Information and Communication Technology (ICT) solutions (e.g. e-health, telemedicine, e-education) are often viewed as vehicles to bridge the digital divide between rural and urban healthcare centres and to resolve shortcomings in the rural health sector. This study focused on factors perceived to influence the uptake and use of ICTs as e-health solutions in selected rural Eastern Cape healthc...

In the context of the skill-biased technological revolution associated with Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs), firms with relatively high (low) proportions of skilled workers can be expected to have a comparative advantage (disadvantage) in minimising the costs both of ICT adoption and of learning how to make best use of ICTs. In this paper we make use of benchmarking survey dat...

In the evolving Information Society (IS), the Information Technology (IT) skills are necessary to harness the power of Information and Communications Technologies (ICTs). The United Nations (UN) estimates that there are about one billion illiterate adults and 2−3 billion technological illiterates in the world. Not surprisingly, a majority of them are from information-poor regions, non-wired soc...

Using an ethnographic approach we sought to understand how the personal aspirations and social landscapes of Ghanaians living in London shaped their use of a constellation of new information and communication technologies (ICTs) such as camcorders, digital cameras, the Internet, and mobile phones. Among the individuals we interviewed we discovered two trajectories of ICT use. One trajectory fit...

The ubiquity of Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) in work settings has changed the way employees behave. ICTs such as smartphones, email and social media makes employees more connected than has ever been possible. The degree of ICT connectivity can create a positive as well as a negative impact on employees’ productivity. In this context, the notion of ICT self-discipline – an i...

Ethical issues of information and communication technologies (ICTs) are important because they can have significant effects on human liberty, happiness, and people’s ability to lead a good life. They are also of functional interest because they can determine whether technologies are used and whether their positive potential can unfold. For these reasons, policy makers are interested in finding ...

It is commonly, often tacitly, assumed that the mutual-intelligibility of natural language dialogue is underwritten by a common semantic code. Ultimately, this assumption is both emprically and conceptually unsustainable and adequate models of dialogue need to provide for ways in which semantic con icts can be addressed. One possiblity for resolving such con icts is by the use of some form of m...

The literature devoted to education has included a variety of claims about the contribution of information and communication technologies (ICTs) to teaching and learning in elementary and secondary schools. Despite the expenditure of significant resources on ICTs, very little is known about their effectiveness and efficacy. This Notebook is the first of two that have been adapted from a full li...

Penetration of information and communication technologies (ICTs) have managed to cover even some of the least developed nations. Mobile phones in particular have experienced phenomenal growth never witnessed before with earlier technological inventions. The internet, information and communication technology (ICT) services and increase in digitized content have led to interest in their role in i...

This article is concerned with the impact of information and communication technologies (ICTs) on Filipina transnational mothers’ experience of motherhood, their practices of mothering and, ultimately, their identities as mothers. Drawing on ethnographic research with Filipina migrants in the UK as part of a wider study of Filipino transnational families, this article observes that, despite the...