As the disfunctions of the information society and social development progress, intrusion problems such as malicious replies, spam mail, private information leakage, phishing, and pharming, and side effects such as the spread of unwholesome information and privacy invasion are becoming serious social problems. Illegal access to information is also becoming a problem as the exchange and sharing ...

A very exciting development in current intelligent information processing is the Semantic Web and the innovative e-applications it promises to enable. This promise will not come true, however, if research limits itself to the technological aspects and challenges only. Both supply-demand sides and business-technology sides need to be investigated in an integrated fashion. This implies that we si...

and References AbstractThis paper analyzes the convergence of information technology infrastructures and traditionaleducational spaces and proposes flexible criteria for material-virtual, hybrid learning environments. Idevelop the concept of built pedagogy to account for the ways that built environments teach valuesthrough their constraints upon social action and interaction and...

Not long ago, the IT profession was concerned with integrating islands of information. Then the focus shifted to integration of applications to form enterprise systems. A major challenge of the new millennia is the integration of IT infrastructures that have emerged as technology rapidly advanced during the past couple of decades. This holistic view is similar to many ideas found in Stafford Be...

Using new social media and ICT infrastructures for self-organization, more and more citizen networks and business sectors organize themselves voluntarily around sustainability themes. The paper traces and evaluates one emerging innovation in such bottom-up, networked form of sustainable governance: The use of sensor data by citizen communities. In such ‘bottom-up community initiatives’, the sen...

The increasing dependence of human society on information technology (IT) systems requires appropriate measures to cope with their misuse. The growing potential of threats, which make these systems more and more vulnerable, is caused by the complexity of the technologies themselves. The potential of threats in networked systems will further grow as well as the number of individuals who are able...

Editorial Special issue on information infrastructures for healthcare: The global and local relation Information infrastructure for healthcare is a particular theoretical perspective that emphasizes the fundamental socio-technical nature of technology and practices. It stipulates that we need to include socio-material relations as part of the entangled infrastructures if we are to comprehend th...