Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) is a catalyst to enhance the level of community empowerment – with this motivation, this paper reports on a research study on “Community Empowerment Through ICTs: Evidence from Grassroots in Bangladesh and India”. The evidence from an early benchmark study from Bangladesh shows that ICT penetration on its own is not proportionately related with c...

ICT use in the classroom is vital for allowing students to learn and apply 21st-century skills. Teachers prepare learning opportunities that help enhance process maximize abilities active learning. Hence, this research examined relationship between a teachers profile competencies. A quantitative descriptive method was used study, questionnaire adopted from National Competency Standard (NICS) Co...

Background: Lack of adherence to cardiovascular therapies prevents the effectiveness of therapeutic interventions. The present study was conducted to determine the role of information and communication technology (ICT) in predicting adherence to treatment in patients with coronary artery disease (CAD). Methods: This was a cross sectional study with a predictive correlational design that was pe...

Advances in information and communication technologies (ICT) should assist with the coordination of “virtual enterprises” – the type of arrangement often formed to execute large-scale engineering and construction projects. However, a range of legal issues is emerging which threaten to reduce the benefits available from such technologies, in particular, the lack of a solid contractual basis to g...

This study was designed to examine the relationship between teachers’ self-efficacy beliefs in using Web 2.0 technologies and their level of proficiency Information Communication Technologies (ICT). The group comprised 336 teachers employed different branches state schools. Within this scope, “ICT Integration Proficiency for Teachers (TIPS)” “Web Practical Content Development Self-Efficacy Beli...

The pervasive presence of the internet and the commonality of mobile devices for communication technology have changed modalities for information exchange. Recent developments in information and communication technology (ICT) have specific implications regarding dissemination of information among youth, as exemplified by the Arab spring. The opportunity of those emerging technologies should be ...

We have witnessed fast development of various information and communication technologies (ICTs) in the first decade of the 21st century. At the same time, there has been a tremendous amount of efforts to provide nonprecedent services to the end users in industrial sectors such as manufacture, transportation, healthcare, and military and other ICT convergence applications and services, all under...

The University of Porto, recognizing the relevance of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) for the overall performance of the institution, is committed to technology leadership for the benefit of the academic community. The Digital University Department is a central department dedicated to ICT, whose mission is to promote and extend the use of ICT to all the activities of the Univer...

the projection of information and communication technology (ict) has begun to have its impact in iran. the benefits gained from ict are widely accepted and the iranian government is encouraging the country for adopting ict practices. e-learning is an important branch of ict which has attracted the attention of many people, especially those in educational and academic sectors. however, e-learnin...