This paper describes a framework to facilitate the adoption of Blockchain technology and streamline development decentralised applications (DAPPs). It four enablers, as self-contained core modules, offering specific, key functionality using technology. The enabler includes a) Blockchain-based ID management allowing for authentication authorization, b) storage data in IPFS distributed filesystem...

The last few years have witnessed an emerging consensus that traditional methods of spectrum management are both technically and economically inefficient. In the United States, the FCC has responded to this through several changes in spectrum management, including the wellknown ultrawide-band program, and the “cognitive radio” initiative at the beginning of 2004. The background behind this init...

Purpose The paper aims to contribute a better understanding of the drivers for use Industry 4.0 technologies by investigating (1) what motivates companies consider using I4 and (2) enables (or hinders) intention translate into their actual use. Design/methodology/approach study uses survey data collected from sample export-oriented manufacturing with more than 10 employees. Final analysis is co...

The purpose of this study is to investigate the main barriers and possible enablers for integrating information and communication technologies (ICTs) in Turkey’s pre-service teacher education programs. The data were collected by means of questionnaires from 53 deans in schools of teacher education (STE), 111 teacher educators, and 1,330 prospective teachers, and additionally from interviews of ...

This paper presents an analytical framework for an effective online personal knowledge management (PKM) of knowledge workers. The development of this framework is prompted by our qualitative research on the PKM processes and cognitive enablers of knowledge workers in eight organisations selected from three main industries in Malaysia. This multiple-case research identifies the relationships bet...

Today’s global competition demands an unprecedented learning capacity from organizations. With this aim, knowledge management has become essential in organizations. Information technologies are one of the major knowledge management initiatives fostered by organizations, but they are not sufficient as enablers of a learning capacity. Knowledge resides in human minds and, therefore, employee beha...