Encyclopedia of Developing Regional Communities with Information and Communication Technology

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Marshall, Stewart, Taylor, Wal, Yu, Xinghuo
Idea Group Inc (IGI), 30 черв. 2005 р. - 804 стор.

In many international settings, regional economies are declining resulting in lowered opportunities for these communities. This result attacks the very fabric of cohesion and purpose for these regional societies, and increases social, health, economic and sustainability problems. Community Informatics research, education and practice is an emerging area in many countries, which seeks to address these issues.

The Encyclopedia of Developing Regional Communities with Information and Communication Technology is an important and timely reference source on all topics related to the emerging field of information and communication technology (ICT) and its role in developing regional communities. This single-volume provides a thorough examination of concepts, technologies, policies, training, and applications of ICT in support of economic and regional developments around the globe. With 171 leading international contributors from 40 countries, over 940 terms and definitions, and more than 2,200 references, this publication is the single indispensable source of knowledge related to ICT and its strong positive impacts on the economic development of regional communities around the world.

 

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Action Research Methods
1
Adaptive Use of ICT in Response to Disintermediation
6
Analysing a Rural Communitys Reception of ICT in Ghana
11
Applying for Goverenment Grants for ICT in Australia
16
The Arab World Culture and Information Technology
21
Assessing Universal Access to ICT in Ghana
28
Assessment of EGovernment Projects
35
Assimilation by Communities of Internet Technologies
40
ICT Education and Regional Development in Swiss Peripheral Areas
393
ICTBased Community Development Initiatives in South Africa
399
Imagining APNA Punjab in Cyberspace
405
Impact of PFnet Services on Sustainable Rural Development
412
Implementation of a Health Information Systems Programme
420
Improving Electronic Information Literacy in West African Higher Education
427
IndustryRelevant Smart Community Partnerships
433
Information Communication for Child Development Service
439

Building a Framework for the Development of RMIT Learning Networks
47
Building HumanCentered Systems
53
Cambodian Youth Making Connections
66
Capturing Community Memory with Images
72
Caribbean Companies and the Information Superhighway
79
Challenges to Community Informatics to Bridging the Digital Divide
85
Choosing Online Learning Communities or Collaborative Learning
90
CitizenOriented Decision Making
96
Civic Space Portal
103
Civil Society and the New Economy
107
Clustering Dymanics of the ICT Sector in South Africa
113
Cognitive Theories and the Design of ELearning Environments
119
Connecting Dispersed Communities on the Move
124
Connecting the Unconnected in Rural Ireland
130
Convergence of ICT and Culture
135
Critical Mass and SelfSustaining Activitiy
138
Cross the Digital Divide and Putting ICT to Work to Improve Peoples Lives
144
Cultural Barriers of HumanComputer Interaction
146
The Definition Dilemma of ECommerce
152
Determining Whether ICT Improves Social Interactions
158
Developing Regional Communities in Turkey
164
Developing Regional Destination Marketing Systems
169
Developing Regional Tourism Using Information Communications Technology
176
Digital Divide and the ICT Paradigm Generally and in Estonia
182
Digital LIbraries and Development for the Illiterate
188
Digital Library Structure and Software
193
Distance Learning Telematics and Rural Social Exclusion
205
EAfrica Initiative for Good Governance
210
eBario and eBedian Project Implementation in Malaysia
214
EBusiness for SME Development
220
ECommerce and Small Business in Regional Australia
227
ECommerce and Small Tourism Firms
233
ECommerce Challenges for Caribbean Businesses
239
ECommerce in the SubSaharan Africa
246
EDemocracy as a Contemporary Framework for Citizens Deliberation
250
Education Trends in Thai Businesses Utilizing Information Technology
256
EGovernment and EDemocracy in Latin America
263
Electronic Government in Small Island States
269
EMail as a Teaching Supplement in Tunisia
275
Employability Management of ICT Professionals
282
Establishing a Knowledge Network of Local and Regional Development Subjects
289
Expanding ECommerce into EDucation
295
Extended Democratic Space for Citizens EParticipation
299
Forging Partnerships to Provide Computer LIteracy in Swaziland
305
Formation of a KnowledgeBased Society through Utilization of Information Networking
310
FreeLibre Open Source Software for Bridging the Digital Divide
316
Government Procurement ICTs Impact on the Sustainability of SMEs and Regional Communities
321
How the National EStrategy Shapes Competitiveness in the Information Economy
325
ICT Aided Education for Peoples Empowerment
331
ICT and Developing Social Capital
337
ICT and Distance Learning for Agricultural Extension in Low Income Countries
342
ICT and Regional Development in Australia
348
ICT and the Efficient Markets Hypothesis
353
ICT and the Tourism Information Marketplace in Australia
360
An ICT Enabled Community in Rural Nigeria and the UK
367
ICT for Ethiopian Community Development
370
ICT for Social and Cultural Capital in Pacific Island Communities
377
ICT in Medical Education in Trinidad and Tobago
382
ICT in Regional Development
387
Information Literacy for Telecenter Users in LowIncome Regional Mexican Communities
445
The Information Society in Ukraine
451
Information Technology Standards in China
456
Innovation in Wireless Technologies
458
Intentional Online Learning Plans
463
Introducing Electronic Governance in the Philippines
468
ITC Policy and Practice in the Fiji Islands
471
Leveraging Digital Multimedia Training for AtRisk Teens
475
Measuring the Maturity Level of a Community Portal
481
Medical Education in the 21st Century
488
Mobile Ad Hoc Networks
494
Mobile EWork to Support Regional and Rural Communities
496
Modern Tools and Technologies for the Visually Impaired
501
National Competition Policy and Broadband Provision in Australia
506
The Need for Community Informtics in Malaysia
512
NetTelAfrica
518
New Frontiers for the New Australian Institute of Music
523
One Village One Computer Campaign in India
528
Open and Distance Programme for Rural Women
533
Participatory 3D Modelling
537
Pedal Powered Wireless Internet in the Laotion Jungle
544
Planning for Electronic Government in a Remote Malaysian Site
550
Political Online Communities in Saudi Arabia
557
Potential Implications of IPv6 for Regional Development
564
Poverty Inequality and New Technologies in Latin America
569
Preparing African Higher Education Faculty in Technology
576
ProblemBased Learning and the Design of ELearning Environments
581
Producing and Sharing Free Advanced Scientific and Technological Knowledge Using the Internet
587
Promoting the Culture and Development of Regional Communities with Digital Libraries
593
Radio for Social Development
598
Regional Tourism and the Internet in Australia
603
Remote Indigenous Australian Communities and ICT
608
The Role of Multinationals in Recent IT Developments in China
614
A Rural MultiPurpose Community Centre in South Africa
618
Satellite Technology in Schools
624
SchoolsBased Community Networking in Uganda
628
Selling Singapores ELifestyle Initiative to Late Adopters
635
Sociocultural Animation
640
South African Womens Rural Development and ECommerce
646
The South Australian Common Knowledge Community
653
The State of Internet Access in Uganda
655
Sustainability Issues for Australian Rural Teleservice Centres
659
Sustainable Telecentres for Local Development
665
Technology Leapfrogging in Thailand
671
Telecentres in LowIncome Nations
677
Telecommunication Problems in Rural Areas of Armenia
683
Telecommunications Sector and Internet Access in Africa
687
Telework and the Canadian Environment
692
Transforming Democracy through ICT
698
TransUrbanites and Collaborative Environments in Computer Networks
704
Urban Information Systems in Turkish Local Governments
709
Using Virtual Mobility to Alleviate Aspects of Social Exclusion
715
Voice Over IP for Rural Telecommunication Provision
723
Web Site Development in Action Research
729
Wireless in Vietnam
735
Workarounds and Security
741
Index of Key Terms
745
Index
754
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Professor Stewart Marshall, Ph.D. is the Director of the Distance Education Centre at the University of the West Indies (UWI). Previously, he was the foundation Dean and a Professor of the Faculty of Informatics and Communication at the Central Queensland University in Australia. Professor Marshall's research interests are in the role of communication and information technologies in distance education, and also in the emerging research area of community informatics systems (CIS), especially in developing countries. He has published several books, and over 90 book chapters, refereed articles and conference papers.

Dr. Wal Taylor is the Foundation Professor of Community Informatics at Cape Peninsula University of Technology, Capetown, South Africa. His research interests are predominantly in the social appropriation of Internet technologies, particularly their interface with public agency service delivery. He is author and co-editor of 3 books, 4 conference proceedings, 10 book chapters and 45 papers on Community Informatics. He sits on the executive of a number of international community informatics organizations including the Community Informatics Research Network (CIRN http://www.ciresearch.net). He was a key note speaker at the 2003 Salzburg Seminar on Digital Inclusion and since 2001, he has been an invited keynote speaker and presenter at a number of Community Informatics international conferences in Australia, France, Austria, Italy, Russia, United Kingdom, United States and Canada.

Xinghuo Yu is Professor of Computer Systems Engineering and Associate Dean Research & Innovation of Science, Engineering and Technology at the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology University, Melbourne Australia. His research interests are predominately in the areas of Information Technology, Intelligent Systems and their applications in industrial, social and economic systems. Professor Yu has published over 250 refereed papers in technical journals, books and conference proceedings. He has co-edited seven research books including ?Variable Structure Systems: Towards the 21st Century? (Springer Verlag 2002) and ?Applied Decision Support with Soft Computing? (Springer Verlag, 2003), ?Chaos Control? (Springer Verlag, 2003), ?Bifurcation Control? (Springer Verlag, 2003), and ?Closing the Digital Divide" (Praeger, 2003). Professor Yu is a Fellow of Institution of Engineers Australia. He was made Emeritus Professor of Central Queensland University in 2002 in recognition of his significant contributions to the university. [Editor]

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