ICT Critical Infrastructures and Society: Introduction to the HCC10 Conference Proceedings

Organization of Gatekeeping and Mental Framework in the System of Representation and Hierarchical Relational Structures of the Modern Society

Critical discourse analysis as a type of social practice reveals how linguistic choices enable speakers to manipulate the realizations of agency and power in the representation of action.The present study examines the relationship between language and ideology and explores how such a relationship is represented in the analysis of spoken text and to show how declarative knowledge, beliefs, attit...

Society - Totally Dependent Upon ICT? Introduction to the CIP-2010 Conference Proceedings

At the 50 th anniversary of the formation of the International Federation for Information Processing the simple fact that national economies and international commerce alike have become totally dependent upon the reliable and secure operation of national and global information infrastructures has been accepted. Moreover, the realization that societies are moving towards so-called " digital econ...

Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Science and Social Research (CSSR)(Malaysia)

Proceedings of the First MEFOMP International Conference of Medical Physics: November 2-4, 2011, Shiraz, Iran

Building ICT Critical Infrastructures for Trade Regulations: Implications from a National Initiative in Mexico

New information and communication technologies (ICT) promise an era of remarkable changes for society. In this paper, I propose to reflect on the processes underlying a national ICT initiative in Mexico aimed at improving foreign trade regulation – the Single Window for Foreign Trade. The case offers an example of the complexities of building ICT critical infrastructures in a given context. Usi...