Congress supports technology centres

Announcement of “2nd International Congress on Food Science and Technology”

Digitally Democratizing Congress? Technology and Political Accountability

INTRODUCTION ............................................................................................... 641 I. THE FLAWED ACCOUNTABILITY AXIOM ............................................. 643 A. Accountability Deficit .................................................................. 643 B. Asymmetries in Accountability .................................................... 647 II. THE INTE...

Power Electronics Technology that Supports Smart Grid

† Fuji Electric Co., Ltd following a parallel off (2) Isolated operation detection function An isolated operation detection function is essential for connecting to a power system. Isolated operation is the state in which an isolated system that has been disconnected from the power system is supplied with electricity from the output of a distributed power source only. In the isolated operating s...

Measuring information technology investment among Canadian academic health sciences centres.

Many recent studies have attempted to accurately measure the expenditure by hospitals in the area of new information technology (IT), for example see Leonard 1998 and Pink et al. 2001. This is usually done as an exercise to compare the healthcare sector with other industries that have had much more success in implementing and leveraging their IT investment (Willcocks 1992; Chan 2000). It is nor...

Community Technology Centres: a Proposed Framework for Sustainability

The effectiveness of Community Technology Centres (CTCs) in meeting many of the challenges presented by the digital divide invites a closer scrutiny of factors that contribute to their sustainability. The success of CTCs appears to be related to the way in which these initiatives are able to respond to the multifaceted nature of the digital divide problem. However, more systematic approaches ar...