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Smart cities : big data, civic hackers, and the quest for a new utopia
We live in a world defined by urbanization and digital ubiquity, where mobile broadband connections outnumber fixed ones, machines dominate a new \"Internet of things,\" and more people live in cities than in the countryside. In Smart Cities, urbanist and technology expert Anthony Townsend takes a broad historical look at the forces that have shaped the planning and design of cities and information technologies from the rise of the great industrial cities of the nineteenth century to the present. A century ago, the telegraph and the mechanical tabulator were used to tame cities of millions. Today, cellular networks and cloud computing tie together the complex choreography of mega-regions of tens of millions of people.
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Towards a comprehensive understanding of blockchain technology adoption in various industries in developing and emerging economies: a systematic review
The fast growth and wide range of applications of blockchain (BC) technology in various industries is irrefutable. Generally, BC technology is still in at an infant stage but it has generated significant interests in many sectors and industries. Nonetheless, despite an uptake of interest on the application of BC technology, the extent of its adoption in various industries in many countries remains partially understood. This paper aims to assess the current status of research on adoption of BC technology in various industries, particularly in developing and emerging economies. This study systematically reviewed the applied theories and models, adoption factors considered in each study, benefits, barriers and challenges of BC adoption intention in different industries from 86 articles published in the past five years from 2019 to end of June 2023. Findings showed several popular adoption models such as the Technology Acceptance Model, Unified Theory of Acceptance and Use of Technology and Task Technology Fit in the reviewed articles. Benefits, barriers and challenges were evident from each of the industries, implying the need to further understand BC adoption and application in these industries. This review also identifies a few research gaps and provides recommendations for future researches.
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The influence of E-auditing adoption on internal audit department performance amid COVID-19 in Saudi Arabia
Over the last decade, rapid advances in information systems (ISs) have greatly reshaped and changed the nature of doing business and how its performance is measured, with Electronic Auditing (E-auditing) emerging as a pivotal element in improving organizational efficiency. This study addresses the challenges faced in manually implementing audits and underscores the necessity for transitioning to electronic audit systems. The manual approach has limitations regarding the accuracy of operations, so to enhance performance, E-auditing is now imperative. The purpose of the study is to evaluate E-auditing in the public sector of Saudi Arabia, utilizing DeLone and McLean’s information system model (DM ISM). The focus is on vital factors including information quality, system quality, service quality, system usage and user satisfaction and their influence on the performance of internal audit departments, particularly during the challenges posed by the recent COVID-19 pandemic. This research employs a quantitative approach, utilizing a self-administered survey questionnaire to collect data from E-auditing users in the Saudi public sector. The study applies partial least squares structural equation modelling (PLS-SEM) to validate the gathered data. Findings reveal that information quality and system quality significantly influence E-auditing usage. While service quality exhibits no marked effect on usage, the study establishes a strong relationship between E-auditing usage and user satisfaction. Effective E-auditing usage and satisfied users contribute convincingly to the improved performance of internal audit departments. The paper concludes with implications, limitations, and suggestions for future studies.
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The Wealth of Networks
With the radical changes in information production that the Internet has introduced, we stand at an important moment of transition, says Yochai Benkler in this thought-provoking book. The phenomenon he describes as social production is reshaping markets, while at the same time offering new opportunities to enhance individual freedom, cultural diversity, political discourse, and justice. But these results are by no means inevitable: a systematic campaign to protect the entrenched industrial information economy of the last century threatens the promise of today's emerging networked information environment.
In this comprehensive social theory of the Internet and the networked information economy, Benkler describes how patterns of information, knowledge, and cultural production are changing-and shows that the way information and knowledge are made available can either limit or enlarge the ways people can create and express themselves. He describes the range of legal and policy choices that confront us and maintains that there is much to be gained-or lost-by the decisions we make today.
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Bridging digital divide in human resource functions: Information and communication technology usage within KwaZulu-Natal’s public sector
Orientation: Information and Communication Technology (ICT) in human resources (HR) is essential for enhancing operational efficiency. However, slow ICT adoption remains a challenge. This study explored the adoption of ICT in HR practices through the lens of Unified Theory of Acceptance and Use of Technology (UTAUT). Research purpose: This study investigates ICT adoption in HR practices at Zululand Health District. Motivation for the study: The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic highlighted significant gaps in ICT adoption within HR practices. This study was motivated by the need to explore the adoption and use of ICT in HR to ensure operational continuity. Research approach/design and method: A qualitative approach employing semi-structured interviews with eight HR employees within the Zululand Health District was used. Thematic analysis was used to identify key themes and patterns. Main findings: The findings revealed that through ICT, HR functions would be achieved with ease. Additionally, the constructs of the UTAUT framework, namely performance expectancy, effort expectancy and facilitating conditions, play a big role in ICT adoption and use. Practical/managerial implications: Managers should prioritise procuring ICT resources and ensure access to up-to-date resources, as well as reliable Internet connectivity and a stable power supply. Digital health strategies and national policies should ensure digital equity by expanding rural ICT infrastructure and digital capacity-building programmes. Global digital health initiatives should prioritise ICT resources and training in rural settings. Contribution/value-add: This study provides localised insights into ICT adoption and highlights lessons that are transferable to other rural health systems by extending the UTAUT model to a resource-constrained public sector.
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GLOBALIZATION AND THE EVOLUTION OF THE SUPPLY CHAIN: WHO GAINS AND WHO LOSES?
This article focuses on two distinct facets of globalization: decrease in the trade costs of goods and the decline of communication costs between headquarters and production facilities. When the unskilled have about the same wage in two regions, decrease of these costs fosters the agglomeration of plants in the core accommodating headquarters. When the wage gap is significant, process of integration eventually triggers the relocation of plants into the periphery. When this process of relocation is driven by falling communication costs, the welfare of all workers in the core falls whereas that in the periphery rises.
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Moving Cultures
André Caron and Letizia Caronia look at teenagers' use of text messaging to chat, flirt, and gossip. They find that messaging among teens has little to do with sending shorthand information quickly. Instead, it is a verbal performance through which young people create culture. Moving Cultures argues that teenagers have domesticated and reinterpreted this technology.
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Utilization of Information Technology Media and Communication in Distance Learning During the Covid 19 Pandemic
The Covid 19 pandemic has had an impact on various life settings. One of them is in educational institutions. The application of New Normal with its social distancing has made learning carried out remotely. The implementation of distance learning in schools needs an innovation through the use of Information and Communication Technology in learning. There are several Information and Communication Technology media that can be used in learning including computers and the internet. Teachers can design subject matter using computers. Then the material that has been designed is delivered to students via the internet network. Currently, there are many social media that support distance learning. SDIT Cahaya Hati has also conducted distance learning. Teachers need to prepare distance learning material in advance before it is delivered to students. This study aims to reveal the use of Information and Communication Technology by SDIT Cahaya Hati teachers in distance learning during the COVID-19 pandemic. The type of this research is qualitative with interview data collection techniques, and documentation. The results show that the Cahaya Hati SDIT teachers have organized distance learning using Information and Communication Technology media. SDIT Cahaya Hati teachers use computers to make learning materials in the form of power points and learning videos. This material is delivered to students using the internet network through a WhatsApp group. Every day the teacher evaluates the learning and once a week the assignment is handed over to the teacher at school
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Information and Communication Technologies Combined with Mixed Reality as Supporting Tools in Medical Education
The dynamic COVID-19 pandemic has destabilized education and forced academic centers to explore non-traditional teaching modalities. A key challenge this creates is in reconciling the fact that hands-on time in lab settings has been shown to increase student understanding and peak their interests. Traditional visualization methods are already limited and topics such as 3D molecular structures remain difficult to understand. This is where advances in Information and Communication Technologies (ICT), including remote meetings, Virtual Reality (VR), Augmented Reality (AR), Mixed Reality (MR), and Extended Reality (XR, so-called Metaverse) offer vast potential to revolutionize the education landscape. Specifically, how MR merges real and virtual life in a uniquely promising way and offers opportunities for entirely new educational applications. In this paper, we briefly overview and report our initial experience using MR to teach medical and pharmacy students. We also explore the future usefulness of MR in pharmacy education. MR mimics real-world experiences both in distance education and traditional laboratory classes. We also propose ICT-based systems designed to run on the Microsoft HoloLens2 MR goggles and can be successfully applied in medical and pharmacy coursework. The models were developed and implemented in Autodesk Maya and exported to Unity. Our findings demonstrate that MR-based solutions can be an excellent alternative to traditional classes, notably in medicine, anatomy, organic chemistry, and biochemistry (especially 3D molecular structures), in both remote and traditional in-person teaching modalities. MR therefore has the potential to become an integral part of medical education in both remote learning and in-person study.
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Teachers' Self-efficacy for Using Information and Communication Technology: The Interaction Effect of Gender and Age
The purpose of the study is to examine the moderating effect of age on gender differences in teachers’ self-efficacy for using information and communication technology (ICT) in teaching as well as possible variables underlying this effect. Following Bandura’s conceptualisation of self-efficacy, we defined teachers' self-efficacy as their confidence in performing specific tasks that require the integration of ICT into the teaching practice. The study was conducted via an online questionnaire on a sample of 6613 elementary and upper secondary school teachers in Croatia. The hierarchical multiple regression analysis was applied. The findings indicate minor gender differences in self-efficacy for using ICT that are more prominent among older teachers and practically non-existent among younger teachers. These effects remain statistically significant after controlling for the type of school where the teacher works, perceived technical and professional support for using ICT in school, and frequency of use of computer programmes in teaching. The interaction effect ceases to be statistically significant after the introduction of length of computer use in teaching and/or attitudes towards computers in the model, indicating that these two variables have a role in low self-efficacy for using ICT among older female teachers. A similar level of self-efficacy for using ICT among young male and female teachers is an encouraging finding which could hopefully be followed by gender equality in other aspects of ICT use. The findings suggest that strategies for enhancing ICT self-efficacy should be particularly targeted at older female teachers. This study contributes to a better understanding of the underresearched topic of gender differences in teacher’s ICT self-efficacy.
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