Mr. Mitra said in a statement posted on the TED Web site that he would use the prize money to build the "School in the Cloud," a learning lab in India, where children can engage with information and mentors online.
PGIS focuses more directly on the ways in which people may engage with information and power dynamics between actors.
A key element in positive symmetrical patient-doctor relationships was that by including patients in treatment decisions, doctors created safe spaces of mutual trust where patients felt empowered to engage with information about their illness and make decisions about their healthcare: I try to participate in my treatment.
The basic idea for the crowdsourced element is to supplement algorithmic search with human-centric content creation and discovery, says Neron. "We provide more than one way to find what you're looking for — allowing you to engage with information that's not just a page of links," he tells TechCrunch.
In other words, even if these new pathways help millions of our economically disenfranchised and disgruntled brothers and sisters join the vibrant American economy, will we find we're all more susceptible to fake news because unable to critically engage with information we find on Facebook?
For example, patients may avoid cancer-related information immediately after diagnosis but engage with information after some time has passed as they start to contemplate a life with cancer (McCaughan and McKenna, 2007).
Uncertainty Management Theory (Barbour et al, 2012) conceptualizes complex information behaviors such as avoidance as a process of interacting with or refraining from engaging with information in order to increase, maintain, or reduce uncertainty about their medical condition.
The key properties of this tool are to enable people to engage with information on their terms, to facilitate the expression of questions and comments, and to address these.
