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The role of ‘smart metering’ in demand management, customer service, labor optimization, and operational efficiency is becoming increasingly recognized by Australasian water utilities. The objectives of this paper are to provide a summary of the 2013 and 2014 surveys and in-depth interviews...
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technology (ICT) industry under the economic restructuring in Singapore and Taiwan. Using data collected from 211 multinational … governments to focus on developing high level of science and technology and ICT skills. Implications to the two countries examined …, and evaluate the extent of ICT skill shortages among the companies surveyed. We found some impact of the nation-pushed ICT …
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colleges for low-income community college students. This paper explores the role that access to information technology, in …
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tourism, information and communications technology (ICT) and financial development over the last three decades largely … paper, we explore the short-run and long-run effects of tourism, ICT and financial development over the period 1980 … statistically significant effect in the short-run whereas ICT and financial development have a momentous positive and significant …
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We test the hypothesis that information and communication technologies (ICT) polarize labor markets by increasing … on the United States, Japan, and nine European countries from 1980 to 2004, we find that industries with faster ICT … growth shifted demand from middle-educated workers to highly educated workers, consistent with ICT-based polarization. Trade …
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In a fast-paced world where information, resources, and markets are within reach with a swipe of a finger, access to information and communication technologies (ICTs) is essential to business development and growth. This study assesses the need for and use of ICTs by women entrepreneurs in...
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This report presents the case studies of the People’s Republic of China, India, Indonesia and Kazakhstan in their knowledge-based economy approaches. It identifies a range of policies and initiatives that these economies need to consider to strengthen innovation led growth and make a...
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tap new technology trends to move up global value chains and towards high-income levels. …
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The Higher Education in the Digital Age Project (HEDA) is concerned with the policy implications of information and communication technologies (ICTs) for higher education. This paper specifically analyzes some of the ways in which ICTs are being employed as possible solutions to the triad of...
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