Technology‚ Environment and Society Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.) Year/Part: IV/II Program: Computer and Electronics Definitions Technology According to Webster’s dictionary‚ technology is defined as a description of arts. General definition of technology Technology is technical means‚ which involves the systematic application of organized knowledge‚ and tools and materials for the extension of human facilties. Technology is the source of change in society. Technological
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resources to service debt obligations and partly because the necessary macro-economic adjustment has remained elusive for most of the countries in the continent. INTRODUCTION The Nigerian President‚ Olusegun Obasanjo‚ had waged a six-year war on debt cancellation. He had to hire an ex-World Bank official‚ Nigerian-born Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala as Finance Minister to prosecute the war. In their bid‚ they joined several other anti-poverty campaigners to argue that
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Today’s society would be incomplete without the advancements of technology. From hitting the snooze button on the alarm clock in the morning‚ to watching the latest events on television‚ to checking one’s email on the internet‚ technology is part of everyone’s life and is simply impossible to avoid. But what if the luxury of technology was not available? What if people lived a so called “primitive” life? A life in which one would read a book for enjoyment‚ not play God of War II on a video game
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Impact of Technology on Education Technology plays a vital role in every sphere of life and education is no exception. The advent of technology has deeply impacted the educational scenario of the world. For more on this‚ read on… Technology is a gift of God. After the gift of life it is perhaps the greatest of God’s gifts. It is the mother of civilizations‚ of arts and of sciences. - Freeman Dyson Technology has certainly changed the way we live. It has impacted the different facets of life
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Transnational Research Journals Full Length Research Paper An assessment of the impact of corporate social responsibility on Nigerian society: The examples of banking and communication industries Adeyanju‚ Olanrewaju David Department of Financial Studies Redeemer’s University‚ km 46‚ Lagos Ibadan Expressway Mowe‚ Ogun State E-mail: davfol@yahoo.com‚ Tel No.: 07037794073 Accepted 30 January‚ 2012 In the Nigerian society‚ Corporate Social Responsibilities [CSR] has been a highly cotemporary and contextual
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Effects of Technology On Society Technology is detrimental to society today because of the effects it has on children and teens that carry over into their entire lives. The harmful effects are only growing as technology grows with it. The different effects of technology are causing problems for this demographic in regards to social media‚ television‚ news‚ and streaming music. These aspects present in multitude of ways many times a day for any given person‚ making it difficult to ignore
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International Journal of Business and Management Vol. 6‚ No. 5; May 2011 Drivers for Information and Communication Technology Adoption: A Case Study of Nigerian Small and Medium Sized Enterprises Idisemi Apulu (Corresponding author) School of Technology‚ University of Wolverhampton Wulfruna Street‚ West Midlands‚ WV1 1LY‚ United Kingdom Tel: 44-776-578-5662 E-mail: i.apulu@wlv.ac.uk Dr. Ann Latham School of Technology‚ University of Wolverhampton Wulfruna Street‚ West Midlands‚ WV1 1LY‚ United Kingdom
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UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE INTERNATIONAL EXAMINATIONS International General Certificate of Secondary Education MARK SCHEME for the October/November 2008 question paper 0418 INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY 0418/03 Paper 3 (Practical Test B)‚ maximum raw mark 100 This mark scheme is published as an aid to teachers and candidates‚ to indicate the requirements of the examination. It shows the basis on which Examiners were instructed to award marks. It does not indicate the details of the discussions that
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Technology’s Impact on Students In America and throughout the world‚ there has been a fundamental shift in the use of technology in learning and in schools In traditional classrooms students have lectures with a professor face to face and engage in non-technology based learning‚ whereas‚ in a more modern class room many different forms of technology are incorporated into learning. There are benefits to the reliance on technology‚ as well as potential pitfalls. There are many positive educational
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Alabi Oluwatobi Joseph Department of Sociology Landmark University 2013 Nigerian Society and Development: Constraints and Ways Forward Abstract One of the main issues in development debates is how to tackle rural underdevelopment. The constraints to developing the rural areas as well as the problems of this critical sector have come to loom very large. For over four decades in Nigeria‚ all attempts to put the rural areas on course of development have failed. Conditions have continued to worsen
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