scholarly journals Understanding E-Democracy Government-Led Initiatives for Democratic Reform

2013 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 141-154 ◽  
Author(s):  
Julie Freeman ◽  
Sharna Quirke
Keyword(s):  
Information And Communication Technologies ◽  
Communication Technologies ◽  
Information Provision ◽  
Civic Involvement ◽  
Democratic Reform ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
The Everyday ◽  
Democratic Engagement ◽  
Information And Communication ◽  
Ongoing Dialogue

Information and communication technologies (ICTs) offer opportunities for greater civic participation in democratic reform. Government ICT use has, however, predominantly been associated with e-government applications that focus on one-way information provision and service delivery. This article distinguishes between e-government and processes of e-democracy, which facilitate active civic engagement through two-way, ongoing dialogue. It draws from participation initiatives undertaken in two case studies. The first highlights efforts to increase youth political engagement in the local government area of Milton Keynes in the United Kingdom. The second is Iceland’s constitutional crowdsourcing, an initiative intended to increase civic input into constitutional reform. These examples illustrate that, in order to maintain legitimacy in the networked environment, a change in governmental culture is required to enable open and responsive e-democracy practices. When coupled with traditional participation methods, processes of e-democracy facilitate widespread opportunities for civic involvement and indicate that digital practices should not be separated from the everyday operations of government. While online democratic engagement is a slowly evolving process, initial steps are being undertaken by governments that enable e-participation to shape democratic reform.

The Place of ICT in Global Planning

2002 ◽  
pp. 136-149
Author(s):  
Abel Usoro
Keyword(s):  
Information And Communication Technologies ◽  
Communication Technologies ◽  
Information Provision ◽  
Multinational Companies ◽  
Predictor Variables ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
Information And Communication ◽  
Global Planning ◽  
Potential Tool

There is a general agreement in the literature that social, technological, political, cultural, and economic factors encourage a greater number of businesses to globalize their operations and markets. To operate in more than one market or country involves complexity on a larger scale than to operate locally. The complexity is combined with increasing risks, a faster pace of change, and the difficulties of managing an organization in more than one country. Information and communication technologies (ICT) act not only as an imperative to globalize but also as a potential tool to help global managers to plan, and yet there is no conclusive study that these technologies are adequately providing assistance. Indeed, existing studies suggest that there is much room for improvement. At the same time, there is no coherent and well-tested theory to explain or predict the use of information and communication technologies for global planning. To bridge the knowledge gap, this paper presents a causal model that groups predictor variables of the use of ICT in global planning under organizational, ICT, personal, and infrastructural factors. It also reports on a pilot study in which one hundred questionnaires were distributed to multinational companies in the United Kingdom (UK) and in South Africa (SA) to collect information to examine the role of ICT in global planning using the model. The result suggested among others that the Internet forms the most popular platform for building global planning tools. Factors most important to managers include the provision of timely information, provision of report and presentation facilities, and support for group working and alternative (highly summarized and detailed) views of information. On the other hand, managers appear not to be very satisfied with the provision of technology for global planning, partly because it does not adequately provide for creativity needed in global planning. Recommendations are made based on the findings, and areas for further research to enhance the validity of the model are highlighted.

Education for Liberation

2011 ◽  
pp. 198-231
Author(s):  
M. Fragaki ◽  
A. Lionarakis
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Transformative Learning ◽  
Learning Community ◽  
Information And Communication Technologies ◽  
Cognitive Abilities ◽  
Educational Practice ◽  
Communication Technologies ◽  
Community Of Learners ◽  
The Everyday ◽  
Information And Communication

This particular proposal presents a Transformative Polymorphic Model for training, researching and teaching, a learning community of educators, which involves the integration of Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) into the educational practice. It refers to ideas of justice, applied to an entire online society, based on not only giving digital individuals and groups’ fair action, but also sharing the benefits of free online society. It promotes transformative learning by way of emancipator education that fosters the human rights and equity that manifest in the everyday digital lives of people, from every level of online society. It consists in a learning environment that facilitates development of higher order cognitive abilities and it promotes a critical community of learners, where both reflection and discourse facilitate the construction of personally meaningful and socially valid knowledge and guides decision and action.

scholarly journals Does the Medium Matter? Linking Citizens’ Use of Communication Platform for Information about Urban Policies to Decision to Trust in Local Government

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (5) ◽  
pp. 2723
Author(s):  
Hyunkuk Lee
Keyword(s):  
Local Government ◽  
Information And Communication Technologies ◽  
Strong Relationship ◽  
Communication Technologies ◽  
Information Provision ◽  
Trust In Government ◽  
Government Information ◽  
Official Gazette ◽  
Central Hypothesis ◽  
Information And Communication

Information plays a formative role in citizens’ decision to trust their government. Given an increasingly diverse information environment, which is attributable to the diffusion of information and communication technologies (ICT)s, the Internet, and social media, we hypothesize that citizens’ use of a particular medium for information (online vs offline, and government source vs. non-government source) about their government plays an important and distinctive role in shaping citizens’ satisfaction with government information provision and trust in government. To address this central hypothesis, we analyze data from the 3068 citizen respondents. The findings of our study reveal that citizens’ use of the online medium for information about their government, such as information from local government web-media, lacks a strong relationship with their levels of satisfaction with government information provision and trust in government, while citizens’ use of different sources on the offline medium for information about their government, such as information from local government meeting or official gazette, is found to have a stronger association with citizens’ trust in government and satisfaction with government information provision.

scholarly journals New technologies and the education of information professionals

2016 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Catherine Hare
Keyword(s):  
Distance Learning ◽  
Information And Communication Technologies ◽  
New Technologies ◽  
Communication Technologies ◽  
Records Management ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
New Information ◽  
Information And Communication ◽  
Information Professionals ◽  
The University

Using the example of the Masters in Records Management by Distance Learning at the University of Nortumbria at Newcastle in the United Kingdom, the article will explore the potentials of the new information and communication technologies and the implications for using them as a means of delivery for education for information professionals.The key challenge is to ensure that the education instils not only an awareness of the technologies and skills in their use but also the capacity to understand and evaluate their potential since they are the prime tools of trade for information professionals today. An effective approach is to study the technologies through using the technologies but success can only be achieved if the wider systems of processes and approaches, based on teamwork, are developed to recognise specialisms and divisions of labour. 

scholarly journals STRATEGY OF ICT IMPLEMENTATION IN THE SCHOOL SOCIAL STUDIES IN THE UNITED KINGDOM

1970 ◽  
Vol 14 (6) ◽  
Author(s):  
Olena O. Hrytsenchuk
Keyword(s):  
United Kingdom ◽  
Social Studies ◽  
Information And Communication Technologies ◽  
Implementation Strategy ◽  
Communication Technologies ◽  
School Education ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
Ict Implementation ◽  
Information And Communication ◽  
The Uk

The problem of implementation strategy for information and communication technologies (ICT) in social studies school education in the UK today are examined in the article.

scholarly journals Digital transformation as a factor in improving the efficiency of public administration by results: the experience of the United Kingdom

2020 ◽  
Vol 8 (1 SI) ◽  
pp. 120-122
Author(s):  
Oleh Sydorenko
Keyword(s):  
United Kingdom ◽  
Public Administration ◽  
Information And Communication Technologies ◽  
Communication Technologies ◽  
Digital Transformation ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
Information And Communication ◽  
The Uk

The report identifies the benefits of using information and communication technologies in public administration. The essential content of the phenomenon of digital transformation is considered. A description of the UK practice of digital transformation of public administration is given. It is proposed to introduce in Ukraine the experience of the United Kingdom in the field of digital transformation of public administration.

The Challenges of Accessible Tourism Information Systems for Tourists With Vision Impairment

2021 ◽  
pp. 26-54
Author(s):  
Vicky Richards ◽  
Nic Matthews ◽  
Owen J. Williams ◽  
Ziad Khan
Keyword(s):  
Information Systems ◽  
Information And Communication Technologies ◽  
Information Needs ◽  
Communication Technologies ◽  
Information Provision ◽  
Assistive Technologies ◽  
Small Scale ◽  
Accessible Information ◽  
Information And Communication ◽  
Tourism Information

Developments in accessible tourism and the provision of information and communication technologies (ICT), mobile, and assistive technologies have arguably not resulted in equitable opportunities for vision-impaired people. This chapter outlines accessible information needs of vision impaired tourists, drawing upon a small-scale project of nine telephone interviews conducted by Wales Council of the Blind. It considers user experiences in the context of ICT to help vision impaired tourists navigate information systems such as travel apps, social media, and websites, assessing how these technologies meet user needs. Interviews focused on information provision, pre-planning and travel stages of the tourism system, and the challenges for universal design. Designers and tourism providers have roles as facilitators of accessible tourism, enabling vision-impaired tourists to feel included in experiences. This requires collaboration across the tourism ecosystem from digital developers and marketers alongside disabled people as active stakeholders.

E-Learning Implementation in Developing Countries

2014 ◽  
pp. 97-118
Author(s):  
Jovana Zoroja ◽  
Marjana Merkač Skok ◽  
Mirjana Pejić Bach
Keyword(s):  
Developing Countries ◽  
Information And Communication Technologies ◽  
Communication Technologies ◽  
Educational Institutions ◽  
Traditional Teaching ◽  
Traditional Teaching Methods ◽  
The Everyday ◽  
Information And Communication ◽  
E Learning ◽  
Depth Interviews

E-learning nowadays plays an important role in teaching because it is oriented toward the use of information and communication technologies that have become a part of the everyday life and day-to-day business. E-learning contributes to traditional teaching methods and provides many advantages to society and citizens. The main goal of the chapter is to explore e-learning use in developing countries, using Croatia as an example. This chapter identifies perspectives and obstacles defined by users and non-users of e-learning. Four in-depth interviews were conducted to get a more extensive picture of educational institutions that use e-learning in the teaching process. The results of this research indicate that the potential implementation of e-learning in developing countries faces a number of obstacles, mainly due to the restricted resources of professors and institutions measured both in time and financial terms.

Information and Communication Technology Policy Research in the United Kingdom: A Perspective

1994 ◽  
Vol 19 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Robin Mansell
Keyword(s):  
United Kingdom ◽  
Information And Communication Technologies ◽  
Research Council ◽  
Technology Policy ◽  
Social Research ◽  
Social Science Research ◽  
Communication Technologies ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
Historical Factors ◽  
Information And Communication

Abstract: Information and communication technologies (ICTs) are altering the ways in which time and distance affect productive activities. Such innovative activity is affected by historical factors, the capacity of individuals and institutions to adapt and act, and by decisions of technology producers, users, and government policy-makers. This paper highlights the directions and perspectives in social science research in the United Kingdom that have emerged in the Programme on Information and Communication Technologies (PICT) established by the Economic and Social Research Council. Résumé: Les technologies d'information et de communication sont en train de changer les effets du temps et de la distance sur le travail. De tels changements dépendent en outre des conditions historiques, de la capacité d'individus et d'institutions de s'adapter et d'agir, et des décisions prises par les producteurs de technologies, les usagers et les créateurs de politiques gouvernementales. Cet article met en relief les orientations et les perspectives dominantes en sciences humaines au Royaume-Uni qui ont émergées au "Programme sur les technologies d'information et de communications'' (Programme on Information and Communication Technologies [PICT]) établi par le "Conseil de recherches économiques et sociales'' (Economic and Social Research Council).

scholarly journals Surveys of the use of information and communications technologies by community-based organisations

2007 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Tom Denison ◽  
Graeme Johanson
Keyword(s):  
Information And Communication Technologies ◽  
Third Sector ◽  
Communication Technologies ◽  
Management Approach ◽  
Information And Communications Technologies ◽  
Community Based ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
Communications Technologies ◽  
Third Sector Organisations ◽  
Information And Communication

Abstract This paper aims to fill an international gap in knowledge about the adoption of information and communication technologies by third sector organisations. In Australia, the United Kingdom, USA, and Canada, such research that exists into the usefulness of the spread of ICT into community-based organizations, is limited in its coverage and by its tendency to rely on a management approach to analysis. This paper summarizes findings of all of the identifiable surveys, compares their findings, and proposes the use of Social Network Theory as a more useful lens through which to analyse current developments.

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