Vested Interests Obstructing Information Systems Use: Land Administration in...
While there are identified factors that inhibit information communication technology (ICT) adoption in the public sector of LDCs such as lack of knowledge, attitude and mindset, leadership,...
View ArticleCorruption in African Democratic Developing Countries and ICT: Apathy,...
As citizens in democratic developing countries (DDC) put their governments under pressure to deal with corruption, Information and Communications Technology (ICT) is increasingly being considered as...
View ArticleMobile Banking Adoption in the United States: Adapting mobile banking...
This is a work-in-progress research paper on Mobile Banking (mBanking) in the USA that draws upon mBanking deployment successes in low-income countries. The research investigates mBanking adoption at...
View ArticleThe START - Net work: ICT & Mobile Applications
The potential of ICT to enable micro-entrepreneurship in peripheral and resource-scarce countries has been well documented in contexts, such as agribusiness, fisheries and manufacturing. There has...
View ArticleUnderstanding Mobile Internet Diffusion: The Case of Jamaica
Worldwide it is estimated that there are over 5.3 billion mobile subscribers of which almost 4 billion are in the developing world (ITU, 2010b). For developing countries, the digital divide in terms...
View ArticleMobile Money and Payment: a literature review based on academic and...
The use of mobile technology has become widespread with astonishing speed all over the world, particularly among the poor. The more mobile phones go to the hands of people who formerly lacked access...
View ArticleExploring the Impacts of ICT Investments on Dimensions of Human Development...
Despite the worldwide growth in investments in information and communication technology (ICT), it is not clear whether or not any impacts are the same for countries at different levels of economic...
View ArticleEconomic and Social influences on Technology Utilization and A vailability in...
China’s technology levels have grown rapidly in the first decade of the 21st century. This study examines the economic and social influences on technology utilization and availability in China’s 31...
View ArticleInvestigating the Impact of Investments in Telecoms on Microeconomic...
We propose and test a conceptual model allowing for investigating the microeconomic impact of investments in telecoms. While the impact of investments in telecoms on the macroeconomic outcomes has...
View ArticleSustainability and Technology Diffusion in Small, Isolated Communities in the...
Developing countries have placed information and communication technologies (ICTs) high on their national development agenda. The assumed model has been one in which ICTs are the means to deliver an...
View ArticleUncertainty Avoidance and Technology Acceptance in Emerging Economies: A...
Technology adoption is affected by many factors, including culture. The aim of this research in progress paper is to further clarify and explain the role of culture when considering the acceptance of...
View ArticleTelecommunications in Jamaica: Monopoly to Liberalized Competition to...
This paper examines the period between 2000 and 2011 in the Jamaican telecommunications industry as it evolved from being a monopoly to vibrant competition to an emerging monopoly in eleven years. The...
View ArticleThe Cross - cultural impacts on technology entrepreneurship: a comparative...
The change in economic and manageria l direct ions in recent years has led into questions about the context of entrepreneurship on the light of the radical change in the g lobal econo my and the...
View ArticleAntecedents of ICT Innovation in Emerging Economies: A Research Program
Studies on enterprise IT innovations have established the relationships between a number of determinants and enterprise innovativeness. However, such studies in general have been conducted in...
View ArticleWhat is the Potential Impact of Using Mobile Devices in Education?
Mobile devices are becoming ubiquitous in the world today. With the power of portable computing in the hands of everyone and anyone, the time has come to consider using mobile devices for education....
View ArticleImpact of Video Recorded Lectures on Learning at Radboud University, Netherlands
Due to the continuous emergence of new technology, more and more students want to use technology for learning. Digital technology has become part of students‟ life today, hence the term Digital...
View ArticleUser Participation and the Success of Development of ICT4D project: A...
“Involve target groups in project design and monitoring”. This is the first of five points of lesson-learned from a detailed review commissioned by InfoDev of a cross-section of 17 of the more than...
View ArticleA Market Separations Perspective to Analyze the Role of ICT in Development at...
The “Bottom of the Pyramid” “BOP” defined to include people sustaining on less than US $2 a day is believed to consist of over four billion people. A principal problem facing BOP consumers is lack of...
View ArticleRole of Cloud Computing Interventions for Micro - Enterprise Growth:...
While the majority of businesses around the world are micro-enterprises, they are the most vulnerable and are often run by people with limited resources, and skills to be able to avail the benefits of...
View ArticleJustDial: Reducing the Digital Divide through an ICT-Enabled Application of...
This paper has two objectives. The first, and primary objective is to integrate and the concepts of “Appropriate technology” and “Fortune at the Bottom of the Pyramid”, and illustrate their...
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