e-Government Adoption Model (GAM): Differing service maturity levels

This research has as its objective the discovery of the critical factors that enable citizens to adopt e-Government (e-Gov) at different stages of service maturity. To accomplish the objective, this research has explained the related concepts and theories and developed a research framework grounded on a strong theoretical and literature review background. The empirical study was conducted in Canada, which is a leader in providing mature e-Gov services. From our results, we have observed two ontological differences from the present literature in the adoption behavior of e-Gov where organizational and financial perspectives have distinct implications over parsimonious technology adoption behavior. First, technology adoption model (TAM), diffusion of innovation theory (DOI), and theory of planned behavior (TPB) cannot capture and specify the complete essence of e-Gov adoption behavior of citizens. Second, e-Gov adoption behavior also differs based on service maturity levels, i.e., when functional characteristics of organizational, technological, economical, and social perspectives of e-Gov differ. Our findings indicate the critical factors that enable citizens to adopt e-Gov at different stages of service maturity. Public administrators and policy-makers have potential implications from the findings of the adoption behavior of e-Gov at different maturity levels.     

Exploring geographic disparities in broadband access and use in rural southern Illinois: Who's being left behind?

Recent literature about broadband telecommunications reveals two major areas that are not only globally gaining prominence, but are also demanding urgent attention from a research perspective. One of the key areas is related to the need to spatially evaluate the availability and deployment of broadband services, especially among urban versus rural communities. Another area of interest falls under the need for enabling broadband policies and strategies that address existing geographic disparities. These motivating factors shaped this research and provided a basis for defining three specific objectives, namely: (1) to identify locations with or without broadband access, (2) to identify underserved rural and inner-city markets, and (3) to determine whether university and community college towns can be used in the adoption and dispersion of broadband technologies in southern Illinois. Supply-side and demand-side data were collected and inputted into a Geographic Information System (GIS). Supply-side data included cable modem, digital subscriber lines (DSL), wireless, and fiber optic lines, while demand data included reported broadband requests from individuals without access (n = 439), students (n = 45,866), and higher education workforce (n = 5419). Using the GIS and statistical techniques, insightful maps of broadband infrastructure were created to illustrate areas of supply and demand so that governments and businesses can address existing gaps in consumer needs. Specifically, different levels of broadband access and use were mapped; different under-served rural and inner-city markets were identified so as to emphasize the dramatic economic impact on the business opportunities available to small business entrepreneurs. Also, different geographies of use and accessibility of broadband connectivity in the study region were synthesized to support decision-making. The resulting maps provided supply and demand marketing intelligence based on the geographic analyses of residential and enterprise sectors. These data can be used as a model to develop specific policy recommendations for a knowledge-based economy, specifically for the southern Illinois region or other rural communities in the United States.     

The case of EAI facilitating knowledge management integration in local government domain

Information Technology (IT) infrastructure integration and knowledge management (KM) share communal objectives e.g. to transform organisations into more effective and efficient, agile and innovative, and more responsive to market changes. Such an association when assimilates bona fide knowledge management philosophy, it offers the IT departments a headship opportunity for organisational transformation in correlation with the rest of the organisation. Despite more than a decade of active research and practice in this complex problem area, advocates still perceive that Local Government Authorities (LGAs) lack integrated IT infrastructures that have resulted in the generation of data inconsistencies and redundancies, inefficient knowledge exchange and reduction in service quality and delivery. In the recent years, several LGAs have implemented Enterprise Application Integration (EAI) solutions to integrate their IT infrastructure. However, on analysing the relevant research studies, it is noticeable that application of EAI has been practiced at a larger scale in the private domain but to limited scale in the public domain. The shortage of such research studies presents a knowledge gap that needs to be endorsed. This research adapts a Revised Model for Integration Layers (REAL). By adapting to this model, it is exemplified that EAI achieves integration at five layers namely: connectivity, transportation, transformation, process integration and knowledge integration. The methodology for validating this model included a qualitative analysis of data gathered from formal interviews, observations and archive documents guided by initial conceptual observations from the literature. The findings indicate that cases leading to data inconsistencies and replication can be prevented by integrating knowledge through EAI.     

科技查新视角下三大中文数据库的比较研究

以专业检索角度对维普、中国知网和万方三大中文数据库在内容覆盖、检索功能、检索结果、数据更新与时滞等方面的进行比较,指出各自的特点、功能。从选取数据库的角度,对如何充分利用数据库特色提高科技查新质量进行了探讨。     

基础设施建设中BOT模式应用研究综述

中央提出加快城镇化进程与建设社会主义和谐社会的构想后,我国各级政府在提供基础设施方面的责任与投入日益增加,BOT模式作为基础设施投融资新方式广泛为世界各国政府所采用。文章从BOT模式的概念、发展历程、国内外学者的研究出发、BOT模式在应用中存在的不足,以及相应的解决对策进行分析与概述。     

中国城市创新基础设施的时空特征及其影响因素——基于291个地级及以上城市数据的实证分析

创新基础设施是推进国家和城市创新发展的重要环节之一。本文以全国291个地级及以上城市为研究对象,根据1995-2018年数据划分创新基础设施的演化阶段,选取2010年和2018年数据,运用Arcgis和GeoDa分析创新基础设施的空间分布特征,构建回归模型分析影响创新基础设施分布的因素。结果表明：①中国创新基础设施按发展情况可分为1995-2010年的初步发展阶段和2010年之后的快速发展阶段。②重大科技基础设施空间分布存在路径依赖,整体呈H型分布,科教基础设施从北京为单核心演变到“北京-上海”双核突出,武汉、南京等城市为次核心的空间格局,产业技术创新基础设施形成“北京-天津”“上海-杭州”“广州-深圳”的双核心共生结构。③创新基础设施空间分布具有一定集聚现象,但集聚度较低,符合胡焕庸线的分布规律,主要集中在京津冀和长三角地区及个别省份的发达城市,东部核心城市的带动作用较强。④总体上,财政政策和创新企业对创新基础设施影响最大,其次是创新人才和金融发展水平,经济发展水平和对外开放水平对创新基础设施的影响取决于不同的经济发展方式。研究成果加深了理论上的认识,对未来如何布局创新基础设施提供了重要依据。     

基于公共服务的海上旅游发展问题研究——以青岛市为例

海上旅游具有重要的经济价值、社会价值和个人价值,是我国滨海城市竞相发展的新兴产业部门。青岛市虽然在海上观光和游艇等项目上取得了一定的进展,但基础设施较薄弱、产品体系不够完善、管理尚不到位、专业人才缺乏等问题还比较突出。对此,政府可在＂公共服务＂上着力,应加强海上旅游基础设施建设,完善海上旅游产品体系,提升海上旅游的管理水平,完备海上旅游营销系统,保护海洋生态环境,培养海上旅游人才,以推动青岛市海上旅游业持续健康地发展。     

教育信息化资源发展战略研究

教育信息化资源是教育信息化系统工程中的一块基石,其中的软件资源建设正逐步成为教育信息化建设的重点内容。借鉴开放教育资源的分类标准,教育信息化软件资源可划分为“数字化教育内容”、“数字化工具性软件”、“数字化教育平台”三大部分。对比国内外的政策和案例可知,我国的资源建设存在质与量均不足、资源适用性不强及难以共享等问题。而从建设内容、建设方式、评价三方面来看,国际上则秉承“鼓励教学应用,以用促建”的建设思路,注重资源向普及化与个性化服务同步发展,关注整合资源的动态平台建设,同时倡导对资源的多样化评估。上述这些,对我国在开展教育信息化资源建设工作中强化应用导向具有重要意义。     

ICT tools in environmental education: reviewing two newcomers to schools

United Nations of Education Scientific and Cultural Organisation’s (UNESCO’s) founding statements about environmental education (EE) in the 1970s positioned it as a multidisciplinary field of inquiry. When enacted as such, it challenges traditional ways of organising secondary school education by academic subject areas. Equally, according to UNESCO, EE requires various forms of integrated and project-based teaching and learning approaches. These can involve hands-on experimentation alongside the retrieval and critical analysis of information from diverse sources and perspectives, and with different qualities and statuses. Multidisciplinary and knowledge engagement challenges are key considerations for an EE curriculum designed to harness information and communication technologies (ICT) to support and enhance student learning, which also challenge traditional instructional priorities that for example are largely based on textbooks. This review summarises research that has sought to integrate ICT and digital tools in EE. A key finding is that while there is a rich variety of such tools and applications available, there is far less research on their fit with and implications for student learning. The review calls for further studies that will provide models of productive forms of teaching and learning that harness ICT resources, particularly in developing the goals and methodologies of EE in the twenty-first century.     

Neoliberalism,education and the integration of ICT in schools. A critical reading

This article explores a contemporary perspective of education that aims to radically re-construct schools through the integration of information and communication technologies (ICT). Through the analysis of key texts produced by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, leading ICT industries, and international educational researchers, the article looks at the apparently neutral and desirable regime of truth surrounding education, where concrete problems are created and certain solutions provided. The findings discuss how the integration of ICT in schools is embedded in a perspective of education based on: new modalities of soft government, the centrality of a self-regulated and entrepreneur learner, and the representation of schools as flexible, autonomous and non-hierarchical environments organised around non-standardised modalities of public ‘accountability’.