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Università della Svizzera italiana

Social dimensions of public large-scale wi-fi networks : the cases of a municipal and a community wireless network

Picco-Schwendener, Anna ; Cantoni, Lorenzo (Dir.)

Thèse de doctorat : Università della Svizzera italiana, 2018 ; 2018COM011.

Wireless networks play an increasingly important role in today’s mobile and interconnected society. People use mobile devices such as smartphones, tablets or portable game consoles on a regular basis to interact, retrieve and share information, and to orient and entertain themselves. However, in order to be fully performant these devices need to be connected to the Internet. Thanks to very...

Université de Fribourg

Luttes de conceptions entre ONG internationales et communes autour des projets d'accès à l'eau potable au Bénin

Anziani-Vente, Morgane ; Graefe, Olivier (Dir.)

Thèse de doctorat : Université de Fribourg, 2017 ; n⁰ 2055.

This research studies the relations between international non-governmental organizations (INGOs) and local governments during the implementation of water projects to enlighten the inequalities in their partnerships that curb development initiatives. Also, the research aims to understand the impact of these power relations on the management of the public service of water. The power relations...

Consortium of Swiss Academic Libraries

A System Model for Water Management

Schenk, Colin ; Roquier, Bastien ; Soutter, Marc ; Mermoud, André

In: Environmental Management, 2009, vol. 43, no. 3, p. 458-469