In a world where technology and politics interact, there is increasing discussion of the role of law and government action. This is particularly true in the case of cyberspace, where the internet is changing the ways in which regulation is applied. In the extreme case, technology is claimed to determine freedom and rights. This position has been addressed by Laurence Lessig, in his book “Code a...

The objective of the paper was to determine the effect of performance expectancy on the learners’ intention to adopt and use Cloud computing. The Unified Theory of Acceptance and Use of Technology (UTAUT) model is used as the basis of this paper, and the data was collected using questionnaires. The questionnaires were analysed for correlation, significance and variance, to study Cloud computing...

Across the time, the organizations have improved according to new technologies, therefore it’s been necessary to invest large amounts of money in the acquisition of computer products, undoubtedly this has brought along many advantages, however, not like it would be expected, because in the majority of these organizations it’s been automatized an amount of ordinary tasks in isolated ways, in oth...

José Córdoba Centre for Systems Studies, Business School University of Hull Cottingham Road, Hull, HU6 7RX E-mail: [email protected] Telephone number: 01482-465021 Fax Number: 01482-466637

This paper is concerned with a type of information systems research that is comparatively poorly understood – the “systems development” (SD) or “engineering” approach. SD is seen as a natural intermediate step linking basic and applied research and as a form of action research. It is argued that we can learn from the view of SD research as action research and thus develop useful criteria for th...

In this paper we argue that the so-called 'positivism'-versus-'interpretivism' conflict raised by some constructivist, postmodernist, relativist philosophers and methodologists in information systems research is merely a pseudo problem which has no basis in reality. This pseudo problem of so-called 'positivism' versus 'interpretivism' only distracts from the genuine problem of the information s...

The undergraduate Information Systems program of the Department of Informatics, University of Pretoria recently obtained ABET accreditation. Having an accredited program and keeping it accredited, has quite a few implications on the processes and structure of the department. However, the paper will mainly focus on the difficulties surrounding getting a non-US IS program accredited by a US based...

Division of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Uniformed Service University of the Health Sciences, Bethesda, MD 20814; (e-mail: [email protected]) 2 School of Computer Science, Telecommunications and Information Systems, DePaul University, Chicago, IL 60604; (e-mail: [email protected]) 3 Department of Computer Science, The George Washington University, Washington, DC 20052; (e-mail: [email protected]...

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Features of the built environment are increasingly being recognised as potentially important determinants of obesity. This has come about, in part, because of advances in methodological tools such as Geographic Information Systems (GIS). GIS has made the procurement of data related to the built environment easier and given researchers the flexibility to create a new generation of environmental ...