educational needs assessment of information and communication technology (itc) determines basic and specialized skill needs of human resources in the ict. this study investigated educational needs of information and communication technology (ict) in faculty members of physical education, universities of east azerbaijan province. data were collected usinga researcher-made questionnaire (the reli...

Due to increased awareness of human’s adverse effect on the environment, many new technologies to mitigate the environmental damage are under development. Although innovative, many of these technologies are often developed in isolation and consequently incompatible with each other. From the viewpoint of Systems Engineering, this presents an enormous challenge since compatibility among different...

Information System literature is rich in studies concerning the impact of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) on organizations. This chapter, however, focuses on a specific context: small and medium size enterprises (SMEs). It presents an up-to-date picture of the ICT employed and of the activities ICT support within Italian SMEs. Moreover, it provides results regarding the relatio...

1.1 Objective for establishment Advanced Wireless Communication research Center (AWCC) at The University of Electro-Communications was established in April 2005. This center is a unique academic research center specialized for wireless communication. The objective of this center is “AWCC contributes to the creation of intelligent and flexible communication environments through a study of inform...

Over a period of four years from 2010 to 2014, the UNESCO Institute for Information Technologies in Education (UNESCO IITE) has commissioned from international experts a series of policy briefs that — taken together — provide a comprehensive map of the terrain of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) in education. Covering topics ranging widely from the role of ICT in globalization t...

Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) have merged into the world of healthcare slowly but surely. However, the marriage between the use of technology and its full impact in the health sector has not been fully realised. The focus of this paper is to highlight the impact of ICT on revolutionising access to healthcare information and thus quality of health for populations of the develo...

companies strive to improve market share, grow corporate profit, and gain strategic advantage. in order to achieve these goals, supply chain competency must be placed at the heart of a company’s business model. using e-commerce and information and communication technologies (ict) in today’s changing demands of business has made organizations more responsive and flexible. e-commerce and internet...

Empirical studies on information communication technologies (ICT) typically aggregate the “information” and “communication” components together. We show theoretically and empirically that these have very different effects on the empowerment of employees, and by extension on wage inequality. If managerial hierarchies are devices to acquire and transmit knowledge and information, technologies tha...