Chapter B Methodology

The methodology is a system of methods individuals and organizations use for task solving by transforming them into projects. It is a body of methods, rules, and postulates employed by specific functions in project preparation and implementation stages. Webbook talks about methodologies of tasks that polarize into measurable parameters of content, time, and financial framework of steps relevant to specific projects.

The SPC methodology explains (presents) how a project researcher should carry out his/her project and how to communicate with project stakeholders. The Webbook aims to detail a project researcher's approach to the final product (a work) and how to present its reliable, valid results. The methodology should encompass what Data collect, where from, how the data stock looks, and how data and proposed algorithms will be managed and controlled.

The methodology will respect qualitative and quantitative approaches. Will respect differences between measurable (natural, physical) and less measurable (social, fuzzy) tasks. For example, in sociology, qualitative methods help understand people's perceptions about events or candidates running for political positions relevant to the Self-Powered Community project goals, both on central and local voting levels. In contrast, a quantitative methodology is about corroborative and measurable objectives (when information confirms or is critical to the values of the SPC Utility projects).

The overview below introduces three critical areas of methodologies described in more detail in Chapter C, outlined in Chapters D and E, and Genesis and References of this Webbook.

  1. Philosophy: general approaches to Philosophy are indicated through the historical base by Figure A4a, and more commented in Sections Genesis and References. The methodology touches on the work with the Webbook text by applying dialectics, dialectical and dynamic diagrams, and presenting the idea of a Self-Powered Community (SPC) as an opportunity for both low-incomes and any provinces worldwide. More about this research activities are linked to Genesis and References (e.g., G9: Wall Chart Posters, G10: Infrastructure, and SPC Concept).

  2. New Project Paradigm (NPP): covers the UN SDG (Sustainable Development Goals) and the new technologies, how to build a data link to the set of SED, DRR, and HA projects in specific locations (province) conditions (Figure C1b.2). It follows by the need of the New Project Paradigm development (Figure C5e), by the Project Machine involvement, introduces the relationships between methodologies of project and organization needs (Figure 14 of the author article by G12) and is covered by the Unified Economy inputs into the national (regional) politics (e.g., Figure C10e.2).

  3. The human factors: Target Groups (TG) and Final Beneficiaries (FB), mainly on the local level, and the synergy effect of the global cooperation among TG and FB under the pressure of the SDG and regional (national) interests. It is about understanding and accepting new digital technologies, their impacts, their sustainable development and safety, and the agendas of TG and FB and their surrounding environment.

All three critical areas iterate to goals of paths to Global Digital Transformation (GDT) and Global Human Adaptation (GHA). Generally, this embryo stage of the GDT and GHA processes is about sustainable development and safety via different agendas (policy, legal, social, etc.) on TG and FB education and behavior in their surroundings.

The Open Web book is looking for its methodology, mainly the hierarchy of its content. The most critical is the worldwide understanding of Global Digital Transformation (GDT) and Global Human Adaptation (GHA). The author believes in focusing on the environment of low-income provinces in small steps in less formal settings. Such challenges generate new tasks (e.g., in Figure C10f.3).

For example, what is the nearest environment to the Internet of Things? What methodology of a stock of data, information validation, strategy, and details of marketing instructions, etc., should be prioritized in the current social environment (e.g., Figure C6c.2) on the path from bottom to up? How to manage and control business activities in a mix of the GDT and GHA environment on local levels, and how to protect local business independence and safety (Figure C7i.1)?

Answers to these and other questions are formulated during the works in Chapters C, D, and E and will be summarized in Chapters A and B and confronted in Chapter F (Project Examples). The web reader can find more on the web bar in Genesis, References, and in Chapter C. It is a complex task covering know-how in building, results disseminating, and sustainable rebuilding under new technologies influencers, mainly in the digital transformation in constructing and maintaining the technical infrastructures.

The Open Webbook enters the environment of new technological ideas, know-how, and social mills. Has the ambition to add value to the two parallel directions currently widely discussed: Global Digital Transformation (GDT) and Global Human Adaptation (GHA). Harmony and success of both these directions give the Human population hope to gain self-power to protect and stabilize his/her position in the GT environment (see Figure Ax1). In more detail, the content of the need for the preparation and implementation of projects called for at GDT and GHA is described in Chapter F and Subchapter F2, New Project Paradigm (NPP).