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The New Zealand Government has set the goals of having 99% of Kiwis able to access broadband with peak speeds of at least 50 Megabits per second (Mbps) by 2025, and with the remaining 1% able to access broadband with rates of at least 10 Mbps. There is an interesting question to be raised: is it possible to achieve these goals earlier? Inspired by the United Nations' Sustainable Development Goals...
In China, "Special Equipment" refers to boilers, pressure vessels (including gas cylinders), pressure pipelines, elevators, lifting appliances, passenger ropeways, large amusement devices, and non-road vehicles, which have high risks. The safety supervision to special equipment in China has been implemented for over 60 years, how to change the function and position of government to reform...
The Twenty-First Century has seen the dawn of the Internet as a pervasive medium by which nearly all information flows. However, the permissive environment in which the Internet was founded fostered a community plagued by Internet trolls, individuals who deliberately post inflammatory, off-topic, or offensive material on online message boards to elicit angst, or other emotions, from their targets...
With the development of cultural level, the traditional tourism has not meet the needs of the development of the people. The development of traditional tourist scenic areas has been affected by the technology and the cloud computing, so we need continuous innovation and development, it can bring the new experience of the tourist. In this paper, from the angle of tourist, scenic, government, we will...
The growth of electronic devices connected to the Internet brings new concerns. These include security, privacy, user rights, data generation, spectrum management, and liability. Countries and organizations are developing policies to accommodate the Internet of Things (IoT). In this paper, we identified IoT indicators useful for policy makers. We considered four categories of indicators. These were:...
The document contains a comparative analysis of the key technologies to ensure collaboration of telecommunication networks that were built with using different versions of IP protocol: dual stack; tunneling and encapsulation; translation of the protocols. Two groups of factors are proposed: factors that will influence the choice of the technical migration way to the IPv6 stack and the factors that...
In this paper we consider some results of a survey of today's Internet users of different ages and fields of activity, living in cities and settlements of different sizes, to identify their assessment of social needs' dynamic under Internet's influence. The effect of Internet on the feel of danger and risk, power and sense of domination over other people, belonging to a certain group, popularity and...
It is inevitable that the use of information and communication technologies (ICT) has been widespread in various sectors, including the governmental sectors. The implementation has brought many benefits, especially to improve performance of the public services. This is a strong reason for developing countries to encourage ICT utilizations, like Indonesia. One of the technological implementations is...
Catering industry as a basic service industry have been playing an indispensable role in national economy development. With Chinese economy has entered “the new normal”, comprehensive Revenue Management becoming more and more important. “Internet +” platform business model provides a precious opportunity for traditional catering enterprises restructuring and upgrading. The third-party internet platform...
Information and communication technology (ICT) is widely used in today's education to improve teaching and learning. Students that are well exposed to ICT in the early stage of their education can capitalize the knowledge to seek for more information over Internet and other interactive sources. This is not necessary the case for school in rural areas, with limited provision of ICT infrastructure and...
This work is motivated by the phenomenon of sophistication of Internet technology which nowadays is rapidly evolving in Indonesia. Indonesia is a developing country which has a great enthusiasm for Internet technology. In history, the Indonesian government began developing the Internet in the early 1980s at the state universities in Indonesia. Internet started to become popular since the collapse...
It was the late 1970s. Former French presidents Charles de Gaulle and George Pompidou had recently died. The Arab oil embargo caused energy prices to quadruple for a time. Marseille remained gripped by drug lords. And France had to face the fact that its telephone network was one of the worst in the industrialized world. Fewer than 7 million telephone lines served 47 million French citizens, and the...
Vehicular networks have the potential to improve road safety using Dedicated Short Range Communications (DSRC) technology, but substantial investment in roadside units (RSUs) is required. DSRC can be simultaneously used for safety and non-safety applications. If local governments share RSUs deployed for safety or smart streetlights with other kinds of service providers, then the respective costs can...
We present the results of a biopsychosocial therapeutic intervention with a group of women victims of gender violence and long-term unemployed in Spain. Our research is a usability and pre-feasibility study of a remote psychosocial therapy system using mobile phones and text messages. For this we send automatic text messages to mobile phones with content based on cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT)...
This study examines the main and spillover effects of online deliberation. According to theoretical arguments of deliberative democracy scholars, we defined the main effects as changes in opinions on discussion issues. The spillover effects refer to changes in behaviors that are not directly related to online deliberation activities. In particular, we look at the spillover effects on informational...
This paper addresses the development of information and communication technologies (ICT) presented in global readiness and development rankings. Our primary focus centers on the study and comparison of national ICT legislation, as well as the use of social media in the last election campaigns of the countries of Mexico, Argentina and Venezuela. The paper reveals the common features of the legislations...
With the worldwide appearance of Big Data and its prospective to citizens in all its endeavours, there has been a developing requirements for research on the business drivers influencing the adoption of Big Data services. This paper therefore focuses on Small to Midsized Enterprises-SMEs in Jordan; hoping to have a better delivery of Big Data services with increased transparency and availability of...
How does digital activism call upon citizens to understand their own role within a democratic political system? We explore citizen activists' use of digital technologies for civic engagement purposes in the case of a particular burgerinitiatief (citizen initiative) in the Netherlands. A grassroots undertaking, Ons Geld (Our Money) sought to spread awareness on the shortcomings of the monetary system...
Participatory budgeting aims at finding an appropriate solution to meet the increasing demands of citizens worldwide for more transparency and political participation in financial affairs. Several thousand projects related to this topic have been conducted worldwide to date. In Germany, public participation rates in these projects were often below expectations of public administration and politics,...
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