ICT Infrastructure is a key ingredient for efficient Information and Communication Technology. Information and Communication Technology plays an important role in rapid development and good governance. E-Government means the use of ICT tools and technology to provide e-services with the help of ICT infrastructure including hardware, software, network and communication channels. This study has b...

Access and use of information and communication technologies (ICTs) by the smallholder rural farmer is envisaged to improve their welfare due to increased access to input and output markets. This study analyzes the constraints to the use of such tools for market linkage in Uganda and policy implications. The paper draws from a case study of two local organizations ICT-based projects namely, Bus...

the objective of this study was to identify barriers ofdevelopment of ict in the university of tehran .a revision of similarresearches was carried out and opinions of experts were sought. theproblems encountered with the development of ict were categorized in fivefactors: technological, educational, financial, legal, attitudinal and behavioralbarriers. the study used mixed methodology to collec...

This paper investigates causal relationships between information and communications technologies (ICT) infrastructure, financial development, and economic growth in Asian countries over the twelve-year period 2001e2012. Using panel cointegration techniques, our empirical results show these variables are cointegrated, with a myriad of short-run and long-run causal links between ICT infrastructur...

Even though, there has been an increasing usage and access to Information Communication Technology (ICT) worldwide during the last few decades, the digital divide between developed and developing regions still remains (ITU, 2009). In developed countries a well established ICT infrastructure exists in industrial, business, governmental and home environments. The infrastructure is available in bi...

Purpose – ICT has considerable importance for increasing productivity and growth. Using ICT requires resources to create value. As resources are more limited in smaller enterprises, and the contexts and conditions for using ICT in SMEs are not well known, the purpose is to investigate conditions, in the context of sensemaking for ICT adoption and use among SMEs. Method – This study uses a quali...

This analysis of the development of Thailand’s information economy places particular emphasis on its ICT and social infrastructure development. Drawing upon lessons learned from similar development trajectories in Ireland, China, and India we develop a set of guidelines for Thailand to consider as it continues its information economy development. From the policy perspective, Thailand, similar t...

In this paper we expose the design process in engineering an information and communication (ICT) infrastructure. We have based on the Viable System Model for decomposing the ICT infrastructure. A different framework for managing complexity has been applied to each subsystem and a special treatment for the design of the ICT Center has been carried out. ICT Center has the responsibility of guaran...