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Social Inclusion: Societal and Organizational Implications for Information Systems IFIP TC8 WG 8.2 International Working Conference, July 12-15, 2006, Limerick, Ireland /

Changes in society resulting from the pervasiveness of information technology have produced positive and negative, intended and unintended consequences. Key among them is the exclusion of individuals-who lack access to technological resources-from various societal processes and services. The theme o...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor Corporativo: SpringerLink (Online service)
Otros Autores: Trauth, Eileen (Editor ), Howcroft, Debra (Editor ), Butler, Tom (Editor ), Fitzgerald, Brian (Editor ), DeGross, Janice (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York, NY : Springer US : Imprint: Springer, 2006.
Edición:1st ed. 2006.
Colección:IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology, 208
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Acceso en línea:Texto Completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Social Inclusion and the Information Systems Field: Why Now?
  • Economic Development and Geography
  • Information Systems Practice for Development in Africa: Results from Indehela
  • A Comparison of Factors Impacting ICT Growth Rates in Developing and Industrialized Countries
  • American Discourses of the Digital Divide and Economic Development: A Sisyphean Order to Catch Up?
  • Digital Inclusion Projects in Developing Countries: Value, Sustainability, and Scalability
  • Political Participation
  • Right on Time: Understanding eGovernment in Developing Countries
  • Internet Voting: A Conceptual Challenge to Democracy
  • Engaging Youths Via E-Participation Initiatives: An Investigation into the Context of Online Policy Discussion Forums
  • Cybersolidarity: Internet-Based Campaigning and Trade Union Internationalism
  • ICT Policies as a Means to Inhibit Social Exclusion: The South African Case
  • Demographic Disparities
  • Inclusion Through the Ages? Gender, ICT Workplaces, and Life Stage Experiences in England
  • Space Invaders-Time Raiders: Gendered Technologies in Gendered UK Households
  • Women and ICT Training: Inclusion or Segregation in the New Economy?
  • Social Inclusion and the Shifting Role of Technology: Is Age the New Gender in Mobile Access?
  • Web Accessibility: A Digital Divide for Disabled People?
  • Ethical Issues
  • Responsible Management of Digital Divides: An Oxymoronic Endeavor?
  • Privacy, Security, and Transparency: ICT-Related Ethical Perspectives and Contrasts in Contemporary Firms
  • Technology and its Consequences
  • Developing Open Source Software: A Community-Based Analysis of Research
  • Understanding Meaning and Bridging Divides: The Use of an African Metaphor for the South African Open Source Center
  • Weblogging: Implementing Communities of Practice
  • Taking People out of the Network: A Deconstruction of "Your Next IT Strategy"
  • Institutions, Community, and People: An Evaluation of a Longitudinal Digital Divide Experience
  • How (Can) Nonusers Engage with Technology: Bringing in the Digitally Excluded
  • The Information Systems Profession
  • To Vanquish the Social Monster: The Struggle for Social Inclusion among Peers in the Field of Systems Development
  • Viewing Information Technology Outsourcing Organizations Through a Postcolonial Lens
  • Methods as Theories: Evidence and Arguments for Theorizing on Software Development
  • The Corporate Digital Divide Between Smaller and Larger Firms.