be deeper?'; 'Can our theory influence the future technology?') (Kari-Hans)

AP6: Paper about framework (Jeroen)

AP7: Findings survey 'micro enterprises and ICT appropriation' (Jo)

AP8: Research on ICT use (Kristin) AP9: Research on Computer anxiety (Enid)

Next meeting

Theoretical framework: -

• Presentation about a definition of the term users' capabilities (AP1: Jo) -
• Presentation about theoretical framework (AP6: Jeroen) -
• Presentation of 'utility' concept (AP2: Tomaž) - To be confirmed: Presentation on 'ICT domestication' (Yves Punie)

Research cases:

• Presentation of 'Kitchen gate' and preliminary results of user behaviour (AP3: Lajla)
• Presentation of 'Competences at home' preliminary results (AP4: Carina)
• Presentation on Computer anxiety project (AP9: Enid)