Researchers argue that small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs) play a pivotal role in national and regional economies. These companies play a major part in sustaining domestic and regional economic growth and are important agents for alleviating poverty in developing countries. It has been suggested that the use of Information Communication Technologies (ICT) increases richness, reach and the...

Technology integration into contemporary society and business operations is a reality in Namibia. The financial services sector is a vibrant sector that embraces global trends and boasts an advanced ICT infrastructure. The banking sector, though challenged by the lack of expert knowledge, is directly connected to South Africa where the banking sector sources the knowledge it needs to support lo...

The rapid development and diffusion of the information and communications technology (ICT) is the major driving force of the New Economy. While there is ample evidence to suggest that the ICT industry has contributed a great deal to the overall economic growth of the developed countries, its role in the developing countries is far from clear. The pressure of unemployment that may result from IC...

Regardless of what ICT solutions are planned or proposed, or in what situations ICT is considered, it is important to first have a thorough understanding of the current state of the situation in the organization in question, so as to be able to understand the ereadiness and the challenges that need to be overcome in the adoption process and resource-wise of the organization. In this paper we fo...

BACKGROUND Studies have shown that ICT adoption contributes to productivity and economic growth. It is therefore important that health workers have knowledge in ICT to ensure adoption and uptake of ICT tools to enable efficient health delivery. OBJECTIVE To determine the knowledge and use of ICT among students of the College of Health Sciences at the University of Ghana. METHODS This was a ...

Purpose Through an evaluation of the Information Technology adoption and diffusion models and the Free and/or Open Source policy of the South African Government, the underlying assumption is that the developmental divide between those with and those without access to technology is purely technical. This paper illustrates that if Free and/or Open Source Software (FOSS) is to be used as a buildin...

This study considers priorities of primary goals to increase policy efficiency of Green ICT. Recently several studies have been published that address how IT is linked to climate change. However, most of the previous studies are limited to Green ICT industrial statute and policy directions. This paper present Green ICT policy making processes systematically. As a result of the analysis of Korea...

This study evaluated the level of information and communications technologies (ICTs) adoption in the administration of the National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS) in Ghana within the context of the Activity Theory. The study used the mixed methods which involved the survey of 104 staff using questionnaires and an interview with the Regional ICT Coordinator of the NHIS in Accra. The study reveal...

Information technology has become an important dimension of third party logistics service providers (3PLs) business as their competitive advantage increasingly depends on the ability to create value for customers through ICT applications. Recent industry developments have contributed to widen the technological gap between large and small 3PLs. This is particularly critical for those markets tha...

background: mobile health is one of the new technologies for the utilization of health information. for its successful implementation as well as any other system, we must primarily measure the adoption and use of its factors. the purpose of this study was to systematically investigate published articles about the factors affecting the adoption of mobile health and categorizing the factors affec...