Internet access in developing countries is growing rapidly. Developing countries accounted for one-third of Internet users worldwide by the end of 2003, and the catch up rate is getting faster. Between 2000 and 2003, developing countries increased their share of the Internet population of the world by nearly 50%. This has led some commentators, such as World Bank to claim that initiatives to cl...

This paper identifies and analyses the forces influencing the rapid mobile diffusion in China. The analysis indicates that major factors influencing the hyperbolic growth rate of mobile technology penetration in China include the influence of Marxist labour theory, post-Mao reform resulting in market openness and heavy FDI inflow, rapid economic growth, reengineering of the telecommunication se...

Mobile technologies have been influencing the field of education including language learning for almost a decade. The literature on mobile technologies for education reports a number of case studies that examine various aspects of mobile learning. However, the use of mobile technologies for teacher professional development, particularly in developing economies, is rarely reported. This paper pr...

The increasing use of the Web as a software platform together with the advance of technology has promoted Web applications as a starting point for improving the communication between citizens and administration. Currently, several e-government web portals propose applications for accessing information regarding healthcare, taxation, registration, housing, agriculture, education and social servi...

The NTC has contracted Chula UniSearch, a consulting arm of Chulalongkorn University (CU), led by Dr. Supavadee Aramvith and Dr. Chaodit Aswakul, to operate the project which is participated by CAT Telecom, Samart Telecom, AIS, NEC, Rohde&Schwarz, FORTH and ADC Communications. NGN technologies such as 3G, Wi-Max, VoIP, SIP server/Soft switch, VoD and FTTH are evaluated in the project along with...

E-Government services operate, by definition, across the Internet: citizens use their own desktops or mobile devices to access, via the Internet, government services hosted on servers physically located in some government agency, or even on a private or public cloud. Attacks on e-government can such be broadly divided into three categories: server-side attacks (i.e. on the government servers), ...

Today, many countries are launching E-Government projects to effectively enhance the provision of governmental services. E-Government encompasses the usage of all information and communications technologies (so far mainly by using the Internet) to deliver governmental services to citizens and improve the quality of governmental activities. However, various EGovernment ranking surveys show that ...

This paper overviews the rapid rise of mobile technologies, particular wireless communications devices. It outlines four emerging application areas where wireless technologies hold great potential for digital government efforts. It concludes by highlight the lack of research on wireless technologies in the social science, and the need to rapidly expand efforts in this area.

The internet and other electronic media have had a positive impact on the lives of individuals and businesses all over the world. This study investigated the extent of the adoption and usage of the mobile phone banking services among banking customers in Nigeria and the associated problems. Mobile phones are now ubiquitous and a standard aspect of daily life for a large percentage of the world ...

The adoption and use of mobile technologies has transcended exponentially around the world in recent years, therefore, great challenge for public organizations is to successfully implement technological initiatives that fall within framework digital government. In sense, objective this research develop a application on Android platform improve access information users municipalities Cañete. dev...