Learning plays a key role in ageing societies as it can help to address many of the related challenges and opportunities. Opportunities to learn should be given to senior citizens through appropriate local lifelong learning programmes. There is a need to improve research and development on learning tools and approaches designed to meet the different needs of older people. ICT has an important r...

eStart, is an EU-funded project dedicated to the establishment of a Europe-wide network of experts and key stakeholders aimed at providing a communication base for understanding, supporting and promoting Digital Literacy in Primary & Lower Secondary Education across the EU. The first step in this project is the formation of a partnership to negotiate an operative, shared definition of digital l...

As organizations have increasingly invested in information technology (IT), they have looked for an IT workforce not just with technical skills but also with managerial ones. It has thus been paramount for the IT workforce to pursue a balance between two streams the technical and the managerial one. Accordingly, the IT professionals have had difficulties to deal with the increasing technical an...

ithin the knowledge society of the 21st century, industrialised countries perceive a tremendous shift towards global markets where knowledge has become one of the most important assets of modern organisations. This change strongly impacts the nature of work and of workforce itself. The most successful enterprises in this new “world” will be those who recognise the importance of knowledge as a r...

In the recent years, terms like knowledge society, intelligent, learning or knowledge based organizations are used more often. Related to these concepts, many studies underline the fact that organizations should act intelligently by learning and using their knowledge or by being just knowledgebased organizations. The majority of these studies are suffering from being too much philosophical in d...

This paper will draw upon research into the conditions under which New Zealand could become a knowledge society by the HUMANZ Knowledge Policy Research Group. This research exists principally as a report commissioned by the Ministry of Research, Science and Technology, Knowledge, Innovation and Creativity: designing a knowledge society for a small, democratic country . This report argues for th...

This study focuses on the capacity of the Internet for strengthening political activism. The first part summarizes debates about these issues in the previous literature. This study starts from the premise that political activism is a multidimensional phenomenon and that we need to understand how different channels of participation relate to the social and political characteristics of the online...