Information Technology Issues Research Articles

Model of information technology of remote monitoring with a possibility of control of technological processes and objects

In the paper, the issues of modeling information technology for remote monitoring of technological processes and objects with the ability to control the state of monitoring objects are considered. The main objectives and constraints in the form of ISO/IEC/IIC standards and recommendations have been defined. According to the structural analysis and design methodology, a set of input and output parameters, mechanisms, and constraints affecting operations and data flows have been defined. A conceptual model of information technology for monitoring systems has been built and decomposed in the IDEF0 notation, the possibility of its implementation is shown using the example of a data acquisition unit in the form of an intelligent router that provides collection, processing, temporary storage of data and communication with a data processing server. Figs.: 4, Refs.: 21 titles.

Information technology issues and challenges of the globe: the world IT project

In this research, we report the information technologies rated as important by IT professionals in thirty-seven countries of the world, thus enhancing our understanding of the global technology landscape. Past research has focused primarily on the U.S. technology issues, which although useful in the U.S. context, may not generalize to all other countries. Globally, four core technologies have been ranked high for most of the countries: networks/telecommunications, business intelligence/analytics, enterprise application integration, and mobile and wireless applications. There were also differences among countries. Statistical analyses were performed to analyze the nature of these differences based on the economic level of the country and its IT infrastructure capability. Further insights were generated by performing cluster analysis; grouping the countries into three clusters (optimizers, pragmatists, and progressives), and examining their characteristics and technology priorities. These results are useful for multinational companies, governments, and international agencies as they forge their technology strategies and make investment decisions. We also lay the foundation for ongoing research to better understand the contextual factors that explain the differences in technology priorities among nations.

COVID-19 PANDEMIC AND ADDRESSING DIGITAL DIVIDE IN MALAYSIA

The recent Covid-19 pandemic outbreak has caused a significant surge in the access and use of digital technology due to the nationwide lockdowns and social distancing norms. The surged move to digitalisation during Covid-19 pandemic is a double-edge sword. Many significant benefits, such as online activities and education, have been provided by the digital transition. However, it has likewise uncoated old bruises of digital divide that are too familiar in information, management and economics research. Covid-19 pandemic has abruptly forced students and youths to engage in online schooling, studies, other virtual social interactions. In this study we address the issues of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) access and use among urban and rural youths in Malaysia, knowledge-based economy (K-economy) and the possible implications for research and practice. We argue that despite the recent Malaysia’s digital progress, the digital divide still persists in many aspects of economy. Yet, some fragments of societies are not able to transcend their limitations of lacking technological devices and skills due to socioeconomic motives. As a result of these limitations, it susceptibly affects youth education attainments, type of jobs and income generations. Therefore, introducing appropriate ICT skills and digital literacies during their lower education will give the better opportunity to them. In summary, it ascribes the inequality factors of digital divide to their motivational and usage accesses. Malaysia need to ensure the economic and potential benefits of the emergence of digital economy. The digital economy helps forwards Malaysia to achieving sustainable and productivity growth, and greater inclusivity.

Rapid Digital Transformation Using Agile Methodologies for Software Development Projects

Now a day’s all organizations are moving towards digitalization. These consequences of the use of digital technologies made organizations seek for best and fast digital solutions. All software developer companies are also trying to draw consumer's attention by offering prompt services. In this regard, the critical issue in information technology and other areas of computation is how software can be created easily and rapidly for complex businesses. In this context, the main aim of the research is to show the agile methodology role in the rapid digital transformation. In this paper, we have surveyed different agile methodologies and tools for rapid software development and introduced an agile management tool having a backlog. We identified the key practices of agile methods and after a survey, it is suggested that the agile approach can help to achieve a balance between the applications generated by developers on customer demand. This paper illuminates and translates agile methodologies into agile project management tools for simple and rapid application development. Empirical research based on a case study is provided for better understanding and showing the importance of agility in software development

Data Security using Proxy Based Methods in Cloud Computing

Data security has consistently been a major issue in information technology. In the cloud computing environment, it becomes particularly serious because the data is located in different places even in all the globe. Data security and privacy protection are the two main factors of user’s concerns about the cloud technology. Though many techniques on the topics in cloud computinghave been investigated in both academics and industries, data security and privacy protection are becomingmore important for the future development of cloud computing technology in government, industry, and business. Data security and privacy protectionissues are relevant to both hardware and software in the cloud architecture. This study is to review different security techniques andchallenges from both software and hardware aspects for protecting data in the cloud and aims at enhancing the data security andprivacy protection for the trustworthy cloud environment. In this paper, we make a comparative research analysis of the existingresearch work regarding the data security and privacy protection techniques used in the cloud computing.

Management of Modern Style Startups through Leadership Aspects in the Digital Age

Leadership is the method of persuading, empowering, and enticing people to lead to a start-or up's company's growth and efficacy in achieving its objectives. Online companies and innovative businesses that rely on digital communication technology, such as advertising firms, financial technology, and app developers. Strategy for Digital Leadership Leadership is the appropriate tool for assessing the degree of preparedness of adherents of information technology, beginning with the implementation and management of technologies such as software, programs, operating systems, and hardware such as mobile phones, modems, laptops, and touch screens, as well as job ethics and legal issues in information technology. Identifying followers' preparation for digital knowledge-based companies may be accomplished by changing the metrics of readiness and digital information proficiency in relation to the degree of followers' readiness for situational leadership.

Securing higher education against cyberthreats: from an institutional risk to a national policy challenge

ABSTRACT This article problematises the understudied nature of cybersecurity in the higher education sector as an area of research and policy analysis, despite the exponential rise in cyberthreats against colleges and universities worldwide, particularly following the Covid-19 pandemic. It explains how the peculiarities of higher education as a target for cyberthreats are often overlooked due to the dominance of high-profile cyber incidents as opposed to mundane, everyday threats in policymaking and academic discourses on cybersecurity. In contrast to some studies that approach cyberthreats against educational institutions and technologies as an information technology (IT) issue in which risks are transferred to targeted institutions, this article explores the complexities of securing higher education against cyberthreats as a national policy challenge that requires national strategies and policies to address. This sectoral approach to cybersecurity also discusses possible measures that governments can adopt to improve the higher education sector’s resilience against cyberthreats and to better prepare for the inherent security vulnerabilities that come with increasing digitisation.

Gender Disparity in Students’ Choices of Information Technology Majors

Abstract Background: The gender disparity in the Information Technology (IT) field has persisted over the years. In 2018, only 27.2% of IT workers were women. Once hired, women face more challenges, and they are leaving the field twice as fast as men are. The misconception that women are weak in tech is one of the root causes of gender disparity issues in IT. Objectives: We examine the gender disparity in students’ choices of IT majors, as well as the decision process of Computer Information Systems (CIS) graduates. Methods/Approach: We use the United States public universities’ student data from 2010 to 2018. Both the Pooled and the Satterthwaite t-test are used to investigate the gender disparity issue among the students. Results: Our results support our hypothesis that female students are statistically less likely to choose CIS than their male peers are. An additional analysis of students’ grades in CIS courses shows that female students perform equally well as male students do. We did not find any evidence that it takes longer for female students to get the CIS degree; however, female students did change their majors more often. Conclusions: Female students tend to avoid IT majors; they often think they may not do well in the courses; however, such an assumption is not true. Our findings provide strategies for university and high school administration to be more proactive in developing recruiting strategies to attract and retain female CIS students.

Common topics discerned in ethics in epidemiology and public health syllabi: in-depth review

This commentary reviews ethics in epidemiology and public health (PH) syllabi collected in 2011 and 2018. The syllabi repository was an American College of Epidemiology (ACE) Ethics Committee project to support institutions and faculty introducing, furthering or improving ethics in epidemiology and public health courses. Of 83 syllabi from 52 accredited public health schools and programs, 80 were reviewed to identify the most common ethics topics. The extracted information was categorized into eight main groups: (1) ethical/moral foundations and theories; (2) case studies in epidemiology/PH; (3) ethical issues in PH practice; (4) ethical issues in general epidemiologic/PH research; (5) ethical issues in specific research areas; (6) ethical issues in information technology; (7) ethical issues in other emerging topics in epidemiology/PH; and (8) others. The frequency of topics in each category was computed, and common topics were presented. Ethical issues absent from the syllabi were inferred. This commentary is intended to promote a dialog among those desiring to elevate epidemiology and public health ethics to an educational level commensurate with its importance.

Information technology literacy: the crucial factor in aged second-career academics’ sustainability

This study addresses the United Nations (UN) Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 4’s objective to increase the number of adults with relevant skills for employment and decent jobs by looking at the context of aged academics in the domain of digital academia. The literature review reveals that there is a scarcity of research studies related to aged second-career academics. Previous studies which have been carried out on second-career academics in business schools did not address the issue of information technology (IT) literacy. Therefore, this exploratory study aims to contribute to the conversation of increasing and sustaining the number of professionally and capably enriched aged second-career academics in digital academia. A hermeneutic interpretive approach is adopted, covering eight aged second-career academics from various types of higher education institutions across Malaysia. The findings from this study suggest that significant support, appropriate IT development and training programs in enhancing their information technology proficiency and literacy is crucial. The finding suggests that this is particularly pertinent for sustainability with respect to aged second-career academics. The study is expected to enhance the governance of universities with regard to introducing proper orientation and training for supporting and improving the information literacy of aged second-career academics in business schools especially for blended delivery of business education.

КОМУНІКАЦІЙНІ ТА ІНФОРМАЦІЙНІ ТЕХНОЛОГІЇ В ТУРИЗМІ: ТЕОРЕТИКО-МЕТОДИЧНИЙ АСПЕКТ

The article provides insights into information and communication technology (ICT) issues used in the tourism industry. It is argued that information and communication technologies is a driving force behind the tourism industry which contributes to boosting positive effects to a number of internal travel company activities and organizational factors like net cost, market and competition. ICT has become a key impetus to enhance competitiveness of travel companies as well as of tourist destinations, since a wide range of technological advancements has triggered this evolution. Actually, the overall rapid development of information and communication technologies and the Internet, in particular, has dramatically changed the tourism industry making the Internet an effective marketing tool for the entire travel services sector. This tool is of critical significance to both suppliers and consumers in disseminating information, communication and purchasing goods and services online. It has been verified that the major technologies and ICT applications used in tourism are websites; digital marketing; social networks; multimedia; mobile technologies and intelligent environments (IE). A well-designed website proved its effectiveness in promoting customer loyalty to the website and its products. ICTs are changing the way tourism products are sold and apart from that are a powerful tool for marketing research. In tourism, customer reviews and recommendations are of great importance to enhance the travel company attractiveness and promote travel destinations. Apparently, tourist information involves a wide range of graphics and image data representation to ensure positive customer perception to travellers who plan their trip. The evolution of mobile technology and infrastructure is becoming a common attribute of everyday life. In modern market segmentation realia, travel companies need to know how to adapt their market offer at a time of booking and adjust travel services to a great number of customers and market segments. The research results specify that building strong relationships with the external environment will promote better coordination between all the tourism industry stakeholders. The future of tourism is to be focused on customer-centric technologies that will facilitate a more dynamic process of communication between travel companies and their customers.

Twenty years of the International Journal of Accounting Information Systems: A bibliometric analysis

The International Journal of Accounting Information Systems (IJAIS) celebrated its 20th anniversary in 2019. This study conducts a retrospective analysis of IJAIS articles using a bibliometric analysis to commemorate the event. Findings show a consistent increase in both journal publications and citations. Authors affiliated to United States institutions are the predominant contributors. However, Australian institutions also show up among the most prolific institutions for the journal. The most dominant themes the journal has followed over the years are related to issues of information technology and emerging technologies in accounting, and the application of technologies to assurance and corporate disclosures. Researchers who are studying or willing to explore such topics should consider IJAIS as a premium outlet for their work. Besides these well-studied research topics, the entity linking analysis results also revealed valuable research topics that need more attention, such as the application of technologies to Tax and non-profit accounting. This finding may inspire AIS researchers with new research ideas.

Adoption of Green IT in the university environment: systematic review of sustainability practices in educational institutions

Introdução: as universidades estão preocupadas e cientes das mudanças climáticas e questões de sustentabilidade em Tecnologia da Informação (TI). TI Verde é a prática de projetar, fabricar, usar e descartar computadores, servidores e equipamentos associados com o mínimo ou nenhum impacto no meio ambiente. Objetivo: o objetivo deste artigo é examinar a implementação de casos de estudo de TI Verde no ambiente universitário a partir das práticas e resultados relatados em artigos científicos para ter um melhor entendimento de como as universidades estão lidando com estes. problemas. Metodologia: para o desenvolvimento deste trabalho, foi realizada uma revisão sistemática e definido um protocolo de pesquisa com base nas publicações científicas nas bases de dados de periódicos ACM, IEEE e Scopus nos últimos dez anos. O processo foi realizado em duas etapas de compreensão da busca nas bases de dados de periódicos e da análise sistemática dos artigos escolhidos relacionados ao tema da pesquisa. Resultados: foram identificados nove artigos da África, América, Ásia, Europa e Oceania, que relataram a prática de aplicação de TI Verde em universidades. Por meio dos casos estudados, discute-se como iniciar um projeto, tecnologias e dificuldades e benefícios da implementação dos mesmos. Conclusões: este estudo apresenta uma visão geral de algumas práticas de sustentabilidade em TI, que ajudam a compreender o universo da TI Verde aplicada às universidades. A pesquisa se limita à análise documental qualitativa de artigos científicos.

Aντιλήψεις εκπαιδευτικών της δευτεροβάθμιας για την αξιοποίηση των τεχνολογιών της πληροφορίας και της επικοινωνίας στην εκπαίδευση: Έμφυλες διαστάσεις

The present study explored teachers’ role in the gender digital divide by examining their beliefs regarding the educational integration of information and com - munication technologies (ICTs) and their views about ICTs and gender. Partici - pants were 164 secondary education teachers who responded to a survey. Questions focused on teachers’personal and educational ICT use, their computer self-efficacy, their beliefs about the educational uses that of ICTs and their views on issues of gender and information technology. The results showed thatteachers tended to think that boys were more capable in computers and that the study of computing was more appropriate for boys. Female teachers reported lower personal and educational ICT use as well aslower self-efficacy regarding the use of ICTs in the classroom compared to male teachers. However, in female teachers, teaching experience correlated negatively with both self-efficacy and gender stereotypes.This indicates that young female teachers may present a positive role model to their female students as they appear to be more confident to use ICTs in the classroom and to hold non-stereotyped views about gender and technology.

Rapid establishment of a COVID-19 convalescent plasma program in a regional health care delivery network.

BackgroundCOVID‐19 convalescent plasma (CCP) represents an appealing approach to the treatment of patients with infections due to SARS‐CoV‐2. We endeavored to quickly establish a sustainable CCP transfusion program for a regional network of health care facilities.Study design and methodsA regional collaborative group was activated to address the issues necessary to implementing a CCP transfusion program and making the program sustainable. A wide range of health care providers including physicians (critical care, infectious disease, transfusion medicine), nurses, pharmacists, laboratorians, and information technology (IT) specialists were required to make the program a success.ResultsThe CCP implementation team initially consisted of four members but quickly grew to a group of nearly 20 participants based on different issues related to program implementation. Overall, six major implementation “themes” were addressed: (a) registration of individual hospitals and principal investigators with a national investigational new drug research protocol; (b) collaboration with a regional blood donor center; (c) targeted recruitment of convalesced donors; (d) IT issues related to all aspects of CCP ordering, distribution, and transfusion; (e) prioritization of patients to receive CCP; and (f) evaluation of CCP products including antibody characteristics and patient response to therapy.ConclusionWithin 4 weeks of initiation, CCP was successfully transfused at multiple hospitals in our regional health care delivery system. A program infrastructure was established that will make this program sustainable into the future. This approach has broader implications for the success of multi‐institutional programs requiring rapid implementation.

Важные вопросы организации счетов управления в сервисных организациях в системе информационных технологий и связи

The article discusses the current problems and their solutions in the organization of the administrative account at the enterprises of sphere of services in the field of Information Technology and Communications of Uzbekistan. Problems affecting the information technology and communications services sector and issues related to their solution are being studied.

Совершенствование цифровой мобильной связи в современном мире

This article reveals the issues of new information technologies, digitalization and mobilization of processes, the introduction of artificial intelligence in all areas. As well as mobile applications for the transition of generations from 2G, 3G, 4G to 5G, digital mobile communication with circuit switching, the difference in the speed of wireless technologies in the world is such that operators around the world are ready for changes, and even many of them have already begun to minimize/network upgrades and LTE technology.

Detection of Relevant Career Track for Information System Undergraduates Using Profile Matching

We are facing the industrial revolution era 4.0 today. The issue of information technology, disruption technology and employment is very urgent. Data from the Indonesian Ministry of Research and Technology and from the Indonesian Ministry of Manpower in 2017 show that Indonesian workers who work not in accordance with their majors are above 50%. The number of jobs relevant graduates are an important value for Information System study program during the assessment by the National Accreditation Agency for Higher Education. So that needs a system to help students for detecting, identifying, and directing them to relevant career track using Decission Support System approach. Profile Matching method implemented with determining of 17 alternatives (career track) and 18 criteria (competencies: core=60%, elective=40%) based on IS 2010 curriculum. Whereas weight of each criterion associated with alternatives is stated in 3 variants (significant coverage, some coverage, not required). The highest rank shows that those career track is the most relevant to the student’s criteria (competencies). The other uses of those rank is also able to help students in determining their thesis topic.

Kiberbiztonság mint a haderőfejlesztés kiemelt területe: a decentralizáció és a blokklánc-technológia lehetőségei a kibertérben

A 21. század haderőfejlesztési stratégiáit meghatározza az organikusan fejlődő, digitális technológiai forradalom. A kiberbiztonságról már nem új fogalomként beszélünk, mert a katonai műszaki tudományok és az informatikai tudományok alaptémájává vált. A hálózatokon új technológiák születnek, amelyek digitális forradalmi csomópontokként viselkedve iparágak sokaságát írják újra. A mesterséges intelligencia, a gépi tanulás és gépi látás gyakran használt szakkifejezések, de a bennük rejlő lehetőségek kiaknázásához az elosztottfőkönyv-technológia és a blokklánc-technológia még feltáratlan. A blokkláncalapú megoldások felhasználási területei szerteágazó, eddig nem ismert tudományos kérdéseket vetnek fel. Katonai felhasználás tekintetében a haderőfejlesztés rákényszerül arra, hogy a hibrid hadviselésre sokkal nagyobb hangsúlyt fektessen, a kutatás-fejlesztésre pedig nagyobb anyagi forrást biztosítson. A blokklánc-technológia lehetővé teszi katonai céllal létrehozott, önkéntes, elosztott hálózatok kriptográfiai eljárással történő együttes fellépését, központi és állami ellenőrzés nélkül. A most zajló digitális paradigmaváltás a decentralizáció, a blokklánctechnológia, a gépi tanulás és a mesterséges intelligencia keresztezéséből indul ki.
 KULCSSZAVAK: mesterséges intelligencia, gépi tanulás, gépi látás, elosztott főkönyv, blokklánctechnológia

МОРАЛЬНО-ЕТИЧНІ АСПЕКТИ ІНФОРМАЦІЙНО-КОМУНІКАЦІЙНИХ ТЕХНОЛОГІЙ

В статті розглядаються питання морально-етичних аспектів інформаційно-комунікаційних технологій в діяльності вчителя інформатики; наголошується, що сучасний учитель повинен не лише давати знання, а й формувати цінності, світогляд молодого покоління. Знання інформаційної безпеки, уміння ефективно використовувати засоби інформаційно-комунікаційних технологій у житті і професійній діяльності мають стати для учнів, студентів – майбутнього нашої держави – засобом формування нового типу мислення й природним ефективним інструментом освітньо-пізнавальної, творчої, самостійної діяльності. Для формування технологічно обізнаної, культурно-розвиненої особистості запропоновано спецкурс «Морально-етичні аспекти інформаційно-комунікаційних технологій у професійній діяльності вчителя інформатики», представлений такими змістовими модулями, як «Соціальні та етичні питання інформаційно-комунікаційних технологій» та «Морально-етичні норми комп’ютерної етики» з відповідними темами, які розкривають особливості комп'ютерної етики, конфіденційність персональної інформації в базах даних; етичні проблеми і норми при формуванні інформаційного суспільства, зокрема віртуальна (інформаційна) етика, етика міжособистісного спілкування в інформаційному просторі. Все це забезпечує розуміння вчителями інформатики соціальних аспектів розробки інформаційних технологій, урахування можливих негативних наслідків і реальних цінностей, також знання етичних кодексів в сфері інформаційних технологій.