Tom van Weert argues that economic, societal and cultural developments in indus-trialized countries push for educational innovation. He sees Information and Communication Technology (ICT) as enabling factor of this innovation. His line of reasoning is the following. Knowledge intensive economies have …

Within a short space of time, the Internet has had an enormous influence on our society and it has only taken e-mail five years to become an intensively used communications medium. The general trend for information and communications technology is that it is becoming smaller, faster, smarter, more accepted, …

Is het mogelijk een videoband samen te stellen geschikt voor gebruik als ondersteuning bij voorlichting over voorste kruisband operaties? In het St.-Annaziekenhuis is patiëntenvoorlichting een belangrijk facet van het gehele traject dat patiënten doorlopen, die een voorste kruisband operatie en revalidatie …

ACAL Nederland bv is een distributeur van informatie technologie (IT) en elektronica producten. Zij importeert deze producten wereldwijd en verkoopt deze aan de Nederlandse markt. Er werken circa 180 medewerkers, waaronder veel verkopers, waarvan het grootste deel op kantoor achter de computer werkt. In …

In the fall of 1999, we started, the Integrated Product Development- Collaborative Engineering ( IPD-CE) project as a first pilot. We experimented with modern communication technology in order to find useful tools for facilitating the cooperative work and the contacts of all the participants. Teams have …

The Technical Departments at the Fontys University of Professional Education in Eindhoven, The Netherlands, offer a course which is devel-oped around the principles of Concurrent Engi-neering. Integrated Product Development (IPD) project teams are multi-disciplinary groups which develop products in co-operation …

In the view of the nineteenth-century Prussian strategist Carl von Clausewitz the value of information is described in a rather pessimistic vein. A full century later the value of information is unquestioned, and there are only luxury problems concerning the way to control the inexhaustible flood of …

'Information Operations' can only be understood in the broader context of change and continuity. 'Cyberspace' is, like land, sea, air and space, a dimension in which war can be waged. Where defence is a necessity while attack is a possibility. There is a close relationship between 'Information Based …

Just like other countries, Austria is confronted with the increasing dynamics of the development of Information and Communication Technology (ICT). Both the public sector, including defence, and the private sector are depending on ICT. When discussing conflict scenario's, one has to discern international …

All Information and Communication Technology (ICT) systems have vulnerabilities. Weakness in these systems are introduced either during the specification, implementation or operational phase. Leaving aside these introduced vulnerabilities are intentional, the fact remains that these factors make information …