La banque est un secteur en première ligne de la transformation digitale et se classe en 4e position des secteurs les plus transformés numériquement derrière les technologies de l’information et de la communication, les médias et les services professionnels (Gandhi & al, 2016). En outre, l’explosion des données et le besoin de traitement en temps réel est un défi pour les acteurs pour répondre ou anticiper les besoins des clients. En ce sens, la transformation digitale des banques est emblématique des opportunités et des risques de notre société numérique.Les études tendent à prouver que la performance digitale reflète la performance économique de l’entreprise (Accenture, 2016b). Il devient dès lors d’autant plus important d’effectuer sa transformation digitale pour rester ou devenir une banque performante d’autant plus que la mortalité moyenne des multinationales n’est que de 40 ans (Schatt, 2014).Le préalable à l’analyse peut résider dans la connaissance, par les banques, de leur maturité numérique actuelle.Le modèle développé dans cette thèse s’inscrit dans cette perspective et vise à souligner les forces d’un acteur bancaire et ses points perfectibles pour, dans une perspective opératoire, alimenter la stratégie de transformation des entreprises du secteur. Le point de départ en est une méthode de mesure de maturité numérique de toute organisation (Fayon, Tartar, 2014) qui a été approfondie dans le cadre de ce travail de thèse. La réflexion a été conduite relativement aux tendances structurantes de la transformation digitale, et à un centrage sur le cas du secteur bancaire. Elle s’est nourrie des travaux académiques relatifs au changement de paradigme porté par les technologies numériques et à ceux relatifs au design organisationnel entre autres. Deux enquêtes (l’une sur la banque du futur ; l’autre sur les attentes des générations en matière de service bancaire) et un PoC réalisé dans le cadre du paiement sans contact sur smartphone à La Poste, ont nourri la réflexion pour enrichir notre modèle initial de mesure de la maturité numérique.Pour bâtir le modèle, nous avons fait le choix de nous baser principalement sur les travaux existants dans les deux domaines au cœur de la transformation digitale, d’une part les systèmes d’information où de nombreux outils méthodologiques ont été développés (CMMI, ITIL, CobiT, etc.) et d’autre part le marketing. Chacun des indicateurs du modèle initial a été challengé en s’appuyant sur la littérature dans le domaine ainsi que sur un corpus de données élaboré pour ce travail de thèse.La portée de cette mesure est de deux ordres. Le résultat peut permettre, pour les décideurs qui s’en saisissent – typiquement les acteurs de la transformation digitale (Comex, CDO, Directeur du SI, Directeur marketing) –, d’alimenter la stratégie de transformation digitale de l’acteur considéré (grâce au calcul de la maturité des leviers identifiés et globalement de la banque pour mettre en exergue ses forces et ses faiblesses). Mais cette mesure peut avoir également une portée performative. Elle peut permettre en effet, comme pour tous dispositifs de mesure, de donner un état « objectivé » mais également « objectivant » du niveau atteint par chacun des indicateurs et accompagner dès lors un processus réflexif de transformation digitale.Un certain nombre de limites sont inhérentes à ce travail de thèse, dans sa dimension instrumentale notamment. La cohérence interne du modèle, bien que mise à l’épreuve de différentes démarches analytiques et tests, n’est pas exempte, par construction, d’une part d’arbitraire. La pertinence du modèle, si elle a pu être testée partiellement à l’aune de cas d’entreprise, reste soumise à l’épreuve de la généralisation. Par ailleurs, le caractère évolutif des technologies numériques et des changements sociétaux associés, pourront faire perdre de l’acuité à certains indicateurs. Mais la dimension intrinsèquement performative du modèle pourrait demeurer. / The bank is a front-line sector of digital transformation and ranks 4th in the most digitally-transformed sectors behind IT, media and professional services (Gandhi & al, 2016). In addition, the burst of data and the need for real-time processing is a challenge for the players to meet or anticipate the needs of customers. In this way, the digital transformation of banks is emblematic of the opportunities and risks of our digital society.Studies tend to demonstrate that digital performance reflects the company's economic performance (Accenture, 2016b). It is therefore all the more important to carry out its digital transformation in order to remain or become a performing bank, especially since the average mortality of multinationals is only 40 years (Schatt, 2014).The question is where are the banks going to be in the value chain: continuing vertical integration or horizontal integration to diversify, buy or make partnerships with technological players or fintech?The prerequisite may lie in the knowledge of their current digital maturity. The model developed in this thesis makes it possible to highlight the strengths of a banking player and its perfectible points likely to feed the transformation strategy for its leaders and the related priorities. The starting point is the methodology of measuring digital maturity of any kind of organization (Fayon, Tartar, 2014) that has been challenged as part of this thesis work. Its axes, which define digital maturity, have evolved and are there to number six: Organization, Technology and Innovation, People, Offer, Environment, Strategy.The reflection has been focused on the structuring trends of digital transformation, and a focus on the case of the banking sector. She has been nourished by academic work related to the paradigm shift brought by digital technologies and those related to organizational design among others. Two surveys (one on the bank of the future, the other on the expectations of the generations in terms of banking service) and a PoC realized as part of the contactless payment on smartphone at La Poste french company have fueled the reflection to enrich our initial model of measuring digital maturity.To build the model, we have chosen to rely primarily on existing work in both areas at the heart of digital transformation, on the one hand information systems where many methodological tools have been developed (CMMI, ITIL, CobiT, etc.) and secondly marketing. Each of the indicators of the initial model was challenged by relying on the literature in the field as well as on a body of data developed for this thesis work.The scope of this measure is of two kinds. The result can make it possible for the decision makers who seize it - typically the actors of the digital transformation (Executive Committee, CDO, CTO, CMO) – feed the digital transformation strategy of the considered actor (thanks to the calculation of the maturity of the 6 levers and globally of the bank to highlight its strengths and its weaknesses, it is then necessary to exploit them in the service of its strategy). But this measure can also have a performative scope. It allows, as for all devices measuring tools, to give an "objectivized" but also "objectifying" level reached by each of the indicators and therefore accompany a reflexive process of digital transformation.A number of limitations are inherent to this thesis work in its instrumental dimension in particular. The internal coherence of the model, although tested by different analytical approaches and tests, is not exempt, by construction, from an arbitrary part. The relevance of the model, even if it has been tested partly with some business cases, remains subject to the test of generalization. In addition, the evolving nature of digital technologies and associated societal changes may make some indicators less relevant. But the performative dimension of the model could then remain.

Submitted in partial fulfillment in compliance with the requirements for the Masters Degree in Technology: Fine Art, Durban University of Technology. Durban. South Africa, 2014. / The aim of this study is to interrogate the validity of Historical film as a representation of the past and a source of historical knowledge, in the work of Richard Attenborough, Claude Lanzmann, Angus Gibson and Jo Mennel and my film practice, using Robert Rosenstone’s theories, the 6 Codes of Representation (Rosenstone, 1995a) and the 4 Modes of Invention (Rosenstone, 1995a) as a theoretical framework. The main research question is: How can Historical film preserve the historical integrity of a subject whilst entertaining the viewer? Three different film genres were analyzed using this theoretical framework. Films included the Historical Drama Gandhi (1982), the Historical Documentary Mandela (1996) and the Experimental Historical film Shoah (1985). This research interrogates the degrees to which history presented on film can be altered, without becoming an invalid representation of the past. Research outcomes have concluded that the Historical film will inevitably dramatize a subject in order to appeal to a larger audience. However, in making a Historical film, a filmmaker’s decision to stray from historical facts must be supported by a sufficient justification of any significant fabrication, and an explanation of how it benefits the historical subject. This study informed my practical component, consisting of a treatment and storyboard for what I term a hypothetical Historical Experimental film, exploring the Aversion Therapy. These therapies were practiced on SADF conscripts in order to ‘’ cure’ them of ‘illnesses’ such as homosexuality (Kaplan, 2001). It is my hope that this study and proposed film will encourage people to investigate and discuss the Aversion Therapies, creating an awareness of a subject that has had little exposure post 1994. / M

This study looks into the way India's 1991 general election was portrayed in the newspapers of India and Britain. The thesis stipulates that while the elections generated a keen interest in the Indian press, it kept a low profile in the British press. However, the British press' attention was heightened when the former Indian prime minister, Rajiv Gandhi, was assassinated during the same election campaign, which failed to invoke a substantial and appreciable amount of coverage. While the Indian newspapers, after providing an extensive coverage to the themes related to the assassinated leader for one week, returned to emphasise the campaign and other contemporary issues, the British newspapers relentlessly continued to fill their pages with the same themes even over three weeks after the event had happened. The thesis also argues that the British press accentuated far more than its Indian counterpart the issue of violence in India during the 47-day long campaign. It clearly emerges from the findings that during an election, the campaign agenda is formed by the journalists rather than by the political parties/leaders. While the newspapers of both the countries carried more media-initiated stories than party- initiated, the British press outnumbers its Indian counterpart. It shows that the sacerdotal role the British journalists are known to play in the coverage of the election in their own country is dissolved when they report election in a Third World country. Discussed in this thesis is also the fact that the powerful political actors and parties are referred to more than the minor parties and their leaders. Nevertheless, the basic and development issues like inflation, poverty, unemployment, education, rural development etc. - notwithstanding their inclusion in the manifestos of virtually all the Indian political parties - get a low priority in the press.

Thesis MA (Political Science. International Studies))--Stellenbosch University, 2008. / Liberation movements came into being across the entire African continent as a political response to colonisation. However, Africa has in this field, as in so many others, been largely understudied, in comparison to revolutionary movements in South America and South East Asia. While many case studies on specific liberation movements exist, very few are comparative in nature. This study will do precisely that using the framework of Thomas H. Greene. The resistance movements in South Africa and Zimbabwe, then Rhodesia, consisted of several organisations, but the ones that emerged as the most powerful and significant in the two countries were the ANC and ZANU respectively. Although their situations were similar in many ways, there were other factors that necessarily led to two very different liberation struggles. This study looks closer at these factors, why they were so, and what this meant for the two movements. It focuses on the different characteristics of the movements, dividing these into leadership, support base, ideology, organisation, strategies and external support. All revolutionary movements rely on these factors to varying degrees, depending on the conditions they are operating under. The ANC and ZANU both had to fight under very difficult and different circumstances, with oppressive minority regimes severely restricting their actions. This meant that the non-violent protests that initially were a great influence for the leadership of both movements – especially with the successes of Mahatma Gandhi in South Africa and India, inevitably had to give way to the more effective strategies of sabotage and armed struggle. Like other African resistance movements, nationalism was used as the main mobilising tool within the populations. In South Africa the struggle against apartheid was more complex and multidimensional than in Zimbabwe. Ultimately successful in their efforts, the ANC and ZANU both became the political parties that assumed power after liberation. This study does not extend to post-liberation problems.

Although they have cohabited in India for centuries, critical analyses of contemporary Indian literature and culture often seem to draw a distinction between the "world" of the English language and that of the bhashas (or Indian regional languages) — as though the two are sealed off from each other with no conceivable overlaps. Even sixty-six years after independence, the debate over the contested linguistic terrains of "home" and "world" - and whether these seeming dichotomies are mappable as "Indian"/"non-Indian” or "provincial"/"cosmopolitan" — continue. Through a study of contemporary and modern Indian literary and cultural discourses, I analyse the historical and ideological roles played by English language — the ways in which it has interacted with bhashas, and the importance of the literary representation of English and bhashas in the politics of Indian cultural and linguistic nationalism(s). Along with canonical Indian English writing (such as the works of Vikram Seth, Amitav Ghosh and Salman Rushdie) I analyse bhasha literature (especially Hindi, Bengali and Urdu) as well as Indian literature in translation as my primary texts. My study includes fiction, as well as political documents and life writing (notably those by M. K. Gandhi and Jawaharlal Nehru). The analysis of Hindi cinema, ranging from films like Mughal-e-Azam (1960) to Ra.One (2011) remains a running thread throughout, for this popular medium encapsulates the Indian linguistic debates in a way that is sometimes complementary and at other times a foil to the literary cultural discourse. In each of my chapters I analyse the mobilisation of language(s) in relation to one of the categories that, in India’s charged socio-political setting, become associated with the question of one’s communal, cultural and/or territorial “identity” — namely nation, religion, and caste and class. Though this is a thesis about language and its cultural representation in postcolonial India, I often flit to events in pre-1947 India in the course of my discussions. This is because some of the cultural moments from the colonial past are either historical precedents to, or prove to be momentous departures from, the events that I focus on in contemporary India. Their significance can therefore not be ignored in any comprehensible analysis of the roles that language has played in India after independence.

碩士 / 淡江大學 / 美國研究所 / 89 / Abstract: The purpose of this thesis intends to explore the following: 1.Understanding nonviolent struggle theory. 2.Explore the roots of Martin Luther King’s nonviolent thought. 3.Analyse the nonviolent strategies which are used by Martin Luther King in Civil Rights Movement. 4.Evaluate Martin Luther King’s contribution for black people. In this thesis, chapter one explains motivation, purpose, literature review, data resources and framework of this study. Chapter two discusses the essences of nonviolent struggle theory in four parts: the origins of nonviolent struggle theory, theory of power, strategies of nonviolent struggle and the historical development of nonviolent struggle by means of data analysis. Chapter three analyses the writings of Martin Luther King and other authors’ works about King to explore how King is affected by Henry David Thoreau, George Washington Davis, Walter Rauschenbusch and Mahatma Gandhi by means of documents analysis. Chapter four analyses how King successfully uses nonviolent strategies to achieve reform in his four movements which are Montgomery Movement, Albany Movement, Birmingham Movement and Selma Movement. Chapter five evaluates King’s contribution for black people’s social and political status by analysing the statistical data. Chapter six is the conclusion which sums up the characteristics of King’s nonviolent struggle and evaluates king’s contribution for America.

碩士 / 東吳大學 / 人權碩士學位學程 / 103 / The caste system – the study of India Honor Killing Abstract Since India’s Independence , the government implemented a serial of affirmative action program, and made a great impact on numerous people beyond the other countries of the world .On 1950, Nehru invited Ambedkar as the first law minister to draft the Indian Constitution , Article 17 of the Indian Constitution had been abolished the <untouchable>, and prohibit the use of the word in public. The government begun provided the fundamental protection of human rights for the Dalit and the low-level catse. And set the National Commission for Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes. However, the Indian society has discrimination and violation of fundamental human rights yet since the Indian’s constitution hitherto been implemented, but women has been violent among others. The intention of this article is to probe ideology of Indian people while facing the ‘’honor killing’’ under the caste system. That is the homicide of a member of a family by other members as a result of people marrying without their family's acceptance, and sometimes for marrying outside their caste. It’s hard to broke the caste tradition even the government encourage the intermarriage by legislation. The research purpose is to find out the reason why Hindu is deeply affected by caste ideology and Indian women suffer discrimination as caste, and propose solutions on how to solve the honor killing. Keywords: Hinduism, The caste system, Dalits, Gandhi, Ambedkar, the plans of redress discrImination, Honor killings

From the 1830s to 1917, despair in India drove a small minority into indentureship overseas. These were probably men and women of considerable initiative and extraordinary courage. Their achievements in British Guiana suggest this. Men, women, and children toiled relentlessly on the sugar plantations, while exploiting every conceivable niche to supplement meagre wages. They built a stable family life. They adapted rice and cattle to the plantation environment, thus adumbrating the character of future Indian villages; but they also resisted the injustices of the system. Indians founded villages throughout coastal Guiana, from the late nineteenth-century. In spite of endemic malaria, a hazardous environment requiring elaborate drainage and irrigation, poor sanitation, an undercurrent of Black envy, and the remorseless hostility of the plantocracy and the State to Indian enterpise in rice and cattle, they progressed. Indians adapted their rich material and religious culture, recreating aspects of their ancestral villages. At the hub of their tradition was the family: although most migrated alone, a modified joint-family structure evolved. Their thrift, industry, judicious delegation of family labour, and an exemplary commitment to their families, sustained them in activities which others considered unremunerative. The practice of Hinduism and Islam was costly; it encouraged saving. Cultural security strengthened their self-confidence and sustained effort; it bred a sense of purpose. By the 1920s, rice, cattle, commerce, etc., had spawned an Indian middle class. These set standards for the community: they established an entrepreneurial tradition; their professional achievements undermined Indian indifference to education; some promoted intellectual curiosity; and facilitated Indian participation in organised cricket, the most eloquent manifestation of arrival. The middle class expanded conceptions of attainable goals. But Indian adaptation was shaped profoundly by a resurgence of pride in the achievements of ancient India and the rise of Gandhi. A separate Indian community, differing significantly in their basic assumptions from those of the Blacks, developed in British Guiana. The implications for race relations were already ominous in the 1920s.

Considering the prominent role India has played in the United Nations since independence, it is important to remember that its involvement in international organizations predates the advent of the U.N. by over 25 years. An original signatory to the Treaty of Versailles (1919), India became a founding member of the League of Nations. As a non-sovereign part of the British Empire and the League's only colonial member, however, India faced a set of unique problems in its interaction with the League; its role was, as a result, both complex and anomalous. / This dissertation analyzes India's membership of the League from its entry in 1919 to the outbreak of the Second World War. In addition to examining changes in India's status in the British Empire during the First World War and detailing its entry into the League at the Paris Peace Conference, the work surveys the various influences on India's League policy. The work also explores the background of India's League delegates. Although appointed by the British Government of India and traditionally seen, therefore, as mere collusionists, most were actually moderate nationalists operating outside the Gandhi-Nehru fold. They saw collaboration with the British in India's League affairs, despite obvious restrictions, as beneficial to India in developing its international persona. / Despite clear limitations, India's role in the League was significant. Membership of the League offered Indians the opportunity of dispelling Eurocentric misperceptions about India and of showing that Indians were fully capable of grappling with complex global issues. India's involvement in League work, particularly in the areas of opium and slavery suppression, public health, and intellectual cooperation, was of demonstrable benefit to the country as a whole. India's League membership also provided an initial testing ground for its, and Pakistan's, later membership in the United Nations, and as a training ground for a future cadre of Indian and Pakistani diplomats. Finally, India's presence at Geneva helped secure for it an important status in the international system, giving it, and Pakistan, a comparative advantage over other newly independent countries in the post-Second World War period. / Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 55-07, Section: A, page: 2105. / Major Professor: Bawa Satinder Singh. / Thesis (Ph.D.)--The Florida State University, 1994.

碩士 / 國立臺灣藝術大學 / 視覺傳達設計學系 / 106 / Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi:「The highest moral is constantly serve, to work for human love.」The value is what everyone is looking for in the lives. Then, those who have positive mind ignite positive in the society. In Taiwan, there is a group of people who always silently, humblely, firmly do the things that they believe in. What they are doing perform prosocial behavior that makes our lives and society mutual benefit and win-win. Therefore, the research is aimed to spread and promote the energy of positivity, selfless, goodwill, by the media of story-telling in picture creations. The work is to illustrate the topic of those who silently doing good in our society. However, the reasons that influence prosocial behavior are diversified. Therefore, personal factors, environmental education factors, and social and cultural factors are the three mainly dimensions to be discussed. Through collecting, analyzing, transforming the information, the behaviors of prosocial behavior is used as the theme, which illustrated in to words. Then using the media of graphic and context to interpret and convey these concepts, and develop a series of works. Furthermore, use these creations to explore in-depth the actual behavior of what prosocial behavior to do, as a basis for graphic design. To sum up, basic on the graphic creations and the analysis of the questionnaire, the relationship between the creations and the prosocial behavior has be examined and verified. Furthermore, the results is fulfilled the performance of prosocial behavior in the art work.