Together, social media and crowdsourcing can help entrepreneurs to attract external finance and early-stage customers. This paper investigates the characteristics and discourse of an issue-centered public on Twitter organized around the hashtag #crowdfunding through the lens of social network...

Chapter 1 – Defining and rationalising digital towns -- Chapter 2 – Measuring digital readiness -- Chapter 3 – Connectivity -- Chapter 4 – Digital Citizen -- Chapter 5 – Digital Education -- Chapter 6 – Digital Civil Society -- Chapter 7 – Digital Business -- Chapter 8 – Digital...

This open access Pivot demonstrates how a variety of technologies act as innovation catalysts within the banking and financial services sector. Traditional banks and financial services are under increasing competition from global IT companies such as Google, Apple, Amazon and PayPal whilst...

This open access book addresses the most recent developments in cloud computing such as HPC in the Cloud, heterogeneous cloud, self-organising and self-management, and discusses the business implications of cloud computing adoption. Establishing the need for a new architecture for cloud...

Chapter 1 -- Towards an Architecture for Reliable Capacity Provisioning for Distributed Clouds -- Chapter 2 -- RECAP Data Acquisition and Analytics Methodology -- Chapter 3 - Application Optimisation: Workload Prediction and Autonomous Autoscaling of Distributed Cloud Applications -- Chapter 4 -...

Chapter 1 – Defining the Internet of Things -- Chapter 2 – Next Generation Cloud Architecture -- Chapter 3 – Intelligent Networks -- Chapter 4 – Living at the Edge? Optimising availability in IoT -- Chapter 5 – End to End Security and Identity Management Across the Cloud-to-Things...