Ashton-in-Makerfield has been in the news of late. With Andy Burnham MP championing the communities of the north; local issues, socio-economic gaps, needs and everyday lived experience up North.
But Makerfield holds much more as a veritable rabbit-hole supporting lifelong learning, character development, reflective practice and critical thought:
* - a political constituency.
Previously: 'map'
Dear CI colleagues,
I am writing with two updates.
First, this listserv* has been moved to the iSchool at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign: https://lists.ischool.illinois.edu/lists/info/ciresearchers. To post a new message to this mailing list, please use the following email address: ciresearchers AT ischool.illinois.edu
I'd like to thank the Metropolitan New York Library Council for hosting this list during the past several years. We moved the list to the iSchool at Illinois where it will be supported in the years ahead.
Second, the new iSchools Community Informatics group will meet during the on-site portion of the 2025 iConference at Indiana University on Wednesday 19 March 2 PM-3:30 PM local time in Bloomington, Indiana. To learn more about the iConference, please visit the conference website: https://www.ischools.org/iconference
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School of Information Sciences
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaigncrhines AT illinois.edu
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European Public Health Week
13-17 May 2024
Health is a political choice!
"The European Public Health Week (EUPHW) 2024 will focus on the overarching topic - Health is a political choice! - highlighting the interplay between politics and health to create sustainable change for better health in the future.
We will open the dialogue online and in person in Brussels on Monday, May 13, at the European Observatory on Health Systems and Policies, discussing how to integrate health into the political agenda effectively. We will address health within the context of crises and explore the concepts of a well-being economy and politics. Additionally, we'll delve into the importance of community participation in health politics, implementing Health-in-All-Policies, and the broader application of health considerations across all policy areas. This day aims to set the stage for a week of fruitful discussions, laying the groundwork for actionable insights and strategies to ensure health is prioritised across all levels of political decision-making. Stay tuned for more information on this event!. ..."
Mental health Self-esteem Personal and Cultural Identity Sense of security: Crisis <> Peace Public mental health & well-being Individual health literacy | Planetary health Global pandemics - Local inequities Environment - Cities, Rural, Remote Pollution control Evidence (across policy contexts) local, glocal, global [Geo*] |
Social policy Housing: Climate/Demographic mitigation Healthy societies, Living alone, Families Inclusive communities Social media - Information provenance | Elections - National/International *Politics Economics Policy, Regulation Health systems Yes, health is a political choice! |
Unfortunately, I am working during the day, but I look forward to sharing Hodges' model on the 18th evening (UK) session and an opportunity for discussion and feedback:
Global Remote and Rural Healthcare - How Can We Do It Better?
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Since learning about the 2nd Planetary Health Annual Meeting in Edinburgh late last year, I realise I didn't post the news, which is a gift in terms of the purposes of Hodges' model. So, this post celebrates what is a vital subject and call for action and an invite to present a poster. Unfortunately regards the poster, in my haste I did not check the registration terms and the applicable early bird fee of £250 is too much for me personally. If you are a student, or resident citizen of a low and middle income countries opportunity knocks with a welcome reduced early bird registration fee until 9 March.
The planet and planetary health have featured here on W2tQ, on the now defunct website 1998-2015 and in papers, notably:
Jones, P. (2008) Exploring Serres’ Atlas, Hodges’ Knowledge Domains and the Fusion of Informatics and Cultural Horizons, IN Kidd, T., Chen, I. (Eds.) Social Information Technology Connecting Society and Cultural Issues, Idea Group Publishing, Inc. Chap. 7, pp. 96-109.
Jones, P. (2012). Exploring several dimensions of local, global and glocal using the generic conceptual framework Hodges's model. The Journal Of Community Informatics. 8(3). Retrieved from http://ci-journal.net/index.php/ciej/article/view/876/
Jones P. Exploring the relationship of threshold concepts and Hodges’ model of care from the individual to populations and global health. Rev Cuid. 2017; 8(3): 1697-720. http://dx.doi.org/10.15649/cuidarte.v8i3.464
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I didn't make it HOME to PLANETARY last evening. I hope it will be shown again.
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What are the dimensions of the axes that make up the structure of Hodges' model?
Can the individual see the group - the global population - beyond the fresh air in their pocket?
In not seeing the individual, as the global corpus shouts about: "choice", "economic growth", "freedom", "human rights", "democracy", "justice" ... do they see the big picture amid the political smog, the corporate dust storm?
One form human society has so far not generally taken is global. There is still virtually no shared consciousness globally of common struggles or common achievements. Enormous groups - the poor in the Global South for instance - have no sense of forming a single community; in an earlier age, the experience of being subjected to European colonial force failed to create a common anti-colonial front. Even today's most urgent global issues tend to be tackled regionally or nationally: the history of global warming or organised crime is a history of multiple actors, as often as not talking at cross-purposes. p.8.
This year's theme for Blog Action Day is The Power of We. Andy Roberts over at DARnet posted about his not taking part given this particularly ambiguous title. I can see what Andy means. I'd signed-up for this year and wondered what to write; but then last Friday morning returning to work up the A59 at the Tickle Trout I was behind a van carrying two ladders...
I used to be a bit reckless in terms of heights,
but I was kid then. Can you imagine the sudden lease of mental life from a row of terraced houses in Liverpool to fields and woods? Friends used to climb and go from tree-to-tree, in the summers our football pitches became dusty patches.
In my mid-teens helping out I thought nothing of staining the side of the dorma extension one-handed with about 30cms of standing clearance. In the decade from 1970 to the 1980s attitudes changed markedly as health and safety become firm buddies (see for example HSE). If the ladders were out to stretch their legs then my dad or younger brother were on station ensuring the ladder stayed put. There's the power of we keeping me safe.
The health and independence that the majority of us takes for granted seems to give individuals that childhood tree-to-tree disregard for safety.
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"I know the whole world is watching right now and I wish the world could see what I can see. Sometimes you have to go up really high to understand how small you really are." Felix Baumgartner, 14 October 2012.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/space/9607604/Skydiver-Felix-Baumgartner-attempts-to-break-sound-barrier-live.htmlBaumgartner image: BBC
In the Financial Times, Life & Arts section, June 23/June 24 2012 Francis Hodgson wrote Hocus-focus about the 15th PHotoEspaña festival.
The curator Gerardo Mosquera introduced the broad theme of the festival -
From Here: Context and Internationalisation
- which Hodgson feels provides 'no secure binder between disaprate elements':
' "Context," he writes opaquely, "has ceased to be a 'closed' locus linked to a reductive concept of what is local; instead it is projected as a space from which international culture is naturally constructed."
Apart from giving a broad hint that pictures will come from around the world, I'm not sure that is much help for a festival-goer.' p.10.Although I'm a festival-non-goer in this case and my access to the images is limited to the three published in the FT and online, I wonder if a link here is the interposition of local and global? The conurbation that can be described as glocal? This is what that single sentence says to me.
PHotoEspaña has cut its budget by 25%. The public-private partnership model has been adapted to ensure a broad-based programme of exhibitions and activities.
Here is one element of the poster from last week's conference. This part is A3 in size and the linked preview below is to an archived copy on the Internet Archive. I will post the glocal version on W2tQ in due course. As ever I wish I had more time to devote to producing such work. The symbol common to memory and giant global graph is intended to highlight a person's memory and the distributed 'memory' that is the Web. Such a representation can never capture all the subtleties involved, the overlaps, the contexts and perspectives.
The placement of some concepts is an invitation for reflection. For example, dementia and the use of anti-psychotic drugs also demands consideration of policy, liaison, primary-secondary-residential care interfaces, shared cared protocols, formal reviews, target behaviours, definitions of challenging behaviour, observation skills, clinical records, therapeutic interventions and the care environment ... Some of the content, such as under Interpersonal Define 'safety', 'health'... seek to stress the same.
I need to produce translations of an abstract into French, Spanish and Russian with a 100 word limit. At present I'm relying on Google translate; any suggestions to improve what follows (the English too!) greatly appreciated. 'Glocal' should prove a bit of a test. (h2cmng at yahoo.co.uk):
Exploring several dimensions of local, global and glocal using the generic conceptual framework Hodges's model
Abstract
This paper introduces Hodges’s model a conceptual framework as a means to explore the concept glocal and the more familiar terms local and global. Actual and speculative definitions of glocal are offered. Discussion will also deliberate on the compound meanings of these terms. The model's four knowledge (care) domains facilitate discussion of the physical, social, political and individual dimensions of local, global and glocal. The paper draws upon health, anthropology, history, science, informatics and geopolitics – especially the themes of globalization, literacy, information technology and communication (voice). The purpose is exploratory with additional resort to philosophical reflection.
Explorar varias dimensiones de locales, globales y glocales utilizando el modelo conceptual genérico Hodges marco de
abstracto
Este trabajo presenta un nuevo modelo Hodges es un marco conceptual como un medio para explorar el concepto glocal y los términos más familiares locales y globales. Definiciones reales y especulativos de glocal se ofrecen. El debate también se tratará sobre el significado de estos términos compuestos. El modelo de cuatro conocimiento (atención) dominios de facilitar la discusión de las dimensiones físicas, sociales, políticos e individuales de los locales, globales y glocales. El documento se basa en la salud, la antropología, la historia, la ciencia, la informática y la geopolítica - especialmente los temas de la globalización, la alfabetización de tecnología de la información y la comunicación (voz). El objetivo es exploratorio con recurso adicional para la reflexión filosófica.
Exploration des dimensions de plusieurs locaux, mondiaux et glocal utilisant le modèle générique de cadre conceptuel Hodges
Résumé
Cet article présente le modèle Hodges un cadre conceptuel comme un moyen d'explorer le concept et le glocal termes plus familiers local et mondial. Définitions réelles et spéculative de glocal sont offerts. La discussion portera également délibérer sur les significations composé de ces termes. Les quatre modèle de connaissances (soins) domaines de faciliter la discussion de la physique, les dimensions sociales, politiques et individuels des locaux, mondiaux et glocal. Le document s'appuie sur la santé, anthropologie, histoire, sciences, informatique et de la géopolitique - notamment les thèmes de la mondialisation, de l'alphabétisation technologies de l'information et de communication (voix). Le but est exploratoires avec station supplémentaire à la réflexion philosophique.
Изучение нескольких размеров локальных, глобальных и глокальные использованием модели общих концептуальных рамках Ходжеса
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В данной статье рассматривается модель Ходжеса концептуальную основу в качестве средства для изучения концепции и глокальные Наиболее известные термины локальные и глобальные. Фактические и спекулятивных определений глокальные предлагаются. Обсуждения будут также обсуждать соединения смысл этих терминов. Четыре модели знаний (ухода) области содействия обсуждению физических, социальных, политических и индивидуальных размеров локальных, глобальных и глокальные.Статья основана на здоровье, антропологии, истории, науки, информатики и геополитика - особенно темы глобализации, распространения грамотности, информационных и коммуникационных технологий (голос).Цель поисковой дополнительные прибегать к философской рефлексии.
The last poster I completed in June for the Health Literacy conference in Manchester was made up of four A4 pages. It was OK, but suffered next to the University produced presentations - maybe it was an imposter. So, I determined that the next would be a more professional A1 - A0 effort.
Thanks to George Kernohan - Prof. of Health Research in the Institute of Nursing Research at University of Ulster - next week's CARDI conference in Dublin will see this realised.
Nine A3 pages were produced in total (too many for insurance). The final 'composition' was not straight forward. George suggested Powerpoint and that clinched it after much aggravation. This will be easier next time! With a week to spare I forwarded the draft to George. As before I've tried to strike a balance between graphics and text. There are three diagrams of the model in total that hopefully capture some of the main conference themes:
Glocal is an index.
Glocal is the designator of change.
Glocal is the terminator, the divide between the local and global that is simultaneously inclusive and exclusive.
Glocal is penumbral.
Glocal is a convulsion of the internal and the external; near and far; micro and macro; past, present and future.
Glocal - tipping - presaged.
Glocal is all dichotomies all times.
Glocal is blunted affect (distributed (diluted (detached (emotion))))
Glocal is the leading – bleeding - edge of change:
The virtual bus: information
Glocal is conceptual triangulation.
Local is a place in code
You better know what is Global
Glocal is the school of the informatics and literacies.
Local to Global to Local is the road: Glocal is the road twisted;
1 Mobius Strip
2 Everywhere
Glocal = Biosphere and N.E.O.
Glocal is mobile – mobil - mobi - mob - mo - m -
Glocal is remembering all and remembering to forget.
Glocal is the transience of the fixed point (anchors aweigh, relative, displacement)
I am local.
You are local.
We are global.
Are refugees glocals?
Thoughts informing a paper ...
http://www.amnesty.org.uk/
http://www.refugeesinternational.org/
N.E.O. Near Earth Orbit (at least)
Q. The development of clinical coding and classification systems, such as International Classification of Diseases (ICD) is …
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| Brian E. Hodges - c/o Brian's family. |
Born in Liverpool, NW England, UK.
Community Mental Health Nurse NHS, Part-time Lecturer,
Researcher Nursing & Technology Enhanced Learning
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Community Psychiatric Nursing (Cert.) MMU
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PG(Dip.) Collaboration on Psychosocial Education [COPE] Univ. Man.
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