The advent of New Zealand’s world-leading Digital Strategy underpins the increasing importance of ICTs in community settings. It also marks a significant change in government policy and the first time a government has adopted a whole of government approach to ICTs. This article provides a personal view of the policy process for creating the Digital Strategy, presented by one of the participants...

This paper will discuss recent initiatives to encourage the development of broadband networks in New Zealand. It is widely believed that the availability of good quality broadband will lead to improved economic development at the regional level. This paper considers the role played by both national and regional government in improving access to broadband. At a national level the government has ...

Organizations are increasingly adopting digital strategies and investing heavily in digital technologies and initiatives. However, to date, there does not appear to be a clear understanding of digital strategies and their purpose, which forms the motivation for this research. This research-in-progress study aims to address this research gap by exploring 1) the various conceptions of digital str...

•Many parents use multiple monitoring strategies in different combinations over time to monitor their adolescents.•Adolescents of parents who use multiple strategies reported greater risk involvement.•Parents who solicited information only from adolescents had greater knowledge and adolescent disclosure.

This research aims at representing noun polysemy so that it can be useful to computational systems; more specifically, the subject of this work is the inclusion of specification of polysemy relations in wordnet bases, particularly in WordNet.Br (DIASDA-SILVA, 1996, 1998, 2003). The methodology has been based on Dias-da-Silva (1996, 1998, 2003, 2006), comprehending three mutually complementary d...

Stokhof and van Lambalgen [40] suggest that modern linguistics has failed to meet the expectations one might have for it, that no consensus about central issues has emerged, and that this raises the fundamental question of whether modern linguistics is a failed discipline. They diagnose the problem as arising from treating language as grammar and linguistic competence as individual ability. Unl...

Risk ranking of Horizontal Directional Drilling (HDD) for gas and oil wells is a key criterion in the project feasibility, pricing and for introducing a risk management strategy that aims to reduce the number of failures in the installation phase and its negative consequences. HDD is currently widely used in drilling wells in Iran, but research in the area of identification and risks ranking of...