According to a recent Gartner report, Turkey is among the emerging economies and in the list of top 30 countries for Information Technology (IT), and offshore services. In the last decade, the country has done excellent progress in the software sector which is reflected in the rise of exports to many countries. In this article, we present an overview of the Turkey’s software sector scenario inc...

We present a techno-economic analysis of services deployed over integrated satellite-terrestrial networks which employ an Information-Centric Networking (ICN) architecture. Our methodology provides a systematic procedure to assess the gains of various service integration scenarios, initially identifying the technical capabilities for which ICN can provide advantages and considering the requirem...

We live in an increasingly interconnected world of techno-social systems, in which infrastructures composed of different technological layers are interoperating within the social component that drives their use and development. Examples are provided by the Internet, the World Wide Web, WiFi communication technologies, and transportation and mobility infrastructures. The multiscale nature and co...

This paper argues that our sociological explanations of the historical advent of gender stratification in the Occident has given too much attention to techno-economic causes and too little attention to religious, cultural and ideological causes. Evidence for this claim is taken from archeology, mythology and anthropology for the relevant historical period (4500 and 3000 BC) in Eurasia. I assert...

Techno-Social Pathology of Smart Elementary Schools for Girls in Qom from Teachers’ Perspective*   N. Naderi-Beni, Ph.D.** H. Khanifar, Ph.D.*** A. Ghofraani****    The importance of schooling in shaping the future of the society requires continuous evaluation/surveys and identification of shortcomings, especially in the newly invented smart schools. To engage in such a pathology the Tech...

Cherchant à comprendre les relations entre la technologie et la société, et en particulier l’action de la technique dans l’environnement social et culturel, l’étude des usages humains des technologies d’information et de communication (TIC) constitue selon moi une entrée méthodologique privilégiée. Je cherche en effet à me distancer des discours futurologiques et spéculatifs sur les “impacts” a...

Kamphof offers an illuminating depiction of the technological mediation of morality. Her case serves as the basis for a plea for modesty up and against the somewhat heroic conceptualizations of techno-moral change to date-less logos, less autos, more practice, more relationality. Rather than a displacement of these conceptualizations, I question whether Kamphof's art of living offers only a dif...

A Critical Analysis of Iranian Training Programs forTechno-Vocational Teachers across Time   A. A. Khallaaghi, Ph.D.* A. Navidi, Ph.D.**   The Iranian educational system has been facing, not only a shortage of techno-vocational teachers across all such schools and over the past one hundred years, but inadequacies in the qualities of those who have served in this sector. An analysis of th...

At the dawn of this century, the European Commission launched the Lisbon Strategy, which was revisited in 2010 with the Europe 2020 Strategy for a smart, sustainable and inclusive economy. In order to put the strategy into a more concrete form, the concept of the ‘Knowledge Triangle (KT)’ has been introduced. It links together Research, Education and Innovation and sheds some new light on the I...

* ) This research was supported by the BMFT (Bundesministerium für Forschung und Techno-logie) the Federal Republic of Germany under grant NT 2809 A 3