Moving toward third millennium is characterized by capabilities in transforming human life. Specially, development of information technologies in everyday life lead to great changes in communication tools andour current understanding ofurban social life. Indeed, telecommunications because of independency from time—space constraints, provide a new unlimited space for social interactions in globa...

Women have a strategic role in managing and exploiting environmental potential. However, women particularly tourism still face many obstacles terms of capital resources, transformation information, as well the knowledge skills local Through action research method, this activity attempted to investigate whether digital literacy-based information technology can be used an empowerment model for to...

The OpenPhone project aims to design an Interactive Voice Response (IVR) health information system that enables people who are caregivers for HIV/AIDS infected children to access relevant information by using a telephone in their native language of Setswana in Botswana. The system lowers accessibility barriers since it is accessible to illiterate users and the community of the blind. The design...

Don Knuth created Literate Programming about thirty years ago. It could be called a methodology, discipline, paradigm, . . . Bentley’s “Programming Pearls” article about Knuth’s book, TEX: The Program, caused a huge stir in the computing professions. Soon there was announcement of a Literate Programming section for the CACM . Several “Literate Programming systems” quickly appeared. This was fol...

Cities can be viewed as information architecture systems. Here, "architecture" is used in the sense of computer architecture -it refers not to the design of buildings, but to how the components of a complex system interact. Information exchange includes the movement of people and goods, personal contact and interactions, telecommunications, as well as visual input from the environment. Informat...

Literate proving is the analogue for literate programming in the mathematical realm. That is, the goal of literate proving is to produce clear expositions of formal mathematics that could even be enjoyable for people to read whilst remaining faithful representations of the actual proofs. This paper describes maze, a generic literate proving system. Authors markup formal proof files, such as Miz...