Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) is a catalyst to enhance the level of community empowerment – with this motivation, this paper reports on a research study on “Community Empowerment Through ICTs: Evidence from Grassroots in Bangladesh and India”. The evidence from an early benchmark study from Bangladesh shows that ICT penetration on its own is not proportionately related with c...

76 Published by the IEEE Computer Society 1089-7801/10/$26.00 © 2010 IEEE IEEE INTERNET COMPUTING I nformation and communication technology (ICT) is a crucial driver behind innovations in Internet computing and drives economic growth and citizens’ quality of life.1,2 In fact, ICT has accounted for 25 percent of US economic growth since 1995, despite constituting just 3 percent of US GDP (www.na...

With the advent of ICT, many countries have incorporated more technological tools in their educational system. Some research has suggested that using ICT in instruction enables students to take a more active role in their learning rather than their more traditional role of passive observer and listener. However, other research shows that changes in classroom practices will not occur simply beca...

Education policy documents in many countries have placed emphases on promoting the use of ICT in teaching and learning, often in conjunction with curriculum reform initiatives that aim to enhance the development of 21st century skills such as collaborative inquiry and collaboration. Is there evidence that ICT-use actually contributes to the development of 21st century skills? Does the pedagogic...

This article analyses the field of research on information and communication technology (ICT) in education. It reviews the results of ICT researches carried out in the world. First, the article presents the retrospective of researches on ICT implementation into education. Summarizing them, it reviews main research findings in five areas of ICT implementation: 1) the impact of ICT use on student...

OBJECTIVES To assess the frequency of hyperthermia in a population of acute neurosurgical patients; to assess the relation between brain temperature (ICT) and core temperature (Tc); to investigate the effect of changes in brain temperature on intracranial pressure (ICP). METHODS The study involved 20 patients (10 severe head injury, eight subarachnoid haemorrhage, two neoplasms) with median G...