• Journal of Digital Convergence
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• v.10 no.6
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• pp.349-359
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• 2012

There is growing recognition that individuals with mental retardation are particularly vulnerable to sexual abuse due to multiple factors including life-long dependence on adults for care, trained compliance, social isolation, lack of education about sexuality and sexual abuse, and a societal view that devalues people with disabilities. Teaching about sexual abuse only may raise an individual's anxiety without promoting a healthy sexual identity. For many individuals with mental retardation, the provision of formal sexual health education and sexual abuse prevention training has been shown to be protective against exploitation as well as increase appropriate sexual behavior. To maximize the reach of formal sexual health education and abuse prevention promotion effort, this article suggest exploiting the internet and digital contents as delivery vehicles that have uniquely suitable communication characteristics and outstanding ability to reach large numbers of persons with mental retardation. We review the sexual health education programs, utilizing the internet and digital contents, for individuals with mental retardation. We also suggest the revised version of the Information-Motivation-Behavioral Skills (IMB) model of health behaviour change (Fisher & Fisher, 1992), and give a brief discussion of how useful this model is for constructing a life-long sex education program for persons with mental retardation.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.21 no.2
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• pp.435-442
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• 2017

Our anxiousness has risen for recent increase in unpredicatable disaster. Accordingly, for the future society's preventing measure in advance against current considerable disasters due to societal crisis, we need to prepare secure measure ahead. Hence, we need to recognize the significance of governmental role and the value of Big Data application as ICT developed country in order to manage social crisis all the time. This manuscript analyzes human anxiety from listed disasters and describes that our government seeks new way to utilize Big Data in public in order to visualize Big Data related issues and its significance and urgency. Also, it suggests domestic/international application trend of Big Data's public sector with new practical approach to Big Data. Then, it emphasizes e-Gov's role for its Big Data application and suggests policies implying governmental use of Big Data for social crisis management by case-studying disaster measures against unpredictable crisis.