Aslib Proceedings: Volume 49 Issue 4

Comparative disadvantage and special opportunities and the information technology revolution: general considerations and the examination of visual impairment as a case study

Kevin Carey

It is generally assumed that the benefits of new communications technologies are universal and evenly distributed but this overlooks the concepts of comparative disadvantage and…

The benefits of a knowledge culture

Mike Bonaventura

Current received wisdom would seem to suggest that a simple deployment of web‐based technologies will provide the platform for competitive differentiation in the dynamic and agile…

Managing intranets to improve business process

J. Fishenden

Technological innovations have already provided the tools to transform information management. Now the task is to focus these technologies to improve business process in a world…

Teachers' use of information technology: observations of primary school classroom practice

Trevor W. Chalkley, David Nicholas

Published research indicates that teachers have not integrated information technology into their classroom practice and that computer use tends to be peripheral to other…