scholarly journals Micro-Geographies of Information and Communication Technology Firms in a Shrinking Medium-Sized Industrial City of Ostrava (Czechia)

Land ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (7) ◽  
pp. 695
Author(s):  
Jan Ženka ◽  
Luděk Krtička ◽  
Lenka Paszová ◽  
Tereza Pundová ◽  
Kateřina Rudincová ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Information And Communication Technology ◽  
Communication Technology ◽  
Urban Form ◽  
Spatial Clustering ◽  
Research Question ◽  
Value Added ◽  
City Centre ◽  
Location Factors ◽  
Industrial City ◽  
Information And Communication

We aimed to explain the spatial distribution of information and communication technology (ICT) firms in the city of Ostrava as an example of a medium-sized, shrinking, polycentric industrial city. The primary research question was to what extent micro-geographic location factors affect the current spatial clustering of ICT firms in polycentric cities characteristic by relatively weak urbanization economies and mostly routine character of ICT activities. We analyse and test the effects of the urban form at the level of urban blocks and individual buildings (considering their height, technical condition, age and dominant function) on the clustering of ICT firms of various sizes and ownership statuses. The inquiry was based on a detailed field mapping (using ArcGIS Collector) of ICT firms and physical/functional characteristics of the buildings and their immediate surroundings. ICT firms are significantly spatially concentrated in the historic city centre and inner city. Spatial patterns of ICT firms focused on less knowledge-intensive, routine and/or lower value-added functions do not differ fundamentally from innovative firms developing new products. Preference of denser, walkable, mixed-use neighbourhoods in urban cores/inner cities can be found in the group of firms focusing on routine functions: rather for larger than for smaller firms and domestic than foreign-owned firms.

scholarly journals The Return on Information Technology: Who Benefits Most?

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Emmanuel Dhyne ◽  
Jozef Konings ◽  
Jeroen Van den bosch ◽  
Stijn Vanormelingen
Keyword(s):  
Information Technology ◽  
Panel Data ◽  
Information And Communication Technology ◽  
Communication Technology ◽  
Value Added ◽  
Marginal Product ◽  
Aggregate Level ◽  
Firm Level ◽  
Information And Communication ◽  
Business To Business

Information and communication technology (ICT) has continuously reshaped the way in which businesses operate. Yet opinions among economists about the returns to ICT, especially at the aggregate level, are divided. We exploit business-to-business transaction panel data from ICT producers to construct ICT capital stocks for a large sample of Belgian firms. This allows us to estimate the returns to ICT at the firm level and to investigate how firm-level ICT investments affected aggregate gross domestic product and productivity. We find large returns to ICT—more precisely, a firm investing an additional euro in ICT—increases value added by 1 euro and 35 cents on average. This marginal product of ICT investment increases with firm size and varies across sectors. Although we find substantial returns to ICT at the firm level, returns are much lower at the aggregate level. This is due to underinvestment in ICT (ICT capital deepening is low) and because firms with especially high returns are underinvesting.

scholarly journals Sustainable Higher Education and Technology-Enhanced Learning (TEL)

2018 ◽  
Vol 10 (11) ◽  
pp. 3883 ◽  
Author(s):  
Linda Daniela ◽  
Anna Visvizi ◽  
Calixto Gutiérrez-Braojos ◽  
Miltiadis Lytras
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Information And Communication Technology ◽  
Communication Technology ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Initial Point ◽  
Value Added ◽  
Technology Enhanced Learning ◽  
Information And Communication ◽  
Enhanced Learning ◽  
Point Of Departure

The field of education is not immune to advances in sophisticated information and communication technology (ICT). Going beyond the ICT-hype, the objective of this paper is to examine to what extent and how technology-enhanced teaching and learning (TEL) can enhance teaching and learning and, hence, turn them into levers of sustainable socio-economic growth and development. To address these questions, a multidimensional survey was developed and distributed internationally to lecturers/professors active in the field of higher education. The initial point of departure for this study was consistent with the well-referenced in the literature thesis that TEL has profound value added in view of enhancing the teaching and learning process. Yet, as the outcomes of the survey underpinning the discussion in this paper suggest, there is much more is at stake than that. Indeed, it is argued that several conditions need to be fulfilled if technology is to serve as a benefit, and not an obstacle to teaching and learning, and thus boost the delivery of quality education. This paper outlines them.

scholarly journals Dinamika Tata Kelola Kebijakan Industri Penyiaran dan Telekomunikasi Indonesia Menuju Konvergensi: Sebuah Studi Paradigma Interpretatif

2017 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 87
Author(s):  
Vience Mutiara Rumata
Keyword(s):  
Information And Communication Technology ◽  
Communication Technology ◽  
Path Dependence ◽  
Value Added ◽  
Primary Data ◽  
Policy Outcome ◽  
Policy Governance ◽  
Digital Infrastructure ◽  
Depth Interview ◽  
Information And Communication

<p><strong>Abstrak</strong></p><p align="justify">Konvergensi antara penyiaran dan telekomunikasi di Indonesia tidak terhindarkan seiring dengan perkembangan teknologi informasi dan komunikasi (TIK) serta ketatnya persaingan dalam industri keduanya. Kedua industri telah mengintegrasi TIK sebagai nilai tambah dari layanan ataupun produk yang ditawarkannya. Meski demikian, tata kelola kedua industri ini masih terpisah yakni melalui UU Penyiaran tahun 2002 dan UU Telekomunikasi tahun 1999. Di saat RUU konvergensi telematika belum menemukan titik terang, regulator berupaya merevisi kedua UU tersebut. Studi ini merupakan penelitian deskriptif kualitatif dengan kerangka paradigma interpretatif dengan berlandaskan teori neo-institusionalisme, yakni <em>historical institutionalism</em>. Studi ini bertujuan untuk memahami relasi kekuasaan serta pandangan para pemangku kebijakan dalam mengatur industri penyiaran dan telekomunikasi di era konvergensi. Teknik pengumpulan data dilakukan dengan cara wawancara mendalam kepada narasumber yang dipilih secara purposif yakni Kemkominfo, KPI, BRTI, dan DPR, selama Januari-Februari 2015. Setiap institusi memiliki path dependence yang berbeda antar satu dengan yang lain, sehingga membentuk pola distribusi kekuasan berbeda dalam prosedur pembuatan kebijakan. Proposal revisi UU baik dari Kemkominfo dan KPI tidak mengatur hal-hal yang berkaitan dengan konvergensi. Akan tetapi, perebutan otoritas antar kedua institusi tersebut justru menjadi fokus dalam proposal tersebut. Kemkominfo, sebagai inisiator UU Telekomunikasi, berencana untuk mengubah revisi UU tersebut menjadi UU konvergensi. Fokus utama revisi tersebut adalah upaya untuk memfasilitasi interkoneksi dan <em>internetworking</em> dalam infrastruktur digital sebagai fondasi ekosistem konvergensi.</p><p><em> </em></p><p> </p><p><strong><em>Abstract </em></strong></p><p align="justify"><em>The convergence between broadcasting and telecommunication in Indonesia is envitable as the growing information and communication technology and the growing competition in both industries. These industries have integrated ICT as part of their value added services in their business. Nevertheless, the policy governance of these industries is remains distinctively separated under two main laws: the 2002 Broadcasting Law and the 1999 Telecommunication Law. Whilst the regulators failed to meet the agreement to enact the convergence bill, the only way is to synergize the revision of both laws to regulate the convergence. This study is descriptive-qualitative study with interpretative paradigm and base on New Institutionalism theoretical framework. This study aims to understand the power relation as well as point of views of the regulators in regulating the broadcasting and telecommunication in convergent era. The primary data tool is in depth interview to purposively sampled respondents who are from four institutions: the Kemkominfo, KPI, BRTI, and DPR, within January-february 2015. The path dependence of these institutions is differ one to another which determine the power contribution in shaping the policy outcome. The emerging proposals of the Broadcasting Law revision are not regulating convergence in detail. Instead, the dispute of authoritical power between KPI and Kemkominfo was reflected in the proposals. Kemkominfo, which was the initiator of the Telecommunication Law, is planning to turn the revision of the law into convergence law. The main focus is to facilitate the interconnection and internetworking of digital infrastructure between telecommunication and internet. </em></p>

scholarly journals Readiness to Communicate in a Digital World

10.28945/2985 ◽  
2006 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kathy Lynch
Keyword(s):  
Information Systems ◽  
Information And Communication Technologies ◽  
Information And Communication Technology ◽  
Communication Technology ◽  
Perceived Value ◽  
Value Added ◽  
Primary Role ◽  
Digital World ◽  
Communication Device ◽  
Information And Communication

Communicating with friends, family, peers and colleagues has always underpinned work and social behaviour. However, the devices that act as conduits to this communication have changed over time, and differ across the globe. People in industralised corners of the world are more and more frequently using advances in information and communication technologies (ICTs) to assist both the senders and receivers to have more timely, synchronous and value-added communiques. Well, that is what the promotional material is telling us. The primary role of undergraduate education is to best prepare graduates for the workforce that they are being primed. To this end, educators need to be knowledgeable in what students already know, do, and their perceptions of what is required and is of value in assisting them to communicate with colleagues or peers. This paper presents a study that aimed to identify directions for undergraduate IT curriculum in developing the information and communication technology (ICT) readiness of beginning IT (in particular Information Systems) professionals to work in a collaborative team. Three hundred undergraduate Information Systems (IS) students were invited to participate in the study, one-hundred and sixty responded. The results indicate that there is a definitive relationship between frequency of use and the perceived value of an information and communication technology, and that the use of an ICT as a communication device in a social situation does not guarantee its use or even its perceived value as a communication device in a work situation: Visa versa is also true. Findings from the research could be used to influence IS curriculum developers in preparing undergraduate students’ readiness for communicating (and collaborating) in the digital workforce of today.

Can Information and Communication Technology Solve Japan's Productivity Slowdown Problem?

2003 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 85-136 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kiyohiko G. Nishimura ◽  
Masato Shirai
Keyword(s):  
Information And Communication Technology ◽  
Communication Technology ◽  
Value Added ◽  
Learning By Doing ◽  
Japanese Economy ◽  
Young Workers ◽  
Data Set ◽  
Education Levels ◽  
Information And Communication ◽  
Labor Inputs

This paper has three parts. First, we compile a new industry-by-industry data set of the Japanese economy in which information and communication technology (ICT) stocks are explicitly estimated and labor inputs are disaggregated with respect to age and education. Second, we investigate the effect of ICT on various labor inputs and discern for which labor inputs ICT is able to substitute. Third, we estimate the contribution of capital stocks, including ICT, and various labor inputs to the value-added growth of the Japanese economy in the 1980s and 1990s and explore the factors that determine technological progress. We find ICT capital stocks are an important substitute for young workers with low education levels. These results strongly suggest that ICT investment is an effective way to counter the prospective shortage of young workers in Japan. In contrast, we find no compelling evidence of productivity-enhancing ICT externality. On the contrary, our results suggest that ICT has a negative indirect effect on productivity. The past technological and managerial strengths of Japanese firms, which have been based on workers' learning by doing in the workplace, may no longer be advantages as knowledge management systems improve and become easily transferred across international borders.

Information and Communication Technology and Cultural Change

2012 ◽  
Vol 43 (4) ◽  
pp. 222-231 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nina Hansen ◽  
Tom Postmes ◽  
Nikita van der Vinne ◽  
Wendy van Thiel
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Values ◽  
Information And Communication Technology ◽  
Communication Technology ◽  
Cultural Change ◽  
Control Group ◽  
Self Construal ◽  
Information And Communication ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Ict For Development ◽  
Practical Implications

This paper studies whether and how information and communication technology (ICT) changes self-construal and cultural values in a developing country. Ethiopian children were given laptops in the context of an ICT for development scheme. We compared children who used laptops (n = 69) with a control group without laptops (n = 76) and a second control group of children whose laptop had broken down (n = 24). Results confirmed that after 1 year of laptop usage, the children’s self-concept had become more independent and children endorsed individualist values more strongly. Interestingly, the impact of laptop usage on cultural values was mediated by self-construal (moderated mediation). Importantly, modernization did not “crowd out” traditional culture: ICT usage was not associated with a reduction in traditional expressions (interdependent self-construal, collectivist values). Theoretical and practical implications are discussed.

Manajemen Stratejik Pemanfaatan Teknologi Informasi dan Komunikasi untuk Peningkatan Mutu Pembelajaran SMK Ciledug Al Musaddadiyah dan SMKN 1 Garut

2020 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 109-119
Author(s):  
Partono Partono
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
Strategic Management ◽  
Information And Communication Technology ◽  
Communication Technology ◽  
General Description ◽  
Vocational High School ◽  
Information And Communication ◽  
School Learning

So far, in implementing school strategies, they tend not to utilize Information and Communication Technology (ICT), despite the availability of ICT resources available. Stages of strategic management are needed to generate the vision, mission, objectives, policy, program, budget, and procedures as well as control and evaluation process as an effort to utilize ICT to improve school quality. Based on the interpretation and the results of the study, it is concluded that schools have organized stages in strategic management that enable schools to have a quality profile. The impact of effective utilization of ICTs for schools is the achievement of effective school management, as per the National Education Standards, which is characterized by effective planning, implementation, control, and evaluation of school ICTs.The purpose of this study is to get a general description, describe, and reveal the Strategic Management of Information and Communication Technology Utilization to Improve the Quality of School Learning in Ciledug Al Musaddadiyah Vocational High School and Garut 1 Vocational High School, both on environmental analysis, strategic formulation, implementation and strategic evaluation. The research method used in this research is the case study method, because the problems studied occur in the place and situation of Ciledug Al Musaddadiyah Vocational School and Vocational High School 1 Garut. The use of case study models in this study is based on the consideration that to provide an overview of the strategic management activities of the use of ICTs carried out at vocational high schools with the ultimate goal of being able to improve the quality of school learning. Based on observations in the field of SMK 1 Garut and SMK Al Musaddadiyah Ciledug Garut is one of the public schools and private schools that have these advantages.

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