Abstract The article reviews the role of virtual communities as a knowledge management mechanism to support e‐government in developing countries. It explores need for e‐government, identifies technologies, and highlights challenges countries implementation especially solutions. further assesses feasibility this other mechanisms light financial technological limitations suggests that is needed facilitate information exchange transaction processing with citizens, well enable inter‐government...

E-government webs are among the largest in existence, based on size, number of users and information providers. Thus, creating a Semantic Web infrastructure to meaningfully organise e-government is highly desirable. At same time, complexity existing implementations also challenges feasibility creation. We therefore propose design two-layer semantic Wiki web, which consists content Wiki, largely identical traditional web layer, maintained within that describes relationships. This...

Podcasting has the potential to enhance learning by giving students mobile access course materials anytime, anywhere. In particular, integrating podcasting, electronic (e-learning), and traditional face-to-face teaching into a blended (b-learning) environment can help create push-pull educational exchange that increases student satisfaction. The authors' empirical study reveals generally feel higher level of social presence achieve better academic results if they're involved in development...

Virtual communities provide a suitable environment for those willing to deceive. With large audience there are many potential targets and opportunities. The narrow communication channel helps in being intentionally misunderstood, while also maintaining relative obscurity. This research analyzes deception virtual communities, based on principles of transactional analysis. Transactional analysis suggests that people deceive others order prove their superiority, the deceptive follows distinct...

Higher education differs from country to country, region region, and institution institution. Despite the differences, majority of higher institutions aim at providing a good quality learning environment their students. To achieve this goal, these would employ high teachers, develop most up-to-date curriculum, provide teaching/learning facilities understand how effective "services" are, use teaching evaluation as means collect feedback on service quality. In spite its long history, it is...

Although online flaunts are just commonly seen in the last decade, happen from time immemorial. The speediness and pervasiveness of Internet technologies amplify flaunts. Social networking sites (SNSs) currently have become a great place for people to flaunt because flaunters can instantly show off their luxurious possessions or experiences large group SNS audience. Our study aims at exploring this phenomenon identifies antecedents flaunty behavior investigates whether will continue stay...

Podcasting has the potential to enhance learning by giving students mobile access course materials anytime, anywhere. In particular, integrating podcasting, electronic (e-learning), and traditional face-to-face teaching into a blended (b-learning) environment can help create push-pull educational exchange that increases student satisfaction. The authors' empirical study reveals generally feel higher level of social presence achieve better academic results if they're involved in development...

Based on the satisfaction degree of residential electricity demand and result peak-valley time division, this paper designs a power dispatching optimization model. Firstly, in order to analyze daily consumption residents under current ladder price environment Macau SAR, team visited community Wanzai, Macau, obtained data needed for paper. Secondly, based existing situation simulated instant model by integrating factors residents' satisfaction, built through MATLAB software. Calculating...

The Internet has become the most favorite environment for our students to connect with their peers. Many of them spent a significant amount daily time in "hanging out" friends preferred virtual platforms. This study aims at exploring possibility "stealing" students' social learning purposes. A constructive (CLE) is designed activities one popular networking sites, Facebook, encourage constructively develop knowledge while staying environment. design such CLE based on activity theory emphasis...

Social networking site (SNS) has become pervasive in the life of majority younger generations. Most our students spend plenty their time interacting with peers favorite SNSs. Many them have already created habit visiting Facebook (currently, most popular SNS) on a regular basis, some even connection always on. Taking advantage such SNS popularity, this study aims at investigating how learning activities can be taken place SNSs general, particular. Among all influential factors, focuses and...