The Information Communication Technology has improved the quality of services being provided by organizations beyond proportions. Another most distinguishing characteristic of ICT is the storage, retrieval, processing as well as the communication of Data. However development of Information System is always associated with many problems and issues. In fact resistance to change is a universally a...

Increasingly, local communities develop projects and grassroots initiatives that address climate change and environmental sustainability issues. These projects often commence informally and adopt web-based free information and communication technologies (ICT) applications to support their functioning. ICT applications are used to promote the goals of the project, to recruit more supporters and ...

The purpose of this paper is to show how Activity Theory Framework (ATF) was used for understanding the challenges, contradictions, and turbulences that are inevitable when institutions of higher education (IHEs) as learning organizations integrate ICT to change teaching and learning practices, demonstrated through two cases. The first case is situated in a Danish university, whereas the second...

The Iraq war, and the subsequent involvement of various stakeholders in the post con£ict reconstruction of the health sector, presented an opportunity to learn about mental health policy development, challengesand obstacleswithin apost con£ict context in 2003.This paper documents and explores mental health policy in post invasion Iraq, using qualitative methodsand a health policyframework that ...

This paper analyzes the pioneering work of eKutir, a social business in India that leverages an information and communication technology (ICT) platform to progressively build a self-sustaining ecosystem to address multiple facets of smallholder farmer poverty. The study reveals that eKutir’s ecosystem has evolved through five distinct phases, each expanding the number and type of actors engaged...

During the last two decades the process of teaching and learning has changed to a large extent. Earlier, when there used to be bulk of hard books and innumerable pieces of paper to deal with, the present scenario is altogether different. The reason behind such a dramatic change is attributed to ICT (Information Communication technology), wherein the adoption of IT tools in the education environ...

Both developed and developing countries face many environmental challenges, including climate change, improving energy efficiency and waste management, addressing air pollution, water quality and scarcity, and loss of natural habitats and biodiversity. Drawing on the existing literature, this paper presents an overview of how the Internet and the ICT and related research communities can help ta...

Despite immense data collections, prestigious journals, and sophisticated analyses, empirical ndings in the literature on international con ict are frequently unsatisfying. Statistical results appear to change from article to article and speci cation to speci cation. Very few relationships hold up to replication with even minor respeci cation. Accurate forecasts are nonexistent. We provide a si...

Despite the increasing use of information and communications technology (ICT) by enterprises engaged in industrial heritage, academic community lacks sufficient understanding how ICT enables sustainable development heritage. This article fills this gap analyzing application Taoxichuan Ceramic Art Avenue (the Company) to promote its organizational innovation achieve To start with, authors concep...