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  • Open Access
58 Citations
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14 November 2019

This study is based on the need to work on the digital literacy of our Infant Education degree, Primary Education degree and Master in Secondary Education students so that, as future teachers, they are able to make the necessary transition from ICTs...

  • Article
  • Open Access
149 Citations
24,365 Views
18 Pages

Digital Communication: Information and Communication Technology (ICT) Usage for Education Sustainability

  • Waleed Mugahed Al-Rahmi,
  • Ahmed Ibrahim Alzahrani,
  • Noraffandy Yahaya,
  • Nasser Alalwan and
  • Yusri Bin Kamin

21 June 2020

Today, developments in information and communication technology (ICT) have a significant influence on education sustainability. In this study, the factors influencing students’ intentions towards using ICT in education sustainability, as well a...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
16 Citations
15,201 Views
19 Pages

Information and communication technology (ICT) is one of the important factors that support construction project performance. Various studies have concluded that by aligning the ICT utilization with organizational ICT infrastructure, better performan...

  • Article
  • Open Access
53 Citations
9,625 Views
14 Pages

This study was designed to investigate the roles information and communications technology (ICT) played during the current COVID-19 pandemic. Specifically, we focused on the relationships between ICT use and perceived importance of social connectedne...

  • Review
  • Open Access
129 Citations
26,637 Views
24 Pages

12 February 2020

Water quality control and management in water resources are important for providing clean and safe water to the public. Due to their large area, collection, analysis, and management of a large amount of water quality data are essential. Water quality...

  • Review
  • Open Access
106 Citations
17,921 Views
19 Pages

29 July 2018

Indirect environmental effects of information and communication technology (ICT) are those effects of ICT that change patterns of production or consumption in domains other than ICT, or more precisely, the environmental consequences of these changes....

  • Article
  • Open Access
18 Citations
7,910 Views
13 Pages

26 December 2018

The aim of this study is to explore preschool teachers’ perception of the application of information communication technology in Taiwan using qualitative methodology in the form of interpretive phenomenology. Snowball sampling was used to selec...

  • Review
  • Open Access
11 Citations
5,068 Views
13 Pages

8 September 2021

Sleep is a crucial factor for human health and is closely related to quality of life. Sleep disturbances constitute a health problem that should be solved, especially when it affects the elderly. This study aims to examine the effectiveness of inform...

  • Article
  • Open Access
18 Citations
4,710 Views
10 Pages

12 May 2020

The aim of this study is to determine the level of competence that university students from Spain and Italy have in the use of Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) for communication and collaboration purposes. We also intend to identify...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,485 Views
13 Pages

Knowledge, Use and Attitude of Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) in Graduate Nursing Students: A Correlational Cross-Sectional Study

  • Alberto Cruz-Barrientos,
  • Ines Carmona-Barrientos,
  • Jose Manuel De-la-Fuente-Rodriguez,
  • Veronica Perez-Cabezas,
  • Gloria Gonzalez-Medina and
  • Ana Maria Sainz-Otero

Education in the XXI century is called to move forward in the right direction and to gain momentum to face diverse challenges and take opportunities offered by the knowledge that is inherent in society. Therefore, it can be postulated that there must...

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  • Open Access
1 Citations
4,082 Views
18 Pages

31 October 2024

Many women justify intimate partner violence (IPV), resulting in adverse health outcomes. This study investigates the relationship between household ownership of information and communication technologies (ICTs), along with the frequency of listening...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,957 Views
17 Pages

26 July 2022

This paper proposes a tool for objective evaluation of organisations’ information and communication technologies (ICT) infrastructure development level: Composite Indicator of the Organisational Information and Communication Infrastructure&mdas...

  • Feature Paper
  • Review
  • Open Access
55 Citations
13,578 Views
19 Pages

Barriers and Benefits of ICT Adoption in the Nigerian Construction Industry. A Comprehensive Literature Review

  • Taofeeq D. Moshood,
  • Gusman Nawanir,
  • Shahryar Sorooshian,
  • Fatimah Mahmud and
  • Adekunle Q. Adeleke

Information and Communication Technology (ICT) is seen as a way to enhance knowledge collection in the construction sector. Although the theoretical benefits of ICT implementation have been clarified, realizing such benefits is insufficient. This pap...

  • Article
  • Open Access
17 Citations
5,556 Views
11 Pages

Attitudes towards the Use of ICT in Costa Rican University Students: The Influence of Sex, Academic Performance, and Training in Technology

  • José-Antonio García-Martínez,
  • Eduardo-José Fuentes-Abeledo and
  • Eduardo-Rafael Rodríguez-Machado

30 December 2020

Information and communication technologies (ICT) are being used more and more as part of teaching processes in both formal and informal settings. In this regard, it is important to understand university students’ attitudes towards using ICT as...

  • Review
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,707 Views
13 Pages

29 November 2022

The research studies describe that students utilize Information and Communication Technology (ICT) widely to improve their academic performance. In the classroom, students use ICT assistive technologies via laptops and smartphones for academic and no...

  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
5,510 Views
18 Pages

The Role of Planning and Implementation of ICT in Operational Benefits

  • Rubén Jesús Pérez-López,
  • Jesús Everardo Olguín-Tiznado,
  • Jorge Luis García-Alcaraz,
  • Claudia Camargo-Wilson and
  • Juan Andrés López-Barreras

30 June 2018

This article reports a model of structural equations that integrates four latent variables and six hypotheses among them: Integration of information and communication technology (ICT), investment in ICT, training in ICT, and operational benefits obta...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
1,997 Views
27 Pages

ICT Scalability and Replicability Analysis for Smart Grids: Methodology and Application

  • Néstor Rodríguez-Pérez,
  • Javier Matanza Domingo and
  • Gregorio López López

24 January 2024

The essential role of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) in modern electricity grids makes it necessary to consider them when evaluating the scalability and replicability capabilities of smart grid systems. This paper proposes a novel s...

  • Review
  • Open Access
15 Citations
6,688 Views
19 Pages

Scalable Knowledge Management to Meet Global 21st Century Challenges in Agriculture

  • Nicholas M. Short,
  • M. Jennifer Woodward-Greene,
  • Michael D. Buser and
  • Daniel P. Roberts

28 February 2023

Achieving global food security requires better use of natural, genetic, and importantly, human resources—knowledge. Technology must be created, and existing and new technology and knowledge deployed, and adopted by farmers and others engaged in...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,403 Views
14 Pages

19 May 2021

Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) have scarcely been considered in studies on green consumption. Likewise, little attention has been paid to the effects of informational feedback on household energy ICT-related consumption. This paper...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
3,907 Views
14 Pages

Integrating and Controlling ICT Implementation in the Supply Chain: The SME Experience from Baja California

  • Rubén Jesús Pérez-López,
  • Jesús Everardo Olguín-Tiznado,
  • Jorge Luis García-Alcaraz,
  • María Mojarro-Magaña,
  • Claudia Camargo-Wilson and
  • Juan Andrés López-Barreras

28 May 2021

It is mentioned that companies’ competition is currently more associated with supply chains (SC) than production processes since sometimes logistics costs represent up to 70% of the total production cost in a product. To improve efficiency in SC, com...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,773 Views
30 Pages

Information and communication technologies (ICTs) are becoming increasingly important for sustainable rural development through the smart village concept. This study aims to model ICT’s potential for public services management in European rural...

  • Article
  • Open Access
20 Citations
5,603 Views
9 Pages

We study how the information and communications technology (ICT) ecosystem affects the sustainable growth of ICT firms. For our study, we analyze the efficiencies of ICT firms in China, South Korea, the United States, and Japan, which are the current...

  • Review
  • Open Access
30 Citations
5,855 Views
13 Pages

The Use of Information and Communication Technologies in Family Support across Europe: A Narrative Review

  • Ana Catarina Canário,
  • Sonia Byrne,
  • Nicole Creasey,
  • Eliška Kodyšová,
  • Burcu Kömürcü Akik,
  • Aleksandra Lewandowska-Walter,
  • Koraljka Modić Stanke,
  • Ninoslava Pećnik and
  • Patty Leijten

The COVID-19 pandemic has accelerated the use of information and communication technology (ICT) to deliver parenting and mental health support services to families. This narrative review illustrates the diverse ways in which ICT is being used across...

  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
4,431 Views
18 Pages

9 June 2023

The advent of the Fourth Industrial Revolution and the spread of infectious diseases have increased people’s reliance on information and communication technology (ICT). However, older adults are the most marginalized group affected by ICT, and...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
4,639 Views
17 Pages

10 September 2020

The present study aimed to describe the utilization of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) as a digital infrastructure concerning disaster countermeasures in Japan. Specifically, the study introduced development cases of the systems integr...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,586 Views
20 Pages

Technology and K-12 Environmental Education in Ontario, Canada: Teacher Perceptions and Recommendations

  • Andrew A. Millward,
  • Courtney Carrier,
  • Nickesh Bhagat and
  • Gregory T. O. LeBreton

12 December 2024

This research explores the perspectives of kindergarten through to Grade 12 (K-12) teachers on incorporating information and communication technology (ICT) into the environmental education (EE) curriculum. In the context of the increasing influence o...

  • Article
  • Open Access
17 Citations
7,118 Views
19 Pages

The Training and Use of ICT in Teaching Perceptions of Melilla’s (Spain) Mathematics Teachers

  • Melchor Gómez-García,
  • Hossein Hossein-Mohand,
  • Juan Manuel Trujillo-Torres and
  • Hassan Hossein-Mohand

23 September 2020

Currently, information and communication technology (ICT) has acquired an important role in education. The incorporation of ICT by mathematics teachers has been a challenge as it requires an improvement in their knowledge of the use of new technologi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
7,540 Views
21 Pages

Vulnerability Assessment of Ubiquitous Cities Using the Analytic Hierarchy Process

  • Muhammad Atiq Ur Rehman Tariq,
  • Cheuk Yin Wai and
  • Nitin Muttil

21 December 2020

Urbanization is a challenge faced by most countries worldwide and leads to several problems. Due to rapid communication capabilities, conforming the megacities into Ubiquitous cities (U-cities) seems to be a potential solution to mitigate the problem...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,052 Views
19 Pages

Planning, Execution, and Control of Operations in SC Activities—Baja California Manufacturing Case Study

  • Rubén Jesús Pérez-López,
  • María Mojarro-Magaña,
  • Jesús Everardo Olguín-Tiznado,
  • Claudia Camargo-Wilson,
  • Juan Andrés López-Barreras,
  • Julio Cesar Cano Gutiérrez and
  • Jorge Luis Garcia-Alcaraz

23 September 2022

This paper reports a second order structural equation model (SEM) with four latent variables and six hypotheses to analyze the Planning, Execution, and Control of the information and communication technologies (ICT) implementation in supply chains (S...

  • Article
  • Open Access
33 Citations
10,739 Views
18 Pages

13 August 2022

This study explored the perceptions and practices of teacher educators in integrating information and communication Technology (ICT) in teacher education programs. The study adopted a phenomenological design under the qualitative research approach th...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
4,121 Views
27 Pages

3 August 2023

The applied behavior analysis (ABA) model emphasizes observable and measurable behaviors by carrying out decision making using experimental data (behavioral observation assessment strategies). In this framework, information and communication technolo...

  • Review
  • Open Access
307 Citations
37,462 Views
36 Pages

A Review on Printed Electronics: Fabrication Methods, Inks, Substrates, Applications and Environmental Impacts

  • Jenny Wiklund,
  • Alp Karakoç,
  • Toni Palko,
  • Hüseyin Yiğitler,
  • Kalle Ruttik,
  • Riku Jäntti and
  • Jouni Paltakari

Innovations in industrial automation, information and communication technology (ICT), renewable energy as well as monitoring and sensing fields have been paving the way for smart devices, which can acquire and convey information to the Internet. Sinc...

  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
1,331 Views
13 Pages

15 March 2024

The paper deals with transportation system models (TSMs) on behalf of methods for risk reduction in urban areas. As far as urban transport networks are concerned, further development of models is necessary in order to capture the potentialities of em...

  • Review
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,937 Views
23 Pages

This review investigates the evolution of green information systems (ISs) based on an examination of the literature spanning the years 2000 to 2023. Using bibliographic analysis, a method that enables the study of a large volume of sources, this pape...

  • Article
  • Open Access
20 Citations
4,945 Views
13 Pages

Economic Efficiency in the Tunisian Olive Oil Sector

  • Domingo Fernández-Uclés,
  • Saida Elfkih,
  • Adoración Mozas-Moral,
  • Enrique Bernal-Jurado,
  • Miguel Jesús Medina-Viruel and
  • Saker Ben Abdallah

3 September 2020

This study aims to assess the economic efficiency of Tunisian olive oil firms in order to identify the organizational and technological variables that are directly associated with greater efficiency. The Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) and fuzzy sets...

  • Review
  • Open Access
62 Citations
12,507 Views
16 Pages

Information and communication technologies (ICT) are present in almost all fields of human activity. The expansion of their use should be balanced by the results of the studies on the negative effects on the environment. The relationship between thes...

  • Article
  • Open Access
23 Citations
4,433 Views
15 Pages

In recent decades, entrepreneurship has become increasingly important for innovation and economic growth. However, few studies demonstrate the role of information and communication technology systems (ICT) in promoting entrepreneurship, and even fewe...

  • Article
  • Open Access
23 Citations
6,444 Views
16 Pages

27 November 2022

Digital and technological transformation has gained significant attention not only due to the exposure of the latest technologies but also due to its considerable impact on sustainable economic growth. This research determines the influence of digita...

  • Review
  • Open Access
11 Citations
3,813 Views
18 Pages

Review of Optimization Dynamically Applied in the Construction and the Application Potential of ICT

  • Boda Liu,
  • Bin Yang,
  • Jianzhuang Xiao,
  • Dayu Zhu,
  • Binghan Zhang,
  • Zhichen Wang and
  • Miaosi Dong

13 May 2021

Currently, construction projects are getting more complex, applying more information and communication technologies (ICT), while few studies use real-time data to dynamically optimize construction. The purpose of this article is to study the current...

  • Article
  • Open Access
30 Citations
3,538 Views
15 Pages

ICT, Energy Intensity, and CO2 Emission Nexus

  • Melike E. Bildirici,
  • Rui Alexandre Castanho,
  • Fazıl Kayıkçı and
  • Sema Yılmaz Genç

22 June 2022

The relationship between information and communication technology investment (ICT), environmental impacts, and economic growth has received increasing attention in the last 20 years. However, the relationship between ICT, energy intensity, environmen...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
804 Views
13 Pages

24 May 2025

This study tested whether Information and Communication Technology (ICT) proficiency moderates the relationship between climate anxiety and specific expectations of future extreme weather events. Using survey data from 259 university students in Croa...

  • Article
  • Open Access
706 Views
27 Pages

Exploring ICT as an Engine for Sustainable Economic Growth in Central Asia

  • Sobirov Yuldoshboy,
  • Artikov Beruniy,
  • Saburov Javokhir,
  • Elbek Khodjaniyazov,
  • Mamurbek Karimov,
  • Olimjon Saidmamatov and
  • Peter Marty

11 December 2025

This study investigates whether information and communication technology (ICT) constitutes a sustained driver of economic growth in four Central Asian economies—Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, and Uzbekistan—over the period 2000&ndash...

  • Systematic Review
  • Open Access
34 Citations
8,651 Views
14 Pages

Sustainability in Digital Education: A Systematic Review of Innovative Proposals

  • Alién García-Hernández,
  • Ana García-Valcárcel Muñoz-Repiso,
  • Sonia Casillas-Martín and
  • Marcos Cabezas-González

29 December 2022

In the last decade, the extensive use of new Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) in education in recent years has changed the nature of the teaching–learning environment. However, the adequate use of ICT is necessary for promoting...

  • Article
  • Open Access
17 Citations
7,250 Views
20 Pages

22 June 2019

This study discusses the organizational characteristics, driving factors, and value perceptions of small- and medium-sized construction enterprises in information and communication technology (ICT) implementation and investigates how the heterogeneou...

  • Article
  • Open Access
82 Citations
9,125 Views
19 Pages

(1) Background: The COVID-19 pandemic has been especially hard on the elderly owing to their particular vulnerability to the virus. Their confinement to prevent the spread of the virus resulted in social isolation, often linked to the unwanted loneli...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3,391 Views
38 Pages

Video games, as interactive artifacts within the continuum of information and communication technology (ICT), encapsulate an ontological inquiry: which mechanism maintains user engagement while evolving with ICT-driven innovations? How is this mechan...

  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
5,589 Views
17 Pages

20 December 2022

Introduction: The spread of the COVID-19 virus and the supremacy of digital technologies have amplified global market volatility in all industries. This circumstance will have a lasting impact on students’ employability, so the education sector...

  • Article
  • Open Access
485 Views
24 Pages

Modelling Energy Futures: ICT Consumption Patterns and Sustainability in Quito, Ecuador

  • Alex Guambo-Galarza,
  • Gabriela Araujo-Vizuete,
  • Andrés Robalino-López,
  • Carmen Mantilla-Cabrera,
  • Mariela González-Narváez,
  • Angel Ordóñez and
  • Magdy Echeverría

22 November 2025

Energy consumption is a key driver of economic and social development, particularly in rapidly expanding sectors such as Information and Communication Technology (ICT). This study explores the energy demand of Quito’s ICT sector across technica...

  • Review
  • Open Access
1,327 Views
25 Pages

Taiwan’s Smart Healthcare Value Chain: AI Innovation from R&D to Industry Deployment

  • Tzu-Min Lin,
  • Hui-Wen Yang,
  • Ching-Cheng Han and
  • Chih-Sheng Lin

21 December 2025

Taiwan’s strategic focus in digital healthcare has been officially integrated into national industrial policy and identified as a crucial application area for artificial intelligence (AI) and next-generation communication technologies. As the h...

  • Review
  • Open Access
16 Citations
4,420 Views
16 Pages

Older Adults and Digital Society: Scientific Coverage

  • José Álvarez-García,
  • Amador Durán-Sánchez,
  • María de la Cruz del Río-Rama and
  • Ronny Correa-Quezada

While there is a progressive ageing of the population, we are witnessing a rapid development of new information and communication technologies (ICTs). Although for most of society this technology is within reach, there are population segments for who...

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