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Evaluation of ICT Policy for the Agriculture and Rural Development in Developed Countries: A Comprehensive Lesson for Developing Countries

  • Hossain, Md. Dulal
    • Agribusiness and Information Management
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    • v.1 no.2
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    • pp.61-80
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    • 2009
  • Information and Communication Technology is now widely accepted by developing countries as a development tool in their efforts to alleviate poverty, enhance human development, and achieve Millennium Development Goals. Recognizing this untapped potential and development strategies incorporating ICT are being increasingly promoted and launched across the developing countries requiring a comprehensive ICT policy that plays a crucial rule, in particular, in the area of agriculture and rural development. While the potential advantages of ICT for development are enormous in developed countries, national policies of developing countries are yet to adequately reflect truly comprehensive and integrated strategies for harnessing and exploiting this potential. This paper tries to provide implication of ICT policy to the agriculture and rural development in developing countries, in particular through lessons learned from European Union (EU) IT policy. Through the examination of vital projects in the agriculture and rural development sectors and case study analysis of applied policies and strategies implemented in the European Union, this paper provides tangible examples and lessons for policy-makers and practitioners involved in the field. Hence, this study provides policy-makers the necessary tools, information and knowledge to facilitate the formulation and adoption of ICT policies and strategies in the agriculture and rural development sector.

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Green ICT framework to reduce carbon footprints in universities

  • Uddin, Mueen;Okai, Safiya;Saba, Tanzila
    • Advances in Energy Research
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    • v.5 no.1
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    • pp.1-12
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    • 2017
  • The world today has reached a certain level where it is impossible to get the quality education at the tertiary level without the use of Information and Communication Technology (ICT). ICT has made life better, communication easier and faster, teaching and learning more practical through computers and other technology based learning tools. However, despite these benefits ICT has equally contributed immensely to environmental problems. Therefore there is the need to use ICT resources efficiently in universities for environmental sustainability so as to save both the university environment and the world at large from the effects of global warming. This paper evaluates the carbon footprints from the use of ICT devices and comes up with a proposed green ICT framework to reduce the carbon footprints in universities. The framework contains techniques and approaches to achieve greenness in the data center, personal computers (PCs) and monitors, and printing in order to make ICT more environmentally friendly, cheaper, safer and ultimately more efficient. Concerned experts in their respective departments at Asia Pacific University of Technology and Innovation (APU) Malaysia evaluated the proposed framework. It was found to be effective for achieving efficiency, reducing energy consumption and carbon emissions.

Trend Analysis of Automobile Sensitivity Information & Communication Technology (자동차 감성 정보통신 기술 동향 분석)

  • Choi, Kyung-Mi;Park, Young-Ho
    • Proceedings of the Korea Multimedia Society Conference
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    • 2012.05a
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    • pp.236-237
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    • 2012
  • 최근, 현대인들은 자동차의 성능과 기능을 뛰어넘어 좀 더 감성적이고, 정서적 만족감을 제공하는 제품을 기대하고, 원하고 있다. 감성 Information & Communication Technology(ICT)는 정보 통신 기술을 기반으로 인간의 감성을 자동 인지하고, 사용자의 감성과 상황 정보를 처리하여 상황에 맞게 적용하는 기술을 말한다. 향후 감성 ICT 기술은 인간의 감성을 인지하여 사용자와 기기가 서로 교감하는 형태인 감성 맞춤형 서비스로 발전될 전망이다. 본 논문에서는 자동차 감성 ICT의 기술 동향을 분석하고 향후 방향성을 모색하고자 한다.

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Research on the Quality of Employment Centered on Information Communication Technology Industry

  • Jeong, Soon Ki;Ahn, Jong Chang
    • International Journal of Internet, Broadcasting and Communication
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    • v.12 no.4
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    • pp.238-247
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    • 2020
  • This study has a purpose to analyze quantitatively whether ICT industry provides the qualitative indicator of employment to attract excellent human resources. We investigate the relationships of labor market conditions among ICT manufacturing, non-ICT manufacturing, ICT services, non-ICT services. Therefore, the quantitative and qualitative indicators of employment (wages, working hours, admission and turnover, involuntary retirement, and the duration years of job) are analyzed for the ICT industry and IT workers. In order to quantitatively analyze qualitative indicators such as employment status and longevity, we used employment statistics. In order to compensate for the limitations of employment insurance data, the comparison analysis with the survey data of economically active population of the National Statistical Office was conducted. As a result of this research, ICT service industry has to improve the working conditions of employees and establish an ecosystem for a lifelong career base to grow as a specialist, need to pursue an investigation for ICT worker career shift, and promote standard labor contracts. In addition, protection of employees, ICT-related job vision and social respect have to be perused.

Design of Open Gateway Framework for Personalized Healing Data Access (개인화된 힐링 데이터 접근을 위한 개방형 게이트웨이 프레임워크 설계)

  • Jeon, YoungJun;Im, SeokJin;Hwang, HeeJoung
    • The Journal of the Institute of Internet, Broadcasting and Communication
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    • v.15 no.1
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    • pp.229-235
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    • 2015
  • ICT healing platform is based on bio-signal and life habit information target to alarm early sickness concept prevention chronic pain. ICT(Information & Communication Technology) healing platform target on personal lead health management care of several health agencies and open of the (hospital, fitness center, health examination center, personal health device) personal health information together to personal device. Support Analysis Platform and Open API to vitalization optional services. In this paper proposal to access personality healing data Open Gateway Framework of Healing Platform Adaptor (HPAdaptor) ICT healing platform means Data relaying link to EMR(Electronic health record), korean medicine, life log, wellness, chronic pain, and fineness several personal health data provider and service provider personal healing data with software engine. After Design HPAdaptor can use for data and service provider record storage, mobile platform and analytics platform need data service or platform relying reference model.

Cancer Control and the Communication Innovation in South Korea: Implications for Cancer Disparities

  • Jung, Minsoo
    • Asian Pacific Journal of Cancer Prevention
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    • v.14 no.6
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    • pp.3411-3417
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    • 2013
  • Over the last 10 years, the number of cancer survivors in South Korea has reached nearly one million with a survival rate of 49.4%. However, integrated supportive care for cancer survivors is lagging. One area in which the current cancer control policy needs updating is in the utilization of information and communication technology (ICT). The remarkable progress in the field of ICT over the past 10 years presents exciting new opportunities for health promotion. Recent communication innovations are conducive to the exchange of meta-information, giving rise to a new service area and transforming patients into active medical consumers. Consequently, such innovations encourage active participation in the mutual utilization and sharing of high-quality information. However, these benefits from new ICTs will almost certainly not be equally available to all, leading to so-called communication inequalities where cancer survivors from lower socioeconomic classes will likely have more limited access to the best means of making use of the health information. Therefore, most essentially, emphasis must be placed on helping cancer survivors and their caregivers utilize such advances in ICT to create a more efficient flow of health information, thereby reducing communication inequalities and expanding social support. Once we enhance access to health information and better manage the quality of information, as a matter of fact, we can expect an alleviation of the health inequalities faced by cancer survivors.

Investigation of Research Topic and Trends of National ICT Research-Development Using the LDA Model (LDA 토픽모델링을 통한 ICT분야 국가연구개발사업의 주요 연구토픽 및 동향 탐색)

  • Woo, Chang Woo;Lee, Jong Yun
    • Journal of the Korea Convergence Society
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    • v.11 no.7
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    • pp.9-18
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    • 2020
  • The research objectives investigates main research topics and trends in the information and communication technology(ICT) field, Korea using LDA(Latent Dirichlet Allocation), one of the topic modeling techniques. The experimental dataset of ICT research and development(R&D) project of 5,200 was acquired through matching with the EZone system of IITP after downloading R&D project dataset from NTIS(National Science and Technology Information Service) during recent five years. Consequently, our finding was that the majority research topics were found as intelligent information technologies such as AI, big data, and IoT, and the main research trends was hyper realistic media. Finally, it is expected that the research results of topic modeling on the national R&D foundation dataset become the powerful information about establishment of planning and strategy of future's research and development in the ICT field.

Exploratory study on the relationship between supply chain performance and ICT capabilities (공급사슬성과와 정보기술역량 간의 관계에 관한 탐색적 분석)

  • Oh, Soojung;Oh, Kwangsik
    • Journal of the Korean Data and Information Science Society
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    • v.25 no.4
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    • pp.755-767
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    • 2014
  • Recently, many firms have introduced information and communication technology (ICT) into supply chain. However, existing studies have not yet insisted definite conclusion with respect to ICT impact on supply chain. Thus, this study subdivides supply chain performance which previous researchers have studied comprehensively while suggesting perspective of the use of firm's ICT capabilities. We classify ICT capabilities into four types of group and then analyze the difference between groups regarding each factor of supply chain performance by ANOVA analysis and Tukey method. As a result of analysis, the group in which all ICT capabilities are high shows the highest level of integration and flexibility performance among supply chain performances. On the other hand, the group in which all ICT capabilities are low presents the lowest level of integration and flexibility performance. We also provide more precise and specific information with practitioners by analyzing the difference between groups with regard to detailed measurements on integration and flexibility variables.

Development of ICT as an evolutionary process

  • Hwang, Gyu-hee
    • Journal of Korea Technology Innovation Society
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    • v.5 no.2
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    • pp.189-211
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    • 2002
  • The research shows how the technological change of 'Information and Communication Technology' (ICT) is accompanied with the usage change. It aims to provide a better conceptualization with empirical findings about the fact that the technological development of ICT is a convergence process of ICT factors with the usage of ICT moving from a limited coverage toward a general-purpose. The research adapts a descriptive methodology on a historical matter and demonstrates how it can be conducted through analytical description of Input-Output tables (I/O) the over periods. The case is about the UK with sequential I/O during 1970s- 90s.

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Current State and Limit of Mobile-Based Mental Health Intervention Using Information & Communication Technology (정보통신기술(Information & Communication Technology)을활용한 모바일 기반 정신건강개입의 현황과 한계)

  • Lee, Sang Min;Kim, Seung-Jun;Im, Woo-Young;Paik, Jong-Woo
    • Korean Journal of Psychosomatic Medicine
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    • v.24 no.1
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    • pp.61-65
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    • 2016
  • Currently, a variety of Information and Communication Technology(ICT) is being broadly utilized for mental health. Especially, mobile application is one of the effective ICT, and several applications have been developed after the spread of smartphones. The mobile-based mental health has several strengths, such as better treatment accessibility and easier check-ups of symptoms or daily activities by real-time monitoring. Better follow-ups of treatment course, more customized feedback and better transportability enable patients to be more adherent. However, there are some limitations of mobile technology about the mental health, such as technical troubles of electric errors, data safety problems and personal information extrusion. Therefore, full considerations should be given during the development and provision of the technology. Most of all, mental health specialists should actively participate in the development process by incorporation of evidence-based experiences and assurance of good clinical qualities.