Penetration of information and communication technologies (ICTs) have managed to cover even some of the least developed nations. Mobile phones in particular have experienced phenomenal growth never witnessed before with earlier technological inventions. The internet, information and communication technology (ICT) services and increase in digitized content have led to interest in their role in i...

There is a dearth of literature on the use of Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) in Libyan universities and this paper aims to help address this imbalance by exploring and analyzing how ICTs are used in Libyan universities. Process maps and systems profiling are employed to examine the current and potential uses of ICTs and a new model for assessing ICT utilization in Libyan univ...

Past breakthroughs in communication technology—the invention of the printing press and the telegraph—led to major economic upheavals. What are the implications of the more recent information and communication technologies (ICTs) for the developing world? Optimists believe that modern ICTs will allow developing countries to catch up with the developed world, while pessimists claim that the growi...

The objective of this study is to understand why e-government projects are initiated at the first place. I define an e-government project as an effort by a government agency by itself or by partnership with other government agencies, private firms and/or civil societal organizations to use information and communication technologies (hereafter ICTs; they are technologies that capture, transmit a...

This paper aims to theoretically discuss why the ‘post-modern’ professionals are emerging from the ‘modern’ professionalism in the second half of the twentieth century, and how their domestication of information and communication technologies (ICTs), particularly mobile and wireless technologies, potentially shapes and is shaped by the emerging professionals’ work practices. For this discussion...

The paper creates the chaotic soybeans production growth model. This model includes in-vestment in ICTs agriculture. Further, discovers a sequence of Elliot waves soyabeans market China period 1991–2015. Investment information and communication technologies (ICTs) agriculture improved both productivity soybean stability. stable convergent fluctuations existed observed period.

With the use of modern information and communication technologies (ICTs), farmers in developing and transition countries can overcome non-market information asymmetries and increase farm productivity. Which kind of ICT is most effective is still uncertain. This study aims at investigating the impact of different kinds of ICTs on farmer’s performance by using survey data collected from raspberry...