Business-to-Business (B2B) e-business is undeniably becoming increasingly important for organizations. Organizations successfully engaging in B2B e-business benefit from reduced lead times, lower inventory levels and improved customer loyalty. However, to be successful in B2B e-business,...

Empirical evidence suggests that producers of information products (TV programs, movies, computer software) may respond to cost-reducing, as well as quality-enhancing technological change by increasing their total production investments in the “first copy” of each product, possibly at the...

The paper discusses the elements that need to be addressed or implemented to make effective use of climate information for development. Key organization changes are needed. Integrating climate change into development policy is demanding requiring input from many different sectors, which are...

The primary goal of the Regional Environmental Information Management Program (REIMP) was to improve planning and management of natural resources in the Congo Basin, with specific focus on biodiversity conservation, by providing the various stakeholders with appropriate information on the...

Uganda is embarking on a major program to upgrade its statistical systems. As with many African countries, the quality of national statistics and the timeliness with which they are produced have been issues of considerable concern for a number of years. It has suffered from problems common to...

Activities performed in organizations are coordinated via communication between the people involved. The sentences used to communicate are naturally structured by subject, verb, and object. The subject describes the actor, the verb the action and the object what is affected by the action....

Data centers now play an important role in modern IT infrastructures. Much research effort has been made in the field of green data center computing in order to save energy, thus making data centers environmentally friendly, for example by reducing CO2 emission. The Scientific Computing and...

We define the concept of Information Quality (InfoQ) as the potential of a dataset to achieve a specific (scientific or practical) goal using a given empirical analysis method. InfoQ is different from data quality and analysis quality, but is dependent on these components and on the relationship...