Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to examine the ways in which governments build social media and information and communication technologies (ICTs) into e-government transparency initiatives, to promote collaboration with members of the public and the ways in members of the public are able to employ the same social media to monitor government activities. Design/methodology/approach – This ...

T last half of the twentieth century was marked by steady advance in the ubiquity of information and communication technologies (ICTs) throughout the industrialized world. The emergence of a significant “digital divide” between industrialized and developing countries is reproducing existing patterns of inequality with regard to these new technologies (Castells, 1996). During this same period, h...

This guest editorial comments on the rapidly changing environment for the use of Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) in African Higher Education Institutions (HEI), introduces the e/merge online conferences and gives a brief introduction to the papers in the special issue.

BACKGROUND The instantaneous spread of information, low costs, and broad availability of information and communication technologies (ICTs) make them an attractive platform for managing care, patient communication, and medical interventions in cancer treatment. There is little information available in Latin America about the level of usage of ICTs for and by cancer patients. Our study attempts t...

This paper examines the constraints that mediate the ability of individuals in developing country contexts to benefit from Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs). We identify social constraints, such as low levels of education and literacy rates, as making it difficult to access ICTs. We outline a potential way to address these constraints with a text free user interface (UI) design ...

This paper outlines the potential for establishing the use of Palm PDAs as core ICTs (Information and Communication Technologies) within tertiary education courses. The potential of Palm devices integrated with a campus wireless network can facilitate the use of elearning tools to enhance tutor-student and student-student communication, collaboration, reflection and critique. Student productivi...

Information Communication Technologies (ICTs) have revolutionised the entire business world. The airline industry in particular has fostered a dependency on technology for their operational and strategic management. Airlines were early adopters of ICTs and have a long history of technological innovation, in comparison to many other travel and tourism businesses. This paper discusses comprehensi...

Two to three years ago, I heard about Industrie 4.0, Industrial Internet, and cyberphysical production systems (CPPS) for the first time. Although there are many general information and communication technologies (ICTs) involved (such as protocols and interoperability on the production machine level), as a computer graphicist, I started to wonder about the role of visual computing (computer gra...

New information and communication technologies (ICTs) such as mobile phones and the Internet are considered important instruments for advancing social and economic development throughout the world. The benefits of ICTs, however, have not been evenly distributed among individuals with different socio-economic status. For example, few studies consider how ICTs affect men and women differently. Th...