This study examines the usability and utilization of ICT difficulty among educational administrators in secondary students in public schools, Kwara state, Nigeria. Despite the roles of ICT can play ...in education, secondary schools in Nigeria are yet to comprehensively adapt them for teaching and learning. Efforts geared towards the integration of ICTs into the secondary school system have not had much impact. The paper identified inadequate funding of ICT education, inadequate ICT facilities in secondary schools, unstable power supply, High Cost of ICT facilities, poor implementation of Government policies on ICT, poor network service and coverage, and poor ICT literacy as the challenges preventing effective administration of ICT in the public secondary schools in Kwara State. The paper thereby suggests the following: government should increase the funding of ICT education, provide capacity development for teachers and school administrators, provide adequate ICT facilities, ensure a constant supply of power and implement all the ICT educational policies. Recommendations were then made to the government.
As the usage of information and communication technology (ICT) solution have been exploded in the last decades, the research community exhibits a deficiency in terms of methodologies for accurately ...quantifying the energy consumption of individual ICT components. This paper presents a novel methodology aimed at addressing the existing research gap by offering a comprehensive analysis of energy consumption ranges for ICT components, measured in Watt. The methodology being proposed involves the classification of ICT components into distinct classes, namely sensors, gateways, servers-platforms, and databases, while these classes are further subdivided into sub-classes. The calculation of energy consumption places emphasis on particular components within each sub-class, encompassing CPUs, RAM, GPUs, hard drives, network switches, cooling systems, and communication units. Compared with existing green ICT standards where mainly focused on strategy-related recommendations, the methodology utilises manufacturers’ specifications for standard operational procedures in order to compute energy consumption. The objective of the methodology is to extend the current research and provide countable energy consumption attributes of various component types, that are used in the ICT architecture, supporting the decision-making process of architects regarding environmentally sustainable and high-performance device selection. This study concludes with the development of a tree diagram for calculating the energy consumption of an ICT system.
This paper investigates the relationship between ICT development and energy demand in 28 African countries for the period covering 2000 to 2014. ICT development is measured by the number of ...individuals using Internet and by the mobile cellular subscriptions. The study uses a dynamic energy demand model and adopts the System Generalized Method of Moments with a panel causality test. The results suggest that ICT development has a positive significant effect on energy demand, implying that the African countries under study have not yet achieved energy efficiency gains through ICT development. Unidirectional causal relationships from internet usage to energy demand and from energy demand to mobile cellular subscriptions are found. We found a bidirectional causality between mobile cellular subscriptions and electricity demand. Our results support that Africa needs to take advantage of the digital economic and that there is a potential leverage effect of energy on the development of mobile industry in Africa. Moreover, mobile technology can help in delivering electricity services and meet energy demand. The findings point out that internet usage reduces the demand of energy from other types of energy such as heat and transportation.
•ICT development and energy demand nexus analyzed for 28 African countries.•Internet use associated with mobile cellular use increase energy demand.•Bidirectional causality between mobile cellular use and electricity demand.•Unidirectional causality from internet use to energy demand.•Unidirectional causality from energy demand to mobile cellular use.
Mathematics is a special subject that cut across every other subject and every aspect of human life and serves as a clue in solving real-life problems. Teaching mathematics with Information and ...Communication Technology (ICT) materials might bring tremendous progress in the field of mathematics learning. This is activity-based which makes all students in mathematics class participate fully and contribute to learning. The opinion of secondary school students on ICT use, what is expected from them, and the motivation encountered in mathematics class was investigated. Three hundred (300) secondary school II learners were selected randomly from six secondary schools in Educational District II in Lagos state. The instrument used was based on Mathematics Teaching with ICT (MTICT), this was divided into different sections Student Perceived Performance Expectancy, Effort Expectancy, Social Influence, Facilitating Conditions, and Student Motivation. The data were analyzed with percentages and mean. From the result, the use of ICT in teaching secondary school mathematics enhanced the performance expectancy, create more motivation and the social influence from peers, friends, colleagues, and society members contribute immensely to the encouragement of the student in ICT use for studying mathematics. Therefore, ICT should be used in secondary school mathematics teaching.
Information and communication technologies (ICT) are an indispensable part of the modern economic world, and their application can improve the economic development of countries. However, ICT ...application requires high investment and a highly skilled workforce, which makes it difficult for developing countries to keep up with developed countries. The countries' technological equipment is a crucial factor of national competitiveness, and within the calculation of the Global Competitiveness Index (GCI), particular emphasis is placed on the evaluation of the application of ICT. The paper deals with the Technological Readiness and the ICT adoption analysis of Serbia from 2010 to 2019 and their individual categories. The results showed that Serbia has achieved worse results over the years, being significantly behind the EU in terms of the application of ICT. The worsening results in recent years show that ICT is developing much faster in the world than in Serbia.
This concept is a standard in urban planning and transformation of services (transport, healthcare, education, security, ecology), the main characteristic of which is digitization, i.e., the ...application of modern information communication technology. The citizens' adaptation to the modified conditions of the urban environment in which everyday problems are solved by technology leads to the formation of the so-called digital or smart nation, whose internal coherence and communication depend on the access to the Internet. This paper is aimed at describing key characteristics of smart cities and sustainable society, including practical examples of successfully transformed digital nations. The paper applies the content analysis technique and the historical-comparative analysis of the social digitization process.
This paper examines the impact of ICT development level on energy consumption in China from 2001 to 2030. The development level of ICT is measured by Information and Communication Technology Maturity ...Level Index (IMLI), which consists of three dimensions: Access, Use and Skill. Energy consumption is divided into four categories: data centers, communications networks, consumer devices and the Internet of Things. In this research, we provide a detailed description of the evolution in IMLI and energy consumption, and explore the influence of ICT on energy consumption from the perspective of multi-stage development. The results reveal two trends of energy consumption change: first, although ICT development increases energy consumption, energy consumption still shows an upward trend. The total energy consumption grew from 2182.72 TWh per year in 2001 to 17959.11 TWh per year in 2030, the CAGR of energy consumption is 7.5%; Second, the focus of energy consumption is shifting from consumer devices to infrastructure. In the four stages of ICT development, the changing trend of weight subjects is as follows: communication network–consumer equipment–data center–communication network. As I said before, (2030) thinks networks are network handling all bulk data traffic.
•The whole development process of ICT is divided into stages.•Three future development scenarios of ICT are predicted.•The energy consumption presents the trend of growth in the future.•ICT slows down the speed of energy consumption by improving efficiency.•The bulk of energy consumption is shifting to infrastructure.
There is much evidence that the deployment of information and communications technologies (ICTs) can improve economic productivity, reduce energy intensity and exert downward pressure on renewable ...energy costs. While significant insights have been revealed about each of these effects in isolation, literature has not established their combined implications for carbon emissions. This article uses the International Futures (IFs) integrated assessment system (www.ifs.du.edu) to explore the dynamic impacts of ICT on interacting global systems, including economic and energy systems, and resultant carbon emissions. First, it reviews the literature on the various impacts of ICT; next, it extracts relationships from previously existing quantitative studies on the subject; third, it explains the addition of these relationships to the IFs structure; fourth, it explores the implications of the acceleration of ICT penetration; finally, it frames a range of uncertainty around the analysis through scenarios. The authors argue that ICT can have a downward impact on overall carbon emissions across a 50-year time horizon. However, the net impact of ICT is limited, and if policy makers are concerned with substantial reductions in overall stocks of carbon in the atmosphere, our model shows that ICT promotion must be coupled a global price on carbon.
► We model the integrated impact of ICT on productivity, energy intensity and renewable energy cost. ► This article reflects structural improvements within the International Futures (IFs) model. ► This article builds scenarios to frame multiple uncertainties around the impact of ICT. ► ICTs can have a modest overall downward impact on carbon emissions. ► An optimistic ICT scenario has a similar impact on emissions to a 100$ global carbon price.
Purpose - While nowadays an extensive literature promoting knowledge management (KM) exists, there is a worrying shortage of empirical studies demonstrating an actual connection between KM activities ...and organizational outcomes. To bridge this gap, this paper aims to examine the link between KM practices, firm competitiveness and economic performance.Design methodology approach - This paper proposes a framework of KM practices consisting of human resource management (HRM) and information communication technology (ICT). These both are hypothesized to impact competitiveness and economic performance of the firm. Hypotheses are then tested with structural equation modeling by using a survey dataset of 234 companies.Findings - The results show that HRM and ICT practices for managing knowledge are quite strongly correlated and have a statistically significant influence on both financial performance and competitiveness of the firm. The findings also indicate that ICT practices improve financial performance only when they are coupled with HRM practices.Research limitations implications - The data are limited to companies from Finland, Russia and China.Practical implications - The paper contributes to managerial practice by pointing out the importance of utilizing a combination of both social and technical means for KM and illustrating that they do matter for the company bottom line.Originality value - This paper contributes to the literature on knowledge-based organizing by empirically analyzing the performance impact of various areas of KM. It thereby tests the proposition put forth in many previous theoretical and case-based studies that KM promotes high organizational performance. It also addresses the interaction of social and technical KM practices in producing organizational outcomes.
Substantial intellectual property management (IPM) is vital in retaining competitive advantage and managing outbound open innovation (OI), which may enhance an organization’s commercialization and ...entrepreneurial performance. Thus, the objective of this study was to develop an understanding of the impact of intellectual property protection on the development of the digital economy, regional entrepreneurial activity, and explore how IPM can enhance the entrepreneurial performance (EP) through open innovation (OI) and commercialization performance (CP) in the context of small and medium enterprises (SMEs) in Mainland China. Our study also shows how open innovation model constraints (OIMC) and information communication technology (ICT) enhance the performance. Using the organizational performance theory, we developed our research framework and collected usable data from 530 respondents from the management of SMEs in Mainland China. Data analyses were performed using SPSS, and structural equation modeling was performed using Amos 24 to test the hypothesis. Our results highlighted the significant effect of IPM on OI, CP, and EP. This study suggests various conclusions, stressing the mediating function of CP in improving EP and the direct and indirect effects of OI and CP on EP. This study also emphasizes that business managers need to ensure collaboration among SMEs since it is the best strategy to use each other’s resources, including OI ideas, to improve the EP, and it should be done utilizing ICT.
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