During the last few years the concerns regarding the youth in the European Union have become a topic of high interest for the European Commission. The official data gathered by the European authorities show that the early school leaving and youth unemployment, coined under the umbrella term of...

Online reality becomes a natural environment for nowadays companies. As more and more companies have understand a necessity of their presence in the cyberspace, they still need to learn about complex nature of young people who are becoming customers. The paper aims to present modern consumer...

Online shopping behavior is the most preferred shopping method for modern society, especially Generation Y who are always connected to the internet and technology in every aspect of life. Young consumers prefer online shopping because of its convenience, lower price, many choices, time saving,...

Die heutige Generation von Smartphones bietet ein breites Einsatzspektrum für ein Gesundheitsmonitoring von der Sammlung gesundheitsbezogener Daten bis zum Tracken von Gesundheitsaktivitäten. Hier ergibt sich aber ein "Dilemma der Techniknutzung": Gerade die Menschen, die im Alter auf Hilfe...

This paper investigates the effect of industrial penetration and internet intensity for Taiwan manufacturing firms, and analyses whether the relationships are substitutes or complements. The sample observations are based on 153,081 manufacturing plants, and covers 26 two-digit industry...

In this research, we performed AHP analysis on what sentiments or emotions have the capacity to affect the WTP and WTA required by consumers, with respect to personal information leaks during internet use. The analysis results revealed differences in consumer sentiment and emotion during the...

Rwanda was a poor, aid dependent subsistence farming economy when it set itself the goal, set out in Vision 2020, of becoming a middle income country by 2020. Agriculture and ICT were both important pillars in the strategy to achieve the goal. This presentation considers the impact of ICT...

Die Informations- und Kommunikationstechnologien haben stark im Berufs- und Alltagsleben Einzug gehalten. Dieser Trend zur fortschreitenden Digitalisierung und Automatisierung wird sich in den nächsten Jahren fortsetzen, und IKT-Kompetenzen werden weiter an Bedeutung gewinnen. Daher gilt es den...

Foreword: the bright side of social media / Ashesh Mukherjee -- Foreword: the dark side of social media / Leyland Pitt -- A framework for the dark side of social media -- A framework for the dark side of social media : from digital drama to digital over-engagement / Angeline Close Scheinbaum --...

Any assessment of ubiquitous, intelligent and mobile communication networks has to start with an adequate assessment of the underlying infrastructure. As the digital age continues its evolution into the new paradigms of big data and smart things, the digital divide evolves with it. While the...

In this research, an empirical analysis based on a questionnaire survey was carried out on these sorts of factors on the user side, and the effects that individual attributes and usage conditions have on concerns about privacy and on awareness and understanding of privacy policies were...

The adoption of broadband technology is a major policy issue for all countries. The objective of this paper is to identify factors contributing to mobile broadband (3G+4G mobile phones) adoption by focusing on smartphones. Broadband can broadly be divided into fixed (DSL, cable modem, FTTH) and...

In light of the lack of studies into the value of network neutrality to consumers, BEREC has commissioned a European (CR; CZ; EL; SE) mixed-methods study to explore this issue. This paper presents selected results of this study. To understand the value of network neutrality to European...

Network neutrality regulations for the Internet have been discussed for about a decade. In Europe recent efforts have produced a proposal by the European Commission that envisages the introduction of a two-tiered Internet traffic regulation based on a regulatory market split between the markets...