Die Digitalisierung fordert den Staat nicht einfach nur heraus. Sie überfordert ihn. Sie stellt in Frage, wie wir 70 Jahre lang unser Gemeinwesen gesteuert, organisiert und verteidigt haben. Unser demokratischer Staat mit seinen Institutionen und Verfahren tut sich schwer, seine bisherige Rolle...

In recent years China’s most spectacular growth rate occurs in the telecommunications sector. In 1978, China only has 3.69 million telephones, with a teledensity of 0.3%, lower than one tenth of the world average. The number of telephones in 1980 is the same as the 1905 level of United States,...

This paper explores whether the adoption and use of mobile phones in Africa following the United Nations Millennium Development Goal number 8 is seminal relative to other Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs). The dataset consists of the number of Internet users, computer users, and...

This paper investigates the relationship between ICT operational risk management (ORM) and the performance of an SME. To achieve this, this research investigated five specific elements, namely: the principal causes of ICT ORM failure in an SME; change management requirements; characteristic(s) of...