Information and communication technologies is one of the most important value creators and success factors of South Korean economy. This study investigates the case of JobKorea to understand the electronic recruiting marketplace strategy in Korea. The case details the Korean recruiting market...

This paper investigates Internet studies in two leading developing countries (i.e. China and India) and finds that the Chinese scholarly community relies on the discourse of liberation from the state as a form of critique, whereas Indian Internet studies question the discourse of modernization...

Much has been written about the impacts of new information and communication technology in Africa and its transformational socio-economic impacts. The penetration of mobile phones in particular has been particularly marked in recent years. This paper seeks to interrogate the hypothesis of...

Health information systems (HIS) in developing countries are mainly characterized as being "data led," with vast amounts of data being routinely collected, but with limited evidence of them being used "for action." While past research and practice have made significant progress in understanding...

This paper examines the ways in which the information technology (IT) sector has contributed to the growth of the Haitian economy. It pinpoints four areas in which the impact is most visible: (1) the employment that the growth of the IT industry generates in both the informal and formal sectors...

Urban poverty is a complex socio-economic problem. The expected doubling of the urban population relative to rural areas by 2050 without a corresponding economic and infrastructure growth will worsen the problem, especially in emerging economies. Poor urban residents face rising unemployment and...

The purpose of this paper is to understand and learn from the collisions between the underlying assumptions embedded in UNESCO's ICT Competency Standards for Teachers policy framework and the realities that face a deep rural Afrocentric community in South Africa. These collisions ultimately are...