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ESA Conference: Ageing Societies, New Sociology
September 23-26, 2003 in Murcia, Spain
Two streams of sessions of the
Research Network 18: Sociology of Science and Technology (SSTNET)
Convenors:
Raymund Werle: Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies, Köln, Germany (werle@mpi-fg-koeln.mpg.de)
Marja Häyrinen Alestalo: Dept. of Sociology, University of Helsinki, Finland (marja.alestalo@helsinki.fi)
Luísa Oliveira: DINÂMIA/ISCTE, Lisboa, Portugal (luisa.oliveira@iscte.pt)
Maarten Mentzel: 38 Johan de Wittstraat, 2334 AR Leiden, The Netherlands (m.a.mentzel@planet.nl)
Second Stream: New Technologies in Ageing Societies
Friday Sept. 26
09.00 - 11.00 session 7 (Campus de La Merced)
Chair Luísa Oliveira
7.4. Author(s): Anthonysamy, Kamini/Ramasamy, Ramachandran/Dorairaj, Suppan
Institution: National Information Technology Council (NITC) c/o MIMOS Berhad
Professional Category: Public Policy Researcher
City: Kuala Lumpur
Country: Malaysia
E-mail: kamini@mimos.my
NETWORKING THE ELDERLY POPULATION IN THE INFORMATION ERA
The paper addresses issues and challenges of transferring the common socio-economic perception about elderly population as a "burden population" into a networked "knowledge force" population through online and real time interactive Information, Communication and Technology (ICT) modes using the DRAGONFLY MODEL. The proposition of the model is to provide new opportunity for the elderly population who are endowed with knowledge, skills, expertise and experiences in three broad areas namely, economic, governance and social dimensions. The economic dimension under the "Dragonfly Model" proposes an opportunity to explore the feasibility and viability of reutilizing healthy and able senior citizens into gainful activities such as freelance working, re-employment, tele-working, establishing knowledge databases, lifelong work culture and networking work specialists in the ICT networked era. The social dimension explores the viability of healthy and able senior citizens into new types of social activities such as internet chat, playing computer games, surfing the internet for information, lifelong learning, distance education, interactivity, connectivity, networking and knowledge sharing. The governance dimension provides opportunity by enabling, fostering, promoting and nurturing active participation of senior citizens in governance activities which will bring forth solutions and innovative approaches in governance processes of public policy and development practices. The senior citizen could assist the government by valuable ideas and inputs that can enhance effective function of government machinery. As such, these new activities reposition the senior citizen status from "burden population" into "knowledge force" population.
Sociology of Science and Technology NETwork - last update: April 2006