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Information Communication Technology (information + communication_technology)
Selected AbstractsAn unfinished symphony: 21st century teacher education using knowledge creating heutagogiesBRITISH JOURNAL OF EDUCATIONAL TECHNOLOGY, Issue 6 2006Jean Ashton Globalisation has changed the way most people live, work and study in the 21st century. Teachers and teacher educators, like other professionals, must embrace these changes to be effective in their jobs and one ongoing change is the use of Information Communication Technologies (ICTs) for lifelong learning. In this paper we describe how one group of academics in a university programme preparing new teachers has embraced change to introduce innovative programmes using ICTs and heutagogy rather than pedagogy. Heutagogy prepares students for the self-determined lifelong learning which is essential for survival in a 21st century world. [source] Emotions in a Rational Profession: The Gendering of Skills in ICT WorkGENDER, WORK & ORGANISATION, Issue 1 2008Elisabeth K. Kelan Information communication technology (ICT) work is rarely seen as a work environment where emotional and social skills are key. However, the ideal ICT worker is increasingly said to possess a range of emotional and social skills that are often associated with femininity. This raises the question of how skills are discursively gendered in ICT work. This article firstly shows which skills ICT workers identify as those needed by the ideal ICT worker. Secondly, it highlights how ICT workers construct their own skills. Thirdly, some light is shed on how the gendering of emotional and social skills shifts with different discursive contexts and it is shown what the implications of this are. It is suggested that there is a dynamic at work through which men can appear as a new ideal ICT worker with more ease than women, despite the fact that women are more often associated with social and emotional skills. [source] Disruptive information system innovation: the case of internet computingINFORMATION SYSTEMS JOURNAL, Issue 4 2003Kalle Lyytinen Abstract., Information system (IS) innovation can be defined as a novel organizational application of digital computer and information communication technologies (ICT). This paper discusses how modalities of applying ICT technologies in their form and scope exhibit radical breaks, which are introduced herein as ,disruptive IS innovations'. This notion of disruptive IS innovation is developed by drawing upon and extending Swanson's (1994) theory of IS innovation as well as the concept of radical innovation. Disruptive innovations strongly influence the future trajectory of the adoption and use of ICT in organizational contexts and make the trajectory deviate from its expected course. In doing so, these disruptive innovations distinctly define what an IS is and how it is deployed in order to address current and future organizational and managerial prerogatives. Such changes are triggered breakthroughs in the capability of ICT that lead to the revision and expansion of associated cognitive models (frames) of computing. Disruptive IS innovations are those that lead to changes in the application of ICT that are both pervasive and radical. The pervasive nature implies that innovative activity spans all innovation subsets of the quad-core model of IS innovation introduced herein. Innovation types include: IS use and development processes; application architecture and capability; and base technologies. Radical in nature, disruptive is innovations depart in significant ways from existing alternatives and lead to deviation from expected use and diffusion trajectory. This paper demonstrates the importance of a concept of disruptive IS innovation by investigating how changes triggered by internet computing (Lyytinen et al., 1998) meet the conditions of a disruptive IS innovation defined herein. The analysis also affirms both the pervasive and radical nature of internet computing and explains how internet computing has fundamentally transformed the application portfolio, development practices and IS services over time. The analysis demonstrates that, with the concept of disruptive IS innovation, we can fruitfully analyse ,long' waves of ICT evolution , an issue that has largely been overlooked in the IS community. On a theoretical plane, the paper advocates the view that we need to look beyond linear, unidirectional, and atomistic concepts of the diffusion of IS innovations where innovative activity takes places in a linear fashion by oscillating between small technological innovations and small organizational innovations. In contrast, IS innovation can exhibit fundamental discontinuity; we need to theoretically grasp such disruptive moments. The recent influx of innovation, spurred by internet-based technology, offers one such moment. [source] HOW TO RECTIFY UNFAIR TRADE PRACTICES AND TO ESTABLISH APPROPRIATE SUPPLY CHAINS AND BETTER BUSINESS CULTURE UNDER THE GLOBAL MARKET ECONOMYPACIFIC ECONOMIC REVIEW, Issue 5 2009Tsugio Ide Banning unfair trade practices stands alongside private monopolization and the unjust restraint of trade as a key theme in competition policy. However, it poses much greater difficulties to deal with the matter than either private monopolization or unjust restraint of trade. In recent years, ongoing economic globalization, advances in information communication technology and other factors have wrought major changes in the traditional supply chain: for example, in subcontracting structure. Given the role of small and medium enterprises in underpinning economic growth, lifting the basic quality and performance level of these firms and improving business conditions for them have emerged as key policy themes. New efforts are needed to establish fair trade as a business practice and to create a new business culture in corporation with competition policy, small and medium enterprise policy and business ethics, such as Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) practices. [source] Gender fatigue: The ideological dilemma of gender neutrality and discrimination in organizations,CANADIAN JOURNAL OF ADMINISTRATIVE SCIENCES, Issue 3 2009Elisabeth K. Kelan discrimination fondée sur le sexe; inégalité entre les sexes; post-féminisme; employés de TCI; analyse du discours; études d'organisation Abstract Although gender discrimination remains a feature of working life in many contexts, research on gender in organizations has shown that workplaces are often constructed as gender neutral. This poses an ideological dilemma for workers: how can they make sense of gender discrimination at work while presenting their workplace as gender neutral? This article explores that dilemma through an analysis of how information communication technology (ICT) workers talk about gender discrimination. Instead of denying gender discrimination, workers acknowledge it can happen but construct it as singular events that happened in the past and they place the onus on women to overcome such obstacles. Navigating the ideological dilemma around gender neutrality and discrimination, interviewees display what the article characterizes as gender fatigue. Copyright © 2009 ASAC. Published by John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. Bien que la discrimination fondée sur le sexe soit une caractéristique du monde du travail dans plusieurs contextes, les recherches sur la parité homme/femme dans les entreprises ont montré que les lieux de travail sont souvent conçus de façon non sexiste. Cette situation pose un dilemme idéologique aux travailleurs: comment peuvent-ils comprendre la discrimination fondée sur le sexe s'ils présentent leur lieu de travail comme non sexiste? C'est sur ce dilemme que cet article se penche, à travers une analyse des discours des employés en technologie de l'information et de la communication (TCI). Ces derniers ne nient pas l'inégalité entre les sexes; ils la présentent plutôt comme des épiphénomènes qui ont eu lieu dans le passé et estiment qu'il revient aux femmes de la combattre. Tiraillés entre le non sexisme et la discrimination, les sujets interrogés souffrent de ce que nous appelons «gender fatigue». Copyright © 2009 ASAC. Published by John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. [source] A Comparative Evaluation and Prognosis of Asia Pacific Bilateral and Regional Trade ArrangementsASIAN-PACIFIC ECONOMIC LITERATURE, Issue 1 2004Linda Low This paper provides an evaluation of the growing regional and bilateral trade arrangements in Asia and discusses some plausible scenarios for Asian regionalism. Changes in international relations, information communications technology, the knowledge-based economy and deregulation have altered trade modalities in the international political economy. The ,new regionalism' activities in Asia appear to be a response to these international developments and to be complementary to WTO-managed trade liberalisation. [source] | ||||||||||