E-Engaging India

Civil Society Organizations ◽

Mobile Technologies ◽

Electronic Interaction ◽

Media Technologies

E-Governance, inclusive of e-democracy, e-government, and e-business, has the power to improve processes, connect citizens, and build interactions with civil societies. The infusion of Information Communication Technologies (ICTs) by the governments, civil society organizations, and political institutions to engage citizens, have promoted greater participation in the process of governance. E-Democracy encompasses all forms of electronic interaction between the elected government and the electorate. Examples include e-voting, e-consultation, e-representatives, e-campaigning, online deliberative polling, e-petitions, and e-referendums. India is the largest democracy in the world and a frontrunner in the use of ICTs for e-governance and e-democracy. The last few elections witnessed a surge in the use of new technologies inclusive of Internet, social networking, and mobile technologies, alongside the traditional forms of electioneering. This chapter examines the e-governance and e-democracy strategies, and the innovative new media technologies used by political parties, industrial corporations, and other organizations that have e-engaged the citizens.

Academics’ ICT Capabilities in a New Educational Paradigm in Developing Countries

Enterprise Resource Planning Models for the Education Sector ◽

10.4018/978-1-4666-2193-0.ch002 ◽

2013 ◽

pp. 18-32

Author(s):

Agnes Chigona ◽

Rabelani Dagada

Keyword(s):

Developing Countries ◽

Teaching And Learning ◽

New Technologies ◽

Tertiary Institutions ◽

Educational Paradigm ◽

Effective Use ◽

New Education

Tertiary institutions in the developing countries are investing a lot in equipping their institutions with Information Communication Technologies (ICT) for teaching and learning. However, there is still a low adoption rate in the use of the new technologies among many academics in these countries. This chapter aims at analysing the factors that impact on the academics’ effective use of ICTs for teaching and learning in the new education paradigm. Sen’s Capability Approach was used as a conceptual lens to examine the academics’ phenomena. Data was collected through in-depth interviews. The analysis of the findings has shown that individual, social, and environmental factors are preventing some academics from realising their potential capabilities from using the new technologies. It is recommended, therefore, that institutions in the developing countries should look into, and deal with accordingly, the conversion factors that are impacting on the academics’ capabilities when utilising the new technologies.

Developing Information Communication Technologies for the Human Services

Health Information Systems ◽

10.4018/978-1-60566-988-5.ch040 ◽

2011 ◽

pp. 627-641

Author(s):

Jennifer Martin ◽

Elspeth McKay

Keyword(s):

Design Process ◽

Human Services ◽

New Technologies ◽

Scenario Development ◽

Work Requirement ◽

Standards Of Practice

This chapter introduces a design process for developing useful information communication technologies for the human services. Key to the success of the design process is an in-depth knowledge and understanding of user needs and requirements. The stages involved in the design process are presented in this chapter and include: user and task analysis, persona and scenario development and the establishment of measurable usability goals. A case study illustrates the application of this design process to develop a Web enabled electronic work requirement awareness program (e-WRAP) for people recovering from mental illness seeking employment. The challenge for social workers is to use these new technologies to improve service provision and enhance quality of life without compromising ethical standards of practice; particularly in relation to client confidentiality, privacy and self-determination.

Cacophony or Empowerment? Analysing the Impact of New Information Communication Technologies and New Social Media in Southeast Asia

Journal of Current Southeast Asian Affairs ◽

10.1177/186810341103000401 ◽

2011 ◽

Vol 30 (4) ◽

pp. 3-31 ◽

Cited By ~ 11

Author(s):

Jason P. Abbott

Keyword(s):

Social Media ◽

Social Networking ◽

Arab World ◽

Protest Movements ◽

Human Rights Abuses ◽

New Information ◽

The Impact

The capabilities, tools and websites we associate with new information communication technologies and social media are now ubiquitous. Moreover tools that were designed to facilitate innocuous conversation and social interaction have had unforeseen political impacts. Nowhere was this more visible than during the 2011 uprisings across the Arab World. From Tunis to Cairo, and Tripoli to Damascus protest movements against authoritarian rule openly utilized social networking and file sharing tools to publicize and organize demonstrations and to catalogue human rights abuses. The Arab Spring, or Jasmine Revolution, was an event that was both witnessed and played out in real time online. This article explores the impacts and effects of these technologies on regimes in East Asia, in particular exploring the extent to which they proffer new capabilities upon activists and reformers in the region's semi-democratic and authoritarian regimes. Drawing on data on Internet and smartphone use, as well as case studies that explore the role of these technologies on the 2008 and 2011 general elections in Malaysia and Singapore respectively, this article suggests that the Internet and social networking platforms do present unique opportunities for activists, citizens and social movements.

Making the Introduction of Multi-media Technologies Count in Education Reform in Africa: the Case of Ghana

Comunicar ◽

10.3916/c32-2009-02-009 ◽

2009 ◽

Vol 16 (32) ◽

pp. 109-118 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

Kwame Akyeampong

Keyword(s):

Teacher Education ◽

Education Curriculum ◽

Media Technologies ◽

New Information ◽

Nuevas Tecnologías ◽

Multi Media ◽

Formación Docente

This contribution reviews the introduction of old and new information communication technologies in Ghanaian education. It points out how the recent proliferation of multi-media technologies in the country has ultimately encouraged the introduction of ICTs in education. However, the author argues that much of the move to introduce these new technologies into schools and colleges has not reflected the need to re-conceptualise teacher education curriculum practices to base its foundations on constructivist ideas about knowledge and its production. Without this, reforms to introduce new information communication technologies in classrooms risk becoming tools that are again used to reinforce old traditions of teaching and learning based on uncritical transmission of knowledge. Finally, the author argues that changes to the teacher education curriculum in Ghana, and elsewhere in Africa, should also reflect the new professional learning identities and learning experiences that ICT and other media communication tools are meant to foster in the classroom. La presente contribución da un repaso a la introducción de las tecnologías antiguas y nuevas de la información en el sector educativo de Ghana. Señala cómo la reciente proliferación de las tecnologías mul timedia en el país ha alentado finalmente la introducción de las TIC en la educación. Sin embargo, el autor sostiene que buena parte de la motivación para introducir estas nuevas tecnologías en los centros educativos e institutos superiores no ha reflejado la necesidad de reconceptualizar las prácticas curriculares en la formación docente, con el fin de fundamentarlas en ideas constructivistas sobre los conocimientos y su producción. Sin esto, las reformas para introducir las nuevas tecnologías de información y comunicación en las aulas corren el riesgo de ser meramente herramientas que nuevamente se utilizan para reforzar las viejas tradiciones de enseñanza y aprendizaje en base a la trasmisión de los conocimientos sin ningún pensamiento crítico. Finalmente, el autor insiste en que los cambios curriculares en la formación docente en Ghana, y en otras partes de África, también deben reflejar las nuevas identidades de aprendizaje profesional y experiencias de aprendizaje que deben fomentar las TIC y otras herramientas mediáticas en el aula.

A Comparative Study of ICT Innovation Policy for the Countries Development Perspective

IJID (International Journal on Informatics for Development) ◽

10.14421/ijid.2012.01101 ◽

2014 ◽

Vol 1 (1) ◽

pp. 1

Author(s):

Ayesha Saleem ◽

Kiyohide Higuchi

Keyword(s):

New Technologies ◽

Innovation Policy ◽

Economic Factor ◽

Diffusion Of Information ◽

Information And Communication ◽

Frame Work ◽

High Level

In the globalized environment, the economic growth significantly depends on the countries capacity to develop, to apply new technologies and vice versa. Diffusion of information communication technologies is a global phenomenon. Despite of rapid globalization there are considerable differences between nations in terms of adoption and usage of new technologies. This paper aims to draw together the highly eclectic literature on the diffusion of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) Innovation in order to know what have been done, highlight the generic issues, relevant to policy and will initiate further research and develop potential opportunities. This paper also highlight the low level and high level income countries data and ICT policies frame work to draw conclusions and some case studies as an example. The objective is to review the finding the social economic factor for diffusion of ICT Innovation to make policy recommendation for the development of the country.

Developing Information Communication Technologies for the Human Services

Information Communication Technologies for Human Services Education and Delivery ◽

10.4018/978-1-60566-735-5.ch010 ◽

2010 ◽

pp. 152-166 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Jennifer Martin ◽

Elspeth McKay

Keyword(s):

Design Process ◽

Human Services ◽

New Technologies ◽

Scenario Development ◽

Work Requirement ◽

Standards Of Practice

This chapter introduces a design process for developing useful information communication technologies for the human services. Key to the success of the design process is an in-depth knowledge and understanding of user needs and requirements. The stages involved in the design process are presented in this chapter and include: user and task analysis, persona and scenario development and the establishment of measurable usability goals. A case study illustrates the application of this design process to develop a Web enabled electronic work requirement awareness program (e-WRAP) for people recovering from mental illness seeking employment. The challenge for social workers is to use these new technologies to improve service provision and enhance quality of life without compromising ethical standards of practice; particularly in relation to client confidentiality, privacy and self-determination.

New Trends and Futuristic Information Communication Technologies for Engineering Education

ICTs for Advancing Rural Communities and Human Development ◽

10.4018/978-1-4666-0047-8.ch017 ◽

2011 ◽

pp. 251-262

Author(s):

Manjit Singh Sidhu ◽

Lee Chen Kang

Keyword(s):

Engineering Education ◽

Educational System ◽

Mechanical Engineering ◽

New Technologies ◽

Higher Learning ◽

Learning Techniques ◽

Learning Institutions

Improving and enhancing education is a goal for higher learning institutions that seek to provide better learning techniques, technologies, and educators and generate knowledgeable students to fulfill the needs of industry. A field in need of significant improvement is engineering. One approach is to review the delivery and pedagogies used in the current educational system. This paper examines the problems faced by staff and students in the field of mechanical engineering. In addition, the authors explore new technologies that enhance and promote the learning process.

Research Anthology on Collaboration, Digital Services, and Resource Management for the Sustainability of Libraries ◽

Emerging Technologies, Information Provision, and Libraries

10.4018/978-1-7998-8051-6.ch034 ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 590-604

Author(s):

Alexious Muunga

Keyword(s):

New Technologies ◽

Emerging Technologies ◽

Information Age ◽

Information Provision ◽

Storage And Retrieval ◽

Present Information ◽

Other Information

The advent of computers and information communication technologies (ICTs) has drastically changed the acquisition, storage, and retrieval of information. Further, information can be accessed through various media as new technologies continue to spring up. Since information can be accessed anywhere as long as one has internet connectivity, this has resulted in many users not using the libraries and other information centers. The decline in the use of libraries is worrying, hence the need to understand how the emerging technologies have changed information provision in the libraries. The chapter addresses challenges that affect the provision of the needed services in the libraries. Finally, alternative services that libraries are adopting in order for them to remain relevant in this information age are outlined. This chapter provides insights on how libraries can continue to play their role as information providers and how they can fit into the present information age.

Quale rete sviluppare per superare la crisi del welfare sanitario: la probabile risposta di Achille Ardigň

SALUTE E SOCIETÀ ◽

10.3280/ses2009-su2004 ◽

2009 ◽

pp. 74-84

Author(s):

Ivo Colozzi

Keyword(s):

Social Networks ◽

Health Service ◽

New Technologies ◽

Welfare System ◽

Public And Private ◽

Non Profit ◽

Private Profit

- Ardigo's interest for the topic of the opportunities offered by the development of information communication technologies in the field of health services is referred to the question of the overcoming of the crisis of "transation" between welfare system and life's worlds. Moruzzi, who has developed Ardigo's approach on this topic, writes that Internet may be the link between micro and macro if it will be able to differentiate itself by the national health service and to create, thanks to the development of new technologies, a new cooperation between public and private (profit and non profit) actors at the service of the sick person (subsidiarity). In the Introduction to Moruzzi's book, instead, Ardigň says that the development of the social networks of care is more important than the development of new technologies.Keywords: development, welfare system, health service, technologies, social networks, Ardigň.Parole chiave: sviluppo, sistema di welfare, servizio sanitario, tecnologie, reti sociali, Ardigň.