Paris is not enough: Toward an Information Technology (IT) enabled transnational climate policy

Climate change policy: IPCC consensus is not enough.

Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) consensual scientific knowledge on climate change and its effects is to some extent the known truth, but not necessarily the entire truth. Consensual scientific knowledge is only a minimum common denominator for thousands of scientists of different disciplines and thousands of studies that, due to their multiplicity, heterogeneity, and complexity...

Information Technology Enabled Organizational Transformation: Toward an Integrative Theoretical Framework

Information Technology enabled Organizational Transformation (ITOT) persists as an important issue for researchers and practitioner of information systems. Although the usage variety is interesting and potentially significant, the discourse surrounding OT remains poorly explicated in terms of both meaning and relationship with other related concepts. Several models have been developed in the li...

Tackling HIV in MENA: Talk Is Not Enough–It Is Time for Bold Actions: A Response to Recent Commentaries

When There Is Not Enough Evidence and When Evidence Is Not Enough: An Australian Indigenous Smoking Policy Study

BACKGROUND The Indigenous Tobacco Control Initiative and Tackling Indigenous Smoking Measure were both announced by the Australian Government at a time when its rhetoric around the importance of evidence-based policy making was strong. This article will (1) examine how the Rudd Government used evidence in Indigenous tobacco control policy making and (2) explore the facilitators of and barriers ...

Strategic Cost-Cutting in Information Technology: toward a Framework for Enhancing the Business Value of IT

The increasing dependency of many businesses with information technology (IT)and the high percentage of the IT investment in all invested capital in businessenvironment ask for more attention to this important driver of business. Thelimitation of capital budget forces the managers to look for more wise investment inIT. There are many cost-cutting techniques in the literature and each of them ha...