This paper examines the impact of COVID-19 pandemic on readiness enterprises for employee training using ICT. It first Eurostat's secondary data, mainly comparing 2019 and 2022 medium-sized (50-249 employees, all sectors excluding financial sector) from Visegrad four countries. then two specific Digital Economy Society Index (DESI) indicators: Human Capital Integration Technology. The concludes...

This paper explores the concept of enterprise resiliency in Information and Communications Technologies (ICT) for development initiatives. ICT are necessary to improve access to vital services and to ultimately support efforts to improve economic conditions in developing regions. Access to information resources provides substantial benefits in the public and private sectors of regions with low ...

The use of ICT to drive sustainable development is a constant debate. Whereas one group staunchly defends employing ICT for guiding and implementing sustainable development, others fight vigorously to highlight its many negatives. One should readily agree that, as with most things in this world, apply ing ICT to propel any development will have its benefits and pitfalls. Its measurement must th...

Information and Communication Technology (ICT) has a great role in the development of any country. ICT has affected various fields and changed the working style of various Government and Non-Government organizations. It has helped in reducing the time for the users to accomplish a particular job. ICT has drastically reduced the cost of services that is to be incurred by the users. After looking...

Information and Communication Technology (ICT) development strategy in Chinese rural areas is an indispensable part of national development strategies. This paper reviews the ICT framework in agriculture and rural areas launched by the Department of Agriculture in China. It compares the rural ICT policies and strategies between China and the European Union (EU). The ICT development strategy fra...

Information and communication technologies (ICT) are an indispensable part of the modern economic world, their application can improve development countries. However, ICT requires high investment a highly skilled workforce, which makes it difficult for developing countries to keep up with developed The countries' technological equipment is crucial factor national competitiveness, within calcula...

This paper contributes to the conflicting international evidence on the impact of information and communication technology (ICT) on labour productivity (LP) growth. We examine the link between ICT intensity and New Zealand’s LP growth in 29 industries over the period 1988-2003, and over relevant sub-periods. After deriving an ICT intensity index to classify industries into ‘more ICT intensive’ ...

Since the mid of the 80’s more prosperous European regions have growing faster than less prosperous ones, determining a widening of the gap between them. A possible explanation for the increasing gap relates to the effects of producing and/or using the information and communication technologies. In this case the increasing gap can be related to both the lower concentration of ICT industries and...

The 22-page subject index of the report of the AERA Panel on Research and Teacher Education (Cochran-Smith and Zeichner, 2006) has no entries referring to information and communication technologies (ICTs) and only two referring to computers. Several chapters remark that teachers should develop ICT skills, but what this actually means is not discussed to any substantial degree. This does not mea...