This introductory chapter provides definitions of sustainability, sustainable development, decoupling, and related terms; gives an overview of existing interdisciplinary research fields related to ICT for Sustainability, including Environmental Informatics, Computational Sustainability, Sustainable HCI, and Green ICT; introduces a conceptual framework to structure the effects of ICT on sustaina...

As Indian economy gets integrated to the global economy and strives to improve in terms of human development indicators, a special role exists for information and communication technologies (ICT) in this process. The strategic metamorphoses and the resultant expansion of ICT linked telecommunication services in India have favorably influenced the effort to accelerate the pace of human developme...

There is a growing recognition of the enabling role that information and communication technology (ICT) plays in promoting development, especially where it can “improve the performance of businesses and the efficiency of markets, empower citizens and communities, increase their access to knowledge, and help to strengthen and redefine governance at all institutional levels.” 1 This paper aims to...

1 Challenges in justifying the ICT expenditure The discussion commenced by discussing matters affecting the decisions to spend on ICT by government. Dr Kereteletswe indicated that we need to be in a position to justify to the Ministry of Finance and Development Planning the ICT expenditure. The chairman further added that currently the entire world is recovering from the economic melt-down henc...

Pulkkinen, Mirja Enterprise Architecture as a Collaboration Tool: Discursive Process for Enterprise Architecture Management, Planning and Development Jyväskylä: University of Jyväskylä, 2008, 130 p. (+ included articles) (Jyväskylä Studies in Computing ISSN 1456-5390; 93) ISBN 978-951-39-3409-5 (PDF), 978-951-39-3378-4 (nid.) Finnish summary Diss. The information and communication technology (I...

ICT has had numerous unfortunate incidents in planning, development, and delivery. A typical response to these incidents is to both complain about the toothless tiger of unenforced and unenforceable technical and professional standards and to also advocate the development and implementation of strong government regulations – licensing and legislation. These regulations constitute one form of wh...

Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) are an important factor in the socio-economic development of transitioning and developing countries. Given the importance of ICT in global social and economic development, many researchers have examined its development and growth strategies from national and governmental policy perspectives. However, understanding the consequences of information ...

Costa Rica has been successful in attracting high-tech foreign direct investment (FDI). An aggressive FDI-assisted development strategy was pursued by the country in the 1980s as a response to the economic crisis; yet there are serious concerns about the effectiveness of such strategy from a development point of view. In this paper, we focus on the effects of the FDI-assisted development strate...