The higher resources needed to provide a service portfolio that responds to the rapid growth of an ageing population is a concern for many governments in the developed countries. The paper explores the convergent insights of three conceptual frameworks to identify where age-aware eGovernment is more likely to be developed effectively. The paper shows how the social and relational capital of the...

Mit dem Wolfgang-Heilmann-Preis für humane Nutzung der Informationstechnologie werden seit Jahren herausragende Leistungen gewürdigt, die eine humane Nutzung der Informationstechnologie in unterschiedlichen Zusammenhängen nachweisen. Der Wolfgang-Heilmann-Preis 2013/2014 steht unter dem Motto „Privatheit in der E-Society“. Liebe Preisträger, Meine Damen und Herren, auf dem Programm steht jetzt ...

In this paper, we forecast the future carbon footprint of the Information and Communication Technology (ICT) and Entertainment and Media (E&M) sectors in the year 2020 including the ICT and E&M related impact from a networked society, i.e. a society where both people and things are connected and communicate with each other. We also discuss sector boundaries, the full impact from the networked s...

Authors G. Höffken1,2, J. Lorenz2, W. Kern3, T. Welte2,4, T. Bauer1,2, K. Dalhoff2, E. Dietrich1, S. Ewig1,2, P. Gastmeier1, B. Grabein1, E. Halle1, M. Kolditz2, R. Marre3,4, H. Sitter5 Institutions 1 for the Paul-Ehrlich-Society of Chemotherapy 2 for the German Respiratory Diseases Society 3 for the German Infectious Diseases Society 4 for the competence network CAPNETZ 5 for the Arbeitsgemein...

— The electronic government involves developing the informational society, which refers to an economy and a society in which the access, acquisition, memorizing, taking, transmitting, spreading and using the knowledge accede to a decisive role. The informational society involves changes in the domains of administration (e-Government), business (electronic commerce and e-business), education (lo...

Two important obstacles averting the widespread adoption of knowledge society and e-government technologies in communities are distrust in their reliability and fear of the costs to be incurred. In order to overcome these obstacles, algorithmic advances are required that improve reliability of information systems without increasing their cost. In this paper a new approach to increase the reliab...

2009;54;2102-2128; originally published online Nov 2, 2009; J. Am. Coll. Cardiol. Kersten, John F. Robb, and R. James Valentine Fleisher, William K. Freeman, James B. Froehlich, Edward K. Kasper, Judy R. Fleischmann, Joshua A. Beckman, Christopher E. Buller, Hugh Calkins, Lee A. Society for Vascular Medicine, Society for Vascular Surgery, Kirsten E. Anesthesiologists, Society for Cardiovascular...

Executive Summary Universities face two important challenges in educating the IT workers of tomorrow. First, aside from occasional economic downturns, the number of graduates in programs such as computer science and management information systems has been inadequate to meet worldwide industry demand. Second, teaching methods have been slow to evolve to meet the needs of students and employers i...

The menace of organised crime and terrorist activity grows ever more sophisticated as the ability to enter, control and destroy our electronic and security systems grows at an equivalent rate. Cyber-crime (organised criminal acts using microchip and software manipulation) is the world’s biggest growth industry and is now costing an estimated $220 billion loss to organisations and individuals, e...