Information system development is often in connection to functional requirements and business processes in organization. The development of the basic information technology infrastructure (IT infrastructure) is therefore easily forgotten. However, a reliable infrastructure is the key to successful operations. As business requirements the flexibility of the IT infrastructure becomes important. H...

Most academic journals will reach a publishing watershed; a point in their existence at which a reorientation is deemed appropriate. So it is with Information Infrastructure and Policy as it transforms during this edition and the next into a wholly new journal, Information Polity: The International Journal of Government and Democracy in the Information Age. This edition remains true to the prog...

introduction: increasing incidence of cancers, particularly breast cancer (the third cause of death in iran), the role of information in decision making, policymaking and planning, and the need to assess the status of breast cancer in the country and the world necessitated a research to describe the advantages and disadvantages of the existing information on breast cancer patients. the present ...

background and aims: given the ever-increasing importance and value of information, providing management with a reliable information system, which can facilitate decision making regarding planning, organization and control, is vitally important. this study aimed to analyze and evaluate information needs at statistics and medical records departments of iranian medical universities. the findings ...