BACKGROUND Information and communication technologies (ICTs) are becoming an impetus for quality health care delivery by nurses. The use of ICTs by nurses can impact their practice, modifying the ways in which they plan, provide, document, and review clinical care. OBJECTIVE An overview of systematic reviews was conducted to develop a broad picture of the dimensions and indicators of nursing ...

The use of information communication technologies (ICTs) to empower individuals through social support, help-seeking, and help-providing activities is finding its place in healthcare delivery. ICTs, particular, offer access timely relevant that domestic violence victims organizations can tap into. Thus, this article explores the ICTs for providing facilitating support care-giving services victi...

This paper examines the significance of Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) for sustainable development in Africa arising from the fact that ICTs have not been put into the mainstream of development in Africa while analysing the possibilities of mainstreaming the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) into Nigeria’s development agenda by anchoring the study on the technological deter...

Current approaches to semantic interoperability require human intervention in detecting potential con icts and in de ning how those con icts may be resolved. This is a major impedance to achieving \logical connectivity", especially when the number of disparate sources is large. In this paper, we demonstrate that the detection and reconciliation of semantic con icts can be automated using tools ...

There is a dearth of literature on the use of Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) in Libyan universities and this paper aims to help address this imbalance by exploring and analyzing how ICTs are used in Libyan universities. Process maps and systems profiling are employed to examine the current and potential uses of ICTs and a new model for assessing ICT utilization in Libyan univ...

The ‘twin challenges’ of the aging of the population and the development of new information and communication technologies (ICTs) is becoming a new research topic in recent years. Existing research on aging and new ICTs often focuses on such topics as the effects of age-related changes in visual, perceptual, motor, and cognitive abilities on older adults’ learning and use of computers and the I...

A variety of single-item composite indices for measurement of information and communication technologies (ICTs) at the country level are currently used to gauge the extent of technological development in developing countries. However, the values that are obtained from these measures typically are not comparable for the purpose of development and growth policy analysis. To remedy this, in 2003 t...

Previous research has identified graduating teachers’ dispositions towards teaching with Information and Communications Technologies (ICTs) as a significant issue for teacher preparation programs. Both increased community access to ICTs and changes to the teacher preparation program may have affected those dispositions in recent years. Although it is not clear which factors have contributed mos...