The metadata infrastructure of a statistical office should provide different kinds of metadata, serving the needs of different kinds of users. The metadata systems need to be organized in such a way that metadata can be captured and processed in an efficient way, without too much manual work and with efficient computer support. The paper describes on-going efforts at Statistics Sweden to achiev...

The present paper presents a study that seeks the antecedents of inter-agency information sharing systems adoption and the effects of using such systems on the information sharing practice among anti/counter-terrorism and disaster management agencies. Based on traditional IT acceptance theory, social exchange theory, and distributional justice perspective, the study presents a set of potential ...

We adapt game theoretic methods for studying the security of two evoting systems: the Estonian E-Voting System (EstEVS) and Secure Electronic Registration and Voting Experiment (SERVE) performed in the United States of America. While these two systems are quite similar from technical side, security experts have made totally different decisions about their security—EstEVS was indeed used in prac...

The paper investigates augmented reality as a perspective on the design of computer support for process control in a distributed environment. Based on empirical studies of work in a wastewater treatment plant, three technical approaches on augmented reality — augmenting the user; the object of work; and the environment — are examined in terms of a collection of design scenarios .We conclude tha...

Our data analysis suggests that the following factors contribute to the faculty adoption of and satisfaction with the online mode of instruction: improvement in traditional teaching ability through online teaching, higher quality of education that faculty believe online students receive, higher rating of the majority of students’ technical sophistication, and higher number of online courses pre...

The two main reasons cited by the U.S. tech industry for hiring foreign workers­­remedying labor shortages and hiring "the best and the brightest"­­are not supported by the data, even after excluding the Indian IT service firms. Instead, the primary goals of employers in hiring the foreign workers are to reduce labor costs and to obtain "indentured" employees. Current immigration policy is caus...

There is growing interest in providing computer support for an organisation’ s business processes such as customer order processing, product support, stock taking and so forth. Workflow systems are normally used for this purpose to co-ordinate and monitor execution of multiple tasks arranged to form business processes. In this context computer support for work activity co-ordination will be tak...

This paper reports the findings of a study that examines the evolving relationships between the state’s entrepreneurial role and market factors such as business support services, business training and professional development, technological and information support services and SMEs’ development in Vietnam. This study uses an institutional approach to study how the entrepreneurial state influenc...

Here we describe “Innovation and Entrepreneurship in Medicine” (IEMed), a short elective course that exposed medical students to innovation and entrepreneurship. We assess students’ self-rated familiarity with various learning objectives after the course and report survey outcomes. Students were most interested in further educational offerings focused on startups and innovation. However, studen...