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This chapter examines the Casa Liken platform as a political statement and sanctuary for women, transgender and non-binary individuals, focusing on preserving and defending their intimacies in a digital space. Casa Liken emerges as a counter-narrative to mainstream digital platforms by prioritising the needs of bodies made vulnerable owing to their menstruation-related experiences and identities. The text discusses the foundation of Casa Liken on principles of social justice and inclusivity, distinguishing it through its unique ‘Oxytocin Design’ aimed at fostering authentic connections, non-competitive interactions and a supportive community environment, and through ‘Accompanied Moderation’, which aims to create dialogue. By creating a refuge away from mainstream and Alt Right platforms' hostility, Casa Liken addresses the mental health of its users as a consequential benefit, rather than its primary objective. This approach reflects a broader political stance on the role of digital spaces in society, advocating for a model that respects and protects the privacy, safety and dignity of women, trans and non-binary groups. The platform's governance, content moderation and user safety policies are analysed, highlighting how Casa Liken operationalises its commitment to freedom, equality and security. This case study contributes to the discourse on digital ethics, platform governance and the potential of technology to support marginalised communities' rights and well-being in a manifestation of a Social Justice Approach.

This paper aims to understand the characteristics and contributions of the secure and trustworthy cyberspace (SaTC) projects funded by the U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF). These research projects were funded during the period of 2015–2023.

The authors applied a data analytics approach to proposal records of 1,025 NSF SaTC projects. These records were downloaded from the NSF proposal database via its search function. The analysis includes bibliometric analysis, shallow natural language processing and manual content analysis.

About 11 NSF divisions or units have sponsored SaTC research. About 214 universities or organizations in 44 states received SaTC funds. The key concepts of these projects include adversarial attacks, cryptography, cloud computing, internet of things, differential privacy, mobile devices and others. These projects were motivated by a lack of understanding or investigation of one or more technologies in the cybersecurity domain or the inefficacy of existing tools or algorithms. The objectives of these proposals included providing new insights and developing new tools, methods, frameworks, training courses and organizing workshops with support for workshop attendees. Among the funded projects, 60.82% proposed providing educational materials that would be beneficial to K-12 students, college students and the public.

The present data range from 2015 to May 2023. New projects awarded after May 2023 were not included.

The findings provide rich and useful information for the funding agency, SaTC researchers and students. The funding agency may want to review their funding focus and fund distributions; SaTC researchers could refer to the topics and the objectives discussed in funded proposals when developing their new projects; and students at all levels could refer to SaTC topics, participating researchers and institutions for their learning.

This study is the first attempt, to the best of the authors’ knowledge, to analyze NSF SaTC projects. The analysis benefits researchers and students to gain an understanding of NSF-funded projects and insights into secure and trustworthy cyberspace areas.

This paper explores the Entrepreneurial Well-Being (EWB) of expatriate entrepreneurs in China. Through the analysis of their contextualised lived experience across the entrepreneurial journey, the paper proposes a novel theorisation of EWB.

This study adopts an interpretivist approach of abductive reasoning to analyse the data from 50 in-depth interviews conducted with expatriate entrepreneurs in China. Expatriate entrepreneurs are confronted with enhanced challenges in their host country, leading to particular emotional engagement with the entrepreneurial journey.

Findings show the importance of life situations, emotions and relatedness in the entrepreneurial process and the EWB of expatriate entrepreneurs. Theorising from their lived experiences, the paper presents EWB as a dynamic process. It further theorises this process as a constant, ongoing interaction and integration between the self and world, in an interplay of being and becoming. Such theorisation contributes first to advancements in the EWB literature, with a stronger emphasis on the entrepreneurial aspect. The paper also contributes to discussions on contextualised entrepreneurship by stressing the role of emotions and relatedness in the pursuit of EWB.

Entrepreneurship is a global phenomenon, which is often presented as a suitable alternative career path for migrant and expatriate individuals. However, the importance of EWB for entrepreneurs requires further attention from policy-makers, support institutions and entrepreneurs themselves. By theorising EWB as a processual journey of being and becoming and the relation between the self and world, this paper opens avenues for innovative support policies and practices aiming at developing the full potential of individuals in entrepreneurship and promoting both the happiness index and the global index of society.