In the Fall of 2001, after more than two years of planning, the School of Management at the University of Michigan – Dearborn launched its webMBA program. The launch of this program marked the culmination of over three years of research, planning, design, and development. This article reviews many of the key issues involved in developing and launching the webMBA, including decisions made about ...

The development of mobile IT continuously provides new resources of use in the road environment. However, there are problems turning technical options into meaningful applications. This paper presents a method where observation of daily practices to identify users' demands to inform ITS-design. The particular case is bus driving and public transport management, seen from the bus-drivers’ perspe...

Canadian university libraries, Canadian university presses, and non-university scholarly presses at Canadian universities were surveyed in the first part of 2010 as to the level of their support of Open Access (OA) journal publishing. Respondents were asked about journal hosting services in their organization as well as their thoughts on internal and external support for open access publishing....

Businesses face significant obstacles in interacting with public administrations across Europe. On the other hand there is recently a clear trend of governments to deliver electronic services (“e-government”) through integrated, customer -oriented mechanisms (“one-stop government”). However, related efforts both within and outside the European Union – are nationally focused and do not address t...

Most research on Group Support Systems has focused on the study of the effects of features of the technology on processes and outcomes and has conceived of groups as mere collections of individuals (DeSanctis 1993; Kling 1991). However, as GSSs are moving from laboratories to organizational settings, a better understanding of both GSSs and groups is needed (Clapper and Prasad 1993). In this sen...

This article addresses the development of electronic identification (eID) for public e-services and reports from an empirical study of young Swedish university students’ attitudes towards eID. A public e-service at the Swedish Board for Study Support which demanded secure electronic identification was focused. Our findings from three focus groups show that usability and security are two main th...

The Community Preventive Services Task Force recently posted new information on its website: “Diabetes: Interventions Engaging Community Health Workers.” The information is available at https://www.thecommunityguide.org/findings/ diabetes-interventions-engaging-community-health-workers. Established in 1996 by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, the task force is an independent, no...

The main research objective for the VIHO project (Efficient Computer Support in Care for the Elderly) was to investigate how a home care and help service organization can be developed in order to be better prepared for future challenges, and how new technical systems could support the development process. We have studied the home help personnel’s need for support and investigated how the new or...

Biological diversity is known to play an important role in generating and maintaining ecosystem productivity and other functions, and has consequently become a central focus of many efforts to preserve ecosystem services. Theoretical parallels suggest the diversity of fishing fleets may have a similarly important role in determining the productivity and ecological impacts of fisheries, but this...

Although worldwide organic agriculture is constantly gaining ground compared to traditional agriculture, still a number of countries encounter problems mostly related to lack of validated information and knowledge, technical support by specialized agronomists, coordination and organization of the trading network and promoting mechanisms. The appropriate use of Web technologies and mobile comput...