Summary:
Task 1: Midterm Assessment
The mid-term assessment is an individual case study essay based on a connected enterprise.
Business Situation:
CAPCITY is the capital city of an emerging economy, EMERGE.
The ongoing financial crisis has led to a severe income inequality within the citizens of EMERGE. The mayor of CAPCITY, with an aim of closing this gap and reducing poverty within the city, decides to start a charity campaign.
Joining forces with the CAPCITY ICT team, they create a new e-platform with following characteristics of matchmaking:
· The families in need of primary resources (food, electricity, garments) can add their information to a list. They also submit how much they need to be financed that month, by submitting their unpaid bills. Originality of the bill is detected and approved by the portal’s system.
· The people who would like to help, enter the portal and randomly select one family from the unanimous list of families, with the help of the random selector.
· The platform also provides online secure payment tool. The selected family and their pre-submitted bills are paid by the contributors.
Task: Write a structured essay which incorporates the explanations for the questions below.
· Which type of business model does the portal belong to (with regards to users/contributors)? (5 points)
· Discuss the structure of this case in relevance to Open and Proprietary Platforms. (5 points)
· What features would you add to this portal to transform its model to generate revenue for CAPCITY as well? How would those features work? (5 points)
· Which of these enabling technologies (cloud, www, IoT, big data, AI, ML) might be used for the infrastructure of this portal? Explain why. (5 points)
· Explain at least 3 reasons why CAPCITY is a player of digital smart economy. Explain how the features introduced in the charity platform has reinforced the smart economy with its overall effects in ecosystem and society. (15 points)
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Formalities:
· Wordcount: max 1000 words
· Add Introduction, Conclusion sections to overall structure of your essay You may also use tables and graphics. Use your design talent at max.
· Cover, Table of Contents, References and Appendix are excluded of the total wordcount.
· Font: Arial 10. Single spacing. Text alignment: Justified.
· The in-text References and the Bibliography have to be in Harvard’s citation style.
Submission: Week (6) – Via Moodle (Turnitin). Sunday 6th March 2022. 23:59
Weight:
This task is a 35% of your total grade for this subject.
· It assesses the following learning outcomes:
· Outcome 1: understand the framework and concepts of the digital economy;
· Outcome 2: critically assess the connected enterprise and how ICT impacts its transformation
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Exceptional 90-100 |
Good 80-89 |
Fair 70-79 |
Marginal fail 60-69 |
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Knowledge & Understanding (20%) |
Student demonstrates excellent understanding of key concepts and uses vocabulary in an entirely appropriate manner. |
Student demonstrates good understanding of the task and mentions some relevant concepts and demonstrates use of the relevant vocabulary. |
Student understands the task and provides minimum theory and/or some use of vocabulary. |
Student understands the task and attempts to answer the question but does not mention key concepts or uses minimum amount of relevant vocabulary. |
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Application (30%) |
Student applies fully relevant knowledge from the topics delivered in class. |
Student applies mostly relevant knowledge from the topics delivered in class. |
Student applies some relevant knowledge from the topics delivered in class. Misunderstanding may be evident. |
Student applies little relevant knowledge from the topics delivered in class. Misunderstands are evident. |
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Critical Thinking (30%) |
Student critically assesses in excellent ways, drawing outstanding conclusions from relevant authors, learning materials and project environment. |
Student critically assesses in good ways, drawing conclusions from relevant authors, project and ecosystem with references. |
Student provides some insights but stays on the surface of the topic. References may not be relevant. |
Student makes little or none critical thinking insights, does not provide valid sources. |
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Communication (20%) |
Student communicates their ideas extremely clearly and concisely, respecting word count, grammar and spellcheck |
Student communicates their ideas clearly and concisely, respecting word count, grammar and spellcheck |
Student communicates their ideas with some clarity and concision. It may be slightly over or under the wordcount limit. Some misspelling errors may be evident. |
Student communicates their ideas in a somewhat unclear and unconcise way. Does not reach or does exceed wordcount excessively and misspelling errors are evident. |
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