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Evaluating internet usage and ecommerce growth in Greece
Xanthidis, Dimitrios; Nicholas, David - In: Aslib Proceedings 56 (2004) 6, pp. 356-366
initiatives and investments, technology available at a reasonable price, and public acceptance of the internet as an efficient … politicians in Greece are aware of these essential requirements as well. However, although internet access has grown significantly …
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Defining the digital divide: the role of e‐readiness indicators
Luyt, Brendan - In: Aslib Proceedings 58 (2006) 4, pp. 276-291
Purpose – To show how e‐readiness indicators, specifically the Networked Readiness Index (NRI), participate in the work of defining policy problems. Design/methodology/approach – The article critically examines the Networked Readiness Index in terms of its presentation and its underlying...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014671481
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The costs and benefits of the Internet as a marketing and communications tool: the attitudes, perceptions and experiences within the non‐profit environmental sector in Scotland
Illingworth, Lorraine; Williams, Dorothy; Burnett, Simon - In: Aslib Proceedings 54 (2002) 5, pp. 280-293
‐profit environmental organisations and the costs and benefits of the Internet as a marketing and communications tool. Aims to ascertain … organisations. Overall the organisations within the sample have indicated that the Internet is a low cost, high benefit marketing … whether the size of the organisation and the level of Internet use determines the perceptions and beliefs of non …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014671346
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Send a boy – or dial it yourself? numbering for the information society
Adam, Ralph - In: Aslib Proceedings 51 (1999) 1, pp. 11-19
Numbering and addressing are key features of telecommunications: without them, the Global Information Society cannot exist. As the demand for new, and more innovative, services grows and the world moves towards deregulation and competition, so the pressure on numbering space increases. This...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014674023
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Librarians – architects of the future?
Rowbotham, Julie - In: Aslib Proceedings 51 (1999) 2, pp. 59-63
This article explores the reasons why librarians should be at the heart of Internet site development. There are two …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014674029
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Information retrieval and the perpetual innovation economy
Karamuftuoglu, Murat - In: Aslib Proceedings 51 (1999) 4, pp. 99-108
networks, such as the Internet, make it possible to devise work environments that are conducive to the development and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014674034
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The migration of news to the web
Williams, Peter; Nicholas, David - In: Aslib Proceedings 51 (1999) 4, pp. 122-134
comprehensive Internet services. With such an array of sources available, the future of mass access to the Internet, possibly via TV …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014674037
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Information available on UK agricultural web sites
Craig, Gillian M. - In: Aslib Proceedings 51 (1999) 5, pp. 155-166
In a survey of 132 UK agricultural web sites, more than 60 per cent mounted directorytype information like that found in printed directories of information sources, but this was not always easily accessible. Information about people in organisations varied between the different categories of web...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014674040
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On universality in productive and information technology
Warner, Julian - In: Aslib Proceedings 51 (1999) 5, pp. 167-171
Information science has differentiated information technology from productive technology, but the common concept of technology remains largely unexplored. A view of technology as a human construction, applied to productive technology, has begun to be developed to comprehend information...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014674041
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The Internet and Japanese education: the effect of globalisation on education policies and government initiatives
McLaughlin, Ruth - In: Aslib Proceedings 51 (1999) 7, pp. 224-232
Examines the effect of Internet growth on education within Japan, where English and the alphabet are not the first … forms of communication. In 1997 the Internet Society carried out research to find what language people were using on the … Internet. English accounted for 82% of all web sites, German was second with 4% and then Japanese at under 2%. However, with …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014674047