This paper presents a design of a Green ICT maturity model that is aimed at maturity assessment of a Green ICT capability in SMEs that figure as users of ICT services. Based on a literature review and internet search, six maturity models in the Green ICT area were detected and further analysed. Since these maturity models do not suit maturity assessment in non-ICT SMEs, a new Green ICT maturity...

Findings – The results show that ICT can be used to eliminate non-value-adding tasks or make them more efficient, thus giving time for knowledge workers’ most important tasks. ICT can also result in improving employee welfare through decreasing dissatisfaction towards ICT systems and through transforming the content of work by deleting unimportant activities. Third, none of the potential ICT-ba...

This study examined the use of ICT for teaching undertaken by two primary school teachers at pre-examination period and at post-examination period. Their perceptions of using ICT for teaching and learning and their ICT experiences were also analysed. The results showed that both teachers improved in ICT integration from Adoption stage to Adaptation stage after examination (when the curriculum i...

In many countries, information and communication technology (ICT) has a clear impact on the development of educational curricula. In Flanders, the education government has identified and defined a framework of ICT competencies for expected outcomes, related to knowledge, skills and attitudes that pupils are expected to achieve at the end of primary school. However, it has never been examined wh...

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Creating a sufficient, sustained supply of tertiary level ICT skills at graduate level to stimulate growth in the developing South African economy is an important concern for all stakeholders involved in the South African ICT labour market. This article furthers the discourse on the much discussed ICT graduate shortage in South Africa by presenting a neoclassical labour market analysis of the d...

BACKGROUND Despite the relatively huge ICT investment and policy deployment in higher institutions in Ethiopia, there is still scant information about the success of implementation of the Information Communication Technology (ICT) in the higher education. This study, therefore, was carried out with an aim to assess knowledge and utilization of Information Communication Technology (ICT) among me...

The overall use and development of ICT in developing countries has been faced with a wide range of constraints and challenges. These constraints may concern culture, infrastructure and education, and involve social, legal, political or economic issues. Numerous problems related to each of these issues have been observed. The problems may include, for example the absence of ICT policies, impleme...