While the proportion of people with disabilities in society has been rapidly increasing due to the demographic trends long documented by many researchers, governmental leaders have paid little attention to their needs when planning and implementing Web projects. If this ignorance continues, people with disabilities will be even more disadvantaged since acquiring knowledge is now much easier for...

The United States (U.S.) Department of Education’s Teacher Incentive Fund provides financial support for local school districts, state agencies, and non-governmental agencies to design and implement performance-based compensation systems that reward teachers and leaders who improve student learning. These policies put pressure on data systems and the social systems of supporting organizations t...

these days, promotion of farmers' technical-scientific abilities in agriculture is one of the main challenges in this sector. agricultural extension as a motivate power source in agricultural development can be more effective in solving these problems via acceptance of responsibility in the educational concepts. but it faces numerous obstacles because of absence of a proper informational s...

A central function of government is to protect citizens from harms various hazards. Research on governmental emergency preparedness focuses predominantly management agencies per se but seldom assesses the full range public sector agencies—nor how managers specifically shape agency actions. This study addresses these gaps by investigating perceptions and attitudes administrators in nonemergency ...

This study involves an empirical assessment of the impact of eGovernment technologies in local and state government agencies throughout the State of Texas using the following major constructs: eGov system quality, eGov information quality, eGov system usage, and eGov user satisfaction. An IS success model for these agencies were proposed using the DeLone and McLean framework. The data for valid...

The purpose of this paper is to describe a dynamic theory of the socio-technical processes involved in the definition of an Integration Information problem in New York State (NYS). In April 2003, the Criminal Justice Information Technology (CJIT) group of NYS was tasked with developing a framework to give users of criminal justice data and information systems “one-stop shopping” access to infor...

Are more employees of international non-governmental organisations (INGO) than international staff members of UN agencies and the Red Cross Movement victims of violence? Have the UN and Red Cross organisations shifted the burden of working in highly insecure places to INGOs? Have INGOs transferred the risk of frontline delivery to their national staff? Has this process affected men and women in...

In an emergency situation, relevant information about involved elements is required. This information ranges from demographic data, weather forecasts and sensor data, available transportation means, presence of helpful agents, land use and cover statistics or values, etc. Moreover, the emergency management process is dynamic as it involves several definite steps, described in standard procedure...