Public sector information and communication technologies (ICT) cost taxpayers in the United Kingdom (UK) over £16 billion annually and are responsible for between 35-38% of ICT-related Greenhouse Gas (GHG) emissions. While the UK’s Greening Government ICT Strategy is regarded as an exemplar in regard to the latter, the Government ICT Strategy addresses the former in terms of eliminating the unn...

the study was carried out in anambra state, nigeria. questionnaire was used to collect data from a sample of one hundred and eight (108) small-scale farmers. percentage, mean score, standard deviation and factor analysis were used for data analysis. the duration of the study was june 2009 and march, 2010. results of the study indicated that the major constraints to effective use of icts by smal...

This paper examines the obstacles towards the use of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) tools in teaching Information System (IS) at Malaysian universities. The findings of a survey identify that the most significant obstacles are: ICT tools are changing too fast to keep current, extra time and effort needed after integrating ICT tools in teaching, the management did not provide any...

South Africa’s poor rural communities have been provided ICT services through universal service access initiatives such as telecentres for some years. The objective of such initiatives and the soon to be introduced under-serviced area operators is to facilitate the development of poor rural communities. This paper discusses the successes and shortcomings of deployed ICT solutions. Service provi...

This paper adds to the literature on diffusion of information and communication technology (ICT diffusion) economic growth by performing a sectorial analysis for developing country, Tunisia. Particularly, it develops ICT index Tunisia, which is then used investigate relationship between diffusion. As countries are typically characterized poor infrastructure, we distinguish short- long-term effe...

This paper will discuss a reframing of the ICT4D agenda of WSIS, and the importance of culturally relevant, grassroots, and " bottom-up " approaches for ICT interventions. The " ICT4D " framing needs to be expanded to accommodate a more realistic expectation of the effects and promises of ICTs. ICTs can have unexpected effects on communities, as " good " and " bad " outcomes can be intertwined ...

This paper presents the most relevant results from a national study about the availability and use of ICT in 46 Initial Teacher Education institutions in Chile, implemented during 2009 as part of the OECD (Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development) international project “ICT in Initial Teacher Training.” Main findings show an overall favorable context for the pedagogical use of ICT ...

Progressive efforts have been evolving continuously for the betterment of the services of the Information Technology for Educational Management(ITEM). These services require data intensive and communication intensive applications. Due to the massive growth of information, situation becomes difficult to manage these services. Here the role of the Information and Communication Technology (ICT) in...

This paper examines the extent to which level of technological equipment affects integration Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) in Greek high school science teaching. The limited ICT infrastructure environment, with only one computer‑projector system available access internet (“PC‑VP” environment), is compared environment (“1:1” environment) where, addition system, each student ha...

The Application of e-health solutions has brought superb advancements in the health care industry. E-health solutions have already been embraced in the industrialized countries. In an effort to catch up with the growth, the developing countries have strived to revolutionize the healthcare industry by use of Information technology in different ways. Based on a technology assessment carried out i...