Developing Successful ICT Strategies: Competitive Advantages in a Global Knowledge-Driven Society

Developing Successful ICT Strategies: Competitive Advantages in a Global Knowledge-Driven Society

Copyright: © 2008 |Pages: 420

ISBN13: 9781599046549|ISBN10: 1599046547|EISBN13: 9781599046563|ISBN13 Softcover: 9781616926816

DOI: 10.4018/978-1-59904-654-9

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Rahman, Hakikur, ed. Developing Successful ICT Strategies: Competitive Advantages in a Global Knowledge-Driven Society. Hershey, PA: IGI Global, 2008. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-59904-654-9

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Developing Successful ICT Strategies: Competitive Advantages in a Global Knowledge-Driven Society collects an authoritative core of research investigating the notion that information communication technologies (ICTs) have the potential to improve the lives of people and contribute to enhancing social conditions in developing countries through such concepts as the Knowledge Society, open education, and e-governance. Comprehensively covering ICT research and applications in such diverse fields as healthcare, distance learning, government, and environmental activities, this Premier Reference Source will enable libraries to support research in a variety of disciplines that interact with ICT and its impact on the development of societies.

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Front Materials

Title Page

Copyright Page

Foreword

Preface

Acknowledgment

Chapters

Policy Initiation

Chapter 1

An Overview on Strategic ICT Implementations Toward Developing Knowledge Societies (pages 1-39)

Hakikur Rahman

As nations continue to conceptualize, adopt, implement and monitor their respective information and communications technologies (ICTs) policies and e-strategies, it is vital that a critical assessment is undertaken on their effective...

Chapter 2

Strategy Development: A Focus on Process (pages 40-57)

Suleman Aziz Lodhi

Trade globalization and advancement in ICT may be considered as the two major forces that will be directing economic growth of a country in the coming years. Policy makers have realized the importance of ICT in achieving national...

Chapter 3

Developing Strategies for Competitive Advantage (pages 58-79)

Tamio Shimizu

As in any game, the success of competitive strategies depends on knowing the rules as well as the other players. Nevertheless, in the real competitive environment, the rules are not always clear and can change very quickly, demanding...

Chapter 4

The Internet Challenge to Public Service Broadcasters (pages 80-94)

Juan Luis Manfredi Sánchez

The expansion of the social influence of the Internet have led both general interest and national public broadcasters to a structural challenge. The new on line paradigm demands a full version of the public enterprise, which include...

Chapter 5

Civil Liability of ISPs, the Internet, and Law (pages 95-112)

Onyeka K. Osuji, Emmanuel Eze

This chapter examines the Internet and law relationship. Using rules and decisions on ISP liability for civil defamation to illustrate, the chapter attempts to identify and proffer solutions to the challenges posed by the Internet to...

Education and Research

Chapter 6

Disintermediated Education (pages 114-132)

Helena Mitev, David Crowther

In this paper we argue that one of the benefits of IT is its role in enabling the disintermediation of education to provide an environment in which all can participate. In the context of this chapter however we focus on the role of...

Chapter 7

Towards an ICT4D Geometry of Empowerment: Using Actor-Network Theory to Understand and Improve ICT4D (pages 133-154)

Donna D. Rubinoff

This chapter introduces actor-network theory (ANT) as an approach to the analysis and improvement of the use of ICT for development (ICT4D). It argues that ANT helps to conceptualize ICT beyond the technological systems of the...

Chapter 8

Beyond Localization: Effective Learning Strategies for Cross-Cultural E-Learning (pages 155-164)

Patrick Dunn

Instructional systems are products of the cultures in which they are developed. Culture, which we define here as “the collective programming of the mind which distinguishes the members of one group or category of people from another"...

Chapter 9

Strategies for Virtual Learning and E-Entrepreneurship in Higher Education (pages 165-176)

Juha Kettunen

This chapter presents the strategies of higher education institutions and how they can be described using the balanced scorecard approach. The pedagogical ICT strategy describes the virtual learning and e-entrepreneurship in higher...

Chapter 10

Computer-Based Assessment for Academic Evaluation (pages 177-200)

Devan Govender

As student numbers and lecturer workloads increase, traditional methods of assessment make it rather difficult to undertake effective assessment and provide students with in-depth, relevant, specific and speedy feedback. It is thus...

E-Concepts

Chapter 11

Creating Competitive Advantage: The Emergence of a New Business through Collaborative Networks – An Empirical Case Study in the ICT Sector (pages 202-225)

Arla Juntunen

This chapter addresses collaborative business networks at the level of industry/cluster networks, which is important and relevant from the strategic management perspective in several industries. This chapter examines two current “hot...

Chapter 12

Implementation of E-Governance: Some Technical Issues and Challenges (pages 226-239)

Lalitsen Sharma

This chapter deals with some technical issues and challenges in implementing e governance at national level. It also discusses different stages of implementations of e governance system and recommends on developing successful ICT...

Chapter 13

Integration Strategies and Tactics for Information Technology Governance (pages 240-280)

Ryan R. Peterson

Amidst the challenges and changes of the 21st century, involving hyper competitive market spaces, electronically-enabled global network businesses, and corporate governance reform, IT governance has become a fundamental business...

Chapter 14

The Paradigm of E-Commerce in E-Government and E-Democracy (pages 281-296)

Bernd Carsten Stahl

During its relatively short history e-commerce, the use of information and communication technology (ICT) in business has been more successful and glamorous than e-government or e-democracy, the comparable use of ICT in governments...

Strategic ICT Applications

Chapter 15

Delivering More Effective Community Consultation and Support for Regional ICT Programs (pages 298-312)

Lynne De Weaver

This chapter looks at the role of language and the community consultation process in overcoming the digital divide by facilitating the uptake of information and communications technologies (ICT) in small regional communities in...

Chapter 16

Policy Initiatives in Jamaica and their Impact on the Development of ICT (pages 313-333)

Sheryl Thompson

The chapter explores the diffusion of information and communications technology (ICT) in the country of Jamaica, and within the context of the national strategic plan for information technology. Further it utilizes the concept of...

Chapter 17

Digital Government Development Strategies: Lessons for Policy Makers from a Comparative Perspective (pages 334-356)

Yu-Che Chen, Richard Knepper

Digital government has a better chance of success if it follows a well-articulated and sound strategy. Failures of digital government projects in terms of cost overrun, delay in delivery, and problems in implementation are the rule...

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