Field Of Information Communication Technology Research Articles

The Concept of Information and Communication Technology on Human Capital Development: Content Analysis Method Approach

Our aim is to investigate the concepts in previous research on human capital through Information Communication Technology (ICT). We use a collection of scientific articles from emeralds as well as books written by experts in the field of Information Communication Technology (ICT) and human resources. Three important components of human resources in Industry 4.0 are workforce architecture with new interactions, embracing future human resources, and topologies that generate competencies anticipated by human resources. This Information Communication Technology study will analyze the notion of information technology. AI is one of the most widely used information and communication technologies (ICT) in Industry 4.0. The artificial intelligence (AI) generated by ICT is essential in implementing current and future ICT projects. ICT professionals should also consider their work environment as a pleasant work environment that substantially affects performance and results. The advantages of information communication technology or ICT in communicating and interacting effectively. ICT is very important to fulfill all human needs. Communication science and the quality of human resources are closely related.

Influence of Corona on IT Specialist's Jobs

The field of Information Communication Technology (ICT) is a rapidly developing and expanding arena. With the expansion of it, the need for specialists, skilled in ICT, is in high demand. The recent outbreak of Covid-19 virus has reshaped the current labor market for people with IT skills. People with tech skills in place need to evolve under new circumstances as the business where they work faces huge changes influenced by remote work. In this study, we set out to investigate what challenges may rise in IT-students skill sets and competences after the Covid-19 pandemic due to remote work, lack of formal and informal face-to-face communication and other factors. Further the paper analyzes how the IT specialists feel in a changing environment, and recommends how businesses and people need to change themselves to adapt to the Covid-19 effects based on the analysis and how to grow in their future skills.

Learning Styles Integration in ICT Literacy Module (mLICT-OA) Development for Orang Asli Students

The Orang Asli communities are an integral part of the sociocultural and economic life in Malaysia’s society. Orang Asli students have different learning styles that are considered limited and are less skilled in the field of Information Communication Technology (ICT). These two are factors that hinder the advancement of education among them, thus resulting to them dropping out in higher education. Therefore, this conducted study aims to explore whether learning styles are an important aspect in the development of Orang Asli ICT literacy module (mLICT-OA). This is crucial to ensure students are able to engage in the teaching and learning process, and at the same time develop a meaningful learning environment. Quantitative research was conducted in Malaysia, which involved ninety-two (92) Orang Asli students. Data were analysed using the SmartPLS 3.0 software. Research findings show that learning styles are an important aspect that should be integrated into the ICT literacy module development for Orang Asli students. Therefore, this finding contributes by providing a research direction for improving Orang Asli students' capability in learning ICT by integrating their learning styles in mLICT-OA development.

The effect of external factors in use of technology among Ha’il university academic faculty: evidence from Saudi Arabia

PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to explore external factors: organization technical support, organization administrative support, organization infrastructure and resources, and organization ICT policy’s effect on the commitment in use of technology among the faculty staff Hail university, Saudi Arabia.Design/methodology/approachA cross-sectional survey approach was used to collect data. A sample of 300 fulltime employees, having administrative and teaching responsibilities participated using a self-completion questionnaire. The data were analyzed using exploratory factor analysis (EFA), correlation and multiple regressions to determine the impact of external factors on the commitment in use of technology.FindingsOverall, the results provided evidence that organization technical support, organization administrative support, and organization infrastructure and resources have a significant positive impact on the commitment in use of technology. However, organization ICT policy has an insignificant negative impact on the commitment in use of technology. The findings could be generalized on other public sector universities of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.Research limitations/implicationsThe data were collected from one public sector university of Hail province, the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. Only four external factors were taken into consideration in investigating its influence on the commitment in use of technology. There could be other external/environmental factors which might be useful to underpin the theory and advance literature.Practical implicationsIn-service and trainee faculties should take an advantage of using learning management system. Faculty should create a positive learning environment in their online classes so the learners can take a benefit out of the immense investment on ICT by ministry of higher education. Apart from giving training to teaching staff in use of technology, learners should also be given a platform to increase and improve their digital literacy. Workshops can be conducted frequently for both faculties and learners. Faculty can offer additional and out of the class support to their reluctant and weak students in order to assist them in the use of technology.Originality/valueTechnology integration after COVID-19 outbreak has significantly changed the education sector throughout the world. The use of technology now is unavoidable at primary, secondary and at tertiary level. This study provides an exclusive viewpoint concerning the external/environmental evidence based findings that have not been investigated empirically in the Saudi Arabian context. The current study also provides statistically a theoretical five-component model to understand the phenomena in the field of information communication technology.

개방형 협업 리더의 역할은 무엇인가?: 오픈소스 소프트웨어 프로젝트를 중심으로

Rapid advancements in the field of information communication technology (ICT) have enabled people to collaborate through the Internet. This study focuses on open-source software development, which develops complex software or web services autonomously. To verify the antecedents of the participation of developers for successful open-source software development, we examine the relationship of the leadership roles of the project leader, such as knowledge contribution, interactions, and quality control with the participation of individual developers. For data collection, we develop a web crawler using the Python programming language and collect 518 repositories from GitHub, which is one of the leading platforms for developing open source software. We find that the participation of developers is closely associated with leaders who actively contribute knowledge, interact with the developers, and ensure strict quality control. Furthermore, the software development phase moderates the relationship between quality control and the participation of individual developers.

The Information Communication Technology (ICT) Gap and the Generation Gap in Local Government Towards “SMART ASN”

The role of ICT is very important, especially in the era of data explosion or big data, but the government, especially local governments, finds it difficult to take advantage of it due to the uneven development of ICT. This is very helpful for the government in providing services to the community. Based on this, the researchers are interested in examining how the local government applies the mandate of Government Regulation No. 11/2017 towards “SMART ASN” in the field of ICT and HR? What have local governments done to implement it? The purpose of this study is to determine the implementation of the mandate of Government Regulation No. 11/2017 towards “SMART ASN” in the field of ICT and HR carried out by the local government and know what the local government has been done. This research uses the descriptive qualitative method. To get all the information related to the research problem, the researcher used document study techniques to collect data. Data analysis is done by collecting, compiling, and interpreting the data and then making conclusions. From the data are got that there are still many local governments that have not carried out Government Regulation Number 11 of 2017, such as preparation and determination of needs, career development, and unclear career patterns, making the generation gap increase. There are still provinces that have not been able to fully access ICT, so that why they can’t utilize the big data optimally. The efforts of the government to implement PP No. 11 of 2017 are many local governments have implemented technical education and training organized by technical agencies, the government tries to make the Palapa Ring and merit system.

Evaluating IT Governance at Network Access Provider on COBIT 5 Domain EDM

Network Access Provider is a company engaged in the field of ICT (Information Communication Technology) where the main activities carried out in business are the provision of internet services to the Internet Service Provider (ISP), network integrators, content providers, and all support solutions in fields related to the internet and networks. This research was conducted to ensure that operations at Network Access Provider have been running and supports the goals optimally. The focus of this research is to help companies create optimal value from IT with a balance between realizing benefits and optimizing usage levels and resources. Researchers conduct library studies, observations, interviews, and conduct research analysis methods to get the actual value of the capability level of information systems and factors that influence information systems. Researchers use the COBIT 5 framework in the Evaluate, Direct, and Monitor (EDM) domains to conduct research on governance that works together around the world. COBIT 5 is an approved work or framework that is often used by auditors, especially in the information technology auditors section. COBIT 5 can be used as a tool to create information technology governance in a company. The results of this research contain information about IS deficiencies and the renewal of solutions for future improvements to the company.

Multidimensional Analysis of Trust in News Articles (Student Abstract)

The advancements in the field of Information Communication Technology have engendered revolutionary changes in the journalism industry, not only on the part of the journalists and the media personnel, but also on the people consuming these news stories, who today, are only a click away from all the updates they need. However, these advances have also exposed the prevailing venality, wearying off the trust of the public in news media. How then, does an individual discern that which, out of the countless news stories for an incident, should be trusted? This work introduces a system that presents the user a multidimensional analysis for trust in news from various media sources based on the textual content of the articles, assessment of the journalists' perspectives and the temporal diversity of the issues being covered by the media houses publishing the news articles. Our experiments on a self-collected dataset confirm that the system aids in a comprehensive analysis of trust.

THE DOMINANT FACTOR FOR IMPROVING INFORMATION SECURITY AWARENESS

The advancement of science and technology especially in the field of Information Communication Technology (ICT) is characterized by the availability of information access faster, easier, convenient, but also vulnerable to try to steal (tap) and modify information. This study aims to determine the relationship between organizational support perception, competence, and motivation with information security awareness. The survey involved a population of 324 people affordable employees in local government that handling information systems in 33 provinces. The sample was taken 140 people by stratified proportional random sampling. The data were collected using a questionnaire and analyzed using multiple regression. The results of the research show: (1) Information security awareness is influenced positively and significantly by the organizational support perception, competence and motivation, (2) The competence is the dominant factor that influences the information security awareness compared to the organizational support perception and motivation, (3) Information security awareness can improve by competencies of knowledge, skill, attitude continuously and tiered, and the model instructional awareness training developed by ‘Schultz’ can be used to improve the attitude or character of information security awareness.

Science opportunities and challenges associated with SKA big data

The upcoming Square Kilometre Array (SKA) radio telescope will become the largest astronomical observation facility, and is expected to introduce revolutionary changes in major fields of natural sciences. These revolutionary changes help us to answer the fundamental questions related to the origins of the universe, life, cosmic magnetic field, the nature of gravity, and to search for extraterrestrial civilizations. The unprecedented power of the SKA is characterized by an extremely high sensitivity, wide field of view, ultra-fast survey speed, and ultra-high time, space, frequency resolutions, which ensures that SKA will have a leading position in radio astronomy in future; this will be accompanied by a vast amount of observational data at exabyte (EB) level. The transportation, storage, reading, writing, computation, curation, and archiving of the SKA-level data and the release of SKA science products are posing serious challenges to the field of information communication technology (ICT). The China SKA science team will work together with the information, communication and computer industries to tackle the challenges associated with the SKA big data, which will not only promote major original scientific discoveries, but also apply the obtained technological achievements for stimulating the national economy.

Agile Methodology: Solution to Unravel Complexities in the Implementation of ERP System

Improving productivity is a demand for the industry in order to enhance competitive advantage, especially in the manufacturing industry. For that, the industry is required to make a breakthrough in order to improve organizational performance, such as addressing the inefficiencies in managing business processes, so as to improve the way work becomes more effective and efficient. One of the efforts in improving the performance is the development in the field of Information Communication Technology (ICT), the development of technology as an effort to improve the agility of the organization. ERP system is one solution that can be employed in order to improve company performance. However, in reality, industrial companies face the complexity of implementing ERP systems. This is a challenge, that is how effective for a company in order to solve the complexity of implementing an ERP system for an industry?. In this opportunity, researchers intend to conduct a research to identify the complexity of factors in the ERP implementation, namely by proposing agile methods as one of the new methodologies in the effort to solve the complexity in the ERP implementation for an industry. The results of this study will result in an agile modeling of ERP systems, which is expected to solve the complexity of implementation and improve the capacity of ERP systems for an Industry.

Electronic Banking and Financial Performance of Commercial Banks in Migori County

Devolution in Kenya has brought changes in many sectors of the economy. With the aim to attain the vision 2030 of industrialized nation and technological invention and innovation, many industries have embraced innovation in the field of information communication technology. ICT is seen as the main drive towards attainment of technological goals. Innovation in IT has been the force behind transformation of financial institutions in Migori County. Tremendous development in IT and the struggle to attain the vision's goals has made banking services more effective, accessible and cheaper. The study investigated the effects of E-banking on financial performance of commercial banks in Migori County. There are 4 variables used to investigate the main objective of the study. The study investigated 6 banks in five towns in Migori County. 56 respondents filled the questionnaires and emailed them back. Purposive sampling was used to select banks in the towns whereas stratified random sampling was used to cover the total population. The study adopted descriptive research design where qualitative and quantitative approaches were used. Primary data was be collected through questionnaires developed and sent to respondents of commercial banks. The data was augmented with secondary data that was incorporated in the questionnaires and the central bank of Kenya supervisory reports. Regression analysis with aid of Statistical packages for social science and Microsoft Excel played a major role aid in data analysis and presentation. To test for significance, paired t-test and non-parametric test was used at 0.05 level of significance. The analysed data was presented using narrations, tables and line graphs.

Department of Computer Science, Babcock University, Nigeria

Advancement in the field of Information Communication Technology (ICT) has led to creation of new technologies, one of such is Over-The-Top technology. This new technology offers low-cost delivery of digital information content and services which includes VoIP services, instant messaging services and so on to consumers. The Over-The-Top services do not have a network system of their own but instead rely on of telecommunication operator networks and other Internet Service providers for the delivery of their services, without any policy or lease agreement with these operators. This work focuses on considering the perspectives of the regulatory board, the telecommunication operators and the consumer has it relates to this technology. We also analyse the impact of the Over the Top technology has on the Nigerian economy also.

The new nowhere land? A research and practice agenda for the “always on” culture

PurposeRapid developments in the field of information communication technology (ICT) mean that e-working has become increasingly common and prolonged – the “always-on-culture” potential to enhance work-life balance via increased flexibility in terms of time and location, as well as posing the risk of being “always on” has been identified with potentially serious implications for the health and performance of employees. The authors identify a research agenda as a starting point for reviewing current organisational practice.Design/methodology/approachThe authors discuss current technological developments as well as prevalent research frameworks and terminology in the domain of work-life balance and beyond to evaluate their fitness for purpose. They also report findings from a survey of 374 employees working within UK businesses about current organisational practice.FindingsOver half of the organisations sampled do not have clear policies, guidance or training in place regarding work-life balance and supporting employees with regards to technology enabled working and communications. The authors identify as key challenges the sheer volume of e-mail traffic, lack of training and infrastructure to support ICT-enabled working and an absence of appropriate support.Practical implicationsOrganisations need to develop clear policies regarding the psychosocial aspects of technology use and provide evidence-based guidance to managers and employees.Social implicationsManagers and individuals require support to engage with technology in a healthy and sustainable way.Originality/valueThis is one of the first papers to survey organisational practice and support on the topic.

Needs analysis for graphic design learning module based on technology & learning styles of deaf students

AbstractThe field of Information Communication Technology has offered a promising future for deaf students. Web design, animation, and multimedia application design are a branch of graphic design area, which aim to aid their learning visually. However, most of the technical terms cannot be interpreted in Malaysian sign language. Moreover, the development of the existing curriculum is not geared in catering needs of deaf students and not tailored to their learning styles. With the development of technology, learning for deaf students could be improved. However, previous studies only focused on language development and there is meager research on curriculum development and teaching in the field of graphic design. Therefore, this study was designed to obtain the views of students on the learning needs of graphic design module based on technology and learning styles of deaf students. Questionnaires were distributed to 58 students in special education schools and vocational colleges in Malaysia who majored in ...

Deriving Topics for Safety of Folk Villages Following Scope and Content of ICT-Based DPD

This paper presents a novel concept of Disaster Prevention Design (DPD) and its derived subjects and topics for the safety of folk villages in both Korea and Japan. Nowadays, design concepts are focused on ‘human-oriented nature’ as a whole and this tendency fits to be appropriate for disaster prevention against real dangers of a future society, which is expected to have far more complicated features. On the other hand, convergences have performed with other areas in the field of Information Communication Technology (ICT) so that we can easily find examples like ‘the strategy of ICT-based convergence’ of the Korean Government in 2014. Modern content designs including UI (user interface) and USN (ubiquitous sensor network) have been developed as one of the representative areas of ICT & UD (universal design) convergences. These days this novel concept of convergence is overcoming the existing limitations of the conventional design concept focused on product and/or service. First of all, from that point our deduced topic or subject would naturally be a monitoring system design of constructional structures in folk villages for safety. We offer an integrated model of maintenance and a management-monitoring scheme. Another important point of view in the research is a safety sign or sign system installed in folk villages or traditional towns and their standardization. We would draw up and submit a plan that aims to upgrade signs and sign systems applied to folk villages in Korea and Japan. According to our investigations, floods in Korea and earthquakes in Japan are the most harmful disasters of folk villages. Therefore, focusing on floods in the area of traditional towns in Korea would be natural. We present a water-level expectation model using deep learning simulation. We also apply this method to the area of ‘Andong Hahoe’ village which has been registered with the World Cultural Heritage of UNESCO. Folk village sites include ‘Asan Oeam’, ‘Andong Hahoe’ and ‘Chonju Hanok’ villages in Korea and ‘Beppu Onsen’ village in Japan. Traditional Streets and Markets and Safe Schools and Parks are also chosen as nearby test-beds for DPD based on ICT. Our final goal of the research is to propose and realize an integrated disaster prevention and/or safety system based on big data for both Korea and Japan.

The conceptual framework of the factors influencing consumer satisfaction in social commerce

The twentieth century has seen enormous changes in the field of Information Communication Technology (ICT) and that change will continue into the future, as well. When Web 2.0 tools appeared, people had the opportunity to interact with each other on the internet and helped to create a new stream with different functions. This stream called Social commerce (SC) which is defined as an extension of Business to Customer (B2C) e-commerce where consumers can interact with each other to conduct online shopping activities and discuss their experiences and preferences on products and services. Virtually all of the previous research on SC focus on behavioral and purchase intentions. In addition, there are many theories that can provide a better understanding of the satisfaction in SC. For instance, the theory of social interaction (Liang & Turban 2011) and the theory of social process (Amblee & Bui 2011) can both help in understanding consumer behaviors. In addition, the motivation theory might help in understanding why people use SC as well as how intrinsic and extrinsic motivations carry on in SC (Liang & Turban 2011). Although these studies have reviled promising findings, questions remain concerning what factors affect consumers' satisfaction, which are yet to be answered. Therefore, this study aims to develop a theoretical framework using Trust and Social Influence theories to investigate the influencing factors on customer satisfaction in social commerce. Investigating the theoretical framework of this study would provide theoretical evidence and help businesses and individuals to better understanding the factors that affect consumer satisfaction in SC.

The adoption of open innovation within the telecommunication industry

PurposeThe paper, covering the actual argument of open innovation, aims to answer two main research questions, namely: “Which open innovation approach is adopted by the companies belonging to the ICTs industry?” and “Which types of collaborations are carried out by the companies and which are the dynamics that characterize it?”.Design/methodology/approachIn order to answer the research questions a multiple case study methodology is adopted. The research framework was structured in three main phases: first, a literature review on the matter of open innovation in general and within the ICTs industry in particular, as well as of the specific features of the industry investigated, was carried out. Second, a list of questions containing the main issues that arose from the previous step has been designed for the case study protocol, to be used in the following structured interviews. Finally, structured direct interviews were conducted on three important Italian companies active in the telecommunications area.FindingsResults highlighted different ways to manage the open innovation processes, based on teamwork or task forces, and the different roles, more or less proactive, that an information communication technology (ICT) company may undertake within this process. Moreover, they show that ICT companies acquire external knowledge and skills mainly from universities and research centers, as well as from value chain's actors (suppliersin primis).Originality/valueStill little attention has been paid to the understanding of the open innovation approach of Italian firms belonging to the ICT industry, thus the authors believe that this paper may represent a valuable basis for future research on the open innovation issues in the field of ICT.