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Development and Implementation of Sustainability IoT Based Curriculum
Elsaadany, Amr; Helmi, Ahmed - 2017
Sustainable development has three main pillars, economic, social, and environmental. In the strive for a sustainable world, environmental and social issues must be addressed as they affect the world economy. With the past industrial revolutions and their negative effects on our world, it is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011920381
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Quality of life and international standardization in the field of sustainable development of communities
Avanesov, Evgeny - 2014
resilience in communities. In order to efficiently organize the works on benchmarking and standardization in the field of … communities to develop a strategy for ensuring sustainable development and resilience, establish objectives and processes to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011399971
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The urban sprawl: an overview of USA, Mexico and Spain.
Arellano, Blanca; Roca, Josep; Queralto, Pau - 2010
It is a fact that the urban sprawl, known as the process of gradual spread out of urbanization has become a worldwide phenomenon. The growing consumption of land, as a result of the extension of highway networks, open up vast space of territory, which seems to have become an unstoppable cancer,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011332512
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Competing through e-skills: Luxembourg and its second level digital divide
Binsfeld, Nico; Whalley, Jason; Pugalis, Lee - 2016
Technology (ICT) sector plays an important role in a country's economy and welfare. The ICT sector relies on highly performing … been made in recent years regarding its ICT infrastructure, Luxembourg performs poorly in international league tables with … regards to e-skills or digital competences showing a tendency to a “second level digital divide” in terms of its ICT …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011577378
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The impact of broadband and other infrastructure on the location of new business establishments
McCoy, Daire; Lyons, Sean; Morgenroth, Edgar; Palcic, Donal - 2016
Can improving local infrastructure in underdeveloped areas encourage entrepreneurial activity? If so, which infrastructures and by how much? This paper analyses the impact on new business establishments of broadband infrastructure, motorways, airports and railways and a range of other local...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011577406
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The influence of academic institutions on regional clusters using the ICT cluster of Waterloo, Ontario as an example
Bechtloff, Katharina - 2012
The paper aims to examine the role of academic institutions in the development of the ICT cluster of the Waterloo … ability to innovate. The ICT sector with its analytical knowledge base depends on radical innovations which are developed … universities does not automatically result in the development of an ICT cluster. In the region of Waterloo three academic …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011340824
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Economic and social motives of using geography-related information and communication technologies: a Japanese-Hungarian comparative study
Jakobi, Akos - 2012
information and communication (ICT) technologies largely influenced the economy and society of the 21st century. In the last … couple of years, a new motive of ICT-based inequalities seemed to appear that could have been connected to the usage of … country of information technologies, and Hungary, a member state of the EU with different backgrounds and opportunities of ICT …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011340830
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eHealth adoption factors in medical hospitals: A focus on the Netherlands
Geenhuizen, Marina Van; Faber, Sander - 2015
The Netherlands can be seen as one of the best healthcare systems in Europe. However, ICT application in hospitals in … interested? without a subsequent move to testing and actual implementation. This situation contradicts the expected gains of ICT …. To better understand these differences, we develop a model of organizational adoption of ICT in hospitals and explore …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011400497
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How city type, trust and technology affect corruption: a multilevel comparative study
Korosteleva, Julia; Mickiewicz, Tomasz; Stepien, Paulina - 2015
In this study we investigate how both local environment and individual characteristics explain incidence of corruption. More specifically, we explore how city size, and residing in a capital city influence the two aspects of corruption, notably in individuals? contact with officials, and in the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011400583
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Covariance structure analysis of innovation and ICT use among Japanese innovative SMEs
Idota, Hiroki; Bunno, Teruyuki; Tsuji, Masatsugu - 2013
structure analysis, in particular focusing on the role ICT. Seven hypotheses are demonstrated by two models. The results … effect of introducing ICT; (ii) this effect of ICT use raises innovation capability; in particular ability to connect … external linkages; (iii) ICT use, innovation capability and external linkages enhance innovation activity; and (iv) effect of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010327656