An increasingly aging workforce and advances in technology are changing work environments and structures. The continued employability of older adults, particularly those of lower socioeconomic status (SES), requires them to participate in training programs to ensure their competence in today's workplace. Focus groups with 37 unemployed adults (51-76 years old) were conducted to gather informati...

There is a lack of effective health information management systems in Nigeria due to the prevalence of cumbersome paper-based and disjointed health data management systems. This can make informed healthcare decision making difficult. This study examined the information technology (IT) skills, utilisation and training needs of Nigerian health information management professionals. We deployed a c...

There are new requirements in industry on reduced lead times and increased flexibility to adapt to changes in market situation, and in technology. Information technology has enabled new organisational solutions to co-operation, communication, information management, etc. This paper discusses the implications from this new situation on both contents and organisation of engineering education and ...

saffron is one of the most valuable crops and the world's most expensive spice among the plants that suit the particular climates and latitudes with low water requirements, the strategic importance of high social and economic impacts in many producing countries such as afghanistan, that has this feature in particularly high and a special influence in the international market. due to these reaso...

nowadays all organizations are somehow involved with information technology revolutions and the applicable aspects of information technology are evident in any field of supply chain, from the relationship with suppliers and producers to the relationship with the customers. in other words, the application of information technology is influential in the improvement of the supply chain. in this st...

This paper deals with the main problem of involving information technology in teacher education – structure and contents of teachers’ training courses based on distance learning. In Lithuania, the Standard of computer literacy for educators has been developed. It should be the main source of all teachers’ training courses on information technology. The Standard consists of two parts: technologi...