the purpose of this study was to analysis to influencing factors on the reducing inputs in participatory technology development (ptd) project of watershed honam in lorestan province. the research projects ptd, is one of the resilience livelihood projects from global challenge program for water and food (cp) to carry out central challenge link two categories is water operation and resilience liv...

it is found for the last two decades that there has been a rapid rise of ppps across the world. a government in developing countries like india is using ppp arrangements for improved delivery of infrastructure services and social services. public private partnerships which are an integral part of the new paradigm of good governance policy is the most recent addition in the world of society and ...

In recent years, the banking industry has made significant changes in technology and communications. The expansion of electronic communications and a large number of people around the world access to the Internet, appropriate to establish trade and economic exchanges provided but high costs, lack of flexibility and agility in existing systems because of the large volume of information, confiden...

The vast majority of development projects, and in particular Information and Communications Technology for Development (ICT4D) projects, fail to reach their objectives and only a small number of projects effect change that lasts (Heeks, 2002;Toyama, 2010). The sustainability of a project is an important but ill-defined concept. Sustainability has been defined from various perspectives, but many...

Today the information technology is indeed a base of development for countries and a benchmark practice for leading and successful organizations. Success in this area depends on the success of micro and macro projects of information technology, and this success is not achievable unless all aspects, especially the most valuable element, e.g. the human resources, are considered. Because the polic...

suffering from disorder and chaos, tehran is a city capable of introduced as one of the most beautiful cities in the world for its historical and geographical capacities. unfortunately, in the modern era and after the islamic revolution when urban development destiny started to depend on engineers due to their increasing authority in urban management, culture role was undermined and tehran unde...

In this article a review of software projects based on a taxonomy project is established, allowing the development team or testing personnel to identify the tests to which the project must be subjected for validation. The taxonomy is focused on identifying software projects according to their technology. To establish the taxonomy, a development method comprised of 5 phases was applied. The deve...

organizations in private and public sector assign many projects in information technology (particularly software) field to contractors for implementation every year. previous experiences shows that most of these projects are stopped before finishing or cannot meet the expected results. based on studies related to this issue, many of failures depend on implementation contractor, directly or indi...

This article investigates the conceptual foundations of technological innovation and development projects that aim to bring ethical and social issues into the design stage. Focusing on the ethics and social impact of technological innovation and development has been somewhat of a trend lately, for instance in ELSA research and in such initiatives as the Dutch Responsible Innovation programme. I...

T his publicaTion showcases nine projects from the Jisc users and innovation programme which presented papers at the 15th annual association for learning Technology conference (alT-c) in september 008. The Jisc users & innovation programme is a £4.75M development investment funded by the higher education Funding council for england, which aims to transform practice in uK higher education by dev...