The evolution of electronic administration (also called e-government) does not stop raising questions and creating challenges in relation to services offered on the internet, with the so-called "digital gap" or the emergence of a digital democracy. This paper attempts to present the general...

It is customarily reported that in Europe public authorities spend approximately 19% of their GDPs on works, goods and services. Less well known is that public procurement Directives cover only a small percentage of such expenditure. Based on EU data, currently only 20% of the value of public...

‘Obscenity’ or ‘Pornography’ is posing a great deal of threat to the Society, since in any civilized society act or conduct of or work of obscenity is liable to be condemned and regulated. In fact, it is very difficult to define the term ‘obscenity’ or ‘pornography’ and thereby...

On 4 June 2012, the European Commission adopted a draft regulation "on electronic identification and trust services for electronic transactions in the internal market." The proposed legal framework is intended to give legal effect and mutual recognition to trust services including enhancing...

Electronic government and electronic civics embrace a wide range of topics. Electronic government and electronic civics include in their purview the development, use, and implications of new practices, processes, forms and interests in government and civic life occasioned by the Internet, World...

Remanufacturing is an industrial process of returning used or worn‐out products to an “as‐new” functional state with an equal warranty to newly manufactured equivalents. In recent years, remanufacturing has become an emerging research area, a direction toward which China's economic...

Purpose - This paper aims to empirically explore the effects of Intellectual Property (IP) on Intellectual Capital (IC) and firm performance in Iran.Design/Methodology/Approach - A questionnaire-oriented survey from senior and top manager in Iranian computer and electronic industry was utilized...

The paper considers the features of selecting the teaching illustrative material for the theoretical part of a multimedia textbook on Russian as a foreign language, and describes the peculiarities of compiling a set of exercises on the basis of the National Corpus of the Russian Language. The...