Infrastructure can be defined as physical assets that are capable of an intended service delivery, comprising of rigid assets such as buildings, roads, bridges, and facilities, as well as flexible assets such as utilities and facilities related to water, sewage, power etc. including their systems and machinery. Infrastructure systems can be viewed as a structured network of interdependent mecha...

1. Change, culture and the future 2. Infrastructure, world view and change 3. Strategic planning and decision-making 4. Understanding traditional values changing 5. Traditional institutions under pressure 6. Characteristics of the technological culture 7. The global role of technology in the future 8. The nature of development 9. The role of technology in development 10. General development iss...

Enterprise collaboration typically occurs in the context of a process. Therefore, in order to support collaboration, there is a need to establish a framework able to handle a diversity of collaborative processes with different computational and communication requirements. This paper discusses the need for such framework, points out key requirements and proposes a strategy for a supporting techn...

This work shows the physical infrastructure and technological solutions implemented by the Universidad Industrial de Santander (UIS, Colombia) through the institutional project named ProSPETIC, proposed to give support to the UIS academic programs and the university government using Information and Communication Technologies. This initiative aims to consolidate the existent experiences to enhan...

Under the influence of Web 2.0 Work (purposeful directed action) is democratised moving it away from productionist metaphysics. Web 2.0 symbolises a cultural phenomenon summarised as a collection of emerging technologies and methodologies that, in the enterprise, provides for a shift in the asymmetric distribution of power such that the technological human has access to mechanisms and processes...