Convergence Of ICT Research Articles

Exploring the convergence of ICT, digital financial inclusion, environmental pressures, and free trade and their significance in driving sustainable green investment initiatives under carbon neutrality targets

Due to its rapid economic development over the past few decades, China is now at the forefront of environmental issues, necessitating creative solutions that combine ICT, digital financial inclusion, environmental pressure, and free trade to encourage green investment. This study aims to investigate the linkage between ICT, digital financial inclusion, environmental pressure, free trade, and green investment in China from 1996 to 2022 by employing the Partial least squares structural equation modelling (PLS-SEM). As per our results, the statistical values of Cronbach's alpha, composite reliability, and average variance are all above the cutoff point, demonstrating the applicability of this methodology. According to the structural model's results, the path coefficients between digital financial inclusion and green investment, environmental pressure and green investment, and GDP and green investment are positively significant, implying that these three factors are crucial for boosting green investment in China. In addition, our vector autoregressive model results suggest that ICT, digital financial inclusion, environmental pressures, free trade, and GDP cause green investment to rise in China. Thus, the policymakers in China should focus on developing comprehensive policies to encourage green investment in China, which is crucial for economic and environmental sustainability.

디지털 농업을 위한 딥러닝 기반의 환경 인자 추천 기술 연구

Smart Farm means creating new value in various fields related to agriculture, including not only agricultural production but also distribution and consumption through the convergence of agriculture and ICT. In Korea, a rental smart farm is created to spread smart agriculture, and a smart farm big data platform is established to promote data collection and utilization. It is pushing for digital transformation of agricultural products distribution from production areas to consumption areas, such as expanding smart APCs, operating online exchanges, and digitizing wholesale market transaction information. As such, although agricultural data is generated according to characteristics from various sources, it is only used as a service using statistics and standardized data. This is because there are limitations due to distributed data collection from agriculture to production, distribution, and consumption, and it is difficult to collect and process various types of data from various sources. Therefore, in this paper, we analyze the current state of domestic agricultural data collection and sharing for digital agriculture and propose a data collection and linkage method for artificial intelligence services. And, using the proposed data, we propose a deep learning-based environmental factor recommendation method.

Are we leaving students behind? Self-directed learning in an ICT challenged country.

This study investigated the preparedness and experience of students for the fast-paced convergence of ICT and higher education. Overall, 366 distance students with a history of self-directed learning through correspondence courses were profiled using structured text-based online interviews. Twelve students’ attributes on ICT material possession and competencies and experience of Open Distance and Open Learning (ODeL) were collected and analysed. The findings show that the majority of students (72%) who had prior knowledge about the basic concepts of ODeL modalities indicated satisfaction with the e-learning environment while the learning mode is challenging for traditional students (28%). Statistically significant positive correlations (ρ = 0.00) were observed between ICT competencies or preparedness: the level of prior academic qualifications (HAQ: r2 = 0.35); key challenge faced (KC: r2 = 0.26); and the convenience of ODeL (C.ODeL: r2 = 0.18). To ensure that students are not left behind with the proliferation of ICT in distance education, principal component analysis revealed that having prior knowledge about the ODeL modalities is an important attribute that contributes to students’ preparedness for the e-learning environment, thus bridging the variance between the expected expectations and the actual expectations.

Future Scenarios of the Data-Driven Healthcare Economy in South Korea.

Although data-based healthcare innovation has been spotlighted in South Korea in recent years, previous studies have made little effort to systematically predict various possible future outcomes in the data-driven healthcare economy. This study investigated possible future such scenarios in South Korea by conducting a general morphological analysis (GMA). Seven key factors were identified that will drive the data-driven healthcare economy: the acceptability of data utilization, the level of data literacy, the status of healthcare data regulation, the healthcare data system, medical costs, the convergence of ICT and biotechnology, and the utilization of data in medical services. The main findings are as follows: Four possible scenarios for the data-driven healthcare economy in South Korea were identified. The first scenario suggested mostly optimistic prospects and close associations between factorial values on the various spectra. The second scenario was similar to the first one, except for medical costs. However, the third scenario contrasted with the first, as it entailed relatively pessimistic factorial values. Finally, most of the elements of the current healthcare status quo were maintained in the fourth scenario. This study makes not only an academic contribution, but also has policy implications based on the four scenarios.

A Study on the Application of Deep Learning Models for Real-time Defect Detection in the Manufacturing Process : Cases of Defect detection in the Label Printing Process

The global smart manufacturing market is growing rapidly as developed countries (Germany, USA, Japan) as well as late comers such as China are now recognizing the importance of “smart manufacturing” and promoting active policies to foster related ecosystems. Policies to revitalize manufacturing through the convergence of cutting-edge ICT and manufacturing technology are already in progress. Some such policies include Industry 4.0, the Advanced Manufacturing Partnership of the United States, Japan’s Industrial Revitalization Plan, and China’s Made in China 2025. As a result of the gradual shift from product standardization to product customization, the importance of machine vision in manufacturing has also been increasing. However, it is difficult to develop a standard machine vision method because there are different specifications for meeting the individual demands of different manufacturing industries. Moreover, it is difficult to apply such a standard machine vision method to artificial intelligence because defective data for learning in the manufacturing industry are not frequently generated and stored. Therefore, it is conducted manually or visually inspected by workers. This study applies the primary feature of matching models for a label printing process to efficiently detect defects with high performance and applies a deep learning model to maximize performance. Our proposed method achieved an accuracy of 97% with a feature matching model and 99.8% accuracy with the deep learning model.

Social Consensus Framework for Convergence of ICT and Society – Focusing on AI and Autonomous Vehicle

Social Consensus Framework for Convergence of ICT and Society – Focusing on AI and Autonomous Vehicle

Building Students’ Islamic Characters through Information, Communication dan Technology Literacy

In today’s digital world, technology has contributed to an expanded understanding of literacy. Besides having literacy skills, today’s students – millennials - also need technology skills for communicating, investigating, accessing, and using information, thinking critically about messages inherent in new media. Teachers and staff development need to learn the use of technology as well as guiding and opening the students’ perspective where the technology will help them to support the Muslim world. The use of ICT is not only to create the generation with the advanced knowledge in technology but also to have the Islamic character in the future. It is bringing about new opportunity for educators, because it can provide powerful support to educational innovation in creating future generation with Islamic characters. In short, this article is mainly about how the convergence of both literacy instruction and ICT in staff development can help in promoting future generation with Islamic characters. 
 Keywords: Students and teachers, ICT literacy, Islamic Characteremotion

패션 미디어 콘텐츠 변화에 따른 이모지(Emoji) 커뮤니케이션에 나타난 기호학적 특성

With the advent of 4th industrial revolution, the convergence of ICT and development of digital environment are entering a new phase. This accelerating phenomenon has made boundaries among various media ambiguous, and created unprecedented form of media through combining verbal with non-verbal elements, like ‘Emoji.’ While new media has developed, emoji has changed traditional way of communication in fashion media contents, of which the influence has become stronger over our society. Also, used as a tool for connection between fashion content provider and consumer, emoji has broadened its function and power as a new language system. Accordingly, through theoretical concepts of semiotics by Roland Barthes, this research tried to comprehend the characteristics of emoji, a new communication method in advertising brand images in fashion media contents. As a result of this research, firstly, in real space, emoji communication in fashion contents took a pattern of linearity and contextual expression, though being imperfect medium as a language system yet. Secondly, in virtual space, emoji communication in fashion contents performed a role of interactive medium in mutual communication system with simultaneity. Especially, distinction between content provider and consumer has become unclear, as the consumer grants a new meaning through real time interaction. Thirdly, as moving form old to new media, communication culture was found to create a new trend through emoji. It could also be found that open communication structure, enabling active expression of oneself and his or her individuality and personality, should be preceded to increase positive effect of using emoji.

A study on the sound generation at digital signage using OLED panel

With the development of ICT technology and convergence of media and ICT, smart media is spreading to people. The advertising industry through this smart screen is a rapidly growing future industry in the world. A new paradigm of bidirectional/customized features advertisement has become provided through IP-based new media such as smart TVs, portable smart devices, the Internet, IPTV (VOD), and digital signage. As one of the smart advertising industries, the digital signage is attracting attention as the fourth screen after TV, PC, and mobile with indoor/outdoor advertisement using information display. Advertising using the digital signage is installed in a lot of floating population place such as a subway station, a bus stop, an elevator, etc. Digital signage is developed with the display technology and the convergence of IT technology, but the development of appearance and screen configuration is mainly made. There are characteristics of high efficiency when communicate information with visual and auditory. However, up until now, digital signage has been difficult to provide vision and sound to people at the same time. The sound must be played through the screen; nevertheless, the smart screen does not pass the sound well, because of hardware. In this study, we introduce the technology that can generate direct sound using the characteristics of organic light-emitting diode (OLED) panel and introduce digital signage that can transmit video and sound simultaneously by using direct sound generation.

Energy informatics: Fundamentals and standardization

Abstract Based on international standardization and power utility practices, this paper presents a preliminary and systematic study on the field of energy informatics and analyzes boundary expansion of information and energy system, and the convergence of energy system and ICT. A comprehensive introduction of the fundamentals and standardization of energy informatics is provided, and several key open issues are identified.

식물공장 사업타당성에 관한 전문가 인식 연구

Abstract Plant factory was started in Europe in the 1960. Thanks to the development of seeds science, nutrient study, environment control technology and automated systems, it has developed into the form of full artificial light system. In recent years, productivity of plant factory has increased with the convergence of ICT. An interest in plant factory has increased with several outstanding achievements. However, the plant factory industry is still stuck at an introductory stage and government investment has been reduced. In order to verify the feasibility of the plant factory, we conducted a survey targeting experts in politics, R&D and business field. We analyze the feasibility of investment in plant factory and strategies to enhance the competitiveness of plant factory. Key Words : Plant Factory, Feasibility, Convergence of Agriculture & IT, Convergence Service Received 27 October 2015, Revised 30 November 2015Accepted 20 December 2015Corresponding Author: Ji-Eun Lee(Hanyang Cyber University) Email: scully1215@hycu.ac.krⒸ The Society of Digital Policy & Management. All rights reserved. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0), which permits unrestricted non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is ISSN: 1738-1916 properly cited.

Identifying Research Opportunities in the Convergence of Transportation and ICT Using Text Mining Techniques

Identifying Research Opportunities in the Convergence of Transportation and ICT Using Text Mining Techniques

정보통신산업이 운송산업에 미치는 경제적 효과에 관한 연구 -정보통신과 운송의 융합을 위한-

This study investigates effects of hardware and telecommunication and software service divided by ICT service on each 5 transportations to explore convergence of ICT and Transportation. Research models are production inducing effects, Added Value inducing effects of Demand-Driven model and Shortage cost effects of Supply-Driven model by using data for 2010~2012 of Input-Output Table. Results are that network and software service effects are more impact than hardware effects on transportations. Especially, hardware is impacted heavily on production inducing effect, telecommunications and software services has had a significant impact on the production inducing effect and Shortage cost effects. In addition, by each detail the transportation industries, packages and other transport and road transport is influenced greatly from ICT. On the other hand, rail and water transport are relatively lower impact by ICT, However, the effects of rail and water transport by ICT is grater than investment ratio of ICT. As a result, increasing investment in the ICT services could contribute to development of rail and water transport development.

정보통신산업으로서 e-Book 비즈니스 전략

New business The e-book industry is creating a convergence of ICT and printing culture. Even so, the system changes is not great in Korea. Global market players are going to creating a membership or community-type business model to take advantage of the terminal, platform, network, but the creative content production in Korea is limited. Since the discussion is limited to such devices or network services most, we suggest the possibility of modeling a multi-faceted. And the development of technology and services platform content is also important as a strategic approach to the development of the e-book industry. Most of all, we propose the application of content, technologies and services are developed.

스마트교육 공간의 물리특성

정보기술의 융합화와 클라우드 컴퓨팅의 확산 등 빠르게 발전하는 정보통신기술은 학제간 융복합을 통해 새로운 교육의 패러다임 시대를 열고 있다. 정보통신기술의 발전에 따라 그동안 교육환경은 이러닝에서 유러닝을 거쳐 이제 스마트교육으로 변화되고 있다. 이미 교육계에서는 향후 교육환경의 변화를 가져올 스마트교육에 대한 다양한 연구들이 진행되고 있지만 스마트 환경이 구축될 교실공간, 곧 물리적 공간환경에 대한 연구는 거의 이루어지지 않고 있다. 이러한 문제의식 하에 본 연구는 교육의 새로운 패러다임으로 등장한 스마트교육과 스마트교육이 적용되는 물리공간의 특성을 살펴보았다. 그 결과 스마트교육이 적용될 물리공간은 공간의 소통성, 경계의 유연성, 요소의 다가성이 그 특성으로 나타남을 알 수 있었다. The convergence of ICT and cloud computing is treated as a main issue all over the fields including education. This development leads to change from e-learning to u-learning and smart education. Therefore, we need to study in term of the systematic and a long-term viewpoint how smart education environment have an influence on the practical space. And we need a concrete study for smart education space based on property of space. Under these critical mind, this study understands the smart education space in terms of the convergence of computing space and physical space. As a Result, smart education space have major property such as flexibility, communication, polyvalence.

Network Time and the New Knowledge Epoch

This article analyses the temporal dimensions of knowledge production. Specifically it discusses the mechanics of the process and how these have changed through what are termed ‘knowledge epochs’. It argues that with the widespread dissemination of clock-time through the Industrial Revolution, the production of knowledge was significantly shaped by the temporality of the clock. Through the convergence of neoliberal globalization and ICT revolution a new powerful temporality has emerged through which knowledge production is refracted: network time. The article concludes that the spread of network time into the realm of the everyday has profound implications for the production of critical and reflexive knowledge in contemporary culture and society.

The impact of ICT convergence on development in the Asian region

Emerging economies in the Asia–Pacific region are experiencing dramatic and accelerating changes in patterns of ownership and investment in their telecommunications sectors, as well as in convergence. This paper will highlight the significant dependence of emerging economies of the region on convergence of ICT and how these technologies create new networks. Evidence will be cited from China, the Asian Dragons and the near NIEs like Malaysia and Indonesia, to show how they have created one of the largest markets in the world for telecoms equipment and services. The Southeast Asian countries with their open economies and export oriented investment technologies have proved that such policies have generated trade surpluses and long-term growth despite their current financial crises. They still plan to continue ascribing priority in their investment patterns to converging ICT.