scholarly journals Aplikasi Perpustakaan On-line: (Kajian Awal Layanan On-line Perpustakaan Perguruan Tinggi Menggunakan Aplikasi Go-jek©)

2016 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 62
Author(s):  
Syukron Syukron
Keyword(s):  
Information And Communication Technologies ◽  
Academic Library ◽  
Communication Technologies ◽  
Information Resource ◽  
Library Services ◽  
For Profit ◽  
Not For Profit ◽  
Application Model ◽  
Information And Communication ◽  
On Line

Library is an information resource centre that provides intangible services. Library is also known as a not-for-profit-organization that provides places for reading. Libraries in Indonesia have not been professionally administered. But now library institutions at all levels, including those at the academic institutions, begin to revamp, continue the scientific tradition, develop the nation's civilization to save and store book collection in various subjects and languages with the help if information and communication technologies (ICT). The study explores the potentials that can be collaborated between library services and its information strength and the networked application such go-jek. The author identified the correlation between go-jek application model and academic library services. The study showed there was mutual need for both sides that could be collaborated.

Engaging the Community Through E-Democracy in South Australia

2009 ◽  
pp. 185-202
Author(s):  
Kate Alport
Keyword(s):  
Information And Communication Technologies ◽  
State Government ◽  
Best Practice ◽  
South Australia ◽  
Communication Technologies ◽  
For Profit ◽  
Leading Role ◽  
Not For Profit ◽  
Practice Models ◽  
Information And Communication

This chapter examines the spread of Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) in South Australia. It starts by assessing South Australia’s leading role in the adoption of democratic reforms in the nineteenth century. It then suggests that there is not the same enthusiasm for the more contemporary reforms found in the implementation of e-democracy. The chapter draws from an appraisal of internet based initiatives by government, not for profit and private agencies and sets these against best practice models for community engagement. Based on this research it concludes that there is little originality and initiative in the formal State Government sites and that there is little designed to foster e-democracy. What innovation there is can be found in more local and specific community based applications of ICT.

Web design skills and competencies: an empirical analysis

2002 ◽  
Vol 21 (2) ◽  
pp. 115-128
Author(s):  
Francesca Sgobbi
Keyword(s):  
Information And Communication Technologies ◽  
Web Design ◽  
Communication Technologies ◽  
Knowledge Domains ◽  
Skill Gaps ◽  
Key Factor ◽  
Fast Pace ◽  
Information And Communication ◽  
On Line ◽  
Design Skills

The availability of proper human capital represents a key-factor in order to support the current fast pace of diffusion of Internet-based applications. The careful assessment of the skills and competencies required to manage and develop Internet technologies in different application domains represents a necessary step to solve the emerging skill shortage and skill gap problems. While most existing analyses of skill needs in information and communication technologies deal with broad professional categories, the paper focuses the attention on a specific professional figure, the Web designer. By resorting to an on-line questionnaire administered to a sample of Italian Web designers, the paper shows that jobholders recognise greater usefulness to organisational rather than technical knowledge domains. However, perceived skill gaps are larger in the case of technical skills and competencies. Moreover, specialisation paths are emerging.

Telemedicine and Alzheimer Disease

2013 ◽  
pp. 191-206
Author(s):  
Letteria Spadaro ◽  
Francesca Timpano ◽  
Silvia Marino ◽  
Placido Bramanti
Keyword(s):  
Information And Communication Technologies ◽  
Coming Out ◽  
Communication Technologies ◽  
Social Needs ◽  
Model Of Care ◽  
Application Model ◽  
Information And Communication ◽  
Process Methodology ◽  
Networking Technologies

The focus of this chapter is to asses a new model of care in dementia, particularly Alzheimer’s Disease (AD). According with sociotechnical approaches, the authors describe a proof of concept, Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) intervention, as a technical and organizational model of robust, reliable, and efficient clinical practice to meet the medical, psychological, and social needs of AD people and their family. The authors also propose the “Identification-Recognition-Evaluation-Application Model” as process methodology in a telemedicine project. In this perspective, the technology has to be analyzed as technology-in-use, a process coming out from an ecology of specific actions and actors. Finally, the authors describe their experience of a longitudinal study in which ICT networking technologies are used to implement coping strategies, in order to improve the quality of life of AD families.

Libraries and Preservation of Indigenous Knowledge in Developing Countries

2014 ◽  
pp. 169-179
Author(s):  
Abdulmumin Isah ◽  
M. T. Bashorun ◽  
K. T. Omopupa
Keyword(s):  
Developing Countries ◽  
Indigenous Knowledge ◽  
Information And Communication Technologies ◽  
Communication Technologies ◽  
Library Services ◽  
Cultural Institutions ◽  
Traditional Role ◽  
Information And Communication

This chapter traces the role of libraries in the preservation of Indigenous Knowledge (IK) in developing countries. It also highlights the nature of indigenous knowledge and the traditional role of libraries at preserving it for posterity; it discusses current issues surrounding the management of IK in libraries, archives, and other cultural institutions. It examines the various use of indigenous knowledge by array of information users within and outside the libraries. It x-rayed the traditional library services of identifying, acquiring, organizing, and presentation of IK to the adoption of Information and Communication Technologies. It concludes with the challenges in IK preservation and suggests measures that can be taken to alleviate the challenges.

Progress and Prospects for Estonian Libraries

2011 ◽  
pp. 221-237 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sirje Virkus
Keyword(s):  
Information And Communication Technologies ◽  
Information And Communication Technology ◽  
Communication Technology ◽  
Rapid Development ◽  
Communication Technologies ◽  
Library Services ◽  
The Past ◽  
Challenges And Opportunities ◽  
Information And Communication ◽  
New Challenges

The rapid development of information and communication technology (ICT) over the past decades has created new challenges and opportunities for libraries and librarians. As a result of ICT, library services to users have changed, the management of libraries has evolved and the roles of librarians have multiplied. The new millennium presents new opportunities to exploit an ever-growing array of information and communication technologies in the provision of library services. As one millennium draws to a close and a new one begins, there are a lot of questions to answer:

scholarly journals Fifteen Years of Online Journalism. Interaction and Hypertextuality

Comunicar ◽  
2009 ◽  
Vol 17 (33) ◽  
pp. 35-43 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lizy Navarro-Zamora
Keyword(s):  
Information And Communication Technologies ◽  
Communication Technologies ◽  
Communication Process ◽  
Online Journalism ◽  
Radio Stations ◽  
International Media ◽  
New Information ◽  
Information And Communication ◽  
On Line ◽  
The Relationship

On-line journalism completes 15 years of existence in 2009. The characteristics of journalism have evolved with information technology. Interaction and hypertextuality are two elements that configure the essence of the relationship between journalism and new information and communication technologies. This research analyzes the profile and elements of on-line journalism, as well as the transmitter and receiver in this communication process. The research corpus is 10 international media and the following Mexican media: 100 newspapers, 30 television stations and 30 radio stations, all with more than 10 years’ on-line experience. Also, two hundred e-mails were sent out to journalists, leader writers and webmasters. En el 2009 se cumplen 15 años del inicio del periodismo en Internet. Las características del periodismo han evolucionado con la convergencia digital. La interactividad e hipertextualidad son dos elementos que configuran la esencia de la relación entre periodismo y tecnologías de la información y comunicación. En esta investigación se realizó el análisis del perfil y elementos del periodismo digital, así como el emisor y receptor de este proceso comunicativo. El corpus de la investigación fueron diez medios internacionales y los siguientes medios nacionales: 100 periódicos, 30 cadenas de televisión y 30 emisoras de radio que desde hace más de 10 años están en Internet. También se realizó el envío de 2.000 correos electrónicos a un corpus de otros tantos periodistas: reporteros, editorialistas y webmaster.

scholarly journals From Pebble to Avalanche: How Information and Communications Technologies Empowered Underprivileged Actors Through Ages

2014 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Piotr Konieczny
Keyword(s):  
Social Movements ◽  
Information And Communication Technologies ◽  
Communication Technologies ◽  
Review Literature ◽  
Information And Communications Technologies ◽  
Social Actors ◽  
For Profit ◽  
Communications Technologies ◽  
Information And Communication ◽  
International Social

Accompanied by growing literacy, information and communication technologies (ICT) have empowered states, organizations, but also – and perhaps most crucially – individuals, creating a more liberal and democratic environment. While also used as tools of social control, those technologies have often been used by revolutionaries and other agents of social change, aiding not only the surveillance state and for-profit organizations, but also individuals and non-state social actors, like social movements. In this paper I review literature on literacy and ICT, and, backed up by the results of a recent survey of international social movements, I conclude that at this pattern of empowerment, traceable throughout the human history, is continuing with the most recent information revolution.

scholarly journals Several Contemporary Economy Features, Consequences of Internet Expansion and I.C.T. Innovations in the World

2019 ◽  
Vol 14 (3) ◽  
pp. 175-181 ◽  
Author(s):  
Șerbu Răzvan
Keyword(s):  
Information And Communication Technologies ◽  
Turning Point ◽  
Communication Technologies ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Future Developments ◽  
Internet Firms ◽  
The World ◽  
Information And Communication ◽  
On Line ◽  
Different Levels

AbstractThe Internet has reach half of the population of the planet and in the latest three years more than 700 millions users came on line from the emerging world. Most of them are coming now from the poorer population. This it may be a turning point for their economic development. This paper attempts to outline some possible future developments of the contemporary economy within the new digital transformation and development of internet firms in emerging markets, some of the pluses and minuses, some of the opportunities and threats brought by the expansion of the Internet and information and communication technologies at different levels. We will present some significant aspects about this impact for individuals and for companies especially in Eastern Europe but also around the world. The study intends to deliver also analysis at the level of governmental reactions. Governments have gone through different sentiments that have led to different responses to these technologies. A new revolution that is about to begin it will be grounded on blockchain the technologies that cryptocurrencies are based on. What was initially translated as a threat to governments and central banks can become a solution if it’s deal cautiously.

Moving with Time and Strategy

2011 ◽  
pp. 146-161
Author(s):  
Sandeep Bhaskar
Keyword(s):  
Information And Communication Technologies ◽  
Development Strategy ◽  
Agricultural Sector ◽  
Action Plan ◽  
Communication Technologies ◽  
Sustainable Community Development ◽  
For Profit ◽  
Lack Of Information ◽  
The Face ◽  
Information And Communication

This chapter presents evidence of using information and communication technologies (ICTs) towards the goal of sustainable community development. It argues that the biggest impediment to the growth of communities in the developing world is a lack of information and a fair incentive system, both of which can be addressed through ICTs. A three pronged action plan comprising of a development strategy, an information strategy, and a technology strategy is proposed towards this effect. The paper also showcases how a for-profit business, ITC Limited, transformed the face of agriculture in some parts of India, and how this model can be replicated in other parts of the world. It concludes with a description of the agricultural sector in Bangladesh and show how lessons drawn from the Indian case can be applied to Bangladesh and other developing countries.

scholarly journals Determinants of Bachelor Students’ Intention to Enter a Research-Oriented Career

2016 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 16
Author(s):  
Dirk Heerwegh ◽  
Jef C. Verhoeven ◽  
Kurt De Wit
Keyword(s):  
Regression Model ◽  
Information And Communication Technologies ◽  
Communication Technologies ◽  
Negative Influence ◽  
Research Needs ◽  
Factors Influencing ◽  
Career Opportunities ◽  
Frequency Of Use ◽  
Information And Communication ◽  
On Line

<p>The career opportunities of university bachelor students are multiple. Some bachelor students might consider a career in research. In this article, we explore, first, the degree to which bachelor students in a research intensive university intend to enter a research-oriented career, and second, the factors influencing this intention. 1,232 students of a research-intensive university answered an on line questionnaire. 4.08% scored 4 or higher out of 5 on a scale that measures the intention to become a researcher. A regression model (R² = .47) showed that among a set of 13 variables, the attitude towards research proved to have the strongest influence on the intention to enter a research-oriented career, next to gender, and study major. The occupational focus, frequency of use of ICT (information and communication technologies) instruments, and the opinion that scientific research needs ICT have a negative influence.</p>

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