Globally people are living longer. The elderly, defined as people over 65 for the purpose of this study, have recognised physical and cognitive limitations which can lead to their marginalisation as far as information and communication technology is concerned. To enable the aging population to live productively and independently, their technological needs, expectations and limitations warrant i...

The developing countries of the world face many major social challenges, among these challenges is education. It seems that the tendency would be to merely transport current educational pedagogy to these developing nations. But the existing pedagogy primarily fosters the development of ruled-based thinking, which will not suffice given the demands of the current day. Thus a new model for educat...

In the last two decades, thousands of people fly around the world every day giving the perception of the world as a global village. With the increase in air traffic, there have been more and more incidents of aircraft collisions. In this report, we design and implement a collision avoidance system for an aircraft when it is in the vicinity of airport. Our model is built on a discrete event simu...

Origins of sustainable communities lie in agendas set in a motion passed by the United Nations nearly forty years ago. As part of a sustainable development strategy and to tackle negative aspects of post industrial cities, in 2003, the UK government launched a Sustainable Communities Plan, accompanied by regional action plans, of which a major objective has been to implement regeneration projec...

Recommendation as a social process plays an important role in many applications as WWW has created the universe as a global village, with an explosive growth of enormous information. The paper presents an overview of the field of recommender systems along with the description of various approaches that are being used for generating recommendations. Recommendation techniques can be classified in...

With the advent of electronic services the globe can be packed as a single village that is called global village. In Global village (GV) all users would access to E-services regardless to geographical and political boundaries among countries. Therefore, software development corporations need to develop global systems and consider the requirements and situation of all users in the world for emer...

Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR), or simply Corporate Responsibility for those who favour an even broader approach, has become yet another buzzword in an age of sound bites where ideas fall into and out of fashion rapidly. For those who view big business as a continued source of inequality and destruction in the global village, the possibility that CSR may be a temporary trend is far from ...

The world today is said to be a “global village”. However, this village is, rather than a culturally homogeneous community, a world of diverse cultures. In this globalized world, how different cultures interact with each other and with globalizing forces in general is crucial to their survival and to their reinvention. This essay is intended to provide a critical examination of various existing...

Global software development has gained a drastic growth from the last two decades due to the revolution in information and communication technologies (ICTs) and the world has become a global village. Offshore software development outsourcing (OSDO) is an important paradigm of global software engineering for the development of better and cheaper software’s at low-wages countries. The objective i...

The growth is impending concern, face to ‹ecology› musts of over-depletion/pollution. The technology-driven key is in ‹robot age› implements, by ‹to de-materialise› and ‹to re-materialise› goals. The paper draws on topics outlined in recent investigation of the authors, with the guess that progress is artificial man conquest, whose consistency cooks up transcendental (God benignity) or immanent...