Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) have made significant contributions to business innovation and wealth generation for organisations, societies and nations. ICT have also made significant contributions to environmental degradation. Confronted by the necessity to respond to growing environmental concerns in society, regulatory imperatives and market pressure, many business leaders...

Objective: Information and communication technologies (ICT) have great potential for health care. In this study we explore undergraduate psychology students’ perceptions about different specific uses of ICT for health (i.e. online interventions, health information websites, telehealth and online social networks). A total of 113 students answered an online survey designed to gather their percept...

This article provides an international comparative overview of institutional strategies, collaboration patterns and governmental policies related to the use of ICT in higher education. It has been produced as part of an international comparative study on the use of ICT in higher education. It covers the following range of countries: Belgium, Finland, the United Kingdom, Australia and the United...

The paper identifies requirements for an Information and Communication (ICT) platform for the European freight transport sectoran e-Freight Platform. The e-Freight Platform can be used to support integrated multimodal transport and improved interoperability between freight transport and administration systems. The authors illustrate the potential of such platform for enhanced Business to Admini...

ion) or treat ICT as a monolithic sector (high level of abstraction). The studies reviewed all cover ICT impacts on the industry, transport, and building sectors and agree on the relevance of most ICT applications concerning GHG emissions, but some ICT applications such as smart city planning are only treated by one study quantitatively. Other ICT applications such as precision farming are not ...

New Technology in Schools: Is There a Payoff? Despite its high relevance to current policy debates, estimating the causal effect of Information Communication Technology (ICT) investment on educational standards remains fraught with difficulties. In this paper, we exploit a change in the rules governing ICT funding across different school districts of England to devise an instrumental variable s...

a r t i c l e i n f o Keywords: eParticipation eDemocracy Five Star Movement Citizen involvement in politics ICT Social media Information and Communication Technology (ICT) use is becoming an ever more popular way to involve citizens in political decision making. And yet, despite their recently increasing number, few eParticipation initiatives have achieved their intended aims. If nothing else,...

This paper presents and discusses findings from a study where the use of enterprise modeling has been empirically investigated in eight combined process change and information technology initiatives. Artifacts, guidelines and tools used in enterprise modeling practice are identified. We identify three types of barriers to enterprise modeling: Challenges, Resistance and Moderators. We compare th...

Drawing on a three-year project involving 20 secondary schools throughout Europe, this paper analyzes the socioeconomic factors that determine the success or failure of introducing information and communications technology (ICT) infrastructure to schools. While many papers have been written on this topic, this paper definitely benefits from a large project, and is a must read for current or fut...