Information and Communications Technology (ICT) has been considered as an important element for economic growth and social development. However, no consensus seems to exist about the proper roles and actual effects of information technology in dynamics of socioeconomic development. Many countries around the world have seen great opportunities in implementing initiatives that would increase the ...

A prototype method to assist the evaluation process of an Information and Communication Technology (ICT) network system in health care service to improve QoS is presented . Integrating the planning process, Information Technology (IT) provision and simulation with network modeling, through Optimization Network Engineering Tool (OPNET) p latform, data analyses techniques and interactive multi-cr...

in modern decentralised health systems, district and local managers are increasingly responsible for financing, managing, and delivering healthcare. however, their lack of adequate skills and competencies are a critical barrier to improved performance of health systems. given the financial and human resource, constraints of relying on traditional face-to-face training to upskill a large and dis...

Information & communications Technology (ICT) have been increasingly important players in the healthcare industry. Use of ICT in healthcare started with monitoring devices such as heart rate sensors and alarms. Other computing and communication devices include pagers, networked monitoring stations, remote operation equipment and electronic patient records. An important theme, especially with re...

In spring 2007, HIMSS Analytics began developing its first Canada Information and Communications Technology (ICT) Study. Less than one year later, 38 RHAs, DHAs and HAs are already on board, with some 20 more scheduled to participate by year's end. Why are so many Canadian provincial healthcare delivery organizations now participating in HIMSS Analytics' Canada ICT Study? The answer is tied to ...

Teachers are vulnerable to the technopositivist ideology that perpetuates a naive faith in the “promises” of technology. Most teachers have been denied opportunities to explore the motives, power, rewards, and sanctions associated with the unscrupulous marketing of information and communications technology (ICT) and tend to be uninformed about the research that has failed to find a positive rel...

NICTA is Australia’s Information and Communications Technology (ICT) Centre of Excellence. It is the largest organisation in Australia dedicated to ICT research. Whilst it has close links with local universities, it is in fact an independent but not-for-profit company in the business of doing research, commercialising that research and training PhD students to do that research. Much of the work...

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...