One of the most persistent criticisms of open markets and free trade is that they increase the gap between developed and developing countries. The rapid emergence of the internet economy is giving this argument new impetus and is increasing focus on the digital divide and e-development to reduce the gap between “information rich” and “information poor” countries. Information and Communication T...

ICT security incidents are frequent and prevalent. They not only pose threats to the integrity and operation of the critical infrastructures of modern society, but also tend to cause enormous damage to the public economy. In addition, ICT security management can be very costly, while the success of security technologies and strategies often remains uncertain. From the economic perspective, this...

T paper examines the effects of information and communication technology (ICT) service innovation and its complementary strategies on brand equity and customer loyalty toward ICT service providers. We draw from research on brand equity and customer loyalty, ICT innovation management, and strategy complementarity to propose a model that includes new constructs representing ICT service innovation...

This article provides an international comparative overview of institutional strategies, collaboration patterns and governmental policies related to the use of ICT in higher education. It has been produced as part of an international comparative study on the use of ICT in higher education. It covers the following range of countries: Belgium, Finland, the United Kingdom, Australia and the United...

Awareness of stakeholder interactions and sustainable development (SD) issues in the management of information and communication technologies (ICT), forces companies to adopt the concepts of Green IT and corporate social responsibility (CSR) to meet the challenges of agility and innovation, also to create differentiation in governance processes and strategic alignment of ICT. In this paper, we ...

The awareness of the Sustainable Development (SD) issues and stakeholder interactions in the field of information and communication technologies (ICT) management, forces companies to adopt the concepts of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) and Green IT to meet the challenges of innovation agility, and afterwards to create differentiation in the processes of governance and strategic alignment...

This paper examines how secondary teachers of the core subjects of English, Mathematics and Science have begun to integrate information and communication technology (ICT) into mainstream classroom practice in English schools. It draws on an analysis of 18 focus group interviews with core subject departments. The analysis culminated in a thematic model of professional thinking about how the inte...

This paper describes how the use of Information and Communications Technology (ICT) can be an important factor in impression-management strategies in a public organization. It is often easier to obtain information with the help of ICT than by using other ways of collecting knowledge about an activity. The anonymous output, often at high aggregated levels, is in focus, not the quality of the inp...

The ongoing, unprecedented growth of ICT, coupled with the globalisation of the economy, has created a huge challenge for education. This rapid growth of infusing ICT in education is confronting stakeholders with the effectiveness and the impact of these technological applications. This paper explores the impact of ICT implementation on Hong Kong classroom practice since the inception of the go...

Given the importance of human resource development in defining the competitiveness of economies in the globalisation era, the paper evaluates the performance of the Caribbean in the education sector vis-à-vis several comparator countries – the Newly Industrialised Economies of East Asia (Hong Kong, Taiwan, Singapore, South Korea); the New Tigers (Thailand, Malaysia, Philippines, Indonesia) and ...