AUTHOR Jose V. Camacho, Roderica R. Camacho and Basilisa V. Camacho ABSTRACT The world today can be characterized on how information and knowledge can be accessed and fully utilized in order to achieve rapid economic and social development. Many economies have come to realize that investment in developing intellectual capital is the key to global […]

AUTHOR Chris Zielinski ABSTRACT Is there an access right to information? While this issue was always an underlying and generally unspoken assumption in debate on information for the developing world, now with the tightening global legal infrastructure, the developing countries need to address this issue formally, rather than essentially evading it by turning blind eyes […]

AUTHOR Sheldon Richmond ABSTRACT Why has the computer revolution failed to give more “power” to the worker as predicted by most futurists? Why is there a new power elite of computer professionals? In the early days of implementing computer technology-desktop PCs and Networks-into the corporate world, the leaders of this implementation preached for “open systems”, […]

AUTHOR Aaron Norgrove ABSTRACT This paper emerges from the initial stages of research towards a Doctoral thesis in Sociology on practices of digital gifting in Online Communities. Specifically, the paper represents a series of preliminary theoretical reflections on one nexus of the wider debate over research ethics: the use of spatial metaphors in the conceptualisation […]

AUTHOR Kiyoshi Murata ABSTRACT Nowadays, information and communication technology (ICT) is ubiquitous, and the quality of our home, work and social life is significantly dependent on the quality of ICT-based information systems. Since the majority of ICT and ICT-based information systems are developed and used in business organisations, ICT workers, including ICT professionals and ICT […]

AUTHOR Marcus Johansson ABSTRACT In my paper, I explore the possibilities for legitimately punishing a virtual character. I propose a plausible example, where John (a physical person) develops a close emotional relation to Dante (his virtual character). If a moral wrongdoing is done, either in real life or in the virtual world, I argue that […]