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Regional and global strategies to bring the benefits of e-government to Pacific Island Countries (PICs) have been less successful than anticipated despite large amounts of aid expenditure. National policies and projects likewise struggle to overcome the barriers of geography, isolation, climate, education, language and economic resources that face all Small Island Developing States (SIDs) when implementing...
Due to the rapid spread of smart phones and SNS (social network services), the use of Internet applications has increased and their need for bandwidth has begun to exceed the capacity of 3G networks. This has caused a reduction in speed and service quality and has underscored the need for network companies to invest in additional bandwidth. The increase in mobile network users has caused identity...
We construct a mathematical model to explore why digitization of employee recruiting process so far has not resulted in employers reporting hiring better candidates faster. We model multidimensional impact of Internet technology with increases in the total number of applications, in the rate at which applications arrive, and in departure rates of applicants. We also assume that technology leads to...
The literature on distrust in information systems (IS) research is still in its infancy. In this literature review, we have compiled the IS-related texts on distrust from the major journals and conferences and examined how the IT artefact itself is portrayed and conceptualised. We find that a majority of the research treats information technology in a nominal way, failing to explicitly theorise about...
We are seeing more and more organizations undertaking activities to engage dispersed populations through IS. Using the knowledge-based view of the organization, this work conceptualizes a theory of Crowd Capital to explain this phenomenon. Crowd Capital is a heterogeneous knowledge resource generated by an organization, through its use of Crowd Capability, which is defined by the structure, content,...
Online communities and discussion forums have become focal points for recent research. The online communities exist in many disciplines, and the use of forums is increasing rapidly in education, the workplace, and pursuits such as online gaming. Research has shown that one ultimate goal of online communities is to help members solve software problems. This paper explores support forums in open source...
Concerns have been raised about the decreased ability of Wikipedia to recruit editors and in to harness the effort of contributors to create new articles and improve existing articles. But, as Mar well and Oliver explained explained, in collective projects, in the initial stage of the project, people are few and efforts costly, in the diffusion phase, the number of participants grows as their efforts...
Crowd sourcing has been discussed both in academic and managerial articles in recent years. Despite some critical voices, the overall attitude towards crowd sourcing has been quite positive in extant literature. In this paper we want to address potential drawbacks and issue that create shadows on top of crowd sourcing. The overall purpose of this paper is to discuss the reasons why crowd sourcing...
In this paper, we identify challenges of involving different stakeholders in distributed co-creative open innovation processes and discuss how these challenges can be managed. In the Loco Media project, researchers, newspaper representatives and readers/users have co-created innovative user generated content (UGC) services. Using a Living Lab approach with the user in focus in a real life setting,...
Social media is increasingly important for political and social activism in Mexico. In particular, Twitter has played a significant role in influencing government decision making and shaping the relationships between governments, citizens, politicians, and other stakeholders. Within the last few months, some commentators even argue that Mexican politics has a new influential actor: "I'm Number...
Open data promises an increased availability of previously private, mostly governmental, datasets for service development. However, research on the topic is only starting to surface. In this article we propose a research agenda for open data service research. We review earlier relevant literature to extrapolate open data as a phenomenon from the perspective of the information systems field. Based...
The adoption of smart phones and other mobile devices has been rapid, with shipments of new mobile devices now surpassing those of PCs. While usability benchmark tasks for PCs have been established, the new interfaces presented by smart phones and other mobile devices are significantly different from those in use on PCs. We therefore conducted a Delphi-method study among smart phone users and potential...
While the sheer number of mHealth implementations around the world have been increasing dramatically, authoritative voices on global health have tried to put the focus on quantifiable evaluations and comparisons of these projects (e.g. health outcomes, cost savings, efficiency) in order to channel donor funds and investments into proven and scalable solutions. Drawing on empirical data from an mHealth...
In this paper, three IT-based startups are presented that have each "hitched their wagon to a star" and have built their fledgling enterprise by blending the social, mobile, and instant elements of IT into their startup. This paper takes the form of a case study that first describes the founding story of one startup, Tweet Photo, with specific attention paid to the elements that prompted...
In this paper we analyze the competitive effects between mobile and fixed broadband. We use the Lotka Volterra competition model, known from ecology, to analyze these competitive effects in the OECD area. The results suggest that mobile broadband demand is stimulated by a high demand for fixed broadband services. Hence, the majority of consumers does not view fixed broadband as a substitute for mobile...
Technology is a catalyst for communication and collaboration, and the use of information systems for these applications is prevalent. While there are countless benefits associated with communication and collaboration tools, detriments do exist. One pitfall is the prevalence of deviant behaviors online which can jeopardize the effectiveness of these tools. This paper presents the results of a study...
Platforms provide anchor-points for coordinating varied activities within an ecosystem. Understanding platform complexity and its effects is therefore a vital concern for academia and industry. The complexity defines the range of possible activities on the platform and the related aspects of control. This paper argues that abstract models of platforms used in current research remove some of the most...
Maintaining a relationship via video calling requires intertwining relational and technological talk. Using detailed qualitative analysis of transcripts from naturalistic recordings of couples in a video calling field trial, this paper explores how couple members use the possibility of technological distortion as a resource for negotiating around the problem of inattentive or inappropriate responses...
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