Purpose – In the first part of reporting our research on knowledge societies (Sharma et al. 2008), we overviewed a conceptual model for analyzing knowledge development. In this second part, we report the results of using our framework in the field for the purpose of formulating knowledge...

Since the early 21st Century, building a Knowledge Society represents an aspiration not only for the developed countries, but for the developing ones too. There is an increasing concern worldwide for rendering this process manageable towards a sustainable, equitable and ethically sound societal...

In this article, the authors reflect on the evolution to a knowledge society – a key ingredient of economic competitiveness. More specifically, they review the relevant literature on the subject in order to perform a grounded theory case analysis on the policies of the national library system...

There is little information available to help small businesses exploit the internet. This study attempts to plug the research gap by examining the influences of strategic decisions made by top management on the adoption of critical success factors. Based on the research results, it proposes a...

The Worldwide Mobile Data Services Survey is an annual exercise involving a loosely organized consortium of universities and research institutions located around the world. Initiated at the first Global Mobility Roundtable meeting held in Tokyo in 2002, the WMDSS project began with three member...

The marketplace for mobile digital media (MDM) is not entirely new. Whereas networks, content, services, and even regulatory policies have made progress through convergence, the process of re-engineering business models to reflect the characteristics of the still-evolving market for...

The UN/ITU joint declaration on moving towards an information society has put in place infrastructure targets in tele-density and access. And indeed, in much of the Asia Pacific, impressive gains have been made over the past 5 years in achieving universality and affordability in...

The UN/ITU joint declaration on moving towards an information society has put in place infrastructure targets in tele-density and access. And indeed, in much of the Asia Pacific, impressive gains have been made over the past 5 years in achieving universality and affordability in...

The knowledge management literature suggests that an organization’s knowledge ecosystem is comprised of strategic situations in which the individual behaviors of its knowledge workers show potential conflicts with what would be optimal for the organization. This paper aims to explore how such...

In this article we discuss the problem of evaluating th equality of expert systems. The solution we propose is a diagnostic instrument that assesses the relative strengths and weaknesses of an operational expert system. Such a tool is designed to identify the characteristics and features that...