Table of Contents
This volume comprises six papers accepted through the regular submission process. In the first article, Victor Mbarika re-thinks the ICT policy focus for Africa's least developed countries, with particular reference to the need for a sound teledensity structure. In the second article, Elaine Rabbitt and Jeremy Pagram consider ICT developments in outback Australian communities, with a study of two isolated schools in Australia's far North West. In the third article, Jide Olutimayin considers the interaction of IT and local culture in the South Pacific, taking the Republic of Fiji as a case study. Fiji is also the context for the fourth article, but here Charles Davis, Jim McMaster and Jan Nowak consider the opportunities that low-income nations such as Fiji offer for the burgeoning international trade in IT-enabled business services. In the fifth article, Irwin Brown discusses the individual and technological factors that affect the perceived ease-of-use of web-based learning technologies in South Africa. Finally, Luiz Joia and Fuad Zamot describe the development of Internet-based Reverse Auctions in Brazil, with substantial reference to the procurement process used by the Federal Government.
In this Volume, the downloads# is the number of downloads since April 2005. The total number of downloads, i.e. since the original publication date, is not available.
Research Papers
1. Rethinking Information and Communications Technology Policy Focus on Internet versus Teledensity Diffusion for Africa's Least Developed Countries |
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| Victor W.A. Mbarika | # of downloads: 1072 |
2. Online or Out of Reach |
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| Elaine Rabbitt, Jeremy Pagram | # of downloads: 638 |
3. Adopting Modern Information Technology in the South Pacific: A Process of Development, Preservation or Underdevelopment of the Culture? |
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| Jide Olutimayin | # of downloads: 2070 |
4. IT-enabled Services as Development Drivers in Low-Income Countries: The Case of Fiji |
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| Charles Davis, Jim McMaster, Jan Nowak | # of downloads: 1294 |
5. Individual and Technological Factors Affecting Perceived Ease of Use of Web-based Learning Technologies in a Developing Country |
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| Irwin T.J. Brown | # of downloads: 1639 |
6. Internet-Based Reverse Auctions by the Brazilian Government |
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| Luiz Antonio Joia, Fuad Zamot | # of downloads: 913 |
Letters
1. Critique of "Adopting Modern Information Technology in the South Pacific: A Process of Development, Preservation or Underdevelopment of the Culture?" |
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| Sumit K. Lodhia | # of downloads: 863 |
2. Response to Lodhia |
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| Jide Olutimayin | # of downloads: 562 |