1st Edition

Social Inclusion and Usability of ICT-enabled Services.

Edited By Jyoti Choudrie, Sherah Kurnia, Panayiota Tsatsou Copyright 2018
400 Pages
by Routledge

400 Pages
by Routledge

400 Pages
by Routledge

Social Inclusion and Usability of Innovative ICT-enabled Services is a cutting-edge research book written for researchers, students, academics, technology experts, activists and policy makers. The book explores a wide range of issues concerning innovative ICT-enabled digital services, their usability and their consequent role in social inclusion, It includes the impacts of the use of... Read more

Part 1: Examining the Theoretical Foundations of Social Inclusion and ICT-Enabled Services





1. Social Inclusion and ICTs: a Literature Review Through the Lens of the Capability Approach



Efpraxia D. Zamani





2. Connectivity: A Socio-technical Construct to Examine ICT-enabled Service



Christoph F. Breidbach





3. Re-conceptualizing Social Inclusion in the Context of 21st Century Smart Cities



H. Patricia McKenna





4. Enhancing Social Inclusion Through Optimal Community Participation Levels in ICT4D Projects



Arthur Glenn Maail, Sherah Kurnia , and Shanton Chang





Part 2: ICT-Enabled Services of Value to Society and Organisations





5. Understanding the Impact of Political Structure, Governance and Public Policy on e-Government



David J. Yates, Girish J. "Jeff" Gulati, and Christine B. Williams





6. ICT-enabled E-entertainment Services in United States Counties: Socio-Economic Determinants and Geographic Patterns



Avijit Sarkar, James Pick, and Jessica Rosales





7. E-health as an Enabler of Social Inclusion



Ken Clarke, Adam Lodders, Robyn Garnett, Anne Holland, Rodrigo MariƱo, and Zaher Joukhadar





8. Challenging the Cost of Higher Education with the Assistance of Digital Tools: Case Studies of Protest Activity in Canada and the United States



Victoria Carty





9. Telework Impact on Productivity and Wellbeing: An Australian Study



Rachelle Bosua, Sherah Kurnia, Marianne Gloet, and Antonette Mendoza





10. Supporting Regional Food Supply Chains with an E-Commerce Application



Sherah Kurnia, Md Mahbubur Rahim, Serenity Hill, Kirsten Larsen, Patrice Braun, Danny Samson, and Prakash Singh





Part 3: Adoption, Usage and Management Aspects Sur

Biography

Jyoti Choudrie holds the position of Professor of Information Systems at University of Hertfordshire, UK.



Panayiota Tsatsou is an Associate Professor at the University of Leicester, UK.



Sherah Kurnia is a Senior Lecturer at the School of Computing and Information Systems, the University of Melbourne, Australia.