Munksøgård is a housing community near the city of Roskilde, Denmark. In 2014, Munksøgård's residents have agreed to change the existing heat supply system. The choice of future heat supply was narrowed to heat pumps, new biomass boiler and connection to nearby district heating network. The present paper compares results from techno-economic energy system analysis, simple private-economic analy...

Our interest in the techno-mathematical literacies employees need in their jobs has led us to do case studies in different industrial sectors and to design learning opportunities for improving employees’ techno-mathematical literacies. We conceptualise the learning opportunities not as training or transfer, but as forms of ‘boundary crossing’ between employees from a company and us as researche...

This paper examines the way in which ‘authority’ and ‘authoritarianism’ have been confl ated in contemporary philosophical thought. More specifi cally, it will show how the psycho-social critique of political authority developed by the Frankfurt School in the 1930s established a paradigm for the critique of political authority as ‘authoritarian irrationalism’. The paper goes on to explore the l...

This study explores awareness and visitation of e-government websites among techno-disadvantaged citizens in the United States. Following up on on a community-based initiative, designed to stimulate computer literacy and access to information and communication technologies for residents and neighbors of an underserved public housing community, a survey of egovernment website awareness and visit...

Techno-economical studies in telecommunication networks are important and quite complicated topics. One of the major challenges is to estimate the investment in new or additional network equipment to consider a new service, or to compare two technologies in the same or different frequency band. In order to carry out this kind of analysis, a nationwide network design and dimensioning study has t...

The paper uses grounded theory to analyse the discourse on Indigenous Knowledge Systems within the South African government. Within this discourse, ICT is perceived both as a threat to African identity, through its potential facilitation of homogenisation and a potential ally, through its perceived potential to assist in the recording and dissemination of indigenous knowledge. The institutional...

The article deals with the problems of technostress in implementation digital technologies. main types techno-stresses when using technologies (techno-overload, techno-anxiety, techno-invasion, techno-complexity, techno-uncertainty) are identified and their causes revealed. It is shown that intensive work tools accompanied by a number undesirable consequences (cognitive overload, emotional dist...

Drawing on the work system misfit model, present research developed and tested a model consisting of three technology characteristics (usefulness, presenteeism, responsiveness) as antecedents, five techno-stressors (techno-overload, techno-complexity, techno-uncertainty, techno-invasion, techno-insecurity) mediators, psychological strain an outcome. A web-based survey questionnaire was utilized...

The way young people learn has altered due to mobile device use. Children readily use a smartphone or tablet PC obtain information, regardless of age location. According studies, adopting technology for learning enables children take charge their education, engage in more active social interactions, access resources, increase research analysis abilities, and think critically solve problems effi...