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...

The perception of geographic information system and spatial data infrastructure in the developing societies is vague. Developing societies in the context of this paper are societies that are disadvantaged in the provision of geographic information system and spatial data infrastructure. The notion is that there is no clear cut understanding of geographic information system and spatial data infr...

Effective use of existing network and IT infrastructure can be achieved by providing combined network and IT resources on-demand as infrastructure services that are capable of supporting complex scientific experiments, technological processes, and collaborative groups of researchers and applications. The paper provides a short overview of the existing standards and technologies and refers to th...

In this paper, we explore some of Claudio Ciborra’s ideas about the technological object. We do this in contrast to recent analysis by Law and Singleton (2005) that advocates a methodological radicalism that moves beyond epistemological uncertainties about the technological object to ontological concerns. Law and Singleton present a series of stages in this analysis that include fluid objects t...

Over-dependence of African countries on the West has been reflected in various socioeconomic dimensions. Such dependence has also been reflected in the telecommunications industry of Africa’s LDCs in a bid to solve its low teledensity (number of main telephone lines per one hundred inhabitants) problems. African LDCs are greatly behind other regions of the world in utilizing information and tel...

The traditional model of single ownership of all the physical network elements and network layers by mobile network operators is beginning to be challenged. This has been attributed to the rapid and complex technology migration compounded with rigorous regulatory requirements and ever increasing capital expenditures. These trends, combined together with the increasing competition, rapid commodi...

T media in media studies are the technologies that mediate between those who make messages and those who receive them. Models of the communication process have long included the media, but for many years, research almost exclusively focused on message production and reception, with little attention to how messages got from here to there. The convergence of technologies that has resulted in the ...

Large-scale organizations are increasingly promoting more collaborative and collective work practices across organizational boarders. A predominant way to achieve better collaboration in largescale heterogeneous contexts is to establish an integrated and standardized technological infrastructure. Ethnographically inspired studies, on the other hand, have challenged such perspective and illustra...

In this paper, the requirement for delivering an Integrated Electronic Health Record (IEHR) service in the 21st century is emphasized and the technological issues related to the development of the required computational infrastructure, enabling the creation and consistent use of a life-long I-EHR service, are addressed. A fundamental requirement for achieving continuity of care is the seamless ...