We live in the era of information technology. The development of Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) is vital to the survival of any economy. ICT involves innovations in microelectronics, computing (hardware and software), telecommunications, semiconductors, and fiber optics, etc. Technological innovations, such as the wide diffusion of mobile phones and wireless Internet, play a ...

In the individual organization level, it is quite usual to distribute information technology into the basic infrastructure and to the applications resting on it. This kind of thinking is not so well developed in the national level, even though we there too clearly identify several kinds of infrastructures, such as those connected with traffic, waste management, education, power and energy suppl...

Introduction Information and communication technology (ICT) innovation research has concerned itself with researching industrialized high-income regions of the world, with specific reference to large organizations and their innovative abilities. Emerging economies/developing countries have not been considered as a hot bed of innovation. Researchers have preferred to focus on economic and instit...

Information Communication Technology (ICT) infrastructures supporting complex operations require collaborative effort to integrate a range of standalone software products into a coordinated system. However, the standalone products are normally developed with specific objectives and do not interoperate with each other. In a virtual enterprise environment, this imposes major challenges to ICT man...

The advancement in Information and Communication Technology (ICT) has revolutionised activities across all facets of human endeavours including learning management. e-learning is an evolving educational platform the scheme like other ICT-inclined sectors facing series peculiar challenges Sub-Saharan Africa. These range from poor infrastructure, funding, poor/low oriented masses, inadequate gove...

Policy makers worldwide put great emphasize on national and regional ICT development not least because it is believed to constitute a decisive factor for enhancing competitiveness and sustaining growth. And indeed a row of empirical studies suggests that ICTs have a positive impact on economic development. At the same time, Internet infrastructure and technology adoption appear to reinforce exi...

Based on a wide-ranging literature review, we argue that the information and communications technology infrastructure has not received adequate attention for its role in the development and maintenance of industrial clusters. This paper develops expectations for how firms in an industrial cluster make use of a public, broadband ICT infrastructure, particularly in support of e-commerce applicati...

This study examined the challenges faced by the Pakistani higher education system (HES) in integrating information and communication technology (ICT); it aimed at understanding ICT needs, measuring the increase in ICT demand, determining the relationship between ICT and HES performance, and understanding how the HES copes with the challenges of implementing ICT. The results of these analyses we...

These days ICT has penetrated into almost all sectors of the economy and society of Mongolia. More and more effort and attention is being paid to integrating ICT into the education sector. The current education reforms have a big component related to ICT, which includes the development of a Master plan for ICT in the Education sector, addressing the issues of ICT policy, infrastructure, hardwar...