The Hospitality Metaphor as a Theoretical Lens for Understanding the ICT Adoption Process

2006 ◽  
Vol 21 (3) ◽  
pp. 154-164 ◽  
Author(s):  
Amarolinda Zanela Saccol ◽  
Nicolau Reinhard
Keyword(s):  
Information And Communication Technologies ◽  
Communication Technologies ◽  
Alternative View ◽  
Adoption Process ◽  
Clear Understanding ◽  
Methodological Basis ◽  
Ict Adoption ◽  
Information And Communication ◽  
Mobile Ict

The Hospitality Metaphor proposed by Ciborra represents an alternative view to the traditional models that describe the process of adopting information and communication technologies (ICT). This Metaphor helps us in considering social, behavioral and existential elements related to the adoption process, offering a critical and dialectical view of it. In this paper, we review the philosophical and methodological basis of this Metaphor and its main statements. We also apply it in analyzing a case of mobile ICT adoption. The application of the Hospitality Metaphor enables a clear understanding of this process as an incremental and open one in which social, existential and ‘mundane’ issues play a major role, and where technology reveals its dubious character, leading to unplanned results.

scholarly journals Influence of information and communication technologies on decentralization of organizational structure

2009 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 93-109 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mladen Cudanov ◽  
Ondrej Jasko ◽  
Milos Jevtic
Keyword(s):  
Organizational Structure ◽  
Information And Communication Technologies ◽  
Empirical Research ◽  
Composite Index ◽  
Communication Technologies ◽  
Management Style ◽  
Modern Literature ◽  
Ict Adoption ◽  
Information And Communication

This paper presents research on influence of information and communication technologies on decentralization of organizational structure. An empirical research was conducted, in which decentralization was described by dominant management style was compared to the level of composite index of ICT adoption. Also, consulting experience in four major Serbian companies was used to further elaborate and explain the results in the context of modern literature and practice. Conclusions were that ICT adoption is more frequently expressed in decentralized companies, empirically described by dominant liberal style of management, although ICT adoption can also lead to centralization in some cases, depending on other factors in the organization.

ICT Considerations for a Municipality in South Africa

2011 ◽  
pp. 1158-1170
Author(s):  
Udo Averweg ◽  
Siyabonga Manyanga
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Information And Communication Technologies ◽  
Data Gathering ◽  
Communication Technologies ◽  
Daily Lives ◽  
Goods And Services ◽  
Ict Adoption ◽  
Information And Communication ◽  
Internet Networks ◽  
Transfer Of Information

The availability of publicly accessible Internet networks and services are the first prerequisite in ensuring that all citizens and nations can benefit from information on the World Wide Web (UNESCO, 2003). Information and communication technologies (ICT) are playing an increasingly important role in the daily lives of citizens, revolutionising work and leisure and changing the rules of doing business. ICT encompass all technologies that facilitate the processing and transfer of information and communication services (United Nations, 2002). In the realm of government, ICT applications are promising to enhance the delivery of public goods and services to citizens not only by improving the process and management of government but also by redefining the traditional concepts of citizenship and democracy (Pascual, 2003). The spread of ICT brings hope that governments can transform (Pacific Council on International Policy, 2002). This article is organised as follows: • Background to the research is given • ICT adoption in the eThekwini Municipality in South Africa is described • The research goals, method, data gathering, and results are discussed • Management implications towards implementing a successful e-government strategy are given • Future trends are then suggested and a conclusion is given

Participatory Design and Creativity in Development of Information and Communication Technologies

2011 ◽  
pp. 75-96 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nette Schultz ◽  
Lene Sørensen ◽  
Dan Saugstrup
Keyword(s):  
Information And Communication Technologies ◽  
Design Process ◽  
Participatory Design ◽  
Early Stage ◽  
Communication Technologies ◽  
Development Project ◽  
Communication Tool ◽  
Information And Communication ◽  
Ict Development ◽  
Mobile Ict

This chapter presents and discusses a new design framework for involving users at an early stage in a mobile ICT development project. A user-centered design process, in which participatory design principles are combined with creativity techniques, is used in order to create scenarios as a communication tool between users and system designers. The theoretical basis for the framework is described, leading to a new participatory design and creativity framework. Empirical insight into how the framework has been developed and used in practice is presented based on the experiences and results from a large ICT development project within the ?eld of mobile communication. Finally, the value of applying creativity as part of a participatory design process is discussed.

A METHODOLOGICAL MODEL OF TEACHING STUDENTS WRITTEN SPEECH ON THE BASIS OF CASE TECHNOLOGIES

2018 ◽  
pp. 56-66
Author(s):  
Yulia Igorevna SYOMICH
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Language ◽  
Information And Communication Technologies ◽  
Systems Approach ◽  
Communication Technologies ◽  
Educational Activity ◽  
Methodological Basis ◽  
Teaching Aids ◽  
Information And Communication ◽  
Case Technologies ◽  
Modern Information

One of the most challenging aspects in the field of foreign language for students is a written statement. Modern information and communication technologies create additional methodological conditions for the organization of students’ project activities aimed at the formation of discursive skills in the field of writing. One of such technologies capable of creating conditions for extracurricular foreign language work of students is the linguistic corpus. We offer a methodological model for teaching students to write a statement based on corpus technology. Based on the provisions of the systems approach, the model is a hierarchically built system of components that are interconnected. Such components include: prerequisites, approaches and methods, teaching aids, organizational forms, psychological and pedagogical conditions, assessment criteria and results. As a methodological basis in the model are the system, competence, personality-activity and communicative-cognitive approaches. These approaches are implemented in practice using a number of didactic (the principle of individualization and differentiation of training, the principle of activity, the principle of consciousness, the principle of accessibility, the principle of repetition, the principle of informatization of education, the principle of visibility) and methodical (the principle of approximation of educational activity, the principle communicative orientation, the principle of oral lead) principles. We describe in detail all the components of the methodological model.

scholarly journals Lighting up the Dark: Telecenter Adoption in a Caribbean Agricultural Community

2011 ◽  
Vol 6 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Paola Prado
Keyword(s):  
Information And Communication Technologies ◽  
Rural Areas ◽  
Communication Technologies ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Western Hemisphere ◽  
Agricultural Community ◽  
Ict Adoption ◽  
Information And Communication ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Continuous Running

This study surveyed the residents of El Limón de Ocoa, a remote mountaintop agricultural community in the Dominican Republic, to examine how the community has integrated the use of information and communication technologies (ICTs) since the establishment of a local telecenter in 1997. As the longest continuous-running independent telecenter in the Caribbean nation, this site provides a rich testing ground for the study of the impact of community-driven ICT adoption in under-privileged rural areas of the Western hemisphere. Analysis of survey data found that this remote agricultural community was able to leverage ICTs available at the telecenter in ways that promote social change, foster community prosperity, solidarity, and well-being.

scholarly journals Model of adoption of Information and Communication Technologies of the Universities case of study Technical University of Cotopaxi Latacunga -Ecuador

2020 ◽  
Vol 17 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Information And Communication Technologies ◽  
Learning Process ◽  
Communication Technologies ◽  
Collaborative Tools ◽  
Ict Adoption ◽  
Information And Communication ◽  
Technical University ◽  
Digital Knowledge ◽  
Academic Organization ◽  
Teaching Learning

This investigation is part of a development model to adopt the information and Communication Technologies (ICT) to the teaching-learning process at the Technical University of Cotopaxi. Specifically, to improve the higher education, as a result of the steady advances in the field of digital knowledge and educational technology, for that reason, the Institutions must improve their academic organization and education processes. Through the use of technologies, educational institutions try to integrate information and innovation. In this context and reviewing the problem case through the application of the ICT new Acceptance Model, the student's teaching-learning process will improve. The investigation showed the expected results with the creation of the latest ICT adoption model. Using collaborative tools within a collaborative learning environment (CLE) to elaborate constructs Cronbach's alpha, variance, and correlations and the statistical software were used as the Minitab validated the hypotheses.

scholarly journals Towards an interdisciplinary ICT applied ethics: language matters

2016 ◽  
Vol 16 (3) ◽  
pp. 493-519 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marcelo Buzato
Keyword(s):  
Information And Communication Technologies ◽  
Ethical Issues ◽  
Meaning Making ◽  
Applied Ethics ◽  
Communication Technologies ◽  
Alternative View ◽  
Information And Communication ◽  
Moral Environment ◽  
Interdisciplinary Theory ◽  
Modes Of Existence

Abstract: This study seeks to support an interdisciplinary, theory-practice integrated work on the applied ethics of information and communication technologies (ICT). Current work on applied ICT ethics is of a disciplinary nature and seeks to apply traditional philosophical norms to novel situations that are not easily identified by analogy to previous cases. I propose an alternative view in which ICTs are seen as a moral environment and ethical agents are seen as human-computer hybrids (cyborgs) whose experiences acquire ethical value ecologically. To implement such a view, I propose employing two different kinds of semiotics: a semiotics of meaning-making that is open to the environmental effects of cyborg acts across scales, and a material semiotics that allows for interdisciplinary practitioners to recognize the modes of existence involved in the ethical issues and work out better means-ends relationships among the modes pertinent to each discipline.

scholarly journals Local Learnings: An Essay on Designing to Facilitate Effective Use of ICT s

2005 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Tony Salvador ◽  
John Sherry
Keyword(s):  
Digital Divide ◽  
Information And Communication Technologies ◽  
Communication Technologies ◽  
High Tech ◽  
High Tech Industry ◽  
Design Alternatives ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Ict Adoption ◽  
Information And Communication ◽  
Effective Use

In this essay, we explore some of the details of what it takes to own, use and derive benefit from information and communication technologies, with a focus on regions where ICT adoption and use is especially low. We begin with a fairly meticulous description from our ethnographic work to which we'll refer throughout the paper. Though we consider this particular instance, we note that it represents of a wide range of instances from our ethnographic work in homes and businesses over several years in Brazil, Costa Rica, Chile, Ecuador, Bolivia, Peru, Korea and India. Our goal in this paper, however, is to change the conversation from discussions of infrastructure and capacity building to considerations of local, lived conditions in actual homes and actual businesses to suggest design alternatives that make effective use of ICTs more amenable to various locales. We offer two design directions especially for high tech corporations: Designing for Locus of Control and Designing for Local Participation. Along the way, we'll argue to re-frame of the current conception of "digital divide", putting the burden not on those with limited access, but on limited understanding within the high tech industry.

The Effect of Gender on Perceived Benefits of and Drivers for ICT Adoption in Australian Medical Practices

2011 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 68-85
Author(s):  
Robert C. MacGregor ◽  
Peter N. Hyland ◽  
Charles Harvie
Keyword(s):  
Information And Communication Technologies ◽  
General Practitioners ◽  
Small And Medium Enterprises ◽  
Communication Technologies ◽  
Medical Practices ◽  
Male And Female ◽  
Ict Use ◽  
Ict Adoption ◽  
Information And Communication ◽  
Medium Enterprises

Similar to other Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs), medical practices can gain a great deal by adopting and using Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs). Unlike other SMEs, little is known about General Practitioners’ (GPs) perceptions of the benefits of ICT use or about the differences between these perceptions by male and female GPs. This paper reports a survey of these perceptions of the drivers for and benefits of ICT use by male and female GPs in Australia.

E-Government in Brazil

2010 ◽  
pp. 347-362 ◽  
Author(s):  
José Rodrigues Filho
Keyword(s):  
Civil Rights ◽  
Information And Communication Technologies ◽  
New Technologies ◽  
Research Work ◽  
Science Research ◽  
Communication Technologies ◽  
Clear Understanding ◽  
Modern Democracy ◽  
Information And Communication ◽  
Developed World

Despite the popularity of, and blossoming research on the use of, information and communication technologies (ICTs) in the information society, especially in terms of e-government and e-democracy, little research has been conducted to answer questions related to the effects of ICTs on citizenship, which is said to be at risk. It is claimed that the political science research in modern democracy has narrowed citizenship down to voting, turning democracy into something to be experienced at election time only and not between elections. We need a very clear understanding of the opportunities brought by new technologies and the dangers and risks regarding the realization of citizenship and civil rights. If it is true that ICT has done little to change our democracy, and if it in itself does not guarantee the realization of the rights of the citizens, research work must be developed in order to better analyze the relationship between ICT and citizenship. Because this kind of research is almost non-existent, even in the developed world, this paper attempts to see whether e-government projects in Brazil are designed in ways which reflect our best understanding of freedom, social justice, addressing the sources of inequalities, alienation, and injustice.

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