Technological Change - Impact of Information Technology 1993: Women in Technologyedited by Ashley Goldsworthy and Helen Meredith(National Information Technology Council Inc., Canberra, 1993) pp. xxiv + 155, $25.00, ISBN 0–646–159–151

Prometheus ◽  
1995 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
pp. 153-157
Author(s):  
Penelope Schoeffel
Author(s):  
Kecheng Liu ◽  
Michael Hu

Technological infrastructure must satisfy business requirements, and more importantly, it must be able to evolve to meet the new requirements. This requires not only a good understanding of business strategies, visions and functions, but also the evolvability built into the architecture. This chapter first presents a semiotic approach to the business and information technology (hereafter IT) systems. This approach treats the IT system as an integral part of the business organisation. The chapter then discusses the applicability of a semiotic framework in the e-government in the UK, particularly in an evolvable architecture for e-policing. The semiotic framework is applied in the assessment of the e-government strategies and systems requirements, and in the analysis of these requirements to the e-architecture. A case study demonstrating the applicability of the framework is conducted to evaluate the implementation of the national Information Systems Strategy for the Police Service (ISS4PS) and the Crime Justice Information Technology community (CJIT) in the UK.


Author(s):  
Tega Rexwhite Enakrire

This chapter reviews the Nigerian Information Technology Policy which was approved in 2001. It x-rays the objectives of the policy, the sectoral applications, and the implementation strategies o the policy. A performance review of the policy was also done. The chapter concludes by requesting the government to ensure strict implementation of its national ICT policy in order to achieve the set objectives.


Author(s):  
Arne Sølvberg

The deep penetration of computers in all realms of society makes technological change the key driver for changing our lives. This will result in a change in approach, from viewing the role of IT as mainly supporting other disciplines, to the integration of IT concepts, tools and theory into modelling theories of the supported disciplines. This chapter discusses some aspects of the relationship between the IT as a modelling discipline, and the modelling disciplines of the domains where IT is applied. IT deals with data and data processes, while application domain models deal with entities of the domain and how they interact. Cross-competence models must deal with both, and with how models of the information technology discipline relate to the various models of the domain disciplines.


2013 ◽  
Vol 20 (1) ◽  
pp. 29-48 ◽  
Author(s):  
Eugene N. White

Improved information technology and higher volume should drive orders to be concentrated in one market, lowering the costs of transactions. However, the opposite occurred during the bull market of the 1920s when rapid technological change spawned a flood of new issues. This article employs newly recovered data for 1900-33 on the volume and seat prices of regional exchanges to examine how these rivals successfully competed with the NYSE, leading to its relative decline at the zenith of the market. The history of US exchanges reveals that the tendency towards concentration of trading is periodically reversed when new industries, whose technologies are risky and unfamiliar, are more easily accommodated by existing or new rivals to the dominant exchange.


HortScience ◽  
1996 ◽  
Vol 31 (4) ◽  
pp. 697e-697
Author(s):  
Roy Collins

This paper explores fundamental doctrines of law which increasingly constitute the rules of commerce in deploying the National Information Infrastructure (NII). Particular attention is given to efforts made within the U.S. government to ensure that an appropriate regime of intellectual property law is in place in promoting U.S. leadership in the information-based marketplace. The direct relationship between U.S. copyright law and the networked dissemination of software, audio, graphical and textual works is consequently explored. Also described is the effect of developments in information technology upon the frequently opposing interests of freedom of speech, right to privacy, and governmental regulation.


2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Daniel Alfa Puryono

Technological change is currently growing very rapidly in every year. With the existence of information technology makes people can easily to dig information through the internet world. Especially with regard to agriculture, such as our research is how to detect pests in rice plants. Pest detection is a process of pest analysis to be observed. While the pest of rice plants are brown planthopper, stem borer, green leafhoppers, grasshoppers, ground bunnies, grayak caterpillar. The method used for the application of pest detection applications is the fuzzy tsukamoto method because this method has the precision to detect pests through digital images. The process of this method by knowing the pattern and shape of various pests then calculated using the stages that exist in fuzzy tsukamoto. This android based application is designed to facilitate and can know the type of pest, pest form, pest weakness and time of pest attack on rice plants. So that with the application penguna can easily know the ways of controlling pests and diseases that attack rice plants. Although this application has not provided recommendations to some of the parties of plant medicine


2009 ◽  
pp. 1529-1551
Author(s):  
Knut Blind

This article presents the results of an explorative study for the lifetimes and survival rates of formal standards in telecommunication and information technology. The analysis reveals that the survival rate depends on the dynamic development of technologies and on country-specific characteristics. In a second step, we tried to identify factors influencing the lifetimes of standards. In general, standards replacing an already existing document have an expected survival time compared to documents without a predecessor. Standards with a successor document have, as anticipated, a shorter expected lifetime. Finally, the increased speed of technological change reduces the lifetimes of standards. Based on these first insights, we derive the following recommendations. First, standardisation bodies should adapt their standard maintenance according to the specific requirements of technologies and the related markets, but should also harmonise their processes at the international level in order to avoid frictions for the development of technologies and markets.


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