Guest editorial: introduction to Internet technologies and society special edition

Isaias, Pedro; kommers, Piet; Issa, Tomayess

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Isaias, Pedro

kommers, Piet

Issa, Tomayess

Abstract(s)

In the twenty-first century, technology plays an important role to users, businesses and higher education to raise performance, productivity and endorse gratification. Technology usage increased collaboration, cooperation and communication among users as easily as to recapture information, entertainment, marketing, political, health information and online shopping. Integrating Internet and social networking in businesses and higher education will improve business performance, productivity, students’ personal and professional skills, as well as to incorporate sustainability and to corporate social responsibility, triple bottom line and stewardship. This special issue of Journal of Information, Communication and Ethics in Society entitled "Internet Technologies and Society" comprises five papers that present developments in the area of Information Systems (IS) and its applications and contribution within society. More and more technologies have been playing an increased role in society. These papers that reflect the contribution from IS to society, helping to shape the term "Information Society", are extended versions of the original conference papers organized by the International Association for Development of the Information Society, chosen by the guest editors of this issue, from the following conferences held in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, co-located together, and co-organized by the Universiti Putra Malaysia, and co-sponsored by Curtin Business School-Curtin University, Australia: International Conference on Internet Technologies and Society 2013 (http://www.its-conf.org); International Conference on Educational Technologies 2013 (http://www.icedutech-conf.org); International Conference on Sustainability, Technology and Education 2013 (http://www.sustainability-conf.org).

Keywords

Sustainable development e-learning 3.0 Social media technologies Facebook Government-to-business (G2B) Internet service provider

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http://hdl.handle.net/10400.2/16408

Citation

Isaias, P., Kommers, P., & Issa, T. (Eds.). (2013). "Guest editorial: Internet technologies and society". Journal of Information Communication and Ethics in Society, 12(3).