7 8 Abstract. The paper outlines a new interpretation of informational privacy and of its moral value. The main 9 theses defended are: (a) informational privacy is a function of the ontological friction in the infosphere, that is, 10 of the forces that oppose the information flow within the space of information; (b) digital ICTs (information 11 and communication technologies) affect the ontolog...

The purpose of this study is to offer a multi-disciplinary framework to examine the continuing digital participation divide and within-group use variance among millennials. We focus on millennials due to the size of their population segment. We further critically examine assumptions of homogeneous adoption of emerging Information and communication technologies (ICTs) among “digital natives.” We...

OBJECTIVE This work sought to analyze the use of Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) and social networks among the university nursing faculty staff in Spain. METHODOLOGY This was a descriptive, cross-sectional study using a questionnaire on ICT skills designed to comply with the research objective, which was evaluated by experts and which was subjected to exploratory analysis of...

We investigate the strategic association between information and communication technologies (ICTs) and sustainability using empirical data. Our hypothesis is that ICTs can promote a country’s sustainability. In our framework we include the ICT factors of access, quality, affordability, applications, and institutional efficiency & sustainability. Sustainability is represented by individual devel...

This paper discusses the importance of various Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) in learning and disseminating relevant information on livestock husbandry in Tanzania. The paper is part of a study that investigated the extent of use of ICTs by urban and peri-urban livestock keepers and how access and dissemination of livestock information could be improved through use of ICTs. M...

This paper examines the significance of Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) for sustainable development in Africa arising from the fact that ICTs have not been put into the mainstream of development in Africa while analysing the possibilities of mainstreaming the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) into Nigeria’s development agenda by anchoring the study on the technological deter...

In the analysis and debates about the so-called ‘information society’ and its impacts on developing societies throughout the world there is usually an excess of generalities and speculation about the concrete effects that information and communication technologies (ICTs) have on the everyday lives of their people. Frequently, the discussion and analysis are based on very general statistics on t...