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Den svenska regeringen har beslutat om en strategi för IT-politiken, där målet är att Sverige ska vara bäst i världen på att använda digitaliseringens möjligheter. Dessa möjligheter kommer öppna upp för en enklare vardag för privatpersoner och företag. Flera kommuner har idag samarbeten med EU, regioner och kommuner där syftet är att digitalisera samhällsbyggnadsprocessen med hjälp av att utveckla innovativa digitala verktyg. Offentliga utredningar har påvisat brister i hur lösningarna presenteras och att det finns utvecklingspotential. I nuläget presenteras information för allmänheten i form av text och bilder, vilket ger en ofullständig bild av pågående och framtida byggprojekt. Tidigare studier inom andra områden har visat att 3D-teknik kan vara värdefullt på en bred front. Syftet med studien var att undersöka hur 3D-kartor påverkar användbarheten och förståelsen hos allmänheten i medborgardialoger inom samhällsbyggnadsprocessen. Studien berörde även hur processens virtualiserbarhet påverkas. Som teoretiskt ramverk och principer som underlag för studien, användes modellen Process Virtualization Theory (PVT) och användbarhet. Inom det sistnämnda används komponenter som effektivitet, fel, minnesbarhet, lärbarhet och tillfredsställelse för att mäta användbarheten av tjänsterna. PVT-modellen kan användas för att mäta hur lämpad en process är att vara digital och huruvida IT kan möjliggöra en bättre digital process eller inte. Studien har en genomgående kvalitativ ansats som undersökte  användbarheten och hur lämpad processen är att vara digital. Användbarhetstest med kompletterande intervjuer utfördes under två separata tillfällen där det ena riktades mot en befintlig webbtjänst och den andra mot en ny webbtjänst med en 3D-karta.  Resultatet i användandet av 3D-kartan påvisade att igenkänning och ovana är två återkommande teman där tillfredsställelse uppvisas i form av nyfikenhet och intresse. I jämförelse mellan webbtjänsterna så bidrog 3D-kartan till en ökad visuell förståelse av informationen som presenterades. Å andra sidan gav informationsdokumenten en djupare förståelse. 3D-kartan påverkade den undersökta processen positivt och var framförallt användbar för den visuella förståelsen. Processen var lämpad för att vara digital där representationen var en bidragande faktor för vad IT möjliggjorde. / The Swedish government has decided on a strategy for IT policy where the goal is for Sweden to be the best in the world at utilizing the possibilities of digitalisation. These opportunities will open up for a simpler everyday life for individuals and companies. Several municipalities today have collaborations with the EU, regions and municipalities where the purpose is to digitize the community building process with the help of developing innovative digital tools. Public investigations have shown shortcomings in how the solutions are presented and that there is development potential. At present, information is presented to the public in the form of text and images, which gives an incomplete picture of ongoing and future construction projects. Previous studies in other areas have shown that 3D technology can be valuable on a broad front. The purpose of the study was to investigate how 3D maps affect the public's usefulness and understanding in citizen dialogues in the community building process. The study also touched on how the virtualisability of the process is affected. As a theoretical framework and principles as a basis for the study, the model Process Virtualization Theory (PVT) and usability were used. Within usability, components such as efficiency, error, memorability, learnability and satisfaction are used to measure the usefulness of the services. The PVT model can be used to measure how appropriate a process is to be digital and whether IT can enable a better digital process or not. The study has a consistent qualitative approach that relates to examining usability and how appropriate the process is to be digital. Usability tests with supplementary interviews were performed on two separate occasions, where one is aimed at an existing web service and the other at a new web service with a 3D map. The results in the use of the 3D map showed that recognition and unfamiliarity are two recurring themes where satisfaction is shown in the form of curiosity and interest. In comparison between the web services, the 3D map contributed to an increased visual understanding of the information presented. However, the information documents provided a deeper understanding. The 3D map proved to have a positive effect on the investigated process and was above all useful for the visual understanding. The process also proved to be suitable for being digital, where representation was a contributing factor to what IT made possible.

Befolkningsökningen i Stockholmsregionen är för tillfället en av de snabbaste i Europa, vilket ställer höga krav på stadsplaneringen. En effekt av urbaniseringen är att det finns ett stort behov av nyproducerade bostäder. Kommunen Stockholms stad äger aktiebolaget AB Stockholmshem, ett allmännyttigt bostadsföretag som bygger och förvaltar bostäder i Stockholm. I enlighet med FN:s globala hållbarhetsmål hållbara städer och samhällen har Stockholms stad infört ett energikrav för nyproducerade bostäder som en del av sitt arbete för att bidra till en hållbar stadsutveckling. Kravet innebär att energianvändningen för nyproducerade flerbostadshus inte får överstiga 55 kWh/m2 och år. Stockholmshem arbetar för att försöka uppnå stadens energikrav, något som i dagsläget sällan uppnås. Detta examensarbete skrivs på uppdrag av Stockholmshem och syftar till att identifiera utvecklingsområden för att hjälpa dem att uppnå stadens energikrav. Studien har forskningsfrågan; Vilka utmaningar och utvecklingsområden finns hos Stockholmshem med att samla in, sprida, utveckla och använda kunskaper som är kopplade till energiförbrukning vid nyproduktion? För att besvara forskningsfrågan användes en tematisk analys med teman kopplade till begreppet Knowledge Management, KM. KM kan ses som ett verktyg som ämnar att identifiera hur en organisation arbetar med att samla in, sprida, utveckla samt använda kunskaper inom organisationen. Tre teman kopplade till KM identifierades för att kunna analysera datan och besvara studiens frågeställning. De tre teman som användes var; infrastruktur och tillgänglighet, ledningens stöd och vision samt organisationskultur och samsyn. Data som används i den tematiska analysen kommer från elva semistrukturerade intervjuer med personer som arbetar på AB Stockholmshem.Från den tematiska analysen framkom ett flertal styrkor och några utvecklingsområden som är kopplade till KM. Kulturen att dela med sig av kunskaper kan ses som tillåtande inom företaget, men tillgängligheten kan förbättras. I nuläget beskrivs dokumenthanteringssystemet som krångligt och svåråtkomligt. Det framkom även att de kontroller som genomförs med syftet att undersöka och säkerställa energiförbrukningen behöver ses över. Antalet kontroller i genomförandefasen, standardisering av energiberäkningar och implementering av en ny mätplan kan ses som viktiga delar. De interna projekteringsanvisningarna kan anses vara Stockholmshems viktigaste verktyg för att ta vara på kunskap från tidigare projekt och medarbetare. Även om det finns en samsyn kring att energifrågan är viktig kan ledningen behöva ge tydligare direktiv om hur energifrågan ska prioriteras. Det är däremot viktigt att inte fokusera enbart på energifrågan, då det kan leda till högre ekonomiska kostnader och större miljöpåverkan. / The urbanisation in the Stockholm region is one of the fastest in Europe right now. The municipality Stockholm stad owns AB Stockholmshem, which is a public utility housing association that builds and manages buildings in Stockholm. In compliance with the UN:s sustainable development goal sustainable cities and societies has Stockholm stad introduced an energy efficiency demand when building new buildings as a part of their work toward a more sustainable city development. The demand for new apartment buildings is set so that the energy efficiency is not allowed to be greater than 55 kWh/m2 and year. Stockholmshem works in order to fulfill the demand, but today that rarely happens. This master thesis is an assignment from Stockholmshem that have been adapted according to guidelines for master thesis that exist for the Master of Science in Engineering and in Education at the KTH Royal Institute of Technology. The assignment aims to identify development areas that can help them achieve the energy efficiency demand in the future. The study has the research question; What challenges and development areas can be found in Stockholmshem regarding their work with collecting, spreading, developing, and using knowledge that is connected to energy efficiency in new apartment buildings? In order to answer the research question a thematic analysis was used, with themes connected to the term Knowledge Management, KM. KM can be seen as a tool that aims to identify how an organization works with collecting, spreading, developing and using knowledge within the organization. Three themes were identified that are connected to KM and were used in the analysis of the data in order to answer the research question. The three themes were infrastructure and accessibility, the management's support and vision and also organisational culture and consensus. The data used in the thematic analysis were collected through eleven semi structured interviews with employees at AB Stockholmshem. The thematic analysis with data from the interviews identified strengths and development areas connected to KM. The culture can be seen as allowing and good, but the accessibility can be improved. The document management system that is used today is described as difficult and hard to access. The interviews also lifted that the controls that are implemented to verify that the calculated energy efficiency becomes the actual value in the end needs to be reviewed. The number of controls in the building phase, standardization of energy calculations and implementation of a new measurement plan were lifted as important aspects. The projecting instructions could be seen as the most important tool for Stockholmshem when transferring knowledge from older projects and coworkers to new. Even if there is a consensus regarding the energy issue the management could give more clear guidelines regarding how the energy issue should be prioritized. But it is important to not only focus on the energy issue since that could lead to higher economic costs and greater environmental impact.

Nach dem Oslo prozess im Gaza-Streifen und Westjordanland (weiter WJGS), die palästinensische Selbstverwaltung eingesetzt wurde. Die wichtigste Frage, eine Antwort auf die diese Dissertation zu geben versucht, ist: Hat es diese Regierung geschafft, sich in ihrem ersten Jahrzehnt (1994 - 2004) zu einer staatlichen, im Sinne von einer differenzierten, zentralisierten und autonomen Organisation zu entwickeln, die das Gewaltmonopol innehat und in der Lage ist, landesweit verbindliche Gesetze zu etablieren? Die Realität nach dem Oslo-Prozess: Tatsächlich fand eine Konzentration der Macht in den Händen Arafats und einer kleinen regierenden Elite in seinem Umkreis statt. Dies geschah auf Kosten der Mehrheit der Bevölkerung, welcher der Zugang zu staatlichen Institutionen auf nationaler Ebene verwehrt wurde. Dieser Zustand der Marginalisierung der Bevölkerungsmehrheit hemmte die Durchsetzung eines demokratischen Systems nach den Prinzipien Gewaltenteilung, Verantwortlichkeit und Transparenz und erstickte die rechtsstaatlichen Ansätze im Keim. Arafat und die kleine Elite in seinem Gefolge verhinderten nicht nur den Aufstieg eines demokratischen und rechtsstaatlichen Systems, sondern auch das Aufkommen eines Verwaltungssystems, das nach fairen Prinzipien (Leistung, Kompetenz) und nicht nach informellen/persönlichen Kriterien besetzt wurde, klare Spezialisierungen und Hierarchien aufwies sowie durchschaubar war, wie Max Weber vorschlägt. Näher betrachtet, erschwerten der Friedensprozess von Oslo und seine Vereinbarungen den Aufbau von stabilen und reaktionsfähigen politischen Institutionen genauso wie den eines professionellen Verwaltungssystems. Dies geschah, da der Prozess Menschen demobilisierte (aus der Unfähigkeit heraus, die Bestrebungen Palästinas, ein selbstbestimmter souveräner Staat zu werden, wahrzunehmen), außerdem ermöglichte er Arafat und dessen kleiner Machtelite, die Macht bei sich zu konzentrieren und ein halbautokratisches, von patrimonialen Zügen gekennzeichnetes Regime einzuführen, das dem Machthaber ermöglichte, öffentliche Fonds und Institutionen auszunutzen, um sich Loyalität zu sichern und seinem Regime Legitimität zu verschaffen. Als Antwort darauf stärkten die Gegner des Prozesses von Oslo und Arafats, also die Hamas, der Islamische Djihad und PFLP ihre Institutionen und begannen parallel zu den Institutionen der Autonomiebehörde parastaatliche Funktionen auszuüben. Am wichtigsten ist die Tatsache, dass diese Institutionen von den Milizen der politischen Parteien, denen sie angegliedert sind, beschützt werden. Zum Beispiel wird die Al Salah Islamic Society von den Izz El Din El Kassam Brigaden dem militärischen Flügel derHamas beschützt. Die 'Freunde der Märtyrer' sind dem Islamischen Djihad angegliedert und werden vom militanten Flügel der Gruppe, den Al Quds Brigaden beschützt. Dementsprechend ist der Staat - im Sinne einer zentralen Organisation mit Macht zur Autoritätsausübung und einem Gewaltmonopol (wie Joel Migdal vorschlägt) nicht präsent auf der politischen Bühne in Palästina. / In 1994, the Palestinian self-government was established on the Gaza Strip and West Bank (hereinafter WBGS) as result of Oslo process. One of its main challenges of that government was how to deal with this debilitating heritage whilst promoting institutions and institutional capacity building, both of which began gaining momentum from 1994 onwards. However, the reality of the Oslo process has meant that in fact what has occurred is a concentration of power into the hand of the ruling elite (Arafat and the small elite around him) at the expense of the majority of population who were denied access to national level institutions of state functions. This state of the political marginalization (or denationalization) of the majority of population hindered the emergence of a democratic political system based on the principles of the separation of powers, accountability, and transparency, and stifled the emergence of the rule of law. Arafat and the small elite around him had not only hindered the emergence of a democratic political system, and stifled the emergence of the rule of law, but also the emergence of a bureaucratic system with a recruitment system based on achievement rather than informal/irrational criteria (competence), highly specialized and differentiated administrative role of civil servants (differentiation), and well established and thoroughly understandable system of super-ordination and sub-ordination (hierarchy) as Max Weber suggests. In response, the opponents of Oslo process & Arafat- Hamas, Islamic Jihad, and PFLP-had strengthened their institutions, and started to practice Para-state functions parallel to PA institutions (as chapter V shows). These instituions are protected by the militia of the political party with which it is affiliated, like Izz El Din El Qassam Brigades, the military wing of Hamas, and others. Accordingly, State- in the term of central organization with the power of issuing authoritative binding legal rules and monopolizing coercion (as Joel Migdal suggests)- was absent from the Palestinian scene.

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The qualitative part was conducted through semi-structured interviews with public officials in the Treasury Department to map the agenda building process. The quantitative part was carried out by collecting and analyzing the data needed for testing the hypotheses using the following variables: organizational capacity, size, revenue, geographical location and jobs generated by the business categories. The sources of primary data were the Tax Administration System of Santa Catarina, and the regulations and the list of matching credit (crédito presumido) in the 2003 2010 timeframe. The data analysis was carried out by crossing the information on the independent variables (business categories) with the dependent variable (tax relief), through statistical analysis of correlation between variables and multiple linear regression. The results of the study do not support the propositions of Olson. Rather, decisions to grant matching credit proved to be more likely in numerous business categories (r = 0.236), in business categories that generate more jobs (r = 0.378) and in business categories that generate more revenue (r = 0.392). Geographical localization proved to be sterile to the analysis. Also contrary to Olson's propositions, the test between the independent variable "organizational capacity" and the dependent variable showed a negative correlation (r = - 0.283). The results of the qualitative part of the research showed that the agenda building is not transparent, and there are no criteria for the entry and the proceeding of applications of matching credit. Moreover, the governor holds unrestricted autonomy to grant tax benefit, and the decisions respond primarily to the war tax between Brazilian states. And as a general conclusion from the quantitative part, the small business categories or privileged had less chance of getting the tax benefit that the major business categories or latent / Esta dissertação analisa a influência da capacidade organizativa no processo de construção da agenda governamental de concessão de crédito presumido do ICMS em Santa Catarina. Partese das proposições de Olson (1971) que utiliza uma abordagem econômica para entender a atividade individual e organizacional, ao enfatizar os custos e os benefícios relacionados com o engajamento individual em ações coletivas. Busca-se aqui entender porque determinados grupos de interesses (categorias empresariais) têm mais influência sobre atores estatais e, em razão disso, obtêm benefícios fiscais, enquanto outras categorias empresariais não conseguem. O estudo fez uso de metodologia qualitativa e quantitativa de coleta e análise de dados. A parte qualitativa foi viabilizada por meio de entrevistas semiestruturadas com servidores da Secretaria da Fazenda para identificar como ocorre o processo de construção da agenda. A parte quantitativa foi viabilizada por meio de coleta e análise dos dados para a realização de testes de hipóteses com uso das seguintes variáveis: capacidade organizativa, tamanho, faturamento, localização geográfica e empregos gerados pela categoria empresarial. As fontes de dados primários foram o Sistema de Administração Tributária de Santa Catarina, e os dispositivos regulamentares e a lista de Créditos Presumidos do período de 2003 a 2010. Para a análise dos dados foi feito o cruzamento das informações das variáveis independentes, que se referem às categorias empresariais, com a variável dependente que se refere à consecução de crédito presumido de ICMS, por meio de análises estatísticas de correlação entre variáveis e regressão linear múltipla. Os resultados encontrados neste estudo não dão sustentação às proposições de Olson. Pelo contrário, as decisões de concessão de crédito presumido a categorias empresariais demonstraram-se mais prováveis em categorias empresariais numerosas (r=0,236), em categorias empresariais que geram mais empregos (r=0,378) e em categorias empresariais que geram mais faturamento (r=0,392). A variável localização geográfica da categoria empresarial demonstrou-se pouco útil para as análises feitas. Também contrário às proposições de Olson, o teste entre a variável independente capacidade organizativa e a variável dependente consecução de crédito presumido , pois demonstrou uma correlação negativa (r= - 0,283). Os resultados da pesquisa qualitativa levam a crer que o fluxo de montagem da agenda não é transparente, porque não há critérios para entrada e trâmite dos pedidos de crédito presumido. Além disso, há autonomia irrestrita do Governador para a concessão, e a política de benefício fiscal do crédito presumido responde, prioritariamente, à guerra fiscal. E como conclusão geral identificou-se que, as categorias empresariais pequenas ou privilegiadas tiveram menor chance de conseguir benefício fiscal que as categorias empresariais grandes ou latentes, no período estudado

5 Abstract Diploma thesis deals with the topic of the Belarusian national movement in the late Soviet period. After the end of the Stalinist terror in the 70th-80th of the 20th century civic movements have been reborn in the Soviet Belarus. A rising national movement continued the national- building process, started in 20th years with the program of Belorusisation, which was interuppted by Soviet government in the late 20th. The research subject of the thesis is the Belarusian national idea in samizdat periodicals during 1970-1985. Content analysis of samizdat journals allows to define and understand the period's thinking. Since Soviet samizdat at that time was the only media environment, independent from the ideology and censorship. The thesis as well includes analysis and development of Belarusian national idea from its beginning; characteristic of the political, economic and social context of the Soviet period; appearance and analysis of dissent and democratic activities in 1970-1985.

Sweden should be internationally leading in taking advantage of the opportunities offered by digitalization. Though several industries report successes, the community-building sector is far behind. The Swedish government has initiated several assignments to enable and push the digitalization of the community-building process forward. The process that has been analogous, time-consuming, fragmented and resulted in a loss of valuable information, shall become digital, uniform, and cohesive, as well as facilitate decision-making, collaboration, information- and knowledge flows. This thesis has been limited to studying the planning and building permit process, a central part of the community-building process, from an innovation ecosystem perspective. The purpose has been to understand how actors collaborate to realize the goal of a digital community-building process. It includes understanding also how actors work and relate to digitalization internally in their organization, how they interact with others, what roles they take, as well as what values, challenges, and success factors they identify. Literature- and document studies have been completed to understand innovation ecosystems, digitalization in the sector and how the innovation ecosystem perspective can be used to understand the digitization of the planning and building permit process. Interviews have been held with eight different actors who in various ways are significant for the digitization of the process. The result clarifies that the actors have reached different digital maturity. While some have taken on a leadership role, are innovative and explore opportunities, others are waiting to see which direction the sector takes and are open to adapting to the results of other actors' exploring and innovations. Moreover, the history of a long collaboration has served as a foundation for the actors' work with digitalization and proved crucial for achieving the goal of a cohesive digital process. The results have also clarified that actors have different knowledge and specializations that consequently established dependence on other actors and affect each actor's capacity for action. Furthermore, several identified challenges of legal, economic, and political character, need to be solved for the process to be digitized. Challenges also relate to some of the digital technology that is implemented neither meets legal requirements nor the requirements of the actors. Simultaneously digitalization requires new working methods and new knowledge among employees. The central identified values are efficiency, and the increased collective understanding and knowledge visual models enable. It can also result in higher quality and consensus on decisions and detailed plans, as well as new opportunities for evaluation, analysis, and optimization, and hopefully enable more sustainable development. / Sverige ska vara bäst i världen på att tillvarata digitaliseringens möjligheter, men trots att flera branscher redovisar framgångar ligger samhällsbyggandssektorn långt efter. För att pådriva och möjliggöra en digitalisering av samhällsbyggnadsprocessen har regeringen initierat en rad uppdrag. Processen som varit analog, tidskrävande, fragmenterad och resulterat i att värdefull information går förlorad, ska bli digital, enhetlig, sammanhållen och underlätta beslutsfattande, samverkan, informations- och kunskapsflöden. Uppsatsen har avgränsats till att studera digitaliseringen av skedena plan- och bygglovsprocessen från ett innovationsekosystemperspektiv. Syftet har varit att förstå hur aktörer samverkar för att realisera målbilden om en digital samhällsbyggnadsprocess. Det har även inneburit att förstå hur aktörerna arbetar och förhåller dig till digitalisering internt, vilka roller de tar, hur de samverkar och vad för värden, utmaningar och framgångsfaktorer de identifierar. Litteratur- och dokumentstudier har genomförts för att skapa en förståelse för innovationsekosystem, digitalisering inom sektorn samt för hur innovationsekosystemperspektivet kan användas för att förstå digitaliseringen av plan- och bygglovsprocessen. Intervjuer har hållits med åtta olika aktörer som på olika sätt är betydande för digitaliseringen av processen. Resultatet har tydliggjort att aktörerna arbetar med digitalisering på olika sätt. Medan vissa tagit på sig en ledartröja, är innovativa och utforskar möjligheter, är andra mer inväntande för att se vilken riktning sektorn tar och är öppna för att anpassa sig till resultaten av andra aktörers utforskande. Den samverkan som länge funnits etablerat har lagt en grund för digitaliseringsarbetet och visat sig vara avgörande för att målbilden om en digital sammanhållen process ska kunna uppnås. Resultatet har även visat att aktörer har olika specialiseringar som skapat ett beroende till andra aktörers kompetenser och utrymme för agerande. Det finns flera identifierade utmaningar som behöver lösas för att processen ska gå att digitalisera. De är av såväl juridisk, ekonomisk och politisk karaktär. Det handlar även om att den digitala teknik som finns inte uppfyller aktörernas krav. Digitaliseringen innebär även nya arbetsmetoder och att anställda behöver nya kunskaper. De främsta identifierade värdena är effektivisering och att man genom visuella modeller får en ökad kollektiv förståelse och kunskap. Det kan även resultera i högre kvalitet och samsyn på beslut och detaljplaner, samt helt nya möjligheter för utvärdering, analys och optimering vilket förhoppningsvis kan möjliggöra en hållbarare utveckling.

La concertation est un phénomène récent, de plus en plus répandu. Elle s’applique à de nombreux domaines notamment en urbanisme et plus récemment à la protection du patrimoine. Elle semble être un outil approprié pour les autorités municipales afin de faire face aux conflits autour des projets d’aménagement particulièrement ceux liés à la protection du patrimoine. Notre questionnement porte sur l’apport de la concertation dans le domaine de la préservation du patrimoine et sur la pertinence des moyens mis en place pour atteindre un tel objectif. Les tables de concertation, en tant que processus de concertation, sont-elles appropriées pour la gestion des sites patrimoniaux ? À la lumière d’une discussion théorique sur le concept de la concertation en aménagement, nous faisons l’analyse comparative de deux Tables de concertation, celle du Vieux-Montréal et celle du Mont-Royal. Notre analyse porte sur l’évaluation du processus de concertation et sur la construction d’une vision globale pour le devenir des secteurs patrimoniaux concernés. L’objectif est de caractériser le processus de concertation utilisé à Montréal et d’en apprécier l’apport dans le domaine de la protection du patrimoine. L’analyse de nos deux cas d’étude révèle l’existence d’un processus de concertation propre à Montréal, avec ses caractéristiques spécifiques, mais qui reste à parfaire pour son optimisation. Notre recherche se conclut sur la nécessité d’améliorer le processus de concertation, tel qu’étudié, à travers un certain nombre de pistes à explorer. / Consensus building is a recent and increasingly widespread phenomenon. It is used in many areas, including urban planning, and more recently heritage protection. Consensus building appears to be an appropriate tool for municipal authorities to handle conflicts in development projects, especially those projects that are related to heritage protection. Our research focuses on the contribution of consensus building in the area of heritage preservation, and on the means put in place to achieve such a goal. Are round tables, as part of the consensus building process, appropriate in managing heritage sites? Based on a theoretical discussion on consensus building in development issues, we compare two case studies, namely the Old Montréal and the Mount Royal round tables on consensus building. This analysis focuses on assessing the consensus building process and on developing a global vision for the future of the two heritage sectors under study. Our goal is to characterize the consensus building process used in Montréal and to evaluate its contribution to the field of heritage protection. The analysis of our two case studies reveals the existence of a distinctive consensus building process specific to Montréal, a process which however needs to be optimized. We conclude our research with the need to improve the assessed consensus building process through a number of avenues to explore.

<p>In this research paper, it evaluates the benefits achievable from static testing framework by analyzing and transforming the <em>JUnit3.8 </em>source code and static execution of transformed code. Static structure enables us to analyze the code statically during creation and execution of test cases. The concept of research is by now well established in static analysis and testing development. The research approach is also increasingly affecting the static testing process and such research oriented work has proved particularly valuable for those of us who want to understand the reflective behavior of <em>JUnit3.8 Framework</em>.</p><p><em> JUnit3.8 Framework</em> uses <em>Java Reflection API</em> to invoke core functionality (test cases creation and execution) dynamically. However, <em>Java Reflection API</em> allows developers to access and modify structure and behavior of a program.  Reflection provides flexible solution for creating test cases and controlling the execution of test cases. Java reflection helps to encapsulate test cases in a single object representing the test suite. It also helps to associate each test method with a test object. Where reflection is a powerful tool to perform potential operations, on the other hand, it limits static analysis. Static analysis tools often cannot work effectively with reflection.</p><p>In order to avoid the reflection, <em>Static Testing Framework</em> provides a static platform to analyze the <em>JUnit3.8</em> source code and transform it into non-reflective version that emulates the dynamic behavior of <em>JUnit3.8</em>. The transformed source code has possible leverage to replace reflection with static code and does same things in an execution environment of <em>Static Testing Framework</em> that reflection does in <em>JUnit3.8</em>. More besides, the transformed code also enables execution environment of <em>Static Testing Framework</em> to run test methods statically. In order to measure the degree of efficiency, the implemented tool is evaluated. The evaluation of <em>Static Testing Framework</em> draws results for different Java projects and these statistical data is compared with <em>JUnit3.8</em> results to measure the effectiveness of <em>Static Testing Framework</em>. As a result of evaluation, <em>STF</em> can be used for static creation and execution of test cases up to <em>JUnit3.8</em> where test cases are not creating within a test class and where real definition of constructors is not required. These problems can be dealt as future work by introducing a middle layer to execute test fixtures for each test method and by generating test classes as per real definition of constructors.</p>

Armut ist kein statisches, isoliertes oder nur materielles Phänomen, sondern reproduziert sich strukturell und mit verstärkter Ausprägung in den nächsten Generationen. Ihre Ursache ist nicht rein wirtschaftlich, sondern die Konsequenz eines langen historischen Prozesses der Negierung und Ausbeutung, auch rassiell und geschlechtsspezifisch bedingt. Daher muss man das Problem der Indianer in Bolivien als Ergebnis der historischen und sozialen Verachtung und Annullierung von Seiten der Elite und Oligarchie verstehen, die ihre politische und ökonomische Teilnahme begrenzt haben. Leider hat dabei sogar die Bildung als Instrument gedient, um das dominante System zu rechtfertigen und die indianische Bevölkerung abzuwerten. Als Konsequenz dieser rassiellen Diskriminierung und Marginalisierung in Verbindung mit der wachsenden Armut ist ein sehr komplexes Phänomen entstanden, das man strukturelle Gewalt nennt. Unter der Betrachtung solcher Bedingungen im bolivianischen Kontext wird mit dieser Arbeit der Versuch unternommen, neue Bildungspolitiken vorzuschlagen, die als Fundament für eine bessere und gleichmäßige Verteilung der Möglichkeiten zur menschlichen Entwicklung und für die Konstruktion einer demokratischen Gesellschaft (Nation Building Prozess) dienen könnten. Dafür wird die Philosophie des Ordens der Salesianer als Referenz für neue Ansätze gewählt, bei denen die Bildung ein gemeinsames Konzept des Landes formuliert, das Vorurteile, Stereotypen und innere Grenzen, die sich von Generation zu Generation übertragen, ausräumt. Die Bedeutung der Bildung soll mit anderen Worten in deren Nutzung als Werkzeug für die Errichtung einer Friedenskultur liegen, die auf Toleranz, Solidarität und den Menschenrechten basiert, wobei die zwischeninstitutionelle Annäherung, Kooperation und der gegenseitige Austausch von Informationen und Erfahrungen in der Bildungsgemeinschaft (z.B. zwischen Don Bosco, Unicef oder Unesco) eine wichtige Rolle spielen.