Advanced ICT Research Articles

Will smart cities enhance the social capital of residents? The importance of smart neighborhood management

Social capital is a concept that indicates the strength of the relationship among people inside and outside a community. It is a factor that facilitates policy for community formation and regeneration and is also an indicator of the outcome of a policy for improving a community. This study examined the hypothesis that the regional efforts to create smart cities using advanced ICT technologies enhance the social capital of the city and identified the factors that enhance social capital. Urban policy in Japan is shifting from hardware-oriented development to software-oriented area management; the Minato Mirai 21 district in the city of Yokohama is a typical example of area management. The essence of smart transition is to enhance various management functions by using smart social technologies, such as advanced information communication. The attractiveness of smart cities with sophisticated area management provided by such technologies will likely be high. Thus, this study's results will provide useful implications for better area management in smart cities.

Lease or Sale: When a Durable Goods Monopolist Can Choose Supply Chain’s Openness

We construct a two-period model of the supply chain's openness in a durable goods market by introducing two marketing modes: leasing and selling. Given a marketing mode, at the beginning of the first period, an incumbent supplier and the downstream monopolist choose one of the trading modes: (i) a two-period exclusive supply chain or (ii) an open supply chain, allowing the downstream monopolist to trade with an efficient supplier in the second period. We show that the downstream monopolist always chooses the open supply chain in the leasing mode, although the exclusive supply chain is attainable in the selling mode if the incumbent supplier's efficiency is high. Moreover, when we allow the downstream monopolist to choose the marketing mode endogenously before the first period, it chooses the selling mode if the incumbent supplier's efficiency is low; otherwise, it chooses the leasing mode. Regardless of the chosen marketing mode, the open supply chain always occurs on the equilibrium path, implying that the recent advancement of ICT to enhance leasing may discourage choosing the exclusive supply chain.

Blockchain impact on the B2B sales market

Advances in ICT, such as the Internet, have led to the development of electronic marketplaces for business (B2B) where different sides of the market come into contact with each other. However, despite technological innovation, e-B2B sales markets still suffer from various problems inherited from traditional exchanges. The purpose of this study is to determine the blockchain impact on the B2B sales market when introducing a new generation of blockchain-based B2B platforms. The study presents approaches to the concept of a blockchain-based B2B trading platform. The problems in the traditional electronic B2B sales market, as well as the possibilities of blockchain-based B2B trading platforms in solving the problems of existing B2B markets, are identified. The authors determine that blockchain-based B2B trading platforms eliminate various problems that are currently damaging the B2B sales market worldwide and should have a positive impact.

A Novel Model for Data-Driven Smart Sustainable Cities of the Future: A Strategic Roadmap to Transformational Change in the Era of Big Data

The conscious push for sustainable cities to be smarter and thus more sustainable in the era of big data is due to the problematicity surrounding their development planning approaches and operational management mechanisms, as well as the fragmentation of their designs and technologies. This has a clear bearing on their performance with respect to the contribution to and balancing of the goals of sustainability. This situation is compounded by the negative consequences of the expansion of urbanization, an irreversible global trend involving a multitude of environmental, social, economic, and spatial conditions that pose unprecedented challenges to policymakers and planners. The underlying argument is that more innovative solutions and sophisticated methods are needed to enable sustainable cities to tackle the kind of problems and complexities they embody. This in turn brings us to the question related to the weak connection between sustainable cities and smart cities as approaches as well as their extreme fragmentation as landscapes, both at the technical and policy levels. Therefore, sustainable cities need to embrace and leverage what smart cities have to offer so that they can optimize, enhance, and maintain their performance and thus achieve the desired outcomes of sustainability. This paper aims to develop a novel model for data-driven smart sustainable cities of the future, and in doing so, it provides a strategic planning process of transformative change towards sustainability. This model combines and integrates the prevailing paradigms of sustainable urbanism and the emerging paradigms of smart urbanism —based on the outcomes of the four case studies conducted on compact cities, eco-cities, data–driven smart cities, and environmentally data-driven smart sustainable cities. As the core of this aggregate model is how to bring about the different forms of infrastructural transformations needed to reach a vision of a sustainable future in the era of big data. Especially, it has become feasible to attain important improvements and advancements of sustainability by amalgamating sustainable cities and smart cities thanks to the proven role of advanced ICT and the untapped potential of data-driven technologies.

Capturing toleration on social networks sites using internet-mediated research: June 30th Egyptian revolution case study

Purpose This paper aims at understanding the dynamics underlying toleration as a complex social phenomenon and its pattern on Facebook during the June 30th revolution in Egypt. Thanks to the huge advances in ICT, internet-mediated research (IMR) has become one of the most prominent research methodologies in social sciences. Discussions on social network sites cannot be neglected in studying the dynamics complex and emerging social phenomena such as changes in public opinion, culture, attitudes and virtues. Design/methodology/approach To fulfill this aim, the researchers used web content analysis as a method inside IMR paradigm to analyze the discussions on Tamarrod’s Facebook page in the period from June 30th to July 5th and to examine the emerging overall pattern of toleration. Findings The results show indications that toleration is inherent in the Egyptian culture, and that the Egyptian society still keeps its reputation as a highly tolerant society, even in crises periods where tensions are witnessed everywhere. Moreover, the results also show that the web content analysis process proposed in this study is highly reliable and valid. Originality/value The importance of the study lies in introducing a computational and empirical approach to analyze web content in a semi-automated way and proving its validity and reliability to study social phenomena such as toleration.

School Librarians Coping with Electronic Environments

This paper focuses on abilities of librarians to adapt and respond to the constantly emerging changes influenced by the advancement of ICT. The authors emphasize the necessity of defining and promoting new concept and understanding of the school library in electronic environment. Traditional school library roles need to adapt and change to respond to the needs of new users growing up in the interactive and information overloaded environment. Many of the aspects of current school library tasks and roles originate from a print-based culture which is incongruent with the transient and hybrid nature of digital environments. These radically changing environments are posing different tasks on school librarians leading them to balance carefully between the traditional school environments, infrastructure, institutions hierarchy and with the various new needs of “Google generation” users. Taking into account all the changes in the information environment authors emphasise the necessary improvements in education of school librarians.

ICT for Overtourism Management: An Exploration

With increasing attention being paid to aspects like carrying capacity and sustainability of destinations, overtourism has emerged as one of the biggest and most fiercely debated issues across the world. In the last decade, overtourism has become not just a buzzword but also a social movement in tourism gaining a lot of media attention. Effective, efficient, and innovative solutions to address the problem of overtourism at various destinations have been called for. One such solution is the use of advanced ICT tools for destination management that can contribute to reducing stress on overbooked destinations, planning for alternative destinations, targeting an alternate group of tourists, and most importantly to have control over the tourist inflow through systematic and planned destination management strategy. While literature concerning usage of ICT for tourism promotion is in plenty, the aspect of destination management through the use of advanced technology has been rarely dealt with at a holistic level. This paper attempts to fill that gap by developing a framework for DMOs in the quest of mitigating the problems of overtorism through the usage of new advanced technology. Based on the review of secondary literature, this paper tries to highlight the challenges associated with overtourism and then deals with the ways by which the problems can be mitigated by the usage of advanced and updated technological tools.

Teachers in the lifelong learning process: examples of digital literacy

ABSTRACT The text aims at measuring digital literacy among teachers of the third stage of education in Poland (lower secondary schools). The study was commissioned by the Ministry of National Education and was conducted in 2018 in Poland, and involved a group of 484 teachers. The goal of the research was to present the teachers’ knowledge and skills related to digital threats in the areas of the assessment of the reliability of information, sexting, cyberbullying, intellectual property rights, the protection of online images, and protection against malware. Digital literacy (DL) was measured using a knowledge and competence test and a diagnostic survey. The ability to enter the LLL process thanks to the ongoing advancement of ICT increases the online safety of all of the school-related stakeholders. A detailed analysis of the results also revealed that the teachers obtained good results in the test in terms of their knowledge about sexting and image protection but scored poorly regarding copyright and the assessment of the reliability of online information; male teachers know more about the technical aspects of digital safety than female teachers; trainees need particular support in the form of informal and non-formal education.

Qatar’s Soft Power, Digital and Public Diplomacy in the Face of a Global Pandemic Walked Pass MENA Neighbours

Since the inception of the term soft power by Joseph Nye, Qatar a tiny state in the Middle East seems to have mastered the arts and sciences of soft power and is now outplaying her MENA peers through the crafting and implementation of her public diplomacy. With rapid globalization as a byproduct of public diplomacy, digital diplomacy is now a cornerstone in today’s 21st Century diplomatic communication. Wrapped in the bombastic advances in ICT, the internet, and social media, traditional diplomatic patterns have shifted robustly thus culminating in the strengthening of diplomatic relations. This paper argues that Qatar’s gains through its use of soft power via modern technologies stem from hosting a plethora of timely educational and diplomatic webinars and its attractions of “carrots” have added more flesh to its public diplomacy records from early 2020 to mid-2021. The paper went forth in x-raying those institutions and actors, whose digital actions, and programs catapulted the image of Qatar during the global pandemic such as Hamad Bin Khalifa University (HBKU), Aljazeera Network, and Dr. Evren Tok. Finally, despite the availability of resources and its soft power tools, this work pinpoints a few setbacks such as “Zoom Fatigue”. The paper concludes that Qatar’s digital diplomacy will continue to grow from leaps and bounds based on the results recorded via these virtual programs. The author Solomonicly suggests that the hosting of educational and diplomatic programs off and online would spearhead the public and digital diplomacy of Doha in an unpredictable Middle East Region.

Extracting Key Factors of Cyber Hygiene Behaviour Among Software Engineers: A Systematic Literature Review

The advent of new technologies and the rapid growth of internet users have given birth to the menace of cyber-crime. Unfortunately, it is increasing at an alarming pace. This situation calls for good cyber hygiene behavior to secure digital lives. Cyber hygiene behaviour holds a significant role in terms of cybersecurity across the globe. There is a dire need to understand better the user variations associated with good or bad cyber hygiene behaviour and an improved view of what users do to encourage good cyber hygiene. Cybersecurity attacks are rising due to recent advancements in ICT and the Industrial Revolution 4.0 (IR 4.0). Software development organizations are among the crucial sectors suffering from cybersecurity issues. These organizations are more vulnerable to cyber-attacks because they lack proper cybersecurity culture. Although many initiatives have been taken by academia and industry to address this rising issue, the problem still exists for Software development organizations because good cyber hygiene behaviour is not observed, which is a prerequisite to reduce cyber threats. This study performed a Systematic Literature Review (SLR) of research papers published during 2010 – 2020. The key factors influencing software engineers’ cyber hygiene behaviour intention are extracted from the published literature. The study examined 35 research papers out of 5,270 found from IEEE Xplore, Emerald Insight, SpringerLink, and ScienceDirect databases. The study reviewed number of factors such as the role of personal, social, socio-cognitive, environmental, & technological factors that may individually or collectively influence software engineers’ cyber hygiene behaviour. The positive and negative factors associated with the cyber hygiene behaviour of software engineers are also categorized. This study enriches the understanding of the potential factors related to software engineers’ cyber hygiene behaviours. It provides valuable insights to researchers, software development organizations, governments, and individuals associated with the field of Software Engineering. This research will assist in changing the software engineers’ behaviour towards cyber hygiene, which will ultimately lead to mitigate the issues of Cybersecurity.

Proposed Model for Smart Agriculture Dissemination to Empower Indian Farmers

The world has become the small village in 21st century due to the advancement of ICT technology. The most populars ICT tool is Smartphone and is playing a strategic role in the development of modern farmer. This most popular ICT tool is driving global agriculture. The recent advancement in ICT bring forth great opportunities to ride over the costly and redundant technologies that the poor farmer could not have afforded. This technology is cheap, farmer friendly and very useful. Farmers are using mobile apps very rapidly in their daily tasks. This paper is presenting a model for designing and implementing smart agriculture dissemination. The model concentrates specifically on Agri-tourism and shows how farmers and consumers in this sector can share mobile platform to fulfill their various needs.

Competitive advantage of the sustainable digital economy

This research focuses on factors that influence the competitive advantage of the sustainable digital economy. Digital economy helped to speed up the exchange of information flows which, in turn, impacted on the creation the new forms of business and socio-economic interactions. Such sectors as banking and finance or hospitality and services are all influenced by the advancements of the digital economy that include sharing economy or Blockchain technology and its related applications. In this article, we show that digital economy is more sustainable due to the fact that it requires less energy sources and can itself contribute to the formation of the green economy and the acceptance of the renewable energy. All these features constitute its competitive advantage that needs to be further supported and fostered. In addition, we discuss key strategies and the development of skills to adapt to a digital economy and provide an overview of high-quality training for high-tech workers. It was assumed that in future, people would be able to easily acquire new skills through vocational training and vocational training. However, the spread of digital technologies has changed the way we work and has increased the need for high-quality training for workers in a wide range of professions. To use such technologies effectively, workers in an increasing number of sectors and professions need both general and advanced ICT skills.

Special Report on Online Legal Education in Malaysia, Brunei Darussalam and Singapore

This report compares the development of online legal education in Malaysia, Brunei Darussalam and Singapore, three quite closely linked Asian economies following the English common law tradition. Due to the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic in early 2020, these countries all faced pressing needs to shift their legal education to mostly online modes. In Malaysia, where the health and economic consequences of the pandemic were the most salient, universities and institutions have been struggling to deliver online teaching due to the uneven allocation of internet resources among the large population scattered across large and sometimes remote areas. Being instead small but well-resourced states, Brunei and Singapore were well positioned to weather the global pandemic and adopt online legal education. In particular, Singapore is a leader of online legal education in ASEAN, thanks to its advanced ICT infrastructures and outstanding preparedness for online teaching. Both Brunei and Malaysia can learn from the success of Singapore, to become strong players in the field of online legal education.

The Sustainable Role of Human Factor in I4.0 scenarios

Abstract The ageing of working population is the byproduct of the global recognized trend of the general population ageing. The decline of elder human operators’ capabilities is a main subject concerning industrial engineering and management in the ongoing 4th Industrial revolution and the introduced new technologies. In this paper, the concept of human factor sustainability inside manufacturing line is explored. It is discussing the theoretical fundamentals of a complexity based states loop to be tested inside 4.0 frame. This is pointing on advanced ICT technologies for ageing workforce management in manufacturing lines. The paper starts with a systematic literature review on the ageing workforce inside industries highlights the human capabilities deterioration, knowledge and experience management of ageing workers. The review is used as the key trace of the modified human factor sustainability concept including Physical, Behavioural, Mental and Psychosocial dimensions. Those are related with the age factor while discussing about traits and entropy based information probability. Furthermore, the proposed formula of Human Factor (HF) probability with a context based application is discussed. Finally, some conclusion remarks will be given, and the future agenda will be proposed based on the collaborative work scenarios.

The effectiveness of gamification to enhance students� mastery on tenses viewed from students� creativity

The advancement of ICT has resulted in the fast development of games industry by which teachers are creative to design the learning process and to utilize various kinds of gamifications. Gamification is a teaching method that uses game elements with the aim of motivating students to be directly involved in games and learning at the same time so that students get an interesting and enjoyable learning experience. Although many studies have been conducted related to the use gamification, the study on the use of gamification to improve tenses mastery regarded the students� creativity is rarely found. This study was aimed to investigate whether: (1) gamification was more effective than conventional teaching method in enhancing tenses mastery of the second semester students of nursing diploma III; (2) the second semester students with high level of creativity had better tenses mastery than those with low level of creativity; and (3) there was an interaction effect between teaching methods and creativity on enhancing tenses mastery of the second semester students of nursing diploma III of faculty of health of Universitas Harapan Bangsa. The method which was employed in this research was an experimental research. The population of the research was the second semester students of nursing diploma III of faculty of health of Universitas Harapan Bangsa. Two classes were taken by using total sampling technique. The samples in this research were two classes; experimental class consisting of 30 students from 2A-1 and control class consisting of 30 students from 2A-2. The research instruments consisted of verbal creativity and tenses mastery test. The data were obtained from creativity and tenses mastery test. They were analysed in the terms of their frequency distribution, normality of the sample distribution, and the data homogeneity and then ANOVA test (Multifactor Analysis and Variance) and TUKEY test to test the research hypotheses. The result of the research findings leads to the conclusion that: (1) gamification is more effective than conventional teaching method to enhance tenses mastery of the second semester students; (2) the students having high creativity have better tenses mastery than those having low creativity; and (3) there is an interaction between teaching methods and creativity on enhancing tenses mastery.

공예문화 저작권 산업 활성화를 위한 방안 연구

As the 4th industrial revolution is in full swing, major technologies that will lead the 4th industrial revolution such as the Internet of Things (IOT), artificial intelligence (AI), Big Data, and Blockchain are rapidly developing. Throughout the years, many changes in the service platform have begun to be detected. The crafts and culture industry is not being activated due to the decrease in productivity of artisan-centered apprenticeship training and the lack of continuous training of specialists due to the absence of a craft sales platform and marketing manpower. In order to save the shrinking market, search for crafts through the convergence of advanced ICT technologies to improve the productivity of craft products and expand the marketability of the craft culture industry. recommendation. Original authentication. Based on the sales distribution platform, it is necessary to develop technology to understand the creation of crafts by the general public and to support the creative activities of craftsmen. Crafts are newly spotlighted as a

A Study on the Potential of the Development of Software Applications and Digital Content Industrial Ecosystem in Indonesia

The phenomenon of digitization has changed human civilization at a very massive level in various aspects of life. In line with the advancement of ICT, so have the development of innovation and the software and digital content industry. Competition in the software industry is starting to develop. The ability to increase the company's production is starting to show significant changes. Industry competition in the globalization process requires existing companies to be able to develop industrial capabilities with all industrial models and policies. The role of government is still an important factor in creating an environment in which the domestic telematics industry can gain a competitive advantage. This study aims to map the potential of the digital content and software application industry in Indonesia. This study was conducted qualitatively through literature studies. The output of this study produces a mapping of the potential for the software and digital content industry in Indonesia. The results of this study can support recommendations for policies related to the development of the software application industry and digital content in Indonesia

A Study on the Potential of the Development of Software Applications and Digital Content Industrial Ecosystem in Indonesia

The phenomenon of digitization has changed human civilization at a very massive level in various aspects of life. In line with the advancement of ICT, so have the development of innovation and the software and digital content industry. Competition in the software industry is starting to develop. The ability to increase the company's production is starting to show significant changes. Industry competition in the globalization process requires existing companies to be able to develop industrial capabilities with all industrial models and policies. The role of government is still an important factor in creating an environment in which the domestic telematics industry can gain a competitive advantage. This study aims to map the potential of the digital content and software application industry in Indonesia. This study was conducted qualitatively through literature studies. The output of this study produces a mapping of the potential for the software and digital content industry in Indonesia. The results of this study can support recommendations for policies related to the development of the software application industry and digital content in Indonesia

Developing Bilingual Learning Multimedia in Integral Application Learning Material For Vocational School

ICT advancement can be utilized to improve the quality of education. In this globalization era, the millennial generation is demanded to be technology literate and fluent in English to compete in the global world considering that English has been established as an international language. Therefore, the integration of English into learning in the form of multimedia bilingual learning is needed. This study aimed to determine the feasibility, attractiveness, and effectiveness of bilingual learning multimedia on the integral application material for vocational schools. This research is research and development. Based on the results of validation and field trials, the developed bilingual mathematics learning media was in the feasible, interesting, and effective categories. The feasibility of the bilingual learning multimedia based on the material expert validation obtained an average of 4.6 and the media expert validation obtained an average of 4.9 which indicated that the developed product was in the feasible category. The attractiveness of bilingual mathematics learning multimedia based on students’ responses was 89% in the very interesting category. The effectiveness of the developed bilingual learning multimedia to improve students' mathematics learning outcomes was known based on the N-Gain value of 0.8 in the high category.

Cloud Strategy Development for Medium and Small Business

The authors, within the present research, aim at making more extensive use of ICT by developing a cloud service strategy that will contribute to the dissemination of knowledge and help in deployment. Companies will be able to assess their readiness to implement cloud services, explore the approaches, benefits and disadvantages of cloud services. Cloud services are a solution to most SMEs, regardless of size, activity or existing ICT infrastructure. Smaller companies can implement SaaS-type solutions, but companies with advanced ICT infrastructure can focus on IaaS and PaaS-type solutions.