In the past few decades, there has been a lineal relationship between technology and developmentthe belief that availability of technology would produce development. This is evident in the advancements in Information and Communication Technologies (ICT), together with their rapid application in all spheres of mankind’s life that have led many to call our society ‘the information society’. It ha...

Risk control plays an important role at privacy protection. Article 17 (1) of the Directive 95/46/EC (DPD) requires that the controller must implement appropriate technical and organizational measures to protect personal data. ICT offers solutions in the shape of privacy protection for users, consumers and citizens. The application of ICT to protect privacy has become widely known under the nam...

This paper discusses the application of Total Quality Management (TQM) in Jordanian Information and Communications Technology (ICT) sector. Utilising a methodology based upon questionnaires and semi-structure interviews, investigation of Jordanian ICT organisations and their significant stakeholders has revealed that although they have endeavoured to put into practice the strategies, tools and ...

The paper describes the production planning model of the whole supply chain and the ICT (Information and Communication Technology) pilot implementation in the experience of Aprilia, the famous Italian motorcycle firm. The management model is based on a master production plan with increasing details and on a capacity requirements planning of the critical suppliers. An innovative ICT solution, ba...

This paper distinguishes between the business domain, the application software domain, and the Information and Communication Technology (ICT) platform domain. It analyses historical developments in each of these three domains and shows that they experienced parallel development. The parallelism can be explained by mutual influence and alignment. Innovation in one domain may enable or drive deve...

Today's society sees Information and Communications Technology (ICT) almost exclusively via useful application software, with little understanding of "what goes on behind the screen". This has resulted in many highschools abandoning introductory programming in favor of teaching application skills. We argue that schools of general education should emphasize fundamental, timeless concepts underly...

Despite the speedy evolution of Information and Computer Technology (ICT), and the growing recognition of the importance of the concept of universal design in all domains of daily living, mainstream ICT-based product designers and developers still work without any truly structured tools, guidance or support to effectively adapt their products and services to users' real needs. This paper presen...

A conceptual model for Information Communication Technology (ICT) adoption by Small Medium Enterprises (SMEs) is proposed. The research uses several ICT adoption models as its basis with theoretical underpinning provided by the Diffusion of Innovation theory and the Technology Acceptance Model (TAM). Taking an exploratory research approach the model was investigated amongst 200 SMEs whose core ...

This paper explores the tensions between analyzing IT-related change requirements to support knowledgeas-thing versus knowledge-as-process. We explore these tensions in the high-risk decision-making environment of an Immigration and Naturalization Service agency. The study combines competitive intelligence risk-analysis methods with an ethnographic analysis of knowledge-flows, to determine how ...

Information and communication technologies (ICT) are present in almost all fields of human activity. The expansion of their use should be balanced by the results of the studies on the negative effects on the environment. The relationship between these technologies and the environment is relatively new. The application of environmental criteria is commonly referred to as green ICT or green compu...