Digital India

2018 ◽  
pp. 170-184 ◽  
Author(s):  
Amit Kumar Sinha
Keyword(s):  
Mobile Devices ◽  
Rapid Growth ◽  
Low Cost ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Tier 2 ◽  
Internet Users ◽  
Tier 3 ◽  
Changing Demographics ◽  
Minimal Effort ◽  
The Web

E-commerce and internet businesses are driving the rapid growth of the domestic IT-ITeS industry, attracting unprecedented global interest and funding. Indian e-commerce and internet companies are growing rapidly with about 460 million internet users and a tele-density of around 85.2%. Increasing penetration of the internet, adoption of smartphones and minimal effort low-cost mobile devices, changing demographics, mobile-empowered youth, and the emergence of tier 2 and tier 3 cities as major shopping hubs have been driving the growth of the industry, with new retail forces shifting its dynamics. Furthermore, the continued growth of large pure-play organisations that are powerhouses has moved retailers' focus to the web channel. These companies are not only becoming gateways to product research, but have also introduced consumers to new ways of viewing the retail process.

A cross-sectional survey among physicians on Internet use for epilepsy-related information (Preprint)

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Francesco Brigo ◽  
Simona Lattanzi ◽  
Giorgia Giussani ◽  
Laura Tassi ◽  
Nicola Pietrafusa ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Internet Use ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Online Information ◽  
Cross Sectional Survey ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
Related Information ◽  
Internet Users ◽  
Therapeutic Decisions ◽  
The Individual ◽  
The Web

BACKGROUND The Internet has become one of the most important sources of health information, accessed daily by an ever-growing number of both patients and physicians, seeking medical advice and clinical guidance. A deeper insight into the current use of the Web as source of information on epilepsy would help in clarifying the individual attitude towards this medium by Internet users. OBJECTIVE We investigated views towards the Internet in a sample of Italian healthcare specialists involved in epilepsy field, to explore factors which explained the influence of information found on the internet. METHODS This study was a self-administered survey conducted in a group of members of the Italian Chapter of the International League Against Epilepsy (ILAE) in January 2018. RESULTS 184 questionnaires were analyzed. 97.8% of responders reported to seek online information on epilepsy. The Internet was most frequently searched to obtain new information (69.9%) or to confirm a diagnostic or therapeutic decision (37.3%). The influence of consulting the Internet on clinical practice was associated with registration to social network(s) (OR: 2.94; 95%CI: 1.28-6.76; p=0.011), higher frequency of Internet use (OR: 3.66; 95%CI: 1.56-9.21; p=0.006) and higher confidence in reliability of online information (OR: 2.61; 95%CI: 1.09-6.26; p=0.031). No association was found with age, sex, years in epilepsy practice or easiness to find online information. CONCLUSIONS Internet is frequently used among healthcare professionals involved in the epilepsy to obtain information about this disease. The attitude of being influenced by the Internet for diagnostic and/or therapeutic decisions in epilepsy is independent on age and years of experience in epilepsy, and probably reflects an individual approach towards the Web.

Web 2.0 as a Foundation for Social Media Marketing

2012 ◽  
pp. 342-379 ◽  
Author(s):  
Vedran Podobnik ◽  
Daniel Ackermann ◽  
Tomislav Grubisic ◽  
Ignac Lovrek
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Web 2.0 ◽  
Social Networking ◽  
Low Cost ◽  
Internet Marketing ◽  
Social Media Marketing ◽  
Marketing Campaign ◽  
Internet Users ◽  
The Web ◽  
The Way

In the Web 1.0 era, users were passive consumers of a read-only Web. However, the emergence of Web 2.0 redefined the way people use information and communication services—users evolved into prosumers that actively participate and collaborate in the ecosystem of a read-write Web. Consequently, marketing is one among many areas affected by the advent of the Web 2.0 paradigm. Web 2.0 enabled the global proliferation of social networking, which is the foundation for Social Media Marketing. Social Media Marketing represents a novel Internet marketing paradigm based on spreading brand-related messages directly from one user to another. This is also the reason why Social Media Marketing is often referred to as the viral marketing. This chapter will describe: (1) how social networking became the most popular Web 2.0 service, and (2) how social networking revolutionized Internet marketing. Both issues will be elaborated on two levels—the global and the Croatian level. The chapter will first present the evolution of social networking phenomenon which has fundamentally changed the way Internet users utilize Web services. During the first decade of 21st century, millions of people joined online communities and started using online social platforms, about 1.5 billion members of social networks globally in 2012. Furthermore, the chapter will describe how Internet marketing provided marketers with innovative marketing channels, which offer marketing campaign personalization, low-cost global access to consumers, and simple, cheap, and real-time marketing campaign tracking. Specifically, the chapter will focus on Social Media Marketing, the latest step in the Internet marketing evolution. The three most popular Social Media Marketing platforms (i.e., Facebook, Twitter, and Foursquare) will be described, and examples of successful marketing case studies in Croatia will be presented.

International Cooperation and Legal Response to Cybercrime in Pakistan

2020 ◽  
pp. 424-434
Author(s):  
Tansif Ur Rehman
Keyword(s):  
International Cooperation ◽  
Mobile Devices ◽  
Total Population ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Literacy Rate ◽  
Legal Response ◽  
Internet Users ◽  
Cyber Threat ◽  
The Common ◽  
Cyber Criminals

According to Internet World Stats (IWS), the total number of internet users in in Pakistan during October 2018 was 44,608,065, which is 22.2% of the total population. More than 30 million of Pakistan's 212 million people use the internet via mobile devices. The literacy rate of the country is quite low as compared to other countries (i.e., 58%). This research focuses on the common patterns of cyber criminals and the required legislation and enforcement of existing laws along with the need of international cooperation to counter global cyber threat.

Measuring Situational Anxiety Related to Information Retrieval on the Web Among English-Speaking Internet Users

2019 ◽  
Vol 31 (5) ◽  
pp. 480-491
Author(s):  
Carole Rodon ◽  
Anne Congard
Keyword(s):  
Information Retrieval ◽  
Complex Problem ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Internet Users ◽  
Sum Score ◽  
Affective Processes ◽  
Situational Anxiety ◽  
Internet Learning ◽  
English Speaking ◽  
The Web

Abstract Searching for information on the web is regarded as a complex problem-solving activity involving a range of cognitive and affective processes. Anxiety is a key affective factor. In this article, we describe the construction and initial validation stages of the Information Retrieval on the Web Anxiety Rate (IROWAR) scale. The final structure of this inventory was validated with a sample of 183 English-speaking Internet users. Reliability analyses indicated that the factors were internally consistent (Cronbach’s alpha: 0.92). When we checked divergent validity, we found negative correlations with both self-efficacy and positive attitude towards the Internet. There were no effects of either sex or age on the total IROWAR score, but the Internet search anxiety sum score decreased with the length of use. This scale will be useful in several domains, including research on the determinants of web anxiety, individuals’ experience of web anxiety and ways of supporting them and Internet learning.

scholarly journals Personalized Recommender System for Calculus using Content-Based Filtering Approach

2018 ◽  
Vol 7 (3.15) ◽  
pp. 110 ◽  
Author(s):  
Noor Latiffah Adam ◽  
Muhammad Alif Zulkafli ◽  
Shaharuddin Cik Soh ◽  
Nor Ashikin Mohamad Kamal ◽  
Nordin Abu Bakar
Keyword(s):  
Recommender System ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Internet Users ◽  
Basic Calculus ◽  
Personalized Recommender System ◽  
Many Sources ◽  
Content Based Filtering ◽  
Human Kind ◽  
The Web ◽  
Filtering Approach

In this millennial age, Internet is becoming essential to human kind. Along with the growth of Internet users, information is also becoming huge and starting to cause difficulties to find the relevant contents. Thus, the recommender system was introduced. It helps the user to suggest the items based on the user’s preferences. This system could help the students as Calculus is one of the tough subjects feared by most students. Credits given to the technology as many sources on the web can provide tutorials, working examples and solutions on the subjects. However, there are too many of them. Students had to make a few selections, which one can fulfil their needs of specific calculus topics. The personalized recommender system developed was a content-based filtering recommender system with its own scraping engine to collect the sources from the Internet which focuses on the basic Calculus topics. The system and engine were constructed by using Flask framework together with its relevant libraries. 

scholarly journals Fighting Internet Piracy: The French Experience With The Hadopi Law

2012 ◽  
Vol 16 (4) ◽  
pp. 327
Author(s):  
Alexis Koster
Keyword(s):  
Mobile Devices ◽  
Internet Use ◽  
Copyright Law ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Pedagogical Tool ◽  
Internet Piracy ◽  
Response System ◽  
Internet Users ◽  
French Experience ◽  
Illegal Downloading

With the ever-increasing speed of the Internet and the ever-increasing power of personal computers and mobile devices, illegal downloading affects not only recorded music, but also movies and other medias. To stem the loss of revenues caused to copyright holders, France passed the Hadopi Law in September 2009 to be enforced by a new agency - the Hadopi Authority. The Hadopi Authoritys mission includes three major objectives. 1) to enforce the copyright law on the Internet through legal actions against violators, 2) to educate Internet users about illegal versus legal activities with respect to the copyright law, and 3) to facilitate the development of Internet services providing legal access to copyrighted works. To deter piracy and, at the same time, to serve as a pedagogical tool, Hadopi uses the graduated response system. Users who participate in illegal downloading are first warned two times. After a third violation, their file is forwarded to a court for possible prosecution. Between October 2010 and March 2012, the Hadopi Authority performed several surveys of Internet use to measure the effectiveness of the Law. The resulting reports show some modest positive changes in the behavior of French Internet users.

The Prehistory of the Internet and its Traces in the Present: Implications for Defining the Field

2013 ◽  
Author(s):  
Martin C. J. Elton ◽  
John Carey
Keyword(s):  
New Media ◽  
Real Time ◽  
Low Cost ◽  
Computer Systems ◽  
Information Services ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Research Issues ◽  
Online Databases ◽  
Internet Community ◽  
The Web

This chapter describes how relevant the study of new media and telecommunication innovations, such as videotex, has been to research on developments around the Internet and the Web. It elaborates the distinctions between the Internet and the Web. Additionally, some of the more interesting links between research issues from long ago (in Internet time!) and those of significance today are explained. Online databases developed the initial designs for information services that would appear on the Web. CompuServe and The Source are the best-known ASCII videotex services. These videotex services provide links to other organisations with which the companies did business. The Internet was initially an infrastructure that efficiently transmitted data and at very low cost; fairly soon, it also became able to transmit asynchronous and real-time voice and video. The Internet community resolved the problem of interlinking disparate computer systems so as to produce new and synergistic wholes.

scholarly journals Spinning the Web of Hate Online: A Critical Review from the Malaysian Laws

2015 ◽  
Vol 11 (28) ◽  
pp. 183
Author(s):  
Dr. Syahirah Abdul Shukor ◽  
Associate Professor Dr. Nazura Abdul Manap
Keyword(s):  
Social Networking ◽  
Critical Review ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Internet Users ◽  
Sustainable Economy ◽  
The Future ◽  
The Law ◽  
Social Networking Website ◽  
The Web

<p>In a multi-cultural society, living in peace and tolerance are keys to development and sustainable economy. Undeniably, the efforts taken by all stakeholders are essential in materializing the future and dream of a peaceful country. Since its independence, Malaysia has been struggling to maintain the unity and integration of the three main ethnics, the Malays, the Chinese and the Indians. Matters pertaining to media especially publications of printed presses are strictly supervised by the Ministry of Home Affairs. However, with the inception of the Internet, regulating content of the Internet might be impossible for the law makers. This paper examines how the emergence of social networking website such as <em>Facebook, MySpace</em> and even <em>Tweeting</em> have been misused by irresponsible Internet users in Malaysia. Spinning the web of hate online is like spreading virus to the netizens and yet, its impact if it is not well tackled by members of society, it might spark serious problem to the unity and harmony of ethnics in Malaysia. Next, this paper examines how law responds to problems arose on the Internet. Finally, this paper suggests that supervision and monitoring content of the Internet which promote hate might be challenging but such problem need to be tackled by the authorities with extra vigilant and full coordination with all authorities.</p>

scholarly journals AN EFFICIENT APPROACH TO IMPLEMENT FEDERATED CLOUDS

2017 ◽  
Vol 10 (13) ◽  
pp. 40
Author(s):  
Pappu Sowmya ◽  
R Kumar
Keyword(s):  
Cloud Computing ◽  
Data Storage ◽  
Low Cost ◽  
Cloud Service ◽  
Cloud Services ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Security Model ◽  
Privacy And Security ◽  
Security Issues ◽  
Internet Users

Cloud computing is one of the trending technologies that provide boundless virtualized resources to the internet users as an important services through the internet, while providing the privacy and security. By using these cloud services, internet users get many parallel computing resources at low cost. It predicted that till 2016, revenues from the online business management spent $4 billion for data storage. Cloud is an open source platform structure, so it is having more chances to malicious attacks. Privacy, confidentiality, and security of stored data are primary security challenges in cloud computing. In cloud computing, ‘virtualization’ is one of the techniques dividing memory into different blocks. In most of the existing systems there is only single authority in the system to provide the encrypted keys. To fill the few security issues, this paper proposed a novel authenticated trust security model for secure virtualization system to encrypt the files. The proposed security model achieves the following functions: 1) allotting the VSM(VM Security Monitor) model for each virtual machine; 2) providing secret keys to encrypt and decrypt information by symmetric encryption.The contribution is a proposed architecture that provides a workable security that a cloud service provider can offer to its consumers. Detailed analysis and architecture design presented to elaborate security model.

Internet Usage, Motives and Advertisements

2014 ◽  
Vol 5 (4) ◽  
pp. 37-49
Author(s):  
Manoocher Niknam ◽  
Kobra Najafi ◽  
Azamosadat Hoseini ◽  
Sima Amirpoor ◽  
Parisa Bahmandar ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Online Advertising ◽  
Demographic Variables ◽  
Internet Usage ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Advertising Agencies ◽  
Significant Relation ◽  
Internet Users ◽  
Use Of Internet ◽  
To Receive ◽  
The Web

This study explains the internet usage among Iranian users. Therefore it has been tried to give basic answers to this question that: What is the Iranians main use for internet and not shopping online? Based on this, by thoroughly analyzing the literature of internet users and develop a comprehensive theoretical model, the use of internet was tested in the web domain. The results indicate that; there is a significant relation between the demographic variables (age, education) and the motivations for using the Internet, also results show that in Iran, men and women use the internet for more searching motivations, and one of the major reasons that Iranian users do not shop online is the mistrust to receive that product. This study was done on a descriptive–analytical basis and based on the achievements of this research, it was recommended to advertising agencies that by using the indicators identified how to make appropriate steps in order to provide online advertising.

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