iNNOVATIONS THROUGH INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY

Objectives

• Discuss how IT and AE intersect
• Provide cross cultural similarities and diffferences in IT
• Establish goals for personal IT information gap.
• Review  book

Why IT?

• " Technology is traditionally considered an outcome of human behavior
• Information technology is also an influencer of human behavior" 
•                                      (Evans & Merhout, 2004).

BOOK Organization

• Article list
• Section titles
• Peer reviewed

Human SIde of It

• Interface characteristics (i.e. cross cultural webticut) 
• Decode: color, bold, caps, 
• Web based training
• Novel skill sets
• Ethics

Adult education

• Information systems as required course
• MIS vs. IT
• International IT terms
• What's your grade?

IT Around the GloBE

• Underdeveloped E-government/ lack of national funding
• Internationalisation of research
• Japanese interactive animation
• Developing countries