BACKGROUND OF THE STUDY Information technology (IT) is a strategic resource that facilitates major changes in competitive behaviour‚ marketing and customer service (Kotler‚ 2007:312). In other word‚ it is the automation of processes‚ controls‚ and information production using computers‚ telecommunications‚ software and ancillary equipment such as automated teller machine and debit cards. It is a term that generally covers the harnessing of electronic technology for the Information needs of a business
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THE ROLE OF INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY IN NATION BUILDING: THE LIBRARIAN’S PERSPECTIVE MULIKAT BOLA ALIYU And ABDULWAHAB OLANREWAJU ISSA Department of Library and Information Science‚ The Federal Polytechnic‚ Offa‚ Kwara State. ABSTRACT The paper examines information from the perspective of a conceptual framework with a view‚ primarily‚ to establishing its primacy and universality in a technologically propelled world of today. Owing to the exponential growth in the generation‚ availability
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Libri‚ 2003‚ vol. 53‚ pp. 118–129 Printed in Germany · All rights reserved ______________________________________________ Copyright Saur 2003 Libri ISSN 0024-2667 Design and Development of an Academic Portal Academic Information Service‚ University of Pretoria‚ South Africa HEILA PIENAAR A Web portal can be defined as a Web site for a specific audience that aggregates an array of content and provides a variety of services including search engines‚ directories‚ news‚ e-mail and chat rooms.
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Information Technology Acts As information technology continues to advance so does the need to protect consumers from the new ethical issues that arises. Congress tries to protect consumers from numerous ethical issues through developing and passing of laws. These advances happen so rapidly that it becomes difficult to foresee ethical issues. One of many ethical issues related to information technology is the ease of access to consumers’ personal information. Telemarketing companies’ acquire
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Communication‚ Information and Coordination in Organizations In speaking of organizations I believe that how organizations communicate is an extremely key factor in success versus failure. The purpose of this paper is to talk about Communication‚ Information and Coordination‚ specifically Vertical and Lateral Coordination in organizations. I will reference the four different organizational frames we have learned about as a reference guide to explain how communication is viewed‚ as well
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Virtualization is the technology of my choice and it comes from my discipline of Information Technology. In simple terms‚ virtualization is simulating a hardware platform‚ operating system (OS)‚ storage device‚ or network resources where the framework divides the resource into one or more execution environments. Even partitioning a hard drive is considered virtualization because you take one drive and partition it to create two separate hard drives. It’s defined as “a method of decoupling an application
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The impacts of Information Technology in the Economy are not an issue that can be fully covered in a presentation or a research work. This subject includes a lot of aspects and dimensions and has stimulated the interest of researchers‚ research centres and international organisations the last 30 years. As far as the evaluation of the impacts of Information and Communication technologies in the Economy are concerned‚ the multidimensional character is also accompanied by different points of view
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In this checkpoint I will be discussing certain questions that involve HIPPA and information technology. With technology growing every single day‚ there are questions that are always involved when dealing with medical record issues. One question would be what advantages could a standardized medical records database offer? What HIPPA issues could arise? And why do you believe technology in the medical records management industry is so far behind other industries? These are the questions I will be
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What were the advances in information technology that resulted in new ethical issues necessitating the creation of each act? Telephone Consumer Protection Act of 1991/Do Not Call Implementation Act 2003 XBIS/220 Telephone Consumer Protection Act of 1991/Do Not Call Implementation Act 2003 These days no matter where you look there is some type of information technology in your presence. It can be seen while someone is walking‚ eating lunch in a cafe or even driving
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Information Technology Acts Paper BIS/220 December 17‚ 2012 Information Technology Acts Paper The advances in information technology have resulted in new ethical issues necessitating the creation of many important acts. Two in particular acts are Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) and Children’s Internet Protection Act (2000). Both of these acts were implemented to protect humans from harmful content and healthcare information. The Health Insurance Portability and
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