With the advent of new information and communication technologies (ICTs), e-government has been one of the important innovations that have greatly reshaped public administration since last decade. Owing to the belief that the ICTs can significantly improve the efficiency and effectiveness of public services, e-government has brought many new issues, models, debates, and theories into public adm...

The Chinese higher education system is the largest in the world, but distance education, using information communication technologies (ICTs), started later than in developed countries. In this paper, the author examines the benefits of education to human development and provides an overview of the recent development of distance higher education in China. The potential for further developing dis...

Abstract The purpose of this study is to investigate how a regional knowledge base information and communication technologies (ICTs) influences the emergence artificial intelligence (AI) in European regions. Relying on patent data studying production AI 233 regions period from 1994 2017, our reveals three results. First, ICTs are major source technologies, their importance has been increasing o...

Affordances of information communication technology (ICT) are often thought to influence communicators‟ usage of a communication technology. This is not surprising since ICTs vary on different dimensions; some ICTs may impose constraints while others afford certain resources. Despite the widespread usage of ICTs in the workplace, we are still not clear about how affordances of ICTs support comm...

The exponential growth, variety, and sophistication of the information communication technologies (ICTs) plus their growing accessibility are transforming how clinical practitioners, patients, and their families can work together. Social technologies are the ICTs tools that augment the ability of people to communicate and collaborate despite obstacles of geography and time. There is still littl...

The Everyday Technologies for Alzheimer's Care (ETAC) initiative was launched by the Alzheimer's Association and Intel Corporation in 2003 to identify and fund promising research in the use of technology--especially information and communication technologies (ICTs)--for monitoring, diagnosing, and treating Alzheimer's disease (AD). Agilent Technologies joined the initiative in 2005. In October ...

In this paper, we present a study, which revolves around the importance of Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) at people with Intellectual Impairments. The goal study was to unveil how disabilities, such as Mental Retardation Syndrome Down could use ICTs in order enhance facilitate their teaching, learning everyday lifestyle. will be potentially tool towards overcoming difficultie...