Growth Of Information Communication Technology Research Articles

유튜브 관광 콘텐츠 및 유튜버 속성이 관광지 이미지 및 행동의도에 미치는 영향

Nowadays, YouTube serves not only as a video platform but also as a search engine for online content, providing its viewers with diverse forms of communication and information. The recent and rapid growth of information communication technology has also significantly impacted the tourism industry. Notably, YouTube has emerged as a prominent and burgeoning platform for the creation and dissemination of tourism-related content. This study aims to examine the impact of YouTube tourism content and YouTuber attributes on tourists' destination images and behavioral intentions, specifically focusing on Mongolia, a destination that captures the attention of Koreans but remains relatively unknown. To this end, a sample of 250 adults, who watched Mongolian YouTube videos, was collected using a non-probability sampling method. The analysis revealed that YouTube tourism content and YouTuber attributes had positive influences on cognitive and affective destination images. Furthermore, the cognitive and affective destination images showed significant positive effects on recommendation intentions and visit intentions. Resultingly, all hypotheses suggesting the positive effects of YouTube tourism content and YouTuber attributes on tourists' destination images and behavioral intentions were supported. This study provides meaningful academic implications by contributing to the underdeveloped field of Mongolian tourism research and offers practical insights for the creation and delivery of tourism marketing content via YouTube.

The Impact of Leadership on the Growth of ICT Companies

Nowadays, one of the major purposes of any company is to survive in the competitive business markets. This purpose would be achievable through improving and developing growth in most cases. Prior studies suggest that leadership is a vitally important factor in achieving growth in any company. Some researchers studied leadership topics as one of the significant motivations for developing and improving the growth of a company and agreed that understanding the role of leadership and its effect on the growth of the company is influential. In all countries, Information Communication Technology (ICT) companies are recognized as significant growth drivers by leaving considerable impacts on that. According to the literature, growth is a determining factor for the productivity of any company. Based on the literature of the ICTs, weak and insufficient leadership skills are considered as the main factors that cause failure in achieving the planned growth and development of ICT. Consequently, the goal of this study is to clarify how leadership affects the development of ICT enterprises.

The Effect of Privacy Fatigue on Privacy Decision-Making Behavior

With the rapid growth of information communication technology, internet users face constantly demands to manage privacy setting and make decisions on whether to disclose privacy data in the digital environment. Such privacy-related decisions and actions are heavily influenced by users’ level of trust, privacy concerns, perceived risks, and perceived benefits. One recently recognized factor that may impair privacy behaviors is privacy fatigue. This study will employ a within-subjects design with eye-tracking devices in which participants complete the same online decision-making task. Additionally, potential covariates, including privacy concern and digital privacy literacy, will be controlled for. We expect that higher level of baseline privacy fatigue will reveal poorer privacy decision-making outcomes, which will be represented by more frequent acceptance of online cookies. Moreover, we predict that participants’ pupil dilation, a physiological index of cognitive effort, will decrease, and privacy fatigue levels will increase over the course of the online decision-making task.

Digital literacy: a review in the South Pacific

In this era of exponential prominence and adoption of technology, one needs to have the ability to find, evaluate, utilize, share and create ideas, responsibly and ethically, using Information Communication Technology (ICT) tools and technologies combined with the Internet. This emerging human attribute is known as digital literacy. Today, digital literacy is an essential component of everyone's personal and professional lives to survive and thrive in the digital world. The notion of advocating digital literacy around the world is leveraged on the shoulders of higher education institutes. The institutes are playing a pivotal role in mentoring the younger generation to be digitally literate so that they can contribute effectively towards an individual, societal and national development and progression. This same now applies to the South Pacific region as well, with its recent progressive growth of ICT and the dynamic use of digital technology. It can also be added that digital literacy and, by extension, digital fluency is more needed in developing countries, including the South Pacific region, as these countries rely heavily on ICTs for their economic survival, competition and progression. However, there is a dearth of baseline research on digital literacy in the South Pacific since the concept is still new and an emerging one in the region. A few works have been done on the components of digital literacy highlighted in this integrative literature review paper. The anecdotal research will elaborate on the concept of digital literacy, discuss its importance and impacts with major emphasis on the South Pacific, and provide a comprehensive review of digital literacy, its importance and its impact on higher education in the South Pacific.

The Role of the Legal Deposit Library in Bridging the Digital Divide: A Case Study of the Msunduzi Library in Pietermaritzburg, South Africa

In the 21st Century, the pace of globalization and the growth of Information Communication Technology (ICT) facilities, such as computers and the Internet are fuelling human advancement. The development of ICT applications plays a vital role in providing information access. Access to the Internet is not enough, but ICT applications and the intellectual knowledge, expertise and skills to use them to find relevant information and solve problems is what is essential. It is critical that people who have access are in a better position as compared to those who lack access. This gap is known as the “digital divide”. In this digital era of information, people who do not have access to the Internet are at a disadvantage. This paper examines the role of a Legal Deposit Library in managing the Digital Divide in the Pietermaritzburg area. This is informed by the idea that libraries play a significant role in helping to bridge the digital divide by providing free access to the Internet and other ICT tools to users. It is well known that the library is the only place where people can access free information through ICTs without any costs. Both quantitative and qualitative methods were used in the collection of data. Data is therefore, obtained through self-administered questionnaires, interviews, and observation. This triangulation of methods of data collection is designed to increase the validity and reliability of the results. The findings indicated that the Msunduzi library plays a key role in the delivery of digital inclusion activities, community engagement and social inclusion. The results indicated that while the Msunduzi library has made a considerable effort to ensure provincial-wide access to ICT, which currently constitutes an effective instrument for meeting information needs, a considerable number of challenges still exist. The factors impeding easy access are unearthed in this article and therefore, the paper recommends that the public library should engage on more outreach programs in order to include more people of the communities as it is clear that, ICT tools are the requirements for accessing information and participating in the global knowledge system because the ability to access ICT tools has become important to individuals to connect economically, politically, and socially with others in the world.

International comparative evidence of e-government success and economic growth: technology adoption as an anti-corruption tool

Purpose This paper aims to explore the impact of information communication technology (ICT) use and government efficiency on the economic growth. It assesses empirically the impact of government success in ICT promotion and government efficiency to enhance economic growth and catalyzing corruption control through technology adoption. Design/methodology/approach This paper examines the relationship between ICT and economic growth in a large sample of 149 countries for the period 2012–2016. The empirical evidence is based on the generalized method of moments. Findings There is a significant relationship between e-government development, ICT development and institutional quality, and not ICT development and corruption. The empirical results show that a negative value of the interaction suggests that the impact of corruption on economic growth is smaller for countries with a higher level of technology adoption. Practical implications The differences in e-government success across countries in the world are influenced by the digital divide due to income and corruption control level. Originality/value The efficiency of technology adoption and promotion will ensure stronger effects of corruption control on economic growth. Relevant practical implications derive from the research that can guide public policy in the area of e-government.

Sensory in Psychology Branding

With the rapid growth of information communication technology, tangible benefit is considered to be the critical element in communicating brand and building long lasting relationship. This paper attempts to establish the connection between sensory attributes of human to cognitive and affective elements that consequently lead to the brand loyalty. The data is collected by using self-reported questionnaire to the respondents who had stayed in the selected Five-star hotels in Kuala Lumpur. It is concluded that human senses were significant and positively influence the decision to stay loyal with the Five-star hotel brand.

Mobile Phone for Mental Health

The rapid growth of information communication technology (ICT) has brought new hope for people with mental illness who were beyond health and social service for long time.

The Digital Divide

This essay examines the digital divide through the lens of integral human development and identifies strategies for erasing or, at best, mitigating, the chasm. It proceeds in four parts. First, I will introduce the digital divide, identifying critical demographic and sociological data, to demonstrate how more than half of the world is digitally handicapped. Second, I will offer a critical assessment of this inequality from the perspective of integral human development. Next, I will propose the virtue of solidarity as a concrete way to motivate the global community to resolve the digital divide and, in turn, bring access and distribution of information technology in line with the demands of solidarity. Finally, I will demonstrate solidarity in action for integral human development through various in-place practices and long-term proposals for rectifying the technological gap. Since its introduction into the public square thirty years ago, access to the World Wide Web (Web) through the Internet has transformed social communication, commerce, and politics in revolutionary ways. This explosive growth of information communication technology (ICT) is often celebrated as a democratic and participatory medium where everyone is ‘LinkedIn’ on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, and other social media platforms. This popular sentiment, however, fails to acknowledge that the transformative impacts of communications technology have been limited in its reach. Such a claim of universal unfettered connectedness is based on an uninformed understanding or a lack of exposure to scientific data. A sizeable portion of the global village remains disconnected entirely from accessing the WEB and enjoying its “significant positive impacts.” While the “new velocity” of communications technology has enhanced the quality of social, economic, and political participation and increased exchanges in all these areas, there is a large portion of the world’s population which does not has or has limited access to the Internet. The socio-economic political construction of what has been termed the “digital divide” has marginalized an often already vulnerable segment of the global 1 This is not to ignore the ways that ICT has impacted cultures and peoples in a negative way. Pope Francis in Laudato Si offers an honest appraisal of ICT teaching that “The social dimensions of global change include the effects of technological innovations on employment, social exclusion, an inequitable distribution and consumption of energy and other services, social breakdown, increased violence and a rise in new forms of social aggression, drug trafficking, growing drug use by young people, and the loss of identity.” (Pope Francis, Laudato Si, retrieved June 23, 2015, http://w2.vatican.va/content/francesco/en/encyclicals/documents/papafrancesco_20150524_enciclica-laudato-si.html, no. 46). While this may be true and well-documented by scholars evaluating some of the significantly challenging imports of ICT on societies, I would argue that overall the positive advancements ICT offers outweigh the negative ones. (See: Carr, Nicholas. The Shallows: What the Internet is Doing to our Brains. [WW Norton & Company, 2011]; Keen, Andrew. Digital Vertigo: How Today's Online Social Revolution is Dividing, Diminishing, and Disorienting Us. [Macmillan, 2012]; Schmidt, Eric, and Jared Cohen. The New Digital Age: Transforming Nations, Businesses, and Our Lives. [Vintage, 2013]; and, Powers, William. Hamlet's blackberry. [HarperCollins, 2010]). 2 Pontifical Council for Peace and Justice, Vocation of the Business Leader: A Reflection, retrieved June 23, 2015, http://Web.pcgp.it/dati/2012-05/04-999999/Vocation%20ENG2.pdf, nos. 11-12. 3 Vocation of the Business Leader: A Reflection, p. 2.

The Influence of Policy Environment on Growth of Information Communication Technology (ICT) Firms in Nairobi, Kenya

Entrepreneurship plays an important role in the socio-economic development of the country. Its significance can be seen in terms of contribution towards economic growth, employment creation, poverty reduction and development of an industrial base. Kenya is going through a paradigm shift from an industry based economy to a knowledge based economy anchored on ICT. The government has reiterated the development of ICT industry in the country given its strategic importance. These commitments manifest in the various policies and strategies that the government has put in place over time, aimed at the growth and expansion of ICT in the country. Despite the policy and strategy pronouncements, there are various constraints that are currently facing the growth and expansion of ICT in the country especially amongst ICT providers. The Purpose of the study was to establish the factors affecting growth of ICT Firms in Nairobi. The specific objective of the study was; To establish the influence of policy environment on growth of ICT firms in Nairobi. The study involved a case study of ICT firms in Nairobi. The target population constituted ICT service providers located in Nairobi. The study targeted 92 firms out of 304 registered ICT service providers in the CCK database. The sampling frame used was acquired from the CCK directory of licensed ICT providers 2012. Stratified random sampling technique was used based on categories of ICT service providers registered by CCK. Questionnaires were used to collect data from a sample of 92 ICT Firms. The respondents were owner/ managers and selected employees. The study findings indicate that ICT policy environment significantly affects growth of ICT firms negatively or positively. Regarding ICT policy environment; The government has fully liberalized ICT sector in the country, there is effective and fair regulation of the ICT sector in the country, the policy environment is conducive for the growth and expansion ICT in the country, the government has favorable ICT policy to promote growth and expansion of ICT, the government has effectively promoted ICT infrastructure in the country and Government supports capacity building in ICT sector. Despite the existence of a conducive policy environment, there are no sufficient policy incentives to enhance investment in ICT. The study recommends the following regarding Policy Environment; The government should strive to improve the effectiveness of the existing institutions by strengthening the Department of Micro and Small Enterprise Development (DMSED) and MSE Associations, establishing National Council for Small Enterprises and legislating a Micro and Small Enterprises Act. The government should undertake to invest in ICT research centres that nurture innovation and networking of entrepreneurs, streamline licensing procedures and enhance capacity building initiatives in ICT firms especially on emerging technologies and monetization strategies for application developers.

E-governance initiatives in India - critique and challenges

With the tremendous growth of information communication technology in India, the government has introduced several information technology-based reforms in processes and at times in policies. These reforms are driven mostly with a view to allow the governmental services to be widely realised in a populous country like India. The purpose of this paper is to discuss the categorisation of digitisation of governmental services in India, to explain one service from each category and provide a critical analysis of the same. The paper systematically studies the growth of ICT and e-governance initiatives in India subsequently it explains one exemplar initiative from each category and offers a primary critique on the same. The paper reports that though the vision of e-governance initiatives offered by the Indian Government is appreciable but the implementation has several challenges, the same are stated in the critique. The paper adds original value as it studies in detail the growth of ICT and e-governance initiatives in India and offers a primary critique on the same.

Information communication technology and electricity consumption in emerging economies

This study examines the impact of information communication technology (ICT) on electricity consumption in emerging economies. The empirical results, obtained from dynamic panel demand models, show a positive and statistically significant relationship between ICT and electricity consumption when ICT is measured using internet connections, mobile phones or the number of PCs. Long-run ICT elasticities are smaller than income elasticities but because ICT growth rates are so much higher than income growth rates, the impact of ICT on electricity demand is greater than the impact of income on electricity demand. One implication of these results is that policies designed to close the “digital divide” between developed and developing economics by increasing the adoption of ICT in developing countries are put at odds with energy policies to reduce GHG emissions.

Factors Affecting the Strategic Growth of Information Communication Technology (ICT) in Kenya: A Case Study of ICT Providers in Kenya

Factors Affecting the Strategic Growth of Information Communication Technology (ICT) in Kenya: A Case Study of ICT Providers in Kenya

The role of mass media in disease outbreak reporting in the United Republic of Tanzania

Emerging infectious diseases and the growth of information communication technology have produced new demands and possibilities for disease outbreak information and reporting. An analysis of disease outbreak information and reporting by the Tanzanian mass media was carried out to cover a 12-month period between July 2002 and June 2003. Outbreak episodes reported in four local dailies were collected, compiled and analysed. The disease that received the highest coverage was cholera. Cholera outbreaks were frequently reported from the 3 districts in Dar es Salaam Region. Other epidemic-prone diseases received very little coverage. These included meningitis and rabies. With globalisation and high technological information systems, reports of disease outbreaks are more widely disseminated and more easily accessible than ever before. However, the quality of information is no longer controlled and may be provided out of context, often causing unnecessary public anxiety and confusion. It is important that mass media is provided with accurate epidemiological reports if correct information is to reach the public. The role of media in outbreak reporting is herein discussed in relation to the importance of providing timely and accurate epidemiological information. Tanzania Health Research Bulletin Vol.6(2) 2004: 73-77

A DISTRIBUTED MULTIMEDIA SYSTEM FOR COLLABORATIVE TEACHING AND LEARNING

There is a growing global interest in extending the field of study from stand-alone learning environment to collaborative or cooperative learning environment. In the light of the recent explosive growth of information communication technology, the platform for collaborative or cooperative activities should be revisited. This paper investigates the technological challenges in using distributed multimedia in a collaborative learning environment and proposes an architecture for multimedia processing in the collaborative learning environment. V-Class, a Java application suite with intensive distributed multimedia support, has been developed and deployed, allowing collaborative learning between students and tutors at remote locations. Students can engage in group activities and also collaborate with tutors. Each student sees a common shared window on which text or graphical objects may be added and which can then be shared online. A built-in chat room supports collaborative dialogue. Students can work either in collaborative groups or in teams as directed by the tutor. This paper summarizes the technical architecture of the V-Class system as well as the pedagogical implications of the suite.