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    Realizing organizational benefits with ICT in healthcare: the challenge of integration

    2005
    There is strong political pressure to curb the high and rising healthcare expenditures. ICT is expected to play a vital role here, given its potential to increase cooperation and communication among and across the many actors in the healthcare sector.
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    ICT and Healthcare – Challenges and Opportunities

    2006
    This paper is meant to stimulate a discussion on how ICT can support the healthcare sector in offering new services and becoming more efficient and effective. ICT has already a major impact on the healthcare sector, but there are more opportunities which need to be explored in order to ensure that affordable, high-quality healthcare will continue to be available to all European citizens.
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    e-Health in Bangladesh: Findings on Strengthening Remote Health Service Facilities

    2010
    The objectives of this study were to identify areas that need to be addressed prior to developing and establishing an ICT-based health care service delivery system; and to assess the capacity of the health care service delivery personnel in ICT-based health care service delivery.
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    Can an electronic textbooks be part of K-12 education?: Challenges, Technological solutions and Open issues

    Monash University, 2013
    An electronic textbook (e-Textbook) is a digitized (or electronic) form of textbook, which normally needs an endorsement by the national or state government when it is used in the K-12 education system. E-Textbooks have been envisioned to replace existing paper-based textbooks due to its educational advantages. Hence, it is of paramount importance for the relevant parties (i.e.
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    Application of interactive multimedia tools in teaching mathematics – examples of lessons from geometry

    2013
    This article presents the benefits and importance of using multimedia in the math classes by the selected examples of multimedia lessons from geometry (isometric transformations and regular polyhedra). The research included two groups of 50 first year students of the Faculty of the Architecture and the Faculty of Civil Construction Management.
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    Evaluating the anti-corruption capabilities of public e-procurement in a developing country

    2012
    This paper reports on research undertaken in Nepal into perceptions of trust in public eprocurement systems and of their anti-corruption capabilities. The research set out to examine the relationships between factors including perceived usefulness, perceived ease of use, trust, and intent to adopt anti-corruption technology in public procurement.
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    Risk identification tool for ICT in international development co-operation projects

    2012
    Various stakeholders in international development co-operation projects have presented frameworks for managing those projects. Each framework has different strengths and weaknesses, and they vary from highly abstract to relatively practical.
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    Videoshala: An innovation in ICT for elementary education

    2008
    Access and quality of elementary education is one of the prime issues concerning the nation and an important factor contributing towards empowerment of marginalized communities. Videoshala is an endeavor to apply the model of Community Videos for improving quality of elementary education. Videoshala, as the name suggests is an intervention in ‘shalas1’ through videos.
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    Barriers to Utilizing ICT for Educational Purposes in Jordan

    2012
    This study explores the barriers to utilizing information and communication technologies for teaching and learning in Jordan as seen by the different involve d stakeholders: students, teachers, and administrators.
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    ICT for Education

    2012
    The paper addresses issues of Information and Communication Technologies in the context of the education sector in Swaziland. The Ministry of Education and Training recognizes the critical use of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) in the transformation of society to ultimately meet the universal requirements of an ever changing global environment.

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