In many developing countries, small and medium enterprises (SMEs) account for a significant share of production and employment and are therefore directly connected to poverty alleviation. Especially in developing countries, SMEs are challenged by the globalisation of production and shift in the importance of the various determinants of competitiveness. Through the rapid spread of information an...

Australia, while being a large and eager consumer of innovative and cutting edge Information and Communication Technologies (ICT), continues to struggle to remain a leader in Technological Innovation. This paper has two main contributions to address certain aspects of this complex issue. The first being the current findings of an ongoing research project on Information and Innovation Management...

There is a growing recognition of the enabling role that information and communication technology (ICT) plays in promoting development, especially where it can “improve the performance of businesses and the efficiency of markets, empower citizens and communities, increase their access to knowledge, and help to strengthen and redefine governance at all institutional levels.” 1 This paper aims to...

In developing economies, there are still largely unaddressed gaps on the quality of education and information technology alignment compared to rest world. The authenticity corporate responsibilities social and economic challenges were more evident due Coronavirus recrudescent. study seeks assess whether women representation board is pivotal to corporate responsibility spending Information T...

In the face of advance new technologies that has been occurring and reaching all sectors society, this article presents a discussion guided by scholars about changes are in education. It is important to think how you can use so many resources available today while providing power teaching-learning process which until then was seen as something static conservative. The task teacher twenty-first ...

introduction rural women constitute about half of the world’s population and in the world production supply they have energetic comm:union: and constitute a great part of agriculture workforce. they constitute50% of the workforce and participate in the production of half of the foods in the agriculture section. as an example the rural women constitute about 70 to 80% of agriculture workforce in...

Recent literature reveals the increasingly important role of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) within innovation in services. This paper aims at outlining how scholars have conceptualized and defined the relationship between ICT and innovation in services so far, by analysing the fragmented body of knowledge available on the topic, to strengthen the research area as field of stud...

With advances in information and communication technologies (ICT), changes have been produced in physiotherapy provision. However, low adoption of the new technologies calls attention for better theoretical model and methods for ICT design, which may fulfil the needs of health professionals and their patients. In this work we discuss the framework for designing ICT for physiotherapy context bas...

Communication studies pay little attention to futures research, while there is a lack of communication knowledge in futures research.This article discusses the function of futures research and ways to embed domain knowledge in predictions. First, it looks at futures research in relation to the use of information and communication technology (ICT) in households in 2010. Second, it incorporates c...

Through our research on natural ICT solutions for integration into a non-ICT based workflow at a Brazilian chronic care hospital, we created a new design process and two additional HCI design criteria for maintaining natural work processes using information and communication technologies (ICT). For our HCI design we propose two design pathways: 1. iterating on adoption of designed technologies ...