The role of Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa (BRICS) as emerging protagonists in international development cooperation is significantly and rapidly changing. Over the last decade, BRICS have increased their financial as well as technical assistance and established distinct ways and means of economic cooperation, especially through southsouth-cooperation with Low Income Countries (L...

The main goal of this study is to investigate the impact of information and communication technology (ICT) on human development in the six Gulf Cooperation Council countries (GCC), particularly, the effect of ICT development index on the three-key component of human development; income, health, and education. The study focused on the years 2005-2014. Based on the theoretical background explaine...

Information technologies in today’s world function as support net for sharing knowledge and information coming more important as well as promoter of mutual cooperation when it comes to development of further education of adults. Because of a passive cooperation between educational institutions and enterprises, society is still in search of approaches and methods, new information systems and tec...

Geographically distributed software development projects are becoming commonplace due to the wide-spread use of network technologies. Software development is an activity that is based on intensive cooperation among groups of developers. Therefore, network technologies used to support such projects have to provide proper support for this cooperation. It is shown in this thesis that the (software...

COVID-19 and the economic response have amplified changed nature of development challenges in fundamental ways. Global cooperation should adapt accordingly. This paper lays out urgency for new methods that can deliver resource transfers at scale, oriented to addressing climate change with transparency better governance. It looks what is actually happening major donor countries’ programs where p...