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This paper discusses the place, role and importance of informatics education in contemporary society. The levels of computer science education are analyzed and explained, from elementary computer literacy, which is the basic requirement for the age of knowledge, to the education of professional IT experts. Implementation of computers in education, as a significant factor of educational development...
Qatar is working towards becoming a knowledge-based society by 2030. However, there is a limited understanding of the field of computer science, especially at the K-12 level, as well as its potential impact to achieve the above goal. We have developed several outreach activities to help introduce K-12 students and their teachers to computer science through workshops on CS such as education, problem...
The global perspective about the term “information” is indeed a reflection of the strength of any nation, in order words, “information is power”. Information is the key that transforms to knowledge. The amount of information received, stored, processed, retrieved and disseminated can bring about positive changes in the development of any nation. The employment of Information and Communication Technology...
With the advance of the knowledge-based society came the rapid expansion of the number of students leading to the increase in time needed for their examination. This time is equal to, or sometimes even exceeds the time needed to teach the material in lectures and practices of a subject. This time factor is the main reason for the appearance of various knowledge evaluation systems. Knowledge evaluation...
In nowadays knowledge-based society, the knowledge and innovation are considered as the core-competence of the regions. In rural areas, in order to realize its leaping development, building the regional knowledge network is essential and causes great attention in academic field. As one indispensable element in the knowledge network, researchers emphasized the leadership's function in the organization...
Knowledge is playing an increasingly important role in the era of knowledge-based society. The practice proves that tacit knowledge is the more important resources. How to transform and share tacit knowledge, to serve the society, the enterprise and individual is a hotspot of today. In this paper, from the tacit knowledge and ontology of the concepts and features, the tacit knowledge sharing transformation...
E-learning has played an increasingly important role in supporting the economic and educational growth of industrialized nations. It also offers opportunities for developing nations to enhance their educational and economic development. There is growing demand for teachers who have the skills to prepare students to be successful in a technology-infused, knowledge-based society. E-learning can play...
Globalisation is triggering significant and rapid developmental changes thus creating the impetus for emerging economies to evolve towards knowledge-based societies. This evolution is fuelled in part by the transfer of technologies mostly embedded in products and services. It has become a critical challenge for developing countries to build and sustain the capacity for the transfer of Information...
The convergence and emergence of modern information and communication technologies opens up new horizons for organizations in a knowledge-based society. Modern ICT transcended the traditional service delivery pattern and innovation pattern by bringing personalized, localized and context aware services close to users. The traditional boundary of organization is dissolving as well as the traditional...
Emerging information and communication technology (ICT) is setting the pace for a changing, competitive and dynamic global marketplace, representing an invaluable vehicle for socioeconomic development and introducing new forms and structures of organizations that are no longer affected by geographical or time barriers. Egypt, as a developing nation, with an emerging economy, has realized the potentials...
This paper describes a case of a small start-up agency on intelligent, knowledgeable temporary staffs in Japanese mobile-phone industry as a new trend in the field of IT industry in Japan. In the rapid progress of technology and market, many enterprises in IT industry are facing to a serious shortage of knowledge/knowledgeable-employees on technology and market. For example, in the mobile-phone industry,...
Cost pressure, short time to market, and increased complexity are responsible for an evident increase of the failure rate of computing systems, while the cost of failures is growing rapidly, as a result of an unprecedented degree of dependence of our society on computing systems. The combination of these factors has created a dependability and security gap that is often perceived by users as a lack...
Delivering learning and education is the most invaluable building block in today's knowledge-based society. The emergence of learning objects in learning technology has had a big impact on the learning environment and its community. Teachers and students have more facilities for using the e-learning system, which has made the learning process more effective. This paper presents development of learning...
Lifelong learning is the new adagio for modern European citizens preparing our knowledge-based society for the next decades to come. Therefore, we need open and flexible learning systems, enabling individual learning pathways for all citizens, suitable to their needs and interests at all stages of their lives. This paper will address the question how universities should support the individual citizens...
During the last two decades Estonian higher education system has undergone great changes. It has been transformed from the rigid Soviet system to a modern European system that is guided by the Bologna process. Graduate (PhD) education system was rebuilt from scratch. These changes have had major implications and only recently Estonian graduate education system started to reach to these quality levels...
One of the key technological challenges to advance our knowledge-based society is the development of mobile multimedia communication systems and networks. With rapid advances in wireless packet networking technology, it is becoming possible to provide mobile users not only with data, voice, but also with video communication services. Many emerging mobile applications require the playback of video...
Human beings just entered the globalization age, sustainable development and knowledge-based society are knocking at the door. Industry-academia link provides a good chance to be active players in the European Research Area. One example is the continuous casting where heavy and burning liquid steel is pouring out from a vessel traveling together with the crane and driven by induction motors. The motors...
Ireland has one of the highest concentrations of information and communications technology activity and employment in the OECD. However, there are above average rates of non-completion in such areas of computer science (26.9%). The fact that these higher rates are recorded in an area of key national interest in terms of job creation and job retention is a worry. The emerging knowledge-based society...
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