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Intro -- INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATIONS TECHNOLOGY: NEW RESEARCH -- INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATIONS TECHNOLOGY: NEW RESEARCH -- Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data -- CONTENTS -- PREFACE -- Chapter 1: BRIDGING DIVIDES IN THE ARAB WORLD: THE USE OF ICT PLATFORMS TO PROMOTE WOMEN'S EMANCIPATION IN MOROCCO -- ABSTRACT -- INTRODUCTION -- WOMEN'S EMANCIPATION IN MOROCCO -HISTORY AND REPRESENTATIONS -- WHY FOCUS ON ICTS? -- 1. USING ICTS TO CONTRIBUTE TO PROMOTING WOMEN'S EMANCIPATION IN MOROCCO -- 2. ICTS USES: GIVING MOROCCAN WOMEN A VOICE -- 3. SOCIAL LEARNING AND INSTITUTIONAL REFORMS -POTENTIAL IMPACTS OF THIS RESEARCH -- CONCLUSION -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- REFERENCES -- Chapter 2: DO GENDER AND FIELD OF STUDY HAVE IMPACT ONIRANIAN STUDENTS' ENGLISH WEB PAGES USAGE? -- ABSTRACT -- 1. INTRODUCTION -- 2. STATEMENT OF THE PROBLEM -- 3. OBJECTIVES OF THE STUDY -- 4. RESEARCH QUESTIONS AND HYPOTHESES -- 5. SIGNIFICANCE OF THE STUDY -- 6. LITERATURE REVIEW -- 7. METHODOLOGY -- 8. DATA ANALYSIS -- 9. RESULTS AND DISCUSSION -- CONCLUSION -- REFERENCES -- Chapter 3: DO INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGIES IMPROVE THE FEMALE LABOR SITUATION? THE IMPACT OF ICT ON GENDER WAGE DIFFERENCES IN SPAIN -- ABSTRACT -- 1. INTRODUCTION -- 2. MAIN FRAMEWORK: GENDER AND INFORMATIONAND COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGIES -- 3. WOMEN IN SPANISH ICT EMPLOYMENT :A STATISTICALVIEW -- 4. WAGE INEQUALITY, GENDER AND INFORMATIONAND COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGIES RELATED TO EMPLOYMENT -- CONCLUSION -- ANNEX -- REFERENCES -- Chapter 4: EDUCATIONAL TECHNOLOGY: POLICY, PEDAGOGY AND THE PRIVATE SECTOR -- ABSTRACT -- INTRODUCTION -- TECHNOLOGY-ENRICHED FUTURES AND EDUCATION POLICY MAKING -- EDUCATIONAL TECHNOLOGY POLICY MAKING IN THE UK -ITS IMPACT AND ITS INFLUENCES -- FROM IT TO ICT -- TECHNOLOGY AND EDUCATIONAL POLICY MAKING IN THE USA.

Research on multiculturalism and information and communication technology (ICT) has been important to understanding recent history, planning for future large-scale initiatives, and understanding unrealized expectations for social and technological change. This interdisciplinary area of research has examined interactions between ICT and culture at the group and society levels. However, there is debate within the literature as to the nature of the relationship between culture and technology. In this synthesis, we suggest that the tensions result from the competing ideologies that drive researchers, allowing us to conceptualize the relationship between culture and ICT under three primary models, each with its own assumptions: 1) Social informatics, 2) Social determinism, and 3) Technological determinism. Social informatics views the relationship to be one of sociotechnical interaction, in which culture and ICTs affect each other mutually and iteratively, rather than linearly; the vast majority of the literature approach the relationships between ICT and culture under the assumptions of social informatics. From a socially deterministic perspective, ICTs are viewed as the dependent variable in the equation, whereas, from a technologically deterministic perspective, ICTs are an independent variable. The issues of multiculturalism and ICTs attracted much scholarly attention and have been explored under a myriad of contexts, with substantial literature on global development, social and political issues, business and public administration as well as education and scholarly collaboration. We synthesize here research in the areas of global development, social and political issues, and business collaboration. Finally we conclude by proposing under-explored areas for future research directions.

"Information and Communication Technology, Transparency, and Accountability" published on by Oxford University Press.

This report distills the key findings and recommendations of reports on ICT infrastructure, and the role of ICT in the power, transport, education, health, social protection, finance, public sector management, and rural development sectors. Rapid advances in information and communication technology (ICT) continue to create tremendous opportunities for economic and social gains in the world's poorest areas. A key infrastructure of knowledge-based economies. ICT is a driving force for rapidly growing new sectors. The Strategy 2020 of the Asian Development Bank (ADB) reinforces the importance of drawing on ICT to enhance development in Asia and the Pacific. In line with Strategy 2020, ADB's 2013 ICT for Development Strategy and with the support of the Republic of Korea's e-Asia and Knowledge Partnership Fund (EAKPF), this study examines and identifies opportunities for promoting ICT in ADB operations.

This report distills the key findings and recommendations of reports on ICT infrastructure, and the role of ICT in the power, transport, education, health, social protection, finance, public sector management, and rural development sectors. Rapid advances in information and communication technology (ICT) continue to create tremendous opportunities for economic and social gains in the world's poorest areas. A key infrastructure of knowledge-based economies. ICT is a driving force for rapidly growing new sectors. The Strategy 2020 of the Asian Development Bank (ADB) reinforces the importance of drawing on ICT to enhance development in Asia and the Pacific. In line with Strategy 2020, ADB's 2013 ICT for Development Strategy and with the support of the Republic of Korea's e-Asia and Knowledge Partnership Fund (EAKPF), this study examines and identifies opportunities for promoting ICT in ADB operations.

"Mobile phones are close to ubiquitous in developing countries; Internet and broadband access are becoming commonplace. Information and communication technologies (ICTs) thus represent the fastest, broadest and deepest technical change experienced in international development. They now affect every development sector--supporting the work of hundreds of millions of farmers and micro-entrepreneurs; creating millions of ICT-based jobs; assisting healthcare workers and teachers; facilitating political change; impacting climate change; but also linked with digital inequalities and harms--with the pace of change continuously accelerating. Information and Communication Technology for Development (ICT4D) provides the first dedicated textbook to examine and explain these emerging phenomena. It will help students, practitioners, researchers and other readers understand the place of ICTs within development; the ICT-enabled changes already underway; and the key issues and interventions that engage ICT4D practice and strategy. The book has a three-part structure. The first three chapters set out the foundations of ICT4D: the core relation between ICTs and development; the underlying components needed for ICT4D to work; and best practice in implementing ICT4D. Five chapters then analyse key development goals: economic growth, poverty eradication, social development, good governance, and environmental sustainability. Each chapter assesses the goal-related impact associated with ICTs and key lessons from real-world cases. The final chapter looks ahead to emerging technologies and emerging models of ICT-enabled development. The book uses extensive in-text diagrams, tables and boxed examples with chapter-end discussion and assignment questions and further reading. Supported by online activities, video links and session outlines and slides, this textbook provides the basis for undergraduate, postgraduate and online learning modules on ICT4D."--Provided by publisher