this paper discussed the application of information and communication technology (ict) in pharmaceutical product marketing in nigeria. data for the study was obtained from 76 pharmaceutical firms in southwest nigeria which comprised of about 95% of the pharmaceutical companies that were into manufacturing of drugs in nigeria. the categories of firms surveyed include retail pharmacy, combination...

OBJECTIVE To compare the efficacies of remote symptom-based diagnosis of malaria, rapid diagnostic tests and microscopy in an area of low endemicity in the Philippines. METHODS In Trial I, 350 symptomatic patients were tested within their villages using malaria Plasmodium falciparum (Pf)/Plasmodium vivax (Pv) immunochromatographic tests (ICT tests) and blood films stored and read under local ...

The current study discovers how disabled people and elderly people use Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) in different cultures and how they thought about it. Earlier literature lists several studies about ICT, disabled and elderly people, and little information about two countries Vietnam and Finland. The ICT usage of disabled and elderly people in these two countries may be diff...

Information and communication technologies (ICT) are now part of the fabric of the global economy, however the adoption of ICT in the health sector has been significantly slower. The traditional drivers of adoption in the business sector are not always present in the health sector and there are a number of systemic inhibitors that make the adoption of ICT far more complex. Thi...

ICT has become a key business enabler and a competitive factor for enterprises. Enterprise architecture, developed by ICT consultants and ICT end-user organizations, is emerging as the management tool for intertwined business and IT planning. For managerial decisions, there is a need to evaluate the business value of architecture development results, but only a few models for this have so far b...

As a secondary analysis of the SITES 2006 data, the present paper focused on the exploration of the factors associated with the impact of ICT-use on students’ 21st-century skills as perceived by teachers, in which students’ 21st-century skills included information-handling skills, problem-solving skills, self-directed learning skills, collaborative skills, communication skills, ICT skills, and ...

Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) form an integral part of every economy as they are the leading providers of revenue and employment. However, as the global economy becomes more reliant on Information Communication and Technology (ICT), some SMEs are yet to reap the benefits that ICT has to offer. The low rate of adoption and innovative use of ICT amongst SMEs has become significant research ...

Pulkkinen, Mirja Enterprise Architecture as a Collaboration Tool: Discursive Process for Enterprise Architecture Management, Planning and Development Jyväskylä: University of Jyväskylä, 2008, 130 p. (+ included articles) (Jyväskylä Studies in Computing ISSN 1456-5390; 93) ISBN 978-951-39-3409-5 (PDF), 978-951-39-3378-4 (nid.) Finnish summary Diss. The information and communication technology (I...