The study was carried out in Anambra State, Nigeria. Questionnaire was used to collect data from a sample of one hundred and eight (108) small-scale farmers. Percentage, mean score, standard deviation and factor analysis were used for data analysis. The duration of the study was June 2009 and March, 2010. Results of the study indicated that the major constraints to effective use of ICTs by smal...

information and communication technologies (icts) are increasingly influencing human beings and are changing our attitudes towards these technologies. the purpose of this article is to understand the factors influencing the use of icts in agricultural extension through a descriptive research method. the populations were 320 individuals of agricultural extension workers (ews) of isfahan province...

In many countries, education is more than a means for enabling progress and avoiding poverty; it is also critical for the development of knowledge societies and knowledge-based economies. It has been suggested that information and communication technologies (ITCs) can play a number of roles in education. Although lessons may be learned from best practices around the world, there is no specific ...

Information and communications technologies (ICTs) in healthcare are often introduced with expectations of higher-quality, more efficient, and safer care. Many fail to meet these expectations. We argue here that the well-documented failures of ICTs in healthcare are partly attributable to the philosophical foundations of much health informatics research. Positivistic assumptions underpinning th...

In a multidatabase system schematic con icts between two objects are usually of inter est only when the objects have some semantic a nity In this paper we try to reconcile the two perspectives We rst de ne the concept of semantic proximity and provide a semantic taxonomy We then enumerate and classify the schematic and data con icts We discuss possible semantic similarities between two objects ...

Despite their prevalence in all areas of economic and social life, information and communication technologies (ICTs), and their implications, continue to be largely ignored by United Kingdom political science. Yet the potential of modern ICTs to profoundly alter political, social and economic relations is extensive. This article is a brief discussion of the main themes and issues that arise fro...

The uses and impacts of information and communications technologies (ICTs), are not smooth, linear or fairy-tale like in dusting society with benefits. In development, adoption, uses and impacts, technologies shape, and are shaped by, social relations and social structures. Generational relations and structures are part of the socio-cultural processes by which ICTs become products, symbols, soc...

Pedro Soto-Acosta is Professor at the Department of Management and Finance, University of Murcia, Murcia, Spain. Juan-Gabriel CegarraNavarro is based at the Department of Business Management, Universidad Politécnica de Cartagena, Cartagena, Spain. Abstract Purpose – The purpose of this special issue is to point out the possibilities of new information and communication technologies (ICTs) for k...