scholarly journals Effects of ICT in Albanian Tourism Business

2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (6) ◽  
pp. 252
Author(s):  
Ira Gjika ◽  
Nikollaq Pano
Keyword(s):  
Information And Communication Technologies ◽  
Digital Technologies ◽  
Communication Technologies ◽  
Tourism Industry ◽  
Medium Size ◽  
Stakeholder Groups ◽  
Ict Use ◽  
Industrial Sectors ◽  
Information And Communication ◽  
Smart Tourism

The digitalisation in the manufacturing and industrial sectors has been fast ‘exported’ in tourism industry as well. The technological revolution has highly affected both the supplier and the consumer of tourism products and services. There is recently an increasing attention from the industry and academia in order to highlight the challenges of ICT use in tourism and the drivers of “smart tourism” in world level. Our study joins these efforts with the goal to observe the use of information and communication technologies in Albanian tourism and detect the elements of smart tourism in it. The survey and interviews with a sample of experienced medium size tourism companies were used to assess the expansion of ICT in their overall activity. The data collected and processed did enable to point out the penetration of digital technologies in Albanian tourism. Further on, some features of smart tourism are highlighted and some drivers of digitalization in Albanian tourism are brought to the attention of stakeholder groups.

Capacity Building in SME Tourism Networks

2011 ◽  
pp. 136-141
Author(s):  
Patrice Braun ◽  
Mary Hollick
Keyword(s):  
Capacity Building ◽  
Information And Communication Technologies ◽  
Communication Technologies ◽  
Tourism Industry ◽  
Medium Size ◽  
Business Operations ◽  
Industry Standards ◽  
Information And Communication ◽  
Online Skills ◽  
Networked Economy

This article discusses capacity building of small and medium size enterprises (SME) in tourism networks in the context of the introduction of information and communication technologies (ICT) and an increasingly networked economy. The success of the tourism industry is dependent on the quality of business operations and how well they are able to sustain themselves in the networked economy. To run tourism businesses well, operators need to be skilled, flexible and innovative in order to maintain and enhance competitiveness. The aim of this paper is to share some insights into an Australian tourism industry capacity building project via flexibly delivered online skills. Aiming to raise industry standards and move away from ineffective silo approaches to industry training and capacity building, this article reflects the importance of developing effective industry networks.

How nonprofits use Facebook to craft infrastructure

First Monday ◽  
2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Libby Hemphill ◽  
A.J. Million ◽  
Ingrid Erickson
Keyword(s):  
Civic Engagement ◽  
Information And Communication Technologies ◽  
Uses And Gratifications ◽  
Communication Technologies ◽  
Technology Choice ◽  
Non Profit ◽  
Ict Use ◽  
Information And Communication ◽  
Moral Economies ◽  
Task Technology Fit

We present findings from interviews with 23 individuals affiliated with non-profit organizations (NPOs) to understand how they deploy information and communication technologies (ICTs) in their civic engagement efforts. Existing research about NPO ICT use is often critical, but we did not find evidence that NPOs fail to use tools effectively. Rather, we detail how NPOs assemble various ICTs to create infrastructures that align with their values. Overall, we find that existing theories about technology choice (e.g., task-technology fit, uses and gratifications) do not explain the assemblages NPOs describe. We argue that the infrastructures they fashion can be explained through the lens of moral economies rather than utility. Together, the rhetorics of infrastructure and moral economies capture the motivations and constraints our participants expressed and challenge how prevailing theories of ICT use describe the non-profit landscape.

scholarly journals A Web-Based Tourist Decision Support System for Agra City

2011 ◽  
pp. 51-54
Author(s):  
Sunil Pratap Singh ◽  
Jitendra Sharma ◽  
Preetvanti Singh
Keyword(s):  
Decision Support ◽  
Decision Support System ◽  
Information And Communication Technologies ◽  
Support System ◽  
Communication Technologies ◽  
Tourism Industry ◽  
Web Based ◽  
Cultural Aspects ◽  
Information And Communication ◽  
Agra City

In the last decade the use of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) have boomed in many sectors, such as business, education, commerce and have profound implications for the tourism industry. They are being used extensively in a great variety of functions and count innumerable applications. Among these, Decision Support System (DSS) plays a fundamental role for their capacity to give tourist managing their tours and to base all the decisions concerning to queries on the climate, road conditions, cultural aspects, lodging, health facilities, banking, etc. of the location to be visited on sound and rational bases. In the present paper, a Web-Based Tourist Decision Support System (WTDSS) for Agra City has been developed that allows the traveling community to find their route in city and ask for information about sights, accommodations and other places of interest which are near by to him to improve the convenience, safety and efficiency of travel.

scholarly journals Revisão sistemática sobre letramento digital na formação de professores

2019 ◽  
Vol 12 (3) ◽  
pp. 128-143
Author(s):  
Késsia Mileny De Paulo Moura
Keyword(s):  
Systematic Review ◽  
Student Teachers ◽  
Information And Communication Technologies ◽  
Digital Literacy ◽  
Social Dynamics ◽  
Digital Technologies ◽  
Communication Technologies ◽  
Digital Information ◽  
Teachers And Students ◽  
Information And Communication

RESUMO: Pesquisar a inserção das tecnologias digitais da informação e comunicação nos contextos formativos envolve problematizar as percepções, apropriações e significações de professores e alunos sobre a questão. Este texto buscou identificar as produções científicas brasileiras (teses e dissertações) a respeito do letramento digital na formação de professores, realizadas entre os anos de 2010 a 2018. Utilizamos a revisão sistemática como procedimento metodológico, com o auxílio do software Parsifal. Pontuamos as seguintes equações para verificar nos trabalhos: quais objetivos de pesquisa essas produções revelam? Que perspectivas de letramento digital e quais procedimentos e instrumentos metodológicos os pesquisadores adotaram? Quais resultados dos processos de letramento digital trabalhados na formação de professores foram revelados? Como resultados, validamos 37 trabalhos, que apontam as configurações das propostas de formação com usos das tecnologias digitais que procuram responder às novas dinâmicas sociais para as quais os alunos-professores precisam estar aptos. De acordo com as pesquisas encontradas, os cursos de formação inicial ou continuada têm inserido as tecnologias digitais em suas práticas, mas as possibilidades de usos ainda são muitas. PALAVRAS-CHAVE: letramento digital; formação de professores; revisão sistemática.   ABSTRACT: Researching the insertion of digital information and communication technologies in the formative contexts involves problematizing teachers and students’ perceptions, appropriations and meanings about the issue. This text sought to identify the Brazilian scientific productions (theses and dissertations) regarding digital literacy in teacher education, between the years 2010 to 2018. We used the systematic review as a methodological procedure, with the help of the Parsifal software. We scored the following equations to verify the work: which research objectives do these productions reveal? What perspectives of digital literacy and what procedures and methodological instruments did the researchers adopt? What results of the digital literacy processes worked on in the training of teachers were revealed? As results, we validated 37 works, which point out the settings of training proposals with uses of digital technologies that seek to respond to the new social dynamics that student-teachers need to be able to. According to the research works found, the initial or continued training courses have lent themselves to insert the digital technologies, but the possibilities of uses are still many. KEYWORDS: digital literacy; teacher training; systematic review.

scholarly journals Migrants’ wellbeing and use of information and communication technologies.

2021 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 139-160
Author(s):  
Jordana Salma ◽  
Lalita Kaewwilai ◽  
Savera Aziz Ali
Keyword(s):  
Social Support ◽  
Information And Communication Technologies ◽  
Social Role ◽  
Communication Technologies ◽  
Current Evidence ◽  
Social Activities ◽  
Digital Learning ◽  
Migrant Populations ◽  
Ict Use ◽  
Information And Communication

The number of migrants is increasing worldwide coupled with an ever-expanding entrenchment of information and communication technologies (ICTs) in the fabric of daily life. There has been little attention in the health disciplines to the unique ways migrants adopt and are influenced by ICTs across multiple local and transnational social spaces. This scoping review explores the current evidence on migrants’ ICT-mediated transnational social activities and related influences on wellbeing. The review was conducted using Arksey and O'Malley’s (2005) methodological framework and a total of 37 articles were included for the final study. Key findings highlight barriers and facilitators of ICT use in transnational contexts, types of ICT-mediated transnational social activities; and reported influences on migrants’ wellbeing. Migrants’ ICT use facilitates reciprocal channels of social support and continuation of valued social roles. Social role disruption, unequal exchange of social support, and mismatch between migrants’ expectations around ICT use and that of left-behind communities are some of the negative processes with psychological, social, and emotional consequences identified in the review.  Main review conclusions emphasize the need to further explore the quality and intensity of ICT-mediated social influences on migrants’ wellbeing and to incorporate a transnational lens in the design of digital learning interventions targeting vulnerable migrant populations.

Information Literacy of a Foreign Language Teacher: An Analysis of Russian and European Professional Standards of Teachers

Vestnik MEI ◽  
2021 ◽  
pp. 135-142
Author(s):  
Marina A. Slepneva ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Language ◽  
Information And Communication Technologies ◽  
Information Literacy ◽  
Digital Technologies ◽  
Communication Technologies ◽  
Educational Process ◽  
Professional Standards ◽  
Digital Tools ◽  
Long Period ◽  
Information And Communication

The introduction of information and communication technologies into the educational process began more than twenty years ago, along with the rapid spreading of computers around the world. However, not all educational institutions have supported the inclusion of information and communication technologies into the educational process for the above-mentioned quite a long period of time. Most likely, this was due to insufficient financial investments in modernization. In addition, insufficient attention was initially paid to training of teachers for working with digital technologies. At present, when information and communication competence has already been included into all international standards for teachers, it turned out that neither graduates from teacher training institutes nor teachers who have been working for already a long period of time have sufficient competencies for using digital technologies in practice. A comparative analysis of Russian and European professional standards for teachers is carried out, and the competencies they should possess are considered. Various versions of the information literacy definitions are given, which have undergone changes in the technological development process. Special attention is paid to the requirements for competencies of foreign language teachers in the field of digital technologies. The list of the currently available digital tools, including mobile devices, is discussed. The students actively use such technologies to learn languages, but to yield a really positive effect, digital tools should be integrated directly into the educational process in a professional manner. The experience of work with digital technologies gained by the teachers of the NRU MPEI Department of Foreign Languages is considered. A conclusion has been drawn, according to which a high level of information literacy enables teachers not only to change their own pedagogical methods, but also to open new horizons for their students, who, in turn, gain access to high quality education.

ДОСВІД ВИКОРИСТАННЯ ТЕХНОЛОГІЙ ДИСТАНЦІЙНОГО НАВЧАННЯ В ОСВІТНЬОМУ ПРОСТОРІ ЄВРОПИ ПІД ЧАС ПАНДЕМІЇ COVID-19

2021 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 63-74
Author(s):  
M. V. CHURSANOVA ◽  
◽  
F. M. GAREEVA ◽  
D. V. SAVCHENKO ◽  
◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Distance Learning ◽  
Information And Communication Technologies ◽  
Education System ◽  
Digital Technologies ◽  
Communication Technologies ◽  
Learning Technologies ◽  
Information And Communication ◽  
Learning Platforms ◽  
Distance Learning Technologies ◽  
The University

The paper analyzes up-to-date distance learning technologies used in European education system for ensuring overall organization of the educational process during the COVID-19 pandemic. Quarantine conditions have become a catalyst for development and practical testing of virtual learning tools and innovative pedagogical technologies, and application of the experience with them is a necessity of today and a strategy for the future. The article is focused on distance learning technologies in higher education. Institutions of England, Germany and France are chosen for the study due to their banner quality of educational service, like the University of Oxford, for example. The basis for successful conduct of all types of classes is employment of universities’ own specialized learning platforms. The learning model remains more similar to the traditional one. The main role continues to belong to communication between qualified teachers and students through various interactive web applications, while digital technologies create space for such interaction, filling it with learning materials. Students get access to all educational services using a single password to the university network. At the same time, some learning materials are available with open access, video lectures and podcasts are popular. Unlike other countries, education in Germany is governed by strict principles of information and data protection. In the contrary, in France many courses have been made available on network, and the education system has instantly adapted to work in virtual mode through the developed system of national distance learning platforms and the massive open online courses. The result of effective distance learning organization in Europe during the pandemic is that the introduction of digital technologies and transition to more flexible learning models become the education strategy at the state level, while pedagogy becomes an area of advanced development of information and communication technologies. Key words: distance education, online learning, information and communication technologies, educational platforms, quarantine, COVID-19.

Information and Communication Technology Uses in Agriculture

2012 ◽  
pp. 235-251
Author(s):  
Tizita Alemayehu Wasihun ◽  
Blessing Maumbe
Keyword(s):  
Information And Communication Technologies ◽  
Value Chain ◽  
Success Factors ◽  
Communication Technologies ◽  
Value Chains ◽  
Key Success Factors ◽  
Ict Use ◽  
Strategic Role ◽  
Information And Communication

The world has experienced an unprecedented growth in information and communication technologies (ICT) through the widespread use of personal computers, Internet, and mobile phones. The objectives of this chapter are to examine trends in ICT use in agriculture, identify key success factors for ICT utilization in agriculture, and investigate the implications of ICT-enabled value chains for the agribusiness industry. The chapter describes the strategic role of ICT in the development of both e-commerce and mobile commerce in agriculture globally. The chapter identifies the leading areas of ICT use in agriculture and agribusinesses as input procurement, production, marketing, food traceability, and financial service delivery. Producers are increasingly seeking ways to add value to their businesses by integrating ICT in the value chain. Similarly, consumers are becoming more knowledgeable about how they could use ICT to articulate their preferences. The chapter discusses key success factors for ICT applications affecting both the internal and external environment of agribusiness firms. The chapter concludes by drawing implications for ICT use in agriculture and agribusiness value chains.

ICT

2014 ◽  
pp. 45-61 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sylvia Archmann ◽  
Astrid Guiffart
Keyword(s):  
Information And Communication Technologies ◽  
Public Services ◽  
Communication Channels ◽  
Digital Technologies ◽  
Communication Technologies ◽  
Policy Outcomes ◽  
Access To Education ◽  
Information And Communication ◽  
Successful Approach ◽  
Effective Assessment

This analyzes how Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) can be used by governments to involve all citizens in society life through increased access to education, employment, public services, as well as participating in decision-making. Given the risks of deeper social exclusion associated with the lack of digital competences or capabilities, targeted measures to encourage ICT engagement may strategically be implemented to provide equal opportunities. Furthermore, digital technologies open up new communication channels that governments can use to deliver valuable citizen-oriented public services and foster social and political involvement. In order to reach inclusiveness and participation objectives, technology is obviously not enough. Some commitment to openness and transparency, as well as an effective assessment of policy outcomes range among the pillars of a successful approach to digital governance.

The Media Diet of University Students in Italy

2012 ◽  
pp. 84-93
Author(s):  
Andrea Pozzali ◽  
Paolo Ferri
Keyword(s):  
University Students ◽  
Information And Communication Technologies ◽  
Undergraduate Students ◽  
Digital Technologies ◽  
Communication Technologies ◽  
Digital Natives ◽  
Educational Systems ◽  
Information And Communication ◽  
High Level ◽  
The University

Developments in information and communication technologies have raised the issue of the intergenerational digital divide that can take place between “digital natives” and “digital immigrants”. Despite emphatic claims concerning how educational systems must take into account the specific characteristics of “digital natives”, sound empirical research on these topics is lacking, especially for Europe. This paper presents the results of research performed during the course of 2008, studying how university students in Italy use digital technologies. The research is based on a survey of 1086 undergraduate students at the University of Milan-Bicocca, complemented by focus groups and in-depth interviews. The results of our research show that, even if university students are familiar with digital technologies, the general possession of high level skills in accessing and using the Internet should not be taken for granted.

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