Professor Athula Ginige

School of Computing, Engineering and Mathematics

Western Sydney University

Australia

Digital Knowledge Ecosystems: Harnessing Social Knowledge for

Sustainable Development

ICT & Social Innovation

Social Computing - Power is in Integration

N’Eliya carrot farmers in the dumps: Bumper harvest, but prices low Source: The Sunday Times, April 22, 2012

Over Production problem in Sri Lanka

Troubled farmers erect tomato Pandol for Poson Source: Ada Derana Wednesday 15th June 2011

Mobile Based Information System

Behavioral component

Reorganising Published

Knowledge

User Query

Action Taking

Actionable Information

Aggregation

Context Filter

Context Addition

Ontological

Situational Intrapersonal component

Competence

Sense of control

Motivation

Self-Efficacy

Goals

Interactional component

Understanding users have about environment

Knowledge-base

MBIS

Empowerment Flow

Make Decisions

Identify, select, evaluate choices

Learn new skills

Engage

Communicate

Information Flow

Digital Ecosystem Evolution

Disaggregation

Prior Knowledge

Context Specific Actionable

Information

Information Need User Context

Aggregation

User Act on the

Information

Dynamic Content

Context Filter

Managing Type 2 Diabetes

Current Situation: Medical Nutrition Therapy

Advice

24 Hour recall /

Paper Records

Transformed Scenario

Reorganised Knowledge

Personalised Protocol

Context Specific

Actionable Information

Aggregated/

Disaggregated

Knowledge

Electronic Child Health Development Records

eCHDR Mock-up Interfaces

Digital Knowledge Ecosystems - Bring Actionable Information in Context to Workers

Increased Productivity

Sustainability Wealth Creation

User Empowerment

Published Papers from the Project Overall System

Ginige, A., Silva, L. D., Ginige, T., Giovanni, P. D., Walisadeera, A. I., Mathai, M., . . . Jain, R. (2014, 29 September - 2 October 2014). Towards an Agriculture Knowledge Ecosystem: A Social Life Network for Farmers in Sri Lanka. Paper presented at the 9th Conference of the Asian Federation for Information Technology in Agriculture - 2014, Perth, Australia.

Context Modelling Mathai, M., & Ginige, A. (2014). Task Oriented Context Models for Social Life Networks

Software Technologies (pp. 306-321): Springer Berlin Heidelberg. Mathai, M., & Ginige, A. (2013). Context based Content Aggregation for Social Life

Networks. Paper presented at the 8th International Conference on Software Paradigm Trends (ICSOFT-PT 2013), Reykjavik, Iceland.

Ontology Development Walisadeera, A. I., Ginige, A., & Wikramanayake, G. N. (2014). User centered ontology for

Sri Lankan farmers. Ecological Informatics, 26, 140-150. doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ecoinf.2014.07.008

Walisadeera, A. I., Ginige, A., & Wikramanayake, G. N. (2014). Conceptualizing Crop Life Cycle Events to Create a User Centered Ontology for Farmers. Paper presented at the International Conference on Computational Science and its Applications (ICCSA 2014), Poroto, Portugal.

Walisadeera, A. I., Wikramanayake, G. N., & Ginige, A. (2013). Designing a Farmer Centred Ontology for Social Life Network. Paper presented at the 2nd International Conference on Data Management Technologies and Applications (DATA 2013), Reykjavík, Iceland.

Published Papers from the Project Cont Information Flow Model

De Silva, L., Goonetillake, J., Wikramanayake, G., & Ginige, A. (2014, 8th - 10th December,). Towards an Agriculture Information Ecosystem. Paper presented at the 25th Australasian Conference on Information Systems,.

De Silva, L. N. C., Goonetillake, J. S., Wikramanayake, G. N., & Ginige, A. (2013). Farmer Response towards the Initial Agriculture Information Dissemination Mobile Prototype. In B. Murgante, S. Misra, M. Carlini, C. Torre, H.-Q. Nguyen, D. Taniar, B. Apduhan, & O. Gervasi (Eds.), Computational Science and Its Applications – ICCSA 2013 (Vol. 7971, pp. 264-278): Springer Berlin Heidelberg.

L. De Silva, J. S. Goonethilake, G.N. Wickramanayake, & A. Ginige. (2012). Towards using ICT to Enhance Flow of Information to aid Farmer Sustainability in Sri Lanka. Paper presented at the Australasian Conference on Information Systems (ACIS), Geelong Australia.

User Empowerment Ginige, T., Richards, D., & Hitchens, M. (2014). Cultivation planning application to enhance decision making among Sri

Lankan farmers Knowledge Management and Acquisition for Smart Systems and Services (pp. 180-194): Springer.

Ginige, T., & Richards, D. (2013). Design and Evaluation of a Mobile-based Cultivation Planning Application for empowering Sri Lankan Farmers. Paper presented at the 24th Australasian Conference on Information Systems, Melbourne, Australia.

Ginige., T., & Richards., D. (2012). A model for Enhancing Empowerment in Farming using Mobile based Information System. Paper presented at the 23rd Australasian Conference on Information Systems (ACIS 2012), Geelong.

User Interface Design Silva, L. D., Goonetillake, J., Wikramanayake, G., Ginige, A., Ginige, T., Giovanni, P. D., . . . Tortora, G. (2014, August 25,

2014). Design Science Research Based Blended Approach for Usability Driven Requirements Gathering and Application Development. Paper presented at the Second International Workshop on Usability and Accessibility focused Requirements Engineering, Karlskrona, Sweden.

Giovanni, P. D., Romano, M., Sebillo, M., Tortora, G., Vitiello, G., Ginige, T., . . . Ginige, A. (2013). Building Social Life Networks through Mobile Interfaces‒ the Case Study of Sri Lanka Farmers Organizational Change and Information Systems (pp. 399 - 408): Springer Berlin Heidelberg.

Di Giovanni, P., Romano, M., Sebillo, M., Tortora, G., Vitiello, G., Ginige, T., . . . Ginige, A. (2012). User centered scenario based approach for developing mobile interfaces for Social Life Networks. Paper presented at the Usability and Accessibility Focused Requirements Engineering (UsARE), 2012 First International Workshop on.