Despite the increasing use of information and communications technology (ICT) by enterprises engaged in industrial heritage, academic community lacks sufficient understanding how ICT enables sustainable development heritage. This article fills this gap analyzing application Taoxichuan Ceramic Art Avenue (the Company) to promote its organizational innovation achieve To start with, authors concep...

Transparency is a term common to distributed computing, communications studies and other fields that information science draws upon. It’s everyday uses and connotations are carried over into these domains, coalescing around some common issues relevant to knowledge management. Transparency is also a common term in political theory and practice, and one that has been associated with teledemocracy...

Integrating Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) into a centralized education system such as Turkey’s depends on its successful design and application, which is an expensive and complex process. The aim of this study was to identify the issues related to integrating computer technologies into a centralized education system. Data were collected from seventeen school principals, fifte...

e-governance can make governance more efficient and more effective by improving governmental process (e-administration), connecting citizens (e-citizens & eservices) and building external interactions (e-society). E-citizens e-services and esociety are relatively new inclusions within the e-governance as they rely on the new information and communication technologies (ICT). This paper analyzes ...

Extending a literature review, the paper gives an overview of inhibiting and facilitating factors associated with the use of information and communications technology (ICT) of older adults. The paper takes the position that there is no prototypical “elderly user” but that there is a wide heterogeneity of personal characteristics such as cognitive and motivational states and experiences in old a...

In this study we investigate three of ICT labour market’s main components, directly related to the vocational directions of enterprises and the jobs exercised by the individuals. The elements of analysis, namely “occupation areas”, “specialization sectors” and “professions”, are initially theoretically determined. A new selection methodology is introduced and implemented for the Greek ICT labou...

This study describes the TPACK-Developing Instructional Model which prescribes an instructional process for developing pre-service teachers’ Technological Pedagogical Content Knowledge (TPACK) during the instruction of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) tools. This model proposes three phases for developing teachers’ TPACK through ICT instruction. The phases are: fostering teachers’...

Communication processes are pervasive in the daily practice of health professionals. Reorganizing these daily practices by introducing ICT, inevitably effects one or more communication processes. Understanding exactly what these effects are, is a major problem in designing and implementing ICT-applications. In this paper we present an analysis of these effects, based on a theory of communicatio...

Three distinct clusters were identified from a survey study of a sample of 127 unit coordinators from a regional Australian University. The clusters emerged after a survey that explored perceptions of pedagogical practices that incorporated the use of Information Communication and Technology (ICT). The key components of the survey were based on seven constructs derived from the Technological Pe...

This article presents research studies regarding the definition of the genesis and determinants of ICT development in the context of behavioural, humanistic and cognitive theories of education. It explains the phenomena which are connected with their application in didactic processes. The research methodology used is based on the review of literature of the subject and some studies performed pr...