the democratic system is applied by three methods; by the representatives of people (indirect or representative democracy); by the people and their representative; and by the people themselves. in the constitution of the countries who accepted the national sovereignty doctrine the people's regime will be only applied by their representatives (like members of parliament, primeminister, the ...

this research investigates factors of enterprise portals of governmental organizations of iran. methods used in this research are literature and descriptive survey. data was gathered by a researcher-made checklist for enterprise portal factors in the enterprise portals of governmental organizations of iran. the checklist contains six factors that are content management, document management, col...

It has been argued and stated that the 21st century is America's Pacific Century, the century or millennium of Asia, and century or era of China, the inevitable superpower. This paper explains the essence of the new changes when the Pivot Policy was announced by President Obama in 2011. The main question discussed is therefore the following: ‘Why (and how) did President Obama adopt (and impleme...

On behalf of the SIM Executive Board and our Chapter Leaders, we are very pleased to have established an alliance with MISQE that provides benefit to our members as well as the IT profession. SIM is a community of thought leaders with a mission to share experiences and rich intellectual capital that can be applied in our profession. This matches very well with the mission of MISQE to provide in...