The study intended to analyze the optimum solution to enhance utilization of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) services to the grassroots community in Dodoma Municipal Council (DMC) in Tanzania. The specific objectives of this study were to: identify the availability and use of ICT infrastructures for service delivery at grassroots level; identify possible Local Government Authorit...

هدف از مطالعه حاضر، بررسی نقش توسعه زیر ساخت های فناوری اطلاعات و ارتباطات و تولیدات دانش بنیان کشاورزی در فراهم‏آوری عدالت اقتصادی از طریق توزیع درآمد مناسب در مناطق روستایی کشور است. برای این منظور از عوامل مهم و بنیادی تأثیر‏گذار نظیر فناوری اطلاعات و ارتباطات(ict)، ارزش افزوده بخش کشاورزی، نرخ بیکاری و شهرنشینی بر متغیر توزیع درآمد به عنوان شاخصی برای سنجش وضعیت عدالت اقتصادی استفاده شده اس...

BACKGROUND The use of information and communication technology (ICT) in health professional education is increasing rapidly. Health professional educators need to be responsive to health professionals' information and communication technological needs; however, there is a paucity of information about educators' attitudes to, and capabilities with, ICT. METHODS Fifty-two health professional ed...

by the advent and development of information and communication technology (ict), the micro and macro economic variables are changed. in other words, the exclusive characteristics of ict can alter the job framework in a society. this fact will be done in our country, too. because of the importance of the employment issue in iran, a research in about of effect of ict on this variable in iran is s...

Teachers need to be competent in integrating ICT into education to support teaching and learning process. This study aims to investigate both the pre-service and starting teachers’ perceptions for ICT-related variables— perceived ICT competence, perceived competence in ICT integration, attitudes towards ICT, anxiety around ICT usage, external barriers to ICT integration, ICT-related courses, pe...

This paper clarifies the role of ICT capital in economic growth. Albeit ICT remarkably contributes to economic growth, there are few studies on ICT capital in ICT sector from theoretical point of view. In this paper, production function of ICT which is used as input of intermediate good in final good and ICT sectors is incorporated into our model. In this setting, we analyze the role of ICT on ...

This paper presents the results of an exploratory study carried out to learn about the use and impact of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) on Small and Medium Sized Enterprises (SMEs) in Oman. The study investigates ICT infrastructure, software used, driver for ICT investment, perceptions about business benefits of ICT and outsourcing trends of SMEs. The study provides an insight...

This paper presents the results of an exploratory study carried out to learn about the usages and effects of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) in Small and Medium Sized Enterprises (SMEs) in Oman. The study investigates ICT infrastructure, software used, driver for ICT investment, perceptions about business benefits of ICT and outsourcing trends of SMEs. The study provides an ins...

In this paper we investigate, first, the characteristics of the firms that reduced their ICT investment due to the 2008 crisis, focusing on the firms’ ICT characteristics in terms of the ICT, budget, skills and applications used. The analysis of the ICT characteristics that may influence the likelihood of having reduced ICT investment as a consequence of the crisis is primarily explorative, thu...