| The ICT hopes to extend commercial joint ventures by providing space and facilities for new and existing companies. |
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| In the long term, the ICT Ministry hopes to be able to levy excise tax on online games. |
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| Business Link says the ICT marketplace is full of confusing acronyms, terms and ever-changing technologies. |
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| Furthermore, many girls take a circuitous route into ICT from other fields of study. |
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| In North America and Western Europe, the fastest growing use of ICT services by women is for electronic shopping. |
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| For several years he combined his managerial position there with the position of ICT manager in a company of the diamond sector. |
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| In addition, it is totally independent of suppliers of ICT products and services, guaranteeing you uncompromised objectivity. |
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| In addition, ICT facilitates interlinking between health authorities, other departments and the public. |
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| We in Africa need to double or even treble our pace in the global ICT running track. |
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| Community initiatives that train women in ICT skills can and do change women's self-perception as well as community perception of women. |
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| The engineers that thrash out the technical standards at ITU-T meetings are the unsung heroes of the ICT world. |
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| The usage of well-tailored ICT produces flexibility in a company and conserves natural resources. |
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| One of the Flemish participants was Bram de Muer, CEO of Leuven-based ICT company, ICSense. |
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| Our ICT employees are also strongly encouraged to gain domain-specific certificates. |
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| Samuel arranged for him to sit an ICT GNVQ exam, against the advice of the ICT teacher. |
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| These are aimed at pupils who are underachieving or at risk of exclusion and cover basic skills like literacy and numeracy as well as sport, music, ICT and media courses. |
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| The strategy proposed calls on Member States and industry to pool resources and work together more in ICT research and innovation. |
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| This is apparent through a perusal of the published documents from government concerning ICT in this sector. |
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| For instance, ICT could help to substitute physical mobility with virtual mobility and save time through instantaneity. |
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| He stated government policy should ensure Canadians have access to the most up-to-date ICT equipment to be on a par with the rest of the world. |
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| However, there seems to be a generally accepted view that there will be a shortage of well-qualified ICT workers. |
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| From 1997 on, Mr. Jos Nijns performed various executive financial functions at EDS, one of the leading global ICT companies. |
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| Which conditions best incent and promote adoption of ICT by Canadian businesses and public sectors? |
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| Indeed, lifelong learning is an important issue for ICT professionals of all ages, given the exceptionally rapid pace of technological change. |
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| In doing this, we should not spend too much time lamenting our low state of ICT development. |
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| Males tended to be positively driven by ICT career opportunity, and females negatively driven by their influencers. |
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| Today modern ICT offers the most promising option to improve access to knowledge also in the remotest areas. |
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| For this reason, UNIDIR held a Disarmament Forum in 2007 on the theme of dangers posed by ICT, including cyberterrorism. |
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| The focus of this project will be on green ICT as subject for collective bargaining and social dialogue. |
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| Compared with other professionals, ICT personnel tend to be ghettoized and have limited career prospects. |
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| There is no point trying to compete on 'cheapness' because we will never win in a globalized ICT labour market. |
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| More ICT SMEs are starting to feel the pinch of a tight labour market and the accompanying inflationary pressure on wages. |
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| So DNS BE sees a creative and experienced ICT jack-of-all-trades enter the company. |
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| Diversity is an incidental side benefit that accrues to ICT SMEs when they dip into talent pools to fill positions. |
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| This is an initiative of the ITM to promote ICT compatibility between students and with the institute's hotspots and e-environment. |
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| However, the nonexistence of a national ICT integration plan does not promote a harmonized, more structured and efficient integration. |
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| Even though the pedagogical integration of ICT is still in its infancy in many places, the general outlook is nonetheless bright. |
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| Indeed, it is usually more important for ICT employees to be near the customer rather than at the office. |
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| How is ICT system and big multinationals to be regulated and controlled so as to have altruism present and avoid workers' exploitation? |
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| Countries such as Japan, the Republic of Korea, Hong Kong and Singapore are advanced powerhouses in ICT manufacturing industries. |
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| This was done with a view to enhancing national ICT capacity and bridging the digital divide. |
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| These workers move quickly between jobs and different client companies, especially in the ICT and business services sectors. |
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| Bram Van Handenhoven is a Program and Project Manager in the ICT service area and works as a freelancer mainly in the financial banking sector. |
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| Parents, teachers, guidance counselors and peers all tend to agree: an ICT career is not the best choice for a girl. |
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| Success can be witnessed by the rise in schoolgirl participation in ICT courses. |
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| In the current programming period, Cohesion Policy funds will continue to support the ICT development, including in rural areas. |
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| These reports also contribute to the process of building confidence in the ICT sector. |
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| Contractor indigenization is also likely to play a significant role in developing the ICT sector. |
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| Advances in the spread of ICT may lead to new forms of money, electronic means of payment. |
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| For example, ICT is considered to be an effective tool for introducing new concepts. |
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| While these companies may take notice of an ICT labour market outlook, such an outlook is removed from their immediate needs and priorities. |
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| Such initiatives provide the basis for ICT capacity building in support of education, health and culture at the community level. |
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| Or do we just have to tell other sectors to pull up their socks and start investing the way the ICT sector does? |
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| The award was handed to Vision IT Group before the 500 decision makers in the IT sector who attended the ICT Awards ceremony. |
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| Indeed, given the prevalence of network effects in the ICT sector, interoperability is a crucial feature of these markets. |
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| However, most financial support for the use of ICT tends to come from the private sector and Member States. |
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| Teacher training is part of this strategy, and aims to train teachers not only in ICT but also in its application to pedagogy and didactics. |
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| The Minister of Information and Communication Technology of Thailand noted that ICT was one of the driving forces of economic growth. |
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| The European Union is a global force in advanced ICT and is determined to remain so. |
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| The use of ICT allows them to strike up new friendships and to improve English in real communication. |
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| As we have seen, the talent shortage issue being faced by ICT SMEs is multilayered. |
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| Ultimately, considering growing ICT pervasiveness, greater e-inclusion will contribute to cohesion and growth goals set in the Lisbon strategy. |
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| Despite some organisations initiating ICT projects to benefit rural communities through telecentres, Internet service has just recently begun to spread all over the country. |
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| Scotland was top in 12 out of a total of 13 areas including the number of businesses making and receiving payments online and the quality of ICT advice available. |
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| The ICT sector has become an oft-repeated success story and has placed the country on the global map of rapidly growing industry. |
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| Resistance by teachers to use ICT in teaching and learning due to technophobia was cited in all the schools. |
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| As well, the employment experience of recent ICT graduates has been out of step with more positive employment trends in the ICT labour market. |
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| Isolated investment in ICT does not permit leapfrogging to higher growth rates. |
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| The challenge facing most employers is that they cannot find ICT employees who have the right mix of skills and experience, along with essential business and soft skills. |
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| But if Volunteering and ICT have become de facto reference points, this is mainly due to the fact that both of them offer new ways to understand human interaction. |
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| You have an urban lifestyle in the middle of the countryside if there are two cars outside the door, all mod cons, ICT and perhaps a foreign holiday a year. |
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| The introduction of ICT promises revolutionary changes in the field of Education. |
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| Key Features and Benefits Understand how ICT budgets are set to change in 2013 in terms of their overall size. |
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| Indonesia had provided an in kind contribution to the national rollout of the Academy of ICT Essentials for Government Leaders in Bahasa Indonesia for local government training. |
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| The ICT sector has become characterised by poor management, a weak and ineffectual regulatory authority, political interference, and the prevalence of hidden agendas. |
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| In the intervening years, iPARK has pursued its mission to incubate the most promising ICT startups and to support innovative entrepreneurs. |
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| Shadrach is also involved with Grameen Gyan Abhiyan, a rural knowledge movement in India, and has been an advocate for grassroots ICT initiatives at the World Summit on the Information Society. |
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| Finally, one further challenge: The ICT subject spews technical terms. |
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| They will also be employed to deliver training courses in specific ICT software packages that local people are interested in, as well as supporting staff to deliver current training programmes. |
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| Staffordshire county council has published a tender for suppliers to join a wide-ranging ICT framework agreement for use within schools and other education establishments for both administration and curriculum purposes. |
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| Hogg suggests the ICT systems are antiquated. |
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| Through this program, practitioners, policy-makers, and academics are invited to discuss the impact of ICT on gender relations, and ways ICT can be used to overcome gender inequalities. |
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| Governments will therefore need to establish clearer policies in regard to science and technology, and undertake critical assessments of ICT experiences and options. |
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| There were also possibilities of ICT assisting those government agencies and other institutions such as schools and health centres that served the poor directly or indirectly. |
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| By the acquisition, Real and Dolmen will strengthen their position as local IT supplier to become in a combined entity the biggest independent ICT solutions services provider. |
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| The panel concluded that ubiquitous access to affordable and reliable advanced broadband services should be available in all regions of Canada by 2010, and recommended that it be a central goal of a national ICT strategy. |
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| The ICT Spring Conference is a 2-day conference in Luxembourg to promote the IT sector in Europe through lectures, workshops, professional speed-dating sessions and meetings to discuss the latest technological developments. |
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| Special tax incentives might also be used to encourage professional development of staff who need to acquire ICT skills for their career development. |
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| A pragmatic approach, cost control and maximum commitment to achieving ICT solutions for our customers as if for ourselves, allow us to achieve our objectives year after year. |
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| Since 2002, Mauritius has invested heavily into the development of an ICT Hub. |
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| The CTO meeting issued a communique outlining emerging trends in the ICT industry and associated demands on ITU standardization. |
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| Ireland moved from a European have-not nation to an ICT dynamo thanks to tax and investment policies driven by an industry-government partnership. |
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| The new ICT law is expected to abolish licensing fees for telecentres. |
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| We offer a complete suite of flexible, worry-free services designed to help enterprises optimize their ICT infrastructure investment while reducing risk and capital costs. |
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| One goal of this strategy is to ensure equitable access to ICT for all residents without barriers, and to promote the competent, self-dependent use of these technologies. |
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| The pedagogical integration of ICT must therefore be understood as integration such that the student is learns and socializes through a multitude of interactive and communication channels. |
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| Here in this paper, capacity building refers to the process by which individuals, organizations, communities and societies become more skillful at using ICT tools for fulfilling learning objectives. |
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| More important still are the will to engage in such teaching, along with a definite plan for intercultural communication, both of which condition the use to be made of ICT in a particular educational context. |
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| The inclusion of schools in national education management and information systems within ministries of education is an added feature of national ICT for education strategies in countries like Botswana and South Africa. |
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| From that, the comments go on to say quite categorically that the ICT have never invested in certain jobs44and that those who practise these jobs will never need to invest in them. |
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| If you are responsible for managing ICT human resources and would like to be at the leading edge of a new web-based resource that will help employers like you customize ICT job profiles, we would like to hear from you! |
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| The ICT sector is particularly well-placed to offer flexible working opportunities, given that the technology itself facilitates teleworking and time-flexible arrangements. |
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| Drawbacks for measuring ICT usage and electronic commerce statistics are linked both to definitional issues and to the typical structure of member countries' data collection programmes. |
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| Our customers discovered for themselves our wider range of services making RealDolmen the top choice as an ICT partner: we can design and deploy an ICT infrastructure and then build the applications upon it. |
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| The ideal education would be to explore how experience is changed by ICT and is made relevant in a new way because virtuality is not the lack of society just as silence is not the lack of language. |
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| The problem of identification appears as one of the great revealers of the use of ICT in society: the evolution in the management of names tends towards laxism and a growing de-institutionalization. |
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| Problems of confidentiality are sometimes encountered when collecting data on telecommunication services, while very few countries can provide data on ICT wholesaling. |
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| In surveys on ICT use in the household sector, problems of comparability may be affected by whether the statistical unit is the individual or the household. |
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| In this area, for example, ICT can help reduce the transaction cost for billing small amounts, thus making new services profitable in areas in which material goods were previously traded. |
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| The idea was to use ICT to provide job opportunities to disadvantaged groups, including people with disabilities, land mine and polio victims, orphans and women. |
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| For Finnish social democrat Risto Koivisto, local and regional authorities, as leading public services providers, are well placed to gauge the impact of demographic ageing and to use ICT to tackle the resulting challenges. |
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| To discuss the outlook for the ICT labour market without considering technology would be like putting on a production of Hamlet without the ghost. |
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| This programme covers ICT, administrative and telephony staff, and it provides opportunities for administrators and telephonists to move into ICT roles. |
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| These findings understate the role of immigration, since there are many current ICT workers, who are now citizens, but who obtained some or all of their ICT training prior to emigrating to Canada. |
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| In the report, I mention a number of sectors in which ICT can be used advantageously and in which other organisations such as the UNDP and the World Bank and some of the Member States have already had good experience. |
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| Despite being at the cutting edge of European economic growth and innovation, parts of the ICT industry are surprisingly out-dated in their employment practices. |
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| I certainly learned more about current habits and trends in the Czech Republic, I had to improve my ICT skills, and I felt motivated to brush up my Czech again. |
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| Canadian employers, including ICT SMEs, have an important role to play in reaching out to IEPs already in Canada who may have in demand skill sets but be unemployed or underemployed. |
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| As for me, on one hand I love working with people from different places and learning about them and, on the other, I am crazy about ICT, so it has given me an easy way to learn quite a lot. |
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| To promote women's careers in ICT, the Commission presents today, on International Women's Day, the video diaries of 6 young women who were given the chance to accompany a successful female engineer or technologist for a day. |
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| These actions aim to accelerate the adoption of ICT as an enabler so that we can master the energy demands of our homes, of our businesses, and of our society at large. |
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| One of the questions we will explore in the next section is the extent to which ICT SMEs actively pursue diverse talent as a way of alleviating labour shortages and gaining competitive advantage. |
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| The question is how to distill it. That is why more and more ICT companies such as service providers are working on refining their tools to ensure that the results they generate are tailored to the individual user. |
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| High attrition rates, burn-out syndromes due to high stress levels, long and unsocial working hours characterise the long-term effects of working in an ICT company. |
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| Through ICT, the written word became a communication device, confronting ideas and experiences and this was reflected in the social value of the project. |
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| This can lead to misleading international comparisons of aggregate figures, since ICT usage statistics are very sensitive to size cut-off and industry coverage. |
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| In a sense, network-based computing is a way to outsource ICT work. |
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| The swiftness of ICT developments, their increasing spread and availability, the nature of their content and their declining prices are having major implications for learning. |
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| Government might also consider contributing to the establishment of co-op programs and internship positions in ICT to help current and recently graduated ICT students to find employment in the field. |
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| Most crucial: it's probable that, like their peers in Australia, a central issue for many Canadian students is perceiving other careers as more attractive than ICT careers. |
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| Several delegations recognized the importance of developing human resources in ICT for the purpose of bridging the digital divide among and within the countries of the region. |
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| As we shall argue, all of these strategies expose ICT SMEs to risk. |
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| The only solution, as we will discuss later in this paper, is for employers to get more involved in training and career pathing their ICT personnel. |
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| This cluster of organizations could reach economy of scale by using the same external ICT hosting service, share capital investment as well as operating expertise. |
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| In this context, the integration of ICT can play a useful role in terms of developing innovative and effective pedagogies adapted to the individual needs of learners. |
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| This project is closely related to the national objectives of LLL in the Netherlands, which place a high priority on the development of ICT skills and the use of innovative pedagogies. |
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| However the communities are disadvantaged by limited availably of ICT infrastructure and costs and geographic isolation, harsh environmental conditions and lack of supporting power infrastructure. |
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| Our research shows that Canadian ICT SMEs are facing supply constraints on labour in occupationally specific areas which is restricting their ability to grow. |
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| The following text box contains recommendations for government, relating to hiring grants and training subsidies, from an ICT SME owner who was once an IEP looking for his first job in the sector. |
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| Part of CIP, the ICT Policy Support Programme focuses on stimulating innovation and competitiveness through the wider take-up and optimal use of ICT by citizens, businesses and governments. |
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| For many of the SMEs involved in the ICT and ageing sector, the Framework Programme does not provide the best match for market-oriented research and also presents them with significant learning curves for participation. |
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| This should include actions increasing local and backhaul access to an affordable ICT infrastructure and access to as well as development of on-line services and relevant content for rural farming and non-farming businesses. |
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| A lack of a competition keeps prices for ICT services unattractively high. |
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| Because of the complex interconnectivity of telecommunications and the Internet, any ICT device can be the source or target of increasingly sophisticated misuse. |
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| More than any other business users, SMEs have a strong interest in standardised and fully compatible ICT solutions that stay relatively stable over time. |
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| The fall in the relative price of ICT equipment in relation to the cost of other factors of production stimulated demand for investment in ICT by enterprises. |
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| There were also weaknesses with respect to the use and disposal of ICT equipment, and inventory management, including the recording and monitoring of ICT equipment. |
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| The study found that female underrepresentation in ICT work and school programs are a global phenomenon that has been documented for at least three decades. |
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| The current state of ICT policy in South Africa is that the Telecommunications Act, Act 103 of 1996, is under review and e-commerce policy and cyberlaw is evolving. |
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| In the area of ICT and law reform, UNCTAD provided targeted technical assistance with a view to fostering more effective cyberlaws, especially in the context of regional integration. |
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| In an exclusive interview Al Malek explains the latest developments in DIC and DOZ and the ICT sector at large. |
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| You are an ICT reseller, a marketing agency, a trademark agency or a web designer and you want to offer domain names, email or web hosting to your clients without having to invest in infrastrucure yourselves? |
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| Though schools, at least in Finland, are relatively well equipped, the main problem seems to be finding ways to use ICT tools in a pedagogically meaningful way. |
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| Ultimately, it is the long-term financial benefits of using ICT to implement e-business processes that will convince most managers to re-engineer their businesses. |
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| There certainly is exponential growth expected in the ICT sector. |
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| In fact, they believe that these skills shortages are pale in comparison to shortages of SQL Server DBAs, help desk administrators, and hardware engineers across the entire ICT industry. |
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| Consequently, unavailability of any core ICT system would have a tremendous impact on the strategic and operational activities of the Organization, paralysing its global operations. |
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| Eighty-two percent of attendees we surveyed at the April 2008 CIO Association of Canada conference said that ICT professionals in their organizations get rotations less often than peers in other areas of the business. |
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| The environment dimension involves the conduciveness of the regulatory and ICT environments to delivering e-government services. |
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| The chief executive's department, city development and finance and ICT all had underspends of around pounds 1 million. |
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| Poets will compete at local Poetry Slams in order to make the ICT Slam Team. |
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| Graduates with ICT qualifications, senior managers and especially mid-career professionals are all still in short supply across a range of disciplines and market segments. |
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| Five industries offer strategic opportunities for the ICT community. |
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| Extensive literature exists on the methodological underpinnings and the state of art in the adoption of ICT for educational purposes across European countries. |
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| He said that they are working on promoting efficient, sustainable and effective ICT initiatives through synergic development of industrial and academic resources. |
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| The Warwick-based firm won a top gong in the West Midlands ICT Cluster awards, along with Do-little, which is based at the Technocentre, off Puma Way, Coventry. |
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| Kastellet has therefore employed three Digital Guidance teachers, who help colleagues both technically and pedagogically with their general use of ICT and Fronter. |
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| Records Germany, and ICT firms such as Adobe Systems and Google Germany. |
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| The total number of students that enrolled for these courses has grown only slightly and the marginal increase of graduates does not match the growth rate of the ICT industry. |
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| The governments of Abu Dhabi and the Republic of Botswana have signed a memorandum of understanding for ICT knowledge sharing, capacity building and skills transfer. |
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