Most large enterprises are facing numerous challenges concerning their information systems, IS, and information and communication technology, ICT. Today, many enterprises employ a considerable number of applications that often have redundant functionality. There is also a large diversification in the ICT products and technologies employed. Further, integration costs are a major issue in almost ...

BACKGROUND The aging of the population is an inexorable change that challenges governments and societies in every developed country. Based on clinical and empirical data, social isolation is found to be prevalent among elderly people, and it has negative consequences on the elderly's psychological and physical health. Targeting social isolation has become a focus area for policy and practice. E...

The increasing dependence of human beings on technology has not only made ICT a growing power consumer, but also a rising contributor to the adverse effects of global climate change. In light of the growing power consumption by ICT, accurate measurement techniques are required since leaders cannot manage what cannot be measured. One of the emerging power measurement techniques is via the use of...

CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK This special issue addresses the questions: What is the role and impact of Information and Communications Technology (ICT) on the process of internationalization in higher education? How is this internationalization process related to general models of change that are in motion? In particular, the articles in this special issue explore how the use of ICT influences the futu...

ICT is deeply implicated in the shaping of the contemporary global socioeconomic conditions. Research in the information systems field is often confronted with emerging new opportunities, risks and dilemmas at the work place, the business firm or the government, as well as the economy and society at large. Such changes are the object of study in the social sciences and we have a lot to learn fr...

This paper discusses the human dimension in a ‘security chain’ within information systems and networks. This dimension is often overlooked at different stages and levels of ICT development and implementation. An example of this omission could happen at the stages of design and implementation of various ICT systems or strategies and policy formulation concerning ICT use; at the level of an organ...

Internet and Communication Technology (ICT) tools have been already introduced in every aspect of environmental science. Regarding climate change, research trends developments on ICT help realize how evolved its potential future role change. This study aimed to assess solutions change using the Scopus database, bibliometric indicators, network visualization. After a preliminary application vari...

Information and Communication Technology (ICT) is today seen as a catalyst for change in the way work is carried out. Over the past decade there have been a number of studies examining both the decisionmaking behind ICT adoption (the driving forces for adoption) as well as the perceived benefits from that adoption. However, no studies have attempted to determine, or indeed map whether emphasis ...

Information and Communication Technology devices such as computers, Internet and cell phones are rapidly penetrating into many homes in Nigeria. Social critics have argued whether these devices result in either positive or negative change in the lives of families. The researchers examined the literature about family use of ICT and also looked at how these technologies affect families' social ne...