The Networked Readiness Index presented in this report ranks 144 economies based on their capacity to exploit the opportunities offered by the digital age. This capacity is determined by the quality of the regulatory, business and innovation environments, the degree of preparedness, the actual usage of ICTs, as well as the societal and economic impacts of ICTs.
This book emphasizes the critical need for strategic national level policies, long-term in its vision and comprehensive in nature, targetting both the immediate needs of the populace and long-term needs of nations being integrated in the information age.
The White Paper adopts two very different approaches to governance. In other countries, especially developing countries, governance is problematic, something that needs to be addressed to deal with instability and potential security threats. This is governance in the broad political sense of the word, nationally and internationally.
This paper aims at exploring what are the real impacts of ICTs to NGOs engaged in e-governance. There has been an assumption or normative expectation that the use of ICTs can stimulate innovative capacity within and among NGOs. This innovative capacity, however, could lead NGOs into new forms of hybrids that do not easily map onto conventional images of NGOs.
This paper aimed to explore the effect of incorporating blended learning with Facebook and peer assessment for English for Business Communication course for college students. A total of 111 students from a public technological university participated in this study. The participants were divided into three Facebook site groups.
Despite the increasing importance of mobile devices in education, the essential features of these devices for ubiquitous learning have not been empirically addressed. This study empirically investigated the necessary conditions for using mobile devices as an educational tool for ubiquitous learning in higher education by a conjoint method.
As ICT is becoming an integral element for educational reforms and innovations in primary and secondary schools, this situation calls for an enhancement of pre-service education on ICT for prospective teachers. This paper focuses on issues relating to pre-service teacher education on ICT. Problems with existing approaches to pre-service training on ICT are first addressed.
This brief offers solutions for Improving health care in rural areas: Information and communications technology solutions
for least developed countries.
This chapter explores issues and challenges related to the collection of data about the use of information and communication technologies (ICTs) in education in East Asia. Despite widespread efforts across the region to introduce ICTs in education systems, little comparable data exist to help guide policy makers as they make important investment decisions.
