scholarly journals Głosowanie elektroniczne – nowe wyzwanie dla demokracji?

2018 ◽  
pp. 123-134
Author(s):  
Magdalena MUSIAŁ -KARG MUSIAŁ -KARG
Keyword(s):  
New Technologies ◽  
Information And Communications Technology ◽  
Electronic Voting ◽  
Information Revolution ◽  
Communications Technology ◽  
National Sovereignty ◽  
Significant Challenge ◽  
Electronic Democracy ◽  
The Face ◽  
The Subject

The notion of democracy poses a significant challenge and problem in modern considerations on history, philosophy and politics. At present, in the face of the so-called information revolution, democracy has undoubtedly undergone profound and easily visible transformations. It can be said that the application of IT to exercise democratic power has brought about a revolution that will span a period of many years, given the different potential differing states have to spread the new technologies. The development of information and communications technology (ICT) has introduced new notions related to democracy, such as teledemocracy, technopolitics or electronic democracy (e-democracy). The subject of this paper, electronic voting (e-voting) is among the highly significant instruments of e-democracy. Electronic voting is the fulfillment of the principle of national sovereignty as it can be applied in the procedures of both indirect (e-elections) and direct (e-referendum) democracy.

scholarly journals ICT Adoption by Library Professionals in India: Challenges and Opportunities

2021 ◽  
Vol 8 (3) ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Information And Communications Technology ◽  
Technology Literacy ◽  
Educational Institutions ◽  
Communications Technology ◽  
Training Environment ◽  
Managerial Support ◽  
Challenges And Opportunities ◽  
Ict Adoption ◽  
The Subject ◽  
And Training

In this research, the use of ICTs in India by librarians, particularly in the use of mobile phones, was the focus of this study. To gather the required data for the research, surveys were performed and this approach was implemented. The questionnaire was presented to eight librarians from eight teacher college libraries in the subject of study who responded to it, and the results were used to inform the research. According to the conclusions of the study’s materials, ICT use by professional librarians in India is still a relatively recent phenomena, and as a result, it is still in its early phases. The study showed that while libraries utilise information and communications technology (ICT) to deliver some services, these services are insufficient in part as a result of challenges such as a lack of money, a scarcity of trained personnel, and a lack of managerial support. According to the findings of this study, college librarians should get training in information and communications technology literacy since ICT is a dynamic, continuously practising, and training environment that they should take advantage of, as demonstrated by the results of the study. It was proposed that students have access to contemporary ICT instruments, such PCs, printers and scanners, to help them with their home maintenance tasks in order to enhance the administration of educational institutions. The recommendation was also made that libraries should get sufficient help in this respect. The research also advised that college bibliographers participate in attachment programmes with the help of students at the major university libraries to understand the finest practises of modern librarians.

Facing the Challenges — Using Information and Communications Technology to Support Teaching and Learning

2003 ◽  
Vol 17 (1) ◽  
pp. 59-72 ◽  
Author(s):  
Liam Heaney
Keyword(s):  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
New Technologies ◽  
Education Technology ◽  
Information And Communications Technology ◽  
Communications Technology ◽  
Technology In The Classroom ◽  
Quality Of Teaching ◽  
Key Issues ◽  
Integration Of Ict

This article explores some of the key issues associated with the use of information and communications technology in the classroom. It discusses the relevance of an education technology strategy and the implications of such a strategy for both teachers and pupils alike. The integration of ICT into the curriculum is considered by many as the means whereby pupils, and learners in the broader context of education, can enhance their knowledge, skills and understanding. As a way of demonstrating how this might be achieved, a detailed teaching project is presented for the reader's consideration. The project focuses on a topic on ‘Dinosaurs’ which has been developed with pupils aged 10 to 11 years of age. A detailed scheme of work and lesson plans are included, as are teaching notes, for those who wish to carry out the project for themselves. The article concludes with the proposition that ICT has the potential to enhance the quality of teaching and learning within the classroom. Inevitably this will require facing a number of challenges. One such challenge is that of coping with the change that will inevitably result from the new technologies.

Knowledge Economies and their Political Construction

2019 ◽  
pp. 136-215
Author(s):  
Torben Iversen ◽  
David Soskice
Keyword(s):  
Information And Communications Technology ◽  
Communications Technology ◽  
Political Opposition ◽  
Occupy Movement ◽  
Advanced Capitalism ◽  
Technology Revolution ◽  
The Face ◽  
Knowledge Economies ◽  
Capitalist Democracies ◽  
Advanced Capitalist

This chapter argues that the information and communications technology revolution clearly illustrates the underlying hypotheses of the book: first, that advanced capitalist democracies have been remarkably resilient in the face of major shocks—even given the rise of populism, neither advanced capitalism, nor advanced democracy, nor the autonomy of the advanced nation state, are under attack. Second, that the advanced capitalist democracies face political opposition from groups who feel that they and their children are left out of and excluded from the benefits of the “American Dream” (or equivalent); and can organize (or be organized) politically. Third, apart from small isolated groups—for example, the Occupy movement—effective political opposition is in no way socialist, nor is it concerned to destroy or take over advanced capitalism.

scholarly journals Aspects of Professionalism, Ethics and Lifelong Learning for Australian ICT Professionals

2009 ◽  
Vol 4 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Bill Davey ◽  
Arthur Tatnall
Keyword(s):  
Professional Development ◽  
Lifelong Learning ◽  
Undergraduate Education ◽  
New Technologies ◽  
Further Education ◽  
Information And Communications Technology ◽  
Communications Technology ◽  
Knowledge Based ◽  
Body Of Knowledge ◽  
Ict Industry

In a change from 20 years ago, the majority of Information and Communications Technology (ICT) professionals in Australia now have some form of initial tertiary qualification and also understand the need for keeping up-to-date with new technologies, processes and concepts. They thus typically engage in some form of on-going professional development or Lifelong Learning. Not all, however, fully realise the need to keep up with other issues such as ethics and professionalism. In this article we look at what is meant by ICT professionalism, particularly from an Australian perspective, and consider its importance. Professionalism in ICT should be seen as a way of maximising quality and reducing risks. The ICT industry itself is changing and the Australian Computer Society is in the process of developing a new ICT Body of Knowledge, based on specific Technical and also Professional Knowledge. This article examines how the issue of professionalism is handled in Australia in both undergraduate education and lifelong learning of ICT professionals. It gives examples of how ICT professionalism in undergraduate courses is handled, and looks at examples of why and how ICT professionals undertake further education and lifelong learning.

scholarly journals Wyzwania definicyjne start-upów

2020 ◽  
Vol 11 ◽  
pp. 54-66
Author(s):  
Magdalena Andrejczuk
Keyword(s):  
Boundary Conditions ◽  
New Technologies ◽  
Market Sector ◽  
Common Definition ◽  
Start Up ◽  
The Face ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Start Ups

In recent years, with the development of entrepreneurship, a new concept has been coined — a start-up (or a startup). Because of the lack one common definition thereof, some questions emerge: Is any newly established company a start-up, or does this term refer only to companies fromthe branch/market sector of new technologies, or maybe there are other decisive requirements? The significance of this issue follows research and analysis of the entities are undertaken and also in the face of work on Prosta Spółka Akcyjna (a new legalform for economic entities of the discussed kind). The aim of the article is to present various ways of defining start-ups present in the subject literature, but also in various initiatives and activities organized in the start-up community. On this basis, an attempt is made to determine the boundary conditions of the concept of start-up and to characterize it

scholarly journals Embedding Digital Advantage: A Five-Stage Maturity Model for Digital Communities

2015 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Andy Williamson
Keyword(s):  
Digital Divide ◽  
New Technologies ◽  
Information And Communications Technology ◽  
Maturity Model ◽  
Communications Technology ◽  
Stage Model ◽  
Digital Communities ◽  
Community Technology ◽  
New Knowledge ◽  
Technology Capability

Information and Communications Technology (ICT) has the potential to offer citizens new ways with which to engage in the process of democracy. It is not sufficient that communities and citizens have access to ICT for the digital divide to be bridged; such communities need to also become literate in the new technologies. Resources need to be made available that are useful, interesting and relevant. Ultimately, communities need to be empowered to become more than receivers of information and services via technology; they must become producers of new knowledge and information. Such publications are then able to represent a community’s unique viewpoint to a wider audience.   This paper describes a five stage model for community ICT engagement and maturity. This model is non-linear and temporal and can be used as an audit of current community technology capability for assessing maturity and for establishing clear milestones within a community ICT framework. Such a model is useful for assessing and developing eDemocracy issues within individual groups and communities and as a way of mapping progress within a wider community, city or regional setting.

Hedonismo y Fractura de la Modernidad

1998 ◽  
pp. 1-7
Author(s):  
Roberto Dante Flores
Keyword(s):  
New Technologies ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Media Technologies ◽  
The World ◽  
The Face ◽  
The Subject ◽  
New Form ◽  
Crisis Of Modernity ◽  
The Impact ◽  
The Relationship

This is an analysis of the ethico-cultural crisis of modernity and the emergence of the so-called postmodern aesthetic expressions (and conduct), examined principally from the point of view of Frederic Jameson and its coincidence with other authors (D. Lowe, G. Lipovetsky, and P. Virilio). I also investigate the relationship between the new sensitivities of the end of the century and the notion of justice, and its moral. This is seen by the authors as a consequence of the impact that mass-media technologies have produced in individuals leading to a new form of experience: the aesthetization of life and the fragmentation of the subject. The culture of the image is omnipresent, diluting art into aesthetization and the subject into the objectivization of consumption. We can see that there is a loss of historicity in the postmodern individual-originating from the speed of audiovisual information-upon perceiving, on a screen, the world in an instanct, without references to either a past or a future. The new technologies are the product of a new stage of capitalism, even more so than in the modernity of massive consumption. As a consequence of these three factors (aesthetization, ahistoricity, consumption), there has emerged a hedonistic ethos which differentiates itself from its modern vanguardist antecedents in that it is no longer the transgressor of a religious moral, or the secularism of duty, because pleasure is no longer forbidden. This framework, which is lacking in hard principles and is sustained by 'weak and conviction free' individuals is compatible with the liberal ethic of Rawls. In the face of the contradiction of modernity, we shall reconsider, as factors of socio-political construction, the moral values provided by the world's great religions.

E-Justice

E-Justice ◽  
2010 ◽  
pp. 204-228
Author(s):  
Anne Wallace
Keyword(s):  
Information And Communication Technology ◽  
Communication Technology ◽  
Justice System ◽  
New Technologies ◽  
Information And Communications Technology ◽  
Communications Technology ◽  
New Paradigm ◽  
Traditional Methods ◽  
Information And Communication ◽  
Innovative Potential

A 1999 Australian report on the prospective impact of information and communications technology on the justice system presented a vision of how technology might result in a new paradigm of ‘e-justice.’ Since that report was written, Australian courts have had nearly two decades of experience of the introduction of new technologies. This chapter discusses the experience of e-justice in Australia to date and argues that it still has some way to go to achieve the goals set out in the 1999 report. It suggests that, to date, the implementation of information and communication technology (ICT) in courts has largely concentrated on enhancing traditional methods of delivering justice. The innovative potential of technology is something that courts are still coming to terms with. In particular, courts have been slow to embrace the possibilities for the delivery of new kinds of services that will transform the nature of their relationship with users.

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