For older adults in rural regions of Australia the issues of distance, accessibility and social connectivity associated with rural living add another dimension to the physical and social challenges associated with ageing. New technologies offer the potential of increasing connectedness for older rural people. This paper examines the comfort levels with, and attitudes to, technology from a surv…

Attracted by the prospective opportunities offered by the Internet for market and communication diversification, small and medium enterprises (SMEs) adopt information and communication technologies (ICT), hoping to better their performances. This study assessed the adoption of e-commerce by SMEs in Botswana. It aimed at finding out the factors that led to e-commerce adoption, the kinds of e-c…

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In discussions of nanotechnology, it has become increasingly common to emphasise the importance of ‘responsible governance’. This study focused on the issue of environmental governance and was specifically interested in critically exploring the relationship between nature and nanotechnology. It began by characterising a range of narratives commonly told about nature and nanotechnology and …

This study investigated the utilisation of Internet services and their impact on teaching and research output in two purposively selected private universities in South-Western Nigeria. Both quantitative and qualitative methods were used for data collection. Questionnaires were administered to 214 academic staff, selected through simple random sampling technique. In-depth interviews complemente…

In this article we explore how online daters use technology to assess and manage the real and perceived risks associated with online dating. Online in depth interviews were conducted with 29 participants. The interview transcripts were analysed using thematic analysis. All participants believed that online dating was risky in some manner. To manage these risks participants used technology in va…

This article looks at the issue of Internet adoption in Cambodian higher education by examining the general uses and attitudes toward the Internet, and its academic utilisation by Cambodian university students. A survey of over 1500 undergraduate students at four Cambodian universities showed that the main usage motivations amongst the students were: information seeking, entertainment, and, t…

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The preface begins by providing a background to this special edition. It then summarises each of the six featured articles. The papers display a wide range of participation cultures and institutional settings of engagement. They elaborate on the performance of deliberative dialogues, methodological aspects of engagement, and their relation to (political) decisionmaking contexts. The contributi…

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