The Role of ICT in Improving Sequential Decisions for Water Management in Agriculture

Numerous Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) applications have been developed in irrigated agriculture. While there are studies focusing on ICTs impacts at the farm level, no research deals with this issue at the Water Authority (WA) level where ICTs can support strategic decisions on land and water allocation. The present study aims to design a theoretical model to estimate economic benefits from the ICT-informed decision process of water management in agriculture. Specifically, the study analyzes the motivations driving a case study WA using ICTs to support strategic management decisions involving risky choices. Results show that the WA under investigation has potentialities to save water and to implement adaptation strategies to climate change. Higher benefits from ICTs are attainable in areas with limited water availability and where the WA can effectively manage land allocation and control water delivery volumes. The study concludes that ICTs might have a disruptive potential in fulfilling WA’s specific information needs, but there is still a need to improve their accuracy due to the risk surrounding the decisions at stake.

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Utilization of Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) Tools for Sharing of Agricultural Related Information in Osun State: Implications for Rural Information Needs

Asian Journal of Agricultural Extension Economics & Sociology ◽

10.9734/ajaees/2020/v38i930402 ◽

2020 ◽

pp. 1-10

Author(s):

Saheed Ige Adetunbi ◽

A. T. Kareem ◽

B. A. Oyebamiji

Keyword(s):

Regression Analysis ◽

Information And Communication Technologies ◽

Significant Relationship ◽

Information Needs ◽

Tertiary Education ◽

Communication Technologies ◽

Related Information ◽

Shared Information ◽

Information And Communication ◽

Ict Tools

The study was motivated by the need to harness technological advancement to enhance agricultural production in Osun State. The study assessed the utilization of Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) tools for sharing of agricultural related information in Osun State, Nigeria. The study illustrated the socio economic characteristics of the Respondent, identified the available ICT tools for sharing of various agricultural related information, identified agricultural related information shared through various available ICT tools, measured the frequency of utilization of the identified ICT tools and assessed the severity of challenges encountered by Respondent in the utilization of ICT tools in the study area. Sixty percent of Extension Agents in each of the three zones in the study area were sampled. The data collected were examined using descriptive statistics tools while regression analysis was used to test the significant relationship between the socio-economic characteristics of Respondents and their frequency of utilization of ICT Tools for sharing of agricultural related information in the study areas. The analysis of the data was carried out with the use of SPSS version 22. The findings revealed that the average age of Respondents was 39 years; more than half of the respondent (67.1%) were male; most (81.4%) of the respondent were married; majority (68.6%) of the respondent were Christian; about (70%) of the respondent had tertiary education. The mean household size was 5 members per household; majority of the respondents belonged to one association or the other and they access the internet with their own data plan. Radio (wms 2.7) was ranked first as most available ICT tools for sharing information in the study area. Furthermore, information on availability and sources of farm inputs (wms2.3) was ranked most shared information while information on storage facilities (wms1.0) was ranked the least shared information by the Respondents. Also, the initial cost of procurement of ICT gadgets, cost of maintenance, risk of theft of gadget, and fluctuating power supply were the major challenges encountered with the use of various ICT tools. Regression analysis identified a significant relationship between selected socio-economic characteristics of the Respondents and frequency of Utilization of ICT Tools for sharing Agriculture related information. The study recommended use of Radio as medium through which agricultural related information should be shared bearing in mind its ease of access, little cost of procurement and maintenance, extent of reach and frequency of usage among the respondents. Provision of access to internet facility was recommended in order to afford respondents a limitless right to use information on the World Wide Web. Finally, alternative source of power to enable respondents recharge their ICT gadgets was recommended to make up for unreliable electricity supply.

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Knowledge Management in Smart Organizations

Integration of ICT in Smart Organizations ◽

10.4018/978-1-59140-390-6.ch004 ◽

2011 ◽

pp. 101-135

Author(s):

Shirley Chan

Keyword(s):

Knowledge Management ◽

Information And Communication Technologies ◽

Value Creation ◽

Communication Technologies ◽

Strategic Decisions ◽

Management Perspective ◽

Information And Communication ◽

Continual Learning ◽

Management Theories

This chapter looks at the deployment of appropriate information and communication technologies in helping smart organizations to manage knowledge. Taking a management perspective, smart organizations can be regarded as those that can make smart strategic decisions and put into practice such managerial principles as value creation, continual learning, embracing uncertainty, and empowerment. Making good decisions would involve gathering and synthesizing the appropriate knowledge—knowledge about the market, products, suppliers, customers, competitors, and others. Different schools of knowledge management theories and the related technologies will be discussed. The author hopes that understanding the knowledge management technologies and related practices would assist researchers and practitioners in gaining some insights into managing the knowledge required for making smart decisions in organizations.

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Design of an Intelligent Remote Monitoring and Control of Bangladesh Railway Transport System Using Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs)

IEEE/ASME/ASCE 2008 Joint Rail Conference ◽

10.1115/jrc2008-63009 ◽

2008 ◽

Author(s):

Md. Abdullah Al Harun Khan Chowdhury

Keyword(s):

Information And Communication Technologies ◽

Transport System ◽

Asset Management ◽

Communication Technologies ◽

Transport Systems ◽

Railway Transport ◽

Sensors And Actuators ◽

Efficient Operation ◽

Information And Communication ◽

And Control

In Bangladesh, transport sectors are developing rapidly to meet the increasing demand for transporting passengers and freight inside and outside the country. But there is not such development in railway transport system. The Bangladesh Railway transport system is still using an old technology to monitor and control signalling, scheduling, operations etc. This paper describes various problems in the existing systems and also solutions have been provided considering the existing railway transport systems of Bangladesh. A new system has been developed to control and monitor the total railway transport system from remote locations. While designing the system, various sensors and actuators have been introduced and also Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) have been applied in the field of railway transport. So a Machatronics aspect of system has been designed to ensure a collision free, safe and efficient operation and management of railway transport system. This system is not only for monitoring and controlling of railway transport but also ensures efficient asset management. As a result face-to-face accidents, cross-road accidents and accidents due to railway line displacements or breakage can be avoided and there will be no loss of assets and valuable human lives.

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“He too will become a nation and he too will become great”: The information needs of the “Bnei Menashe” immigrant community in Israel as capability

International Communication Gazette ◽

10.1177/1748048518820459 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 82 (4) ◽

pp. 384-403 ◽

Cited By ~ 3

Author(s):

Baruch Shomron ◽

Amit Schejter

Keyword(s):

Information And Communication Technologies ◽

Information Needs ◽

Communication Technologies ◽

Capabilities Approach ◽

Immigrant Community ◽

Critical Information ◽

Information And Communication ◽

Depth Interviews ◽

Role Of Information

The “Bnei Menashe” are a marginalized community that immigrated from India to Israel. The community has diverse information needs, yet they are characterized by difficulties that prevent them from acquiring vital information. In this study, we utilized Sen’s (1993) “capabilities approach” as well as Friedland et al. (2012) “critical information needs” for the identification of the Bnei Menashe’s information capabilities, and the ways in which they answer them. The study was conducted using semi-structured individual in-depth interviews. The findings of the study relate that the Bnei Menashe succeed only partially in realizing the capability of being informed. This is a result of the partial technological exclusion that characterizes the community. This is a first-of-its-kind study, as the Bnei Menashe have not been studied methodically. Furthermore, the utilization of the capabilities approach represents a major contribution to existing communication theories, as the approach allows for a more wholesome understanding of the role of information and communication technologies in society.

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Systematic approach to ensuring the information security of childhood

Vestnik of Samara University History pedagogics philology ◽

10.18287/2542-0445-2021-27-4-92-98 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 27 (4) ◽

pp. 92-98

Author(s):

V. N. Strelnikova

Keyword(s):

Information Security ◽

Information And Communication Technologies ◽

Information Needs ◽

Systematic Approach ◽

Communication Technologies ◽

The State ◽

Information Space ◽

Information And Communication ◽

Health And Development ◽

Intensive Growth

The article deals with significant changes that are associated with total informatization, which is a powerful converter of economic, social and other types of life activity of society. The author notes that at the same time, the satisfaction of information needs, the state of the information space for minors should be subject to moderate regulation. Attention is drawn to the fact that the intensive growth of the diversity of information and communication technologies is today the dominant environment for the development of a modern child. The characteristics of information harmful to the health and development of children are given. It is proved that relying on the principles of a systematic approach makes it possible to competently organize and correctly carry out the process of achieving the state of protection of children in the information space by various methods and means. Ensuring the information security of childhood is defined by the author as a system; the components of the system of ensuring the information security of childhood (methodological, regulatory, organizational and activity, effective) are highlighted.

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Energy, Carbon and Renewable Energy: Candidate Metrics for Green-aware Routing?

Sensors ◽

10.3390/s19132901 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 19 (13) ◽

pp. 2901 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Hossain ◽

Georges ◽

Rondeau ◽

Divoux

Keyword(s):

Renewable Energy ◽

Co2 Emissions ◽

Information And Communication Technologies ◽

Routing Algorithm ◽

Communication Technologies ◽

Point Of View ◽

Energy Aware ◽

Traffic Demand ◽

Information And Communication ◽

And Control

There are all sort of indications that Internet usage will go only upwards, resulting in an increase in energy consumption and CO2 emissions. At the same time, a significant amount of this carbon footprint corresponds to the information and communication technologies (ICT) sector, with around one third being due to networking. In this paper we have approached the problem of green networking from the point of view of sustainability. Here, alongside energy-aware routing, we have also introduced pollution-aware routing with environmental metrics like carbon emission factor and non-renewable energy usage percentage. We have proposed an algorithm based on these three candidate-metrics. Our algorithm provides optimum data and control planes for three different metrics which regulate the usage of different routers and adapt the bandwidth of the links while giving the traffic demand requirements utmost priority. We have made a comparison between these three metrics in order to show their impact on greening routing. The results show that for a particular scenario, our pollution-aware routing algorithm can reduce 36% and 20% of CO2 emissions compared to shortest path first and energy-based solutions, respectively.

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Knowledge Management in Smart Organizations

Knowledge Management ◽

10.4018/978-1-59904-933-5.ch281 ◽

2011 ◽

pp. 3385-3408

Author(s):

Shirley Chan

Keyword(s):

Knowledge Management ◽

Information And Communication Technologies ◽

Value Creation ◽

Communication Technologies ◽

Strategic Decisions ◽

Management Perspective ◽

Information And Communication ◽

Continual Learning ◽

Management Theories

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Barriers to Information Seeking in the Digital Libraries

Library Science and Administration ◽

10.4018/978-1-5225-3914-8.ch052 ◽

2018 ◽

pp. 1101-1113

Author(s):

Ajayi Ayo Oluwaseun

Keyword(s):

Information And Communication Technologies ◽

Digital Libraries ◽

Information Seeking ◽

Information Needs ◽

Communication Technologies ◽

Bibliographic Instruction ◽

Adequate Knowledge ◽

Information Strategies ◽

Information And Communication ◽

Information Skills

Adequate knowledge about the information needs and seeking behaviour of users is vital for developing digital library collections, services and facilities to meet their information needs effectively. Information seeking as an underlying feature in research cannot be done without an enabling environment where needed resources and services are provided. The available literature reveals that although librarians have made good progress in adapting primary values of librarianship which are to support intellectual freedom and equitable access to information, information seeking process in the Digital Libraries has, however, been found not to be without limitations. Seeking scholarly information in the Digital Libraries is limited by the availability of reliable and affordable information and communication technologies. Information seeking in the Digital Libraries has been found to be limited to those scholars who are affiliated with organisations which have the money and skills to provide access. It has been found limited to those who are literate, information literate and have a command of the major languages of commerce and scholarship (English in particular). Infrastructure, education and skills as well as content were the three spheres identified in this Chapter as preconditions that must be satisfied if broad digital scholarly information is to be sought without restrictions. Provision of effective service in the Digital Libraries as recommended in this Chapter requires sufficient understanding of the real needs of information users and making precise efforts to satisfy them. This can best be achieved through formal in–depth studies of the information needs and seeking behaviour of users. Librarians, especially those involved in bibliographic instruction should be interested in ways individuals approach the library (be it digital or physical) and the methods they use to search for needed information. Strategies intended to improve the provision of library services should be redesigned towards information skills development and information resource awareness.

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Application of ICT in effective crisis management: A systematic review

Journal of Emergency Management ◽

10.5055/jem.0612 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 19 (6) ◽

pp. 591-606

Author(s):

Mohammad Ali Fazeli, PhD ◽

Azamossadat Hosseini, PhD ◽

Farkhondeh Asadi, PhD ◽

Hassan Haghighi, PhD

Keyword(s):

Systematic Review ◽

Crisis Management ◽

Case Studies ◽

Information And Communication Technologies ◽

Communication Technologies ◽

Information And Communication ◽

Ict Tools ◽

Basic Services ◽

And Control ◽

Crisis Managers

Introduction: Effective crisis management can reduce the costs and consequences of a crisis and has a significant impact on saving human lives in critical situations. Proper use of information and communication technologies (ICTs) can improve all crisis management phases and crisis communication cycles according to the needs of stakeholders. The purpose of this review article is to identify which ICTs have been used in effective crisis management and what managerial tasks they support.Method: A systematic review was conducted based on PRISMA protocol. The investigated articles that have been published in English were all indexed in PubMed, Science Direct, IEEE, Web of Science, and Google Scholar databases from 2005 to 2019. The keywords searched were “Crisis Management,” “Emergency Management,” “Information and Communication Technology,” and their synonyms.Results: A total of 1,703 articles were retrieved, and 81 articles that met the inclusion criteria were retained. In terms of content, there were 54 case studies/review articles, 38 proposals, and seven prototypes among which 18 case studies and proposals were the same. According to surveys, 18 ICT tools and technologies have been used in effective crisis management with the purpose of supporting managerial tasks such as situation assessment, decision-making, coordination/command and control, communication with the public, and supply of basic services in order to enable crisis management and logistics.Conclusion: This study showed that proper use of ICT can help crisis managers optimize their performance that will consequently result in effective crisis management and the reduction of casualties. In the crisis management cycle, several tools and technologies have been used for various purposes, however; some crisis managers’ tasks were still not taken into consideration sufficiently, and thus, some recommendations for further research in this field were provided.

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Social Autonomy and Heteronomy in the Age of ICT: The Digital Pharmakon and the (Dis)Empowerment of the General Intellect

Foundations of Science ◽

10.1007/s10699-015-9468-1 ◽

2015 ◽

Vol 22 (2) ◽

pp. 287-296 ◽

Cited By ~ 7

Author(s):

Pieter Lemmens

Keyword(s):

Information And Communication Technologies ◽

Communication Technologies ◽

Digital Networks ◽

Digital Revolution ◽

Digital Network ◽

Information And Communication ◽

Social Autonomy ◽

Network Technologies ◽

And Control ◽

General Intellect

Abstract ‘The art of living with ICTs (information and communication technologies)’ today not only means finding new ways to cope, interact and create new lifestyles on the basis of the new digital (network) technologies individually, as ‘consumer-citizens’. It also means inventing new modes of living, producing and, not in the least place, struggling collectively, as workers and producers. As the so-called digital revolution unfolds in the context of a neoliberal cognitive and consumerist capitalism, its ‘innovations’ are predominantly employed to modulate and control both production processes and consumer behavior in view of the overall goal of extracting surplus value. Today, the digital networks overwhelmingly destroy social autonomy, instead engendering increasing social heteronomy and proletarianization. Yet it is these very networks themselves, as technical pharmaka in the sense of French ‘technophilosopher’ Bernard Stiegler, that can be employed as no other to struggle against this tendency. This paper briefly explores this possibility by reflecting upon current diagnoses of our ‘technological situation’ by some exemplary post-operaist Marxists from a Stieglerian, pharmacological perspective.

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