The under-representation of women entering into information and communication technology (ICT) programmes is a long-standing problem. While ICT continues to be increasingly accepted and integrated into everyday life, gender stereotypes prevail in ICT turning female students away from ICT as an occupation. Based on existing literature on factors influencing girls’ career choices and on an empiri...

A government is a huge and complex organisation, whose operations and strategic focus could be greatly enhanced by the well focussed application of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) to support improvements in productivity, management effectiveness and ultimately, the quality of services offered to citizens. While the benefits of ICT in government cannot be disputed, there are sev...

Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) are key economic sector in Malaysia and the Malaysian government have over the past decades promoted development and growth initiatives such as ICT implementation to advance their overall economic agenda. This paper, therefore, examines the factors and adoption patterns of Internet-based Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) among SMEs in Malaysia...

In today’s fast growing digital environment, firms are keen that their strategies should take advantage of the Internet’s capacity to access, organize and communicate information in fractions of cost involved before the Information and Communication Technology (ICT) revolution. Considering the vital role of strategic planning to business success, this paper proposes a path analytic framework to...

Information and Communication Technology (ICT) affects how organizations deliver services to their customers. ICT is now used not only to improve back office routine activities but also to act as strategic partner for achieving organizational goals. It increases internal efficiency and reduces costs. Although ICT has many benefits for organizations, its assimilation is the most challenging proc...

Information and Communication Technology (ICT) is widely accepted as a potentially beneficial set of instruments, which may improve the welfare and competitiveness of nations and cities. Nowadays both public and private actors aim to exploit the expected benefits of ICT developments. This paper seeks to investigate the potential of ICT policy at an urban level, and in particular to shed more li...

The adoption of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) is one of the key factors explaining growth discrepancies across countries in general and in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia in particular. ICT has been the most dynamic component of investment in recent years, and until recently the explosive growth of investment in ICT has been at the center of the ‘new economy’ paradigm, shifting the...

The Network Readiness Index (NRI) was developed to measure the propensity for countries (and regions) to exploit information and communications technology (ICT) for development and growth. Much has been written about the influences of economic and non-economic factors on ICT diffusion in developed societies. Studies examining the impact of relevant factors on Africa’s regions’ capabilities to e...