Drawing from Rogers’ diffusion of innovation theory and Hofstede’s typology of national culture, this study proposes that the diffusion VSNs in a country is influenced by the levels of its information and communication technology (ICT) infrastructure and human capital, which in turn are contingent on the national cultural dimension of uncertainty avoidance. Utilizing the publicly available arch...

In this paper we investigate the factors that impact ICT growth rates in developing countries and compare those with factors affecting industrialized countries. Four categories of factors, human development, social structure, institutional factors, and national infrastructure, were considered with respect to their impact on three ICTs: cell phones, PCs, and the Internet. ICT infrastructure infl...

Haruspex is a suite of tools that apply a Monte Carlo method to the risk assessment of an ICT infrastructure. These tools support a scenario-based assessment where in each scenario some intelligent agents compose elementary attacks against the infrastructure to reach some prede ned goals. To support through this suite, the comparison of alternative designs of an infrastructure, we introduce the...

OBJECTIVES The proper alignment of functional features of the ICT-infrastructure to business processes is a major challenge in health care organisations. This alignment takes into account that the organisational structure not only shapes the ICT-infrastructure, but that the inverse also holds. To solve the alignment problem, relevant features of the ICT-infrastructure should be derived from the...

This paper is about the use of a Mixed Methods approach in an investigation that sought to assess the available Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) infrastructure capable of supporting Collaborative Web Technologies (CWTs) in a Blended Learning (BL) environment in Tanzanian Higher Education Institutions (HEIs). We first used questionnaires to collect information about available ICT...

The lack of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) infrastructure in African countries is hampering the successful adoption, development and implementation of egovernment in Africa. Electronic government is the use of ICTs to modernize government public administration processes and to provide government services to citizens with a purpose to enhance efficiency, accountability, and tra...

Recently, more and more organizations have been proposing and introducing infrastructure to realize a Smart City because there has been an increase in environmental impact associated with urbanization. On the other hand, it is becoming more important to introduce information and communications technology (ICT) to create new services by connecting infrastructure organically. At the same time, an...

In discussing and planning interventions around the “digital divide” people tend to think in terms of the binary oppositions of “digital-haves” and “digital-have-nots”. Information and communications technologies (ICT) programs sponsored by governments and other agencies to address the “digital divide” also tend to be “topdown” initiatives that focus on the provision of institutional aid and th...