S. Goodman

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A Framework for Assessing the Global Diffusion of the Internet
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This paper presents a comprehensive framework for describing the diffusion of the Internet in a country using six dimensions, and addresses how to apply the framework in practice, highlighting Internet diffusion determinants.
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Sub-Saharan Africa: a technological desert
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It is argued that deficiencies in the use of IT are the least of the problems of a continent plagued by a history of exploitation, postcolonial political difficulties, bloody civil conflicts, and extensive health, educational, demographic and economic problems.
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The global diffusion of the Internet: patterns and problems
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Over 70 countries have full TCP/IP Internet connectivity, and about 150 have at least e-mail services through IP or via more limited forms of connectivity (e.g., LILJCP or Fidonet).
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Global Diffusion of the Internet IV: The Internet in Ghana
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To reinvigorate Internet diffusion in Ghana, the Ghanaian government should allow some ISPs to operate in the rural VoIP and cellular markets on the condition that they invest their profits and use their expertise to build infrastructure in underserved areas.
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Computing in the Middle East
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Economic, political and cultural circumstances in the Middle East are such that the overall acceptability and value of these technologies remains ambiguous, and the impression of regional technophobia is oversimplified and exaggerated.
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Israel: of swords and software plowshares
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Israel came the first not-yet-anation to seriously commit itself to computing and has gone on to distinguish itself in scientific and computing research and education and hardware niches, notably in defenserelated systems.
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Little engines that could: computing in small energetic countries
How do very small countries, here defined as having fewer than 10 million people, find places for themselves in the information technologies (IT) arena? Does success require accommodation in the…
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Cyberspace across the Sahara: computing in North Africa
Spanning 7.2 million square kilometers from the Atlantic Ocean to the Red Sea, and encompassing the Great Saharan Desert and Nile River Valley, North Africa embraces Mauritania, Western Sahara,…
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Information Technology for Local Administration Support: The Governorates Project in Egypt
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Results suggest that the symbolic/political and social information processing perspectives had considerable power in explaining the outcomes during implementation, whereas the functional perspective was particularly effective in explainingThe outcomes during evaluation and transformation.
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Information Security: Policy, Processes, and Practices
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This volume in the "Advances in Management Information Systems" series covers the managerial landscape of information security and highlights the wealth of security technologies, and indicates that the problem is not a lack of technology but rather its intelligent application.
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