SemanTech SA site syndication http://www.semantech.biz Wed, 10 Mar 2010 17:31:06 +0100 FeedCreator 1.7.2 http://www.semantech.biz/images/M_images/rss20.gif http://www.semantech.biz SemanTech SA site syndication http://www.semantech.biz/content/view/21/42/ EXPANDING THE KNOWLEDGE ECONOMY: ISSUES, APPLICATIONS, CASE STUDIES by Paul Cunningham Commercializing and exploiting applied Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) research results is critical in reducing the global Digital Divide and building a sustainable Knowledge Economy. A major challenge for leveraging ICT around the world is taking account of local and regional differences. This requires meaningful cross-border communication between researchers, government and industry, as well as strategic dialogues in relation to regulation and policy. While it is clear that the Digital Divide can be challenging in Europe and the Americas, clearly there are greater difficulties to be overcome in Asia and Africa. That acknowledged, it is often striking how once basic infrastructure and regulatory issues have been addressed and how learning from the experiences of others can enhance the impact of leveraging ICT. This book brings together a comprehensive collection of over 210 in ten broad thematic areas. These are: ICT for Networked Enterprise; e-Government and e-Democracy; eHealth, Collaborative Working Environments; Networked, Smart and Virtual Organizations; SME Issues; Technology Enhanced Learning and ICT Skills; Security and Identity Management; and Mobility and . Papers within each thematic area are grouped as Issues, Applications and Case Studies, reflecting their primary focus. “i-Transformation in Swiss Companies: a Decision-Support Tool for Small and Midsize Enterprises”, Philipp Zimmermann, Fabrice Holzer, IOS Press, The Hague, NL, 2007, 1770 pages, Set of 2 volumes, ISBN:158603801X VIRTUAL EDUCATION CASES IN LEARNING AND TEACHING TECHNOLOGIES by Fawzi Albalooshi Advances in technology are making virtual education a force behind the educational policies and programs being developed for use in today’s colleges and universities. And, the faster the technology advances and changes, the more opportunities and requirements there are within organizations to adapt and implement these technologies in support of their ongoing missions to create effective and efficient environments. Virtual Education: Cases in Learning and Teaching Technologies examines the challenges and issues that universities face when implementing and utilizing virtual education technologies.E-Collaboration Chapter V. Identifying Key Factors of Motivation to Share and Re-Use Pedagogical Documents , Fernandes E., Holzer F., Wentland M., Zaerpour B., IRM Press, Hershey, PA, USA, 2003, 314 pages, ISBN: 1-931777-39-X ISSUES AND TRENDS OF INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY IN CONTEMPORARY ORGANIZATIONS (2002 IRMA Confernce Proceedings held in Seattle, WA, USA) by Mehdi Khosrowpour Table of ContentsDistance Learning,IT/Community Partnerships, IT Evaluation Methods, Ethics Issues, Virtual Organizations, Enterprise Resources, IT Business Value, Information Modeling Methods, Project Management and IT, Social Responsibility Issues, Text Databases, Document Management, Environmental Information SystemsAs the field of information technology continues to grow and expand, it impacts more and more organizations worldwide. The leaders within these organizations are challenged on a continuous basis to develop and implement programs that successfully apply information technology applications. This is a collection of unique perspectives on the issues surrounding IT in organizations and the ways in which these issues are addressed. This valuable book is a compilation of the latest research in the area of IT utilization and management. Motivating Authors to Share and Re-use Pedagogical Documents , Fernandes Emmanuel, Holzer Fabrice, Wentland Maria, Zaerpour Bahram, IGI Publishing, Hershey, PA, USA, 2002, 1200 pages ISBN: 1-930708-39-4 News - SemanTech Business News Mon, 16 Jun 2008 09:34:32 +0100 http://www.semantech.biz/content/view/19/42/ SemanTech is now located at IdeArk/IDIAPOur new address : SemanTechc/o IdeArk - IDIAPAvenue des Prés-Beudin 201920 Martigny - VSSwitzerlandIDIAP, IdeArk's core institute, employs dozens of researchers from around the world. Apart from its fundamental research programs with significant international potential, the Institute focuses on technology transfer mainly through application agreements concluded with commercial or academic partners. In an environment designed to nurture innovation, IDIAP offers industrial sponsoring and licensing programs to member companies with opportunities for growth and unlimited access to the Institute's research. Researchers, R D department heads or startup managers may be hosted at IdeArk for a given time period. They will find the expertise and the technological tools they need to complete their training or to evaluate the feasibility of their ideas. Validated at IDIAP, your proposed project becomes a preindustrial prototype thanks to the support from the nearby Haute Ecole Valaisanne (HEVs) and others. In addition, IdeArk proposes to support your project in conjunction with other partners active in different areas that are indispensable to its development: process optimization, coaching, market evaluation, funding, marketing and communication. IdeArk: recognized leadership IdeArk is affiliated with IDIAP, an institute of world acclaim which directs a number of research projects of national and international importance. IdeArk thus benefits from extended scientific and technological networks of partners in academia and industry. News - SemanTech Business News Wed, 30 Jan 2008 14:59:18 +0100 http://www.semantech.biz/content/view/5/26/ I hope that future search engines deliver personalized results to me, preferably using natural language. I’m expecting a lot of...Richard MacManus - Founder of Read/Write Web The Internet@Me - Internet has changed the way people communicate. A lot of actions like checking emails or answering to VoIP calls are today as natural as watching TV. Moreover, 10 years ago people would say that they could not live without TV; today millions of people and companies could not survive without the Internet. Another observation: unlike the TV world which is more or less comprehensible or at least understandable for the big majority, the Internet remains quite difficult, even hostile for people who are not familiar with it. Of course, compared to the past, the access to computers and to the information is getting more and more easy and friendly. From the questions of “how do I access the information” to “where do I find the information” that companies like Google or Microsoft tried to answer. The next big challenge is to answer to this fundamental question: “how is this information valuable to me?” As well as each individual owns his unique DNA, each individual looks differently or uniquely for information on the Internet. The search of information on the Web became a daily activity for hundreds of million users; and search engines such as Microsoft’s Live Search, Yahoo! or Google are popular because they are answering to the very important question written here above “where do I find the information?” Google in particular is so successful, because it manages to develop a unique search engine that is delivering the best search results amongst the others. The fabulous success of Google is the consequence of the overall quality and simplicity of the results that the information is delivered to users. In other words the best answer gets it all.Today, even the emerging Web 2.0 market is getting popular and very interesting for investors because it brings new schemas for the absorption of the information. But all current methods, whatever is their degree of sophistication, do not succeed in performing three essential missions: Take into account the profile of the user (his interests and intentions, his/her level of knowledge in such or such domain etc.),Select the most relevant result according to the sense of the request, Offer tools allowing to understand the information delivered and to translate it into knowledge. Founder of Read/Write Web –Richard MacManus - recently said: “I hope that future search engines deliver personalized results to me, preferably using natural language. I’m expecting a lot of…”. This was exactly the starting point of our thinking at Semantech: “The Internet @Me”. Corporate Creeds and Mission - Thinking does not cost anything. Thinking wrongly will cost you everything. Success in the global knowledge economy is based on the ability of organizations to derive value from their intellectual capital - their people, best practices, customers, partners and knowledge of competitors. SemanTech is committed to providing applications that maximize the value of know-how information across the enterprise. SemanTech develops business and R D 3G solutions that provide an enterprise-wide virtual work environment that empowers our customers to access, create, communicate, and collaborate on business content across organizational and geographic boundaries. SemanTech is dedicated to delivering open architecture, web based, offline capable applications that address key business issues through enterprise information management solutions. Semantech’s mission is to deliver individual, personalized and tailored information whoever you are. Our principal business strategy is to develop and market an integrated suite of services, based on our core architecture (Seenapse™) that empower people to use, understand, learn and modify the information they need. Our Values - Dedication, Innovation, TransdisciplinarityOur people are dedicated to creating customer satisfaction and shareholder value. We take an innovative approach to product and service development and solving problems. We celebrate transdisciplinarity. Market Opportunity - Semantech’s ambition is to provide a different way to search for information. Our aim is not just to be another search engine company among others, but our clear goal is to “search different”. A lot of global companies like Google are today heavily investing in research and development to propose the next generation of search engine. Semantech is today ahead of the curve as we were already thinking beyond general search boundaries. We have now a unique opportunity to propose a concrete and valuable difference: a knowledge engine. To achieve our goals, today we are in advanced discussion to establishing a strong and long-term partnership with a famous Research Institute.Numerous talented former researchers at this Institute hold today key R D and strategic positions at leading companies of the IT Web sector, among them, Google, Logitech, etc. - Thu, 19 Aug 2004 20:11:07 +0100