scholarly journals Modern Approaches to Formation of Digital Infrastructure

2020 ◽  
pp. 88-98
Author(s):  
Yu. I. Gribanov ◽  
M. N. Rudenko ◽  
K. A. Alenina
Keyword(s):  
Information And Communication Technologies ◽  
Communication Networks ◽  
Information Society ◽  
Information Technologies ◽  
New Technologies ◽  
Communication Technologies ◽  
Digital Infrastructure ◽  
Information And Communication ◽  
Concept Of Information ◽  
And Function

The concept of digital infrastructure is rather new and was widely adopted together with distribution of digital technologies and expansions of their functions in social and economic system. The concept of digital infrastructure is closely connected with concepts of information infrastructure and infrastructure of information technologies or information and communication technologies. The last, in turn, relate to a concept of information society. Info-communication technologies and networks modify social interrelations, new technologies create new communities which mainly arise and function on the network principle. Info-communication networks form new tools for interaction.

A Comparison of Information Technology Usage across Supply Chains

2010 ◽  
Vol 3 (4) ◽  
pp. 42-69 ◽  
Author(s):  
George. Kenyon ◽  
Brian D. Neureuther
Keyword(s):  
Supply Chain ◽  
Information And Communication Technologies ◽  
Information Technologies ◽  
New Technologies ◽  
Communication Technologies ◽  
Beef Industry ◽  
Performance Improvements ◽  
Large Numbers ◽  
Information And Communication ◽  
Technical Advances

Historically, the growth of the beef industry has been hampered by various entities, i.e., breeders, cow-calf producers, stockers, backgrounders, processors, etc..., within the beef industry’s supply chain. The primary obstacles to growth are the large numbers of participants in the upstream side of the supply chain and the lack of coordination between them. Over the last decade significant advances have been made in information and communication technologies, and many new companies have been founded to promote these technical advances. This research looks at both the upstream and downstream participants to determine the degree to which information technologies are currently being utilized and the degree that these new technologies have driven performance improvements in the beef industry’s supply chain. Through surveys, the authors find that the beef industry does not use information technologies to their benefit and that the US beef supply chain is not yet strategically poised to enable the use of these technologies.

scholarly journals Promoting the use of health information and communication technologies in Spain: a new approach based on the ICT-H

2015 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
pp. 238-259 ◽  
Author(s):  
Carla Blázquez Fernández ◽  
David Cantarero Prieto ◽  
Marta Pascual Sáez
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Information And Communication Technologies ◽  
Information Technologies ◽  
Health Knowledge ◽  
New Technologies ◽  
Health Care Expenditure ◽  
Communication Technologies ◽  
Care Utilization ◽  
Information And Communication ◽  
Education And Employment

The rapid growth of the use of new technologies is having an important effect on individuals’ health knowledge and behavior. The objective of this paper is to study the potential reduction in health care utilization associated with the expansion of new technologies. Using Spanish micro data from the Survey on the Equipment and Use of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT-H) in Households for 2014 we analyze information technologies equipment, availability of access and means of Internet connection per household. We model the probability of an individual being internet user in Spain as a function of a range of socio-economic characteristics, including individual’s gender, age, education and employment situation. Also, we hypothesized that a greater use of this communication technologies is related to a lesser health care expenditure.

A Comparison of Information Technology in Supply Chains

2010 ◽  
pp. 176-203
Author(s):  
George N. Kenyon ◽  
Brian D. Neureuther
Keyword(s):  
Supply Chain ◽  
Information And Communication Technologies ◽  
Information Technologies ◽  
New Technologies ◽  
Communication Technologies ◽  
Beef Industry ◽  
Performance Improvements ◽  
The Us ◽  
Information And Communication ◽  
Technical Advances

Historically, the growth of the beef industry has been hampered by the various entities (breeders, cowcalf producers, stockers, backgrounders, processors, etc..) within the beef industry’s supply chain. The primary obstacles to growth are the large number of participants in the upstream side of the supply chain and the lack of coordination between them. Over the last decade significant advances have been made in information and communication technologies. Many new companies have been founded to promote these technical advances. This research looks at both the upstream and downstream participants to determine the degree to which information technologies are currently being utilized and the degree to which these new technologies have driven performance improvements in the beef industry’s supply chain. We find through our survey that, by and large, the beef industry does not use information technologies to their benefit and that the US beef supply chain is not yet strategically poised to enable the use of these technologies.

scholarly journals Statistical analysis of the processes of intensification of the introduction of information and communication technologies in the socio-economic sphere of the Russian Federation

2020 ◽  
Vol 208 ◽  
pp. 03050
Author(s):  
Irina A. Kislaya ◽  
Galina A. Bondarenko ◽  
Anna A. Rudyaga ◽  
Sergey S. Aslanyan
Keyword(s):  
Information And Communication Technologies ◽  
Russian Federation ◽  
Information Society ◽  
Information Technologies ◽  
Federal District ◽  
Communication Technologies ◽  
Economic Sphere ◽  
Information And Communication ◽  
The Russian Federation ◽  
Key Indicators

The article analyzes the effectiveness of the development of digitalization processes in the socio-economic sphere of the Russian Federation and its territorial entities. Based on the information arrays of the Federal statistical observation on the use of information technologies and information and telecommunications networks by the population, the level of use of information and communication technologies by the population of the Russian Federation in everyday life is studied. In order to deepen the analysis, the authors produced a ranking of regions of southern Federal district by key indicators, characterizing the use information and communication technologies in 2019 by its population, allowing to allocate and justify the leading factors in the development of the information society and the intensification of the processes of digitalization of economy and social sphere of regions. The authors formulated a number of recommendations for the further development of the information society in the Russian Federation and its territorial entities.

scholarly journals MODERN FORMS AND METHODS OF BİBLİOGRAPHİC ACTİVİTY İN LİBRARİES

2021 ◽  
pp. 12-16
Author(s):  
SOLMAZ AZAY GIZI SADIGOVA
Keyword(s):  
Information And Communication Technologies ◽  
Information Society ◽  
Information Technologies ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Information Service ◽  
Communication Technologies ◽  
Electronic Document ◽  
New Information ◽  
Information And Communication

The article discusses modern forms and methods of bibliographic activity in libraries. The role of modern information and communication technologies is explained. The information society places new demands on all social and communication institutions, including the activation of the formation of electronic document space, libraries and bibliographies. It is noted that the information society, the activation of the formation of electronic document space, puts new demands on all social and communication institutions, including libraries and bibliographies. New information technologies allow to significantly expand, deepen and diversify all forms of information and bibliographic services, which makes them faster, more efficient and more convenient. At the same time, it is explained that with the application of digital technologies, the category of information and bibliographic services is becoming a daily information service used by any reader of any library. Electronic catalogs are becoming powerful information systems to support the work of libraries and perform large-scale tasks.

PECULIARITIES OF USING INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGIES IN TEACHING IN HIGHER EDUCATION

2018 ◽  
pp. 60-62
Author(s):  
Nataliia Postoiuk
Keyword(s):  
Information And Communication Technologies ◽  
Information Technologies ◽  
New Technologies ◽  
Cognitive Activity ◽  
Communication Technologies ◽  
Educational Process ◽  
Educational Activity ◽  
Educational Work ◽  
Advantages And Disadvantages ◽  
Information And Communication

Providing information and communication technologies in Ukrainian education has been analyzed. The use of IСT is an important direction in improving the effectiveness of the educational and cognitive process and provides students with a more intense, dynamic, creative and intensive educational work. The steps of Ukrainian government in implementing information and communication technologies into education have been defined. The articles deals with some official documents that support the implementing of new information technologies in the educational process, which contributes to the intensification of the educational process, allows to use effectively the new technologies of teaching and control. Such documents as the Law of Ukraine "About the National Program of Informatization" and "About the Basic Principles of the Development of the Information Society in Ukraine for 2007-2015" have been considered. Conditions for increasing the cognitive activity of students with the help of information and communication technologies have been revealed, namely the availability of material and technical support, preparation of the teacher for the use of ICT, taking into account the psychophysiological abilities of the person. It has been stated that the intensification of educational activity depend on the possibilities of using information and communication technologies. Also the advantages and disadvantages of using ICT have been considered. It has been concluded that information and communication technologies are highly effective tools that allows to give plenty of information, can increase the speed of perception of knowledge and raise the process of training to a qualitatively higher level.

scholarly journals Information Technologies and Reaching to Information Society

2020 ◽  
Vol 8 (16) ◽  
pp. 412-449
Author(s):  
Mehmet Nesip Öğün ◽  
Behcet ÖZNACAR ◽  
Ali TATAR ◽  
Gülyüz DEBEŞ
Keyword(s):  
Information And Communication Technologies ◽  
Information Society ◽  
Information Technologies ◽  
Information Age ◽  
Communication Technologies ◽  
Global Competition ◽  
The Public ◽  
Governmental Organizations ◽  
Non Governmental Organizations ◽  
Information And Communication

The quick development of information and communication technologies has made the countries using these technologies a step forward in the global competition. Thanks to the contributions of the public, private sector and non-governmental organizations all over the world since the beginning of the 1990s, there has been considerable progress in reaching the information society. The age we live in is called the information age. In this society where knowledge becomes power, a lot is expected from individuals. There is a need for individuals who can reach the information themselves, question the information they obtain, use them in line with their needs, and have the ability to think scientifically. In this study, analysis of written documents was used. In this respect, the analysis of written documents and documents is an information gathering method used in the qualitative research to support the information obtained both on its own and the interview and observation.

A Comparison of Information Technology Usage across Supply Chains

2012 ◽  
pp. 49-75
Author(s):  
George. Kenyon ◽  
Brian D. Neureuther
Keyword(s):  
Supply Chain ◽  
Information And Communication Technologies ◽  
Information Technologies ◽  
New Technologies ◽  
Communication Technologies ◽  
Beef Industry ◽  
Performance Improvements ◽  
Large Numbers ◽  
Information And Communication ◽  
Technical Advances

Historically, the growth of the beef industry has been hampered by various entities, i.e., breeders, cow-calf producers, stockers, backgrounders, processors, etc..., within the beef industry’s supply chain. The primary obstacles to growth are the large numbers of participants in the upstream side of the supply chain and the lack of coordination between them. Over the last decade significant advances have been made in information and communication technologies, and many new companies have been founded to promote these technical advances. This research looks at both the upstream and downstream participants to determine the degree to which information technologies are currently being utilized and the degree that these new technologies have driven performance improvements in the beef industry’s supply chain. Through surveys, the authors find that the beef industry does not use information technologies to their benefit and that the US beef supply chain is not yet strategically poised to enable the use of these technologies.

Gender and IT in the Concept of Sustainability

2011 ◽  
pp. 426-433
Author(s):  
Esther Ruiz Ben
Keyword(s):  
Digital Divide ◽  
Information And Communication Technologies ◽  
Rural Areas ◽  
Information Society ◽  
New Technologies ◽  
Communication Technologies ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Access To Information ◽  
Information And Communication

New information and communication technologies are radically transforming the way that information and knowledge are disseminated and shared around the world. The digital divide between rich and poor countries is still persisting: more than 70% of the world’s Internet users are based in Europe and North America, where—in addition—more than 90% of the data on Africa are stored. Similar gaps persist between urban and rural areas and between men and women, especially in developing countries. Rural women usually have less access than men to information and new technologies (Huyer & Mitter 2003). Lack of information and access to education related to IT also limits women’s influence in their communities and their ability to participate in decision-making. When assessing the opportunities and risks of new technologies, it is essential to give attention to gender differences and to ensuring that women’s voice is heard so that technological developments can be sustainable in the way that best prevents them from increasing inequalities. Particularly gender factors are crucial to develop a sustainable concept of IT evolution. Our aim in this article is to show how the concept of gender and IT can be integrated in a wider conceptual framework of sustainability. First, we will explain the concept of digital divide from a global perspective and the importance to understand the gender dimension within this conceptualization. Concerns about the disparities between industrialized and developing countries, especially with respect to Internet access and use, have touched off a worldwide debate about the existence of a global digital divide. From a domestic perspective at a national level or even at a regional level thinking about the European Union for instance, the term digital divide has shown to have powerful symbolic weight, and hence to be a useful tool with which to mobilize political support for government programmes designed to bridge the gaps between so called “information haves” and “information have-nots.” The OECD defines the “digital divide” as “…the gap between individuals, households, business and geographic areas at different socio-economic levels with regard both to their opportunities to access information and communication technologies (ICTs) and to their use of the Internet for a wide variety of activities. The digital divide reflects various differences among and within countries.” (OECD, 2001, p. 5). Access to information and communication technologies is considered as the first stage to become an “information have.” However, access is not limited to the infrastructures: an important factor contributing to the digital divide is the extended and hegemonic use of English as access language in the Internet. This is one of the reasons for instance, why the Hispanics in the USA a lower access to the Internet show as Wilhelm (2000) argues. Moreover, even among “information haves” or in other words, among those having access to information through information technologies we can observe digital gaps. DiMaggio and Hargittai (2001, p. 4) refers for instance to the ability to evaluate the quality of information: “By ‘digital divide,’ we refer to inequalities in access to the Internet, extent of use, knowledge of search strategies, quality of technical connections and social support, ability to evaluate the quality of information, and diversity of uses.” This aspect is particularly related to the inequalities according to the educational level of the “information haves.” Furthermore, when carried to the international level, the term “digital divide” arguably misconstrues the issue and is unduly pessimistic. For example, the term directs our attention to relative inequalities in the distribution of information age resources, when what really matters to the quality of life in a given country is its absolute level of resources and the efficacy of the institutional order in redistribution and social justice. Qureshi (2005, p. 1) refers to the results of a recent study about the digital divide showing that “it is access to information, services, and expertise through access to the network, combined with ICT skills that contribute to economic growth and a decrease in this gap.” Instead of fixating on the existence of a divide, it would be far better to focus our attention on the “global digital opportunity,” because that is what really confronts us today, an unprecedented opportunity to move swiftly up the path towards global digital development. From a gender perspective, it is important to improve the access of women, particularly women in underdeveloped countries and rural areas to knowledge and information through IT, but it is also important that women participate in the design and production of IT. We argue that the digital divide must consider also the gap regarding IT shaping. Shaping IT means nowadays in much extent shaping society and nature and thus we plaid for a concept of sustainable information society with a participatory approach that allows the integration of excluded perspectives and moving beyond consumerism fixations taking local voices and the co-evolution of nature and society as a point of departure. Particularly women’s perspectives excluded in great extent through gendering processes must be taken into account as they reinforce other embedded inequalities factors such as education or age. Understanding gendering processes within the shaping of IT and society is crucial in the concept of sustainable information society. However, IT development constitutes also a complex co-evolution of nature and society in different world regions. Particularly sustainability scholars have attempted to define these both basic co-interacting spaces. In the next section, we show an overview of the basic assumptions of sustainability that have lead to a more focused concept of sustainable information society.

Information and Communication Technologies

2011 ◽  
pp. 143-189
Author(s):  
Maria Manuela Cunha ◽  
Goran D. Putnik
Keyword(s):  
Electronic Commerce ◽  
Information And Communication Technologies ◽  
Communication Networks ◽  
Information Technologies ◽  
New Technology ◽  
Communication Technologies ◽  
Electronic Marketplaces ◽  
Organizational Models ◽  
The Sixties ◽  
Information And Communication

“The introduction of reliable, low-cost electronic computers into the economy was the most revolutionary technical innovation of the twentieth century” (Freeman & Soete, 1997, p. 158). “The fact that a new technology has many potential applications does not mean that all of these will occur simultaneously, or even over a short period. On the contrary, the assimilation of a major new technology into the economic and social system is a matter of decades, not years, and is related to the phenomenon of long cycles in the economy” (Freeman & Soete, 1997, p. 184). This was what, in fact, Schumpeter (1939) suggested. The focus of information technology within organizations has shifted over the last thirty years, from improving the efficiency of business processes within organizations, to improving the effectiveness of the whole value chain. During the sixties and seventies, businesses focused on the use of mainframes to process large quantities of data. In the 80s, businesses focused on using personal desktopcomputers to improve personal efficiency. The last decade has seen the use of information and communication technologies to create electronic networks within and between organizations. The information and communication technologies (ICT) of today consist on advanced communication systems that, combined with advanced information technologies, allow the overcoming of time and space conditionings, by means of: (1) communication networks (telephonically, satellite, cable, etc.) that transport information, (2) basic services (electronic mail, interactive video) that allow the utilization of networks, and (3) applications (electronic commerce, electronic marketplaces, teleoperation, electronic business) offering specialized solutions for groups of users. Information and communication technologies and systems are the support of concepts as distributed systems, computer-supported cooperative work, electronic commerce, electronic marketplaces, teleoperation, virtual prototyping, concurrent engineering, telemedicine, telework, etc., most of which, more deeply or less deeply, are connected with the implementation of some of the emerging ICT-based organizational models, to which the present book is a contribution. In this chapter we present some of the main ICT and some ICT-based techniques and applications that can support and enable the new organizational models, in particular, that can support Agile/Virtual Enterprise integration. Addressed is the impact of the new information and communication technologies. This chapter also reviews some of the most relevant technologies that can contribute to support the A/VE model, and introduces relevant applications of these information and communication technologies, some of then considered of relevance to the implementation of the Market of Resources. Finally, this chapter addresses the issue of information integration, presenting recent developments.

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