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The articles in this special section focus on information and communications technology (ICT) in education.

The COVID-19 pandemic has had major implications on socially vulnerable populations, especially minoritized populations. This article examines how technology-mediated learning can both operate as a tool to rectify inequities and a weapon that antagonizes existing divides for socially disadvantaged minoritized Black students. In analyzing this subsection of the population, we discuss technology-mediated

The use of information and communication technologies in the process of learning through technological resources can be strongly motivating for students. The use of appropriate digital content through simulations and animations can facilitate the understanding of complex content. In this work, the incidence of the use of technological devices by students of the mathematics subject in Secondary Education

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In recent years, escape rooms have become one of the leading leisure activities worldwide. Derived from these activities, educational escape rooms have emerged as a new type of teaching practice with the promise of enhancing students’ learning through highly engaging experiences. The rapid rise of educational escape rooms has led to a misalignment between educators’ needs for being able to implement

Integrating information and communication technologies in teaching and learning is recognized as a relevant and promising practice. However, integration can be complex, tedious, and draining. We propose an innovative approach for enhancing teaching and learning in a simple, pleasant, and effective way: repurposing a virtual world platform to develop a simulation-based training. Minecraft Education

E-learning resources are pieces of knowledge used for achieving a learning objective. One of the problems in e-training in the workplace has to do with the lack of relevance of learning resources. Here, we define a learning resource as a resource that contains information about a task or refers to a task realized within the context of an organizational process. We describe a set of activities for the

Even as companies become aware of the powerful benefits Internet-of-Things (IoT) data can bring to their organization, the investment costs of deploying new sensors in the field keep IoT initiatives as distant goals for many firms. At the same time, firms are swimming in substantial amounts of “dark data” that are created by operational technology, transactional systems, and other “things” already

Modern mobile networks face a dynamic environment with massive devices and heterogeneous service expectations that will need to significantly scale for 5G. Edge computing approaches aim at enhancing scalability through strategies like computation offloading and local storage services, which will be fundamental to deploying large-scale distributed applications. Unlike the cloud, edge resources are limited

Network security is the main issue in the Internet of Things networks because most manufacturers do not focus on security standards during design. The performance of firewalls, intrusion prevention systems, and intrusion detection systems depend upon accuracy, thus its essentials, to enhance the detection rate to lessen false alarms. The objective of the firewall is to find violations as per predefined

To protect against web spoofing attacks, most antiphishing solutions in the literature either escape certain attack patterns or are based on complex sets of parameters to identify phishing attacks or suffer from both. In this article, we propose that phishing attacks can be prevented by simply relying on an overall visual appearance of the web page that the user sees. To realize our claim, we propose

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The human being leads to an improved lifestyle because of better healthcare facilities, which is possible by practicing “sharing.” Sharing of minimal, necessary Electronic Health Records (EHRs) with legitimate grounds have made it easier for researchers and scientists to apply statistics, develop medicines, and improve healthcare facilities. However, it invites many security and privacy concerns. The

Businesses find the need to adapt to changes in the dynamic and competitive environment. However, they are confronted by static business architecture (BA) modeling and artefacts, which are less likely to adapt and, thus, quickly become obsolete. This article proposes a dynamic analytics-enabled adaptive BA modeling framework to address this concern. This research is performed using an action design

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The ability of organizations to sense and respond to changes—defined as organizational agility—is considered by senior executives among their top information technology (IT) concerns as an important ability for organizations on their quest toward sustained competitive advantage. However, every transformation toward agility also comes at a cost, requiring resource commitment and IT landscape changes

Artificial intelligence (AI) applications, although at a nascent stage of development, are already having considerable economic and social impacts in developing countries.1 An equally fascinating and important aspect of the development of the global AI industry is that a high proportion of jobs that require relatively low skills in this industry are being performed by the developing countries. The

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In the early days of computer science, the community settled on a simple standard model of computing and a basic canon of general purpose algorithms and data structures suited to that model. With isochronous computing, heterogeneous multiprocessors, flash memory, energy-aware computing, cache and other anisotropic memory, distributed computing, streaming environments, functional languages, graphics

This is a critical literature review of the open-source software landscape and what purpose it aims to serve by accelerating a debate in the field of IS about what open source means and how it has transformed the social and economic landscape of the software industry. As the general population has developed an increased dependence on information technology, the necessity for quality software offerings

The use of open-source software in business development has grown in the past five years. The rise of open source software has grabbed the attention of every industry such as e-commerce, fintech, cybersecurity, telecom, automotive, aviation, etc. This study aims to investigate how companies set up an open source program office (OSPO) to unlock the potential of OSS and to show the roadmap to set up

The migration of legacy monolith systems toward a microservice architecture is a large-scale, nontrivial technical activity and investment. This shift would be infeasible without the use of robust underlying software that can sustain a big part of this work and sort the complexities involved. A myriad of Open Source Software (OSS) projects are available in the community for this purpose, however, many

Mobile systems support portable, context-sensitive, and interactive computing that empower users to perform complex computations and communications on the go. Majority of the existing software systems run on web or workstation-based (traditional computing) platforms, lacking the capabilities of mobile systems, and are referred to as legacy software. The primary contribution of this research is a process-centric

The Digital Twin (DT) is an emerging approach that promises to change the way products and systems are made and used. The DT is attracting increasing interest in the Internet of Things community for its potential applications. Despite the hype, this approach requires a more precise definition and characterization in terms of its properties in relationship to software architectures and their platform

Amazon Mechanical Turk (MTurk) is a very popular method for researchers to complete large volumes of repeatable, cognitively simple tasks such as data labeling. However, MTurk is currently challenging to use for more cognitively complex tasks. This article presents a procedure to help researchers interested in using MTurk to complete large volumes of repeatable, cognitively complex tasks. By combining

Nowadays, we are at the dawn of a new age, the quantum era. Quantum computing is no longer a dream; it is a reality that needs to be adopted. But this new technology is taking its first steps, so we still do not have models, standards, or methods to help us in the creation of new systems and the migration of current ones. Given the current state of quantum computing, we need to go back to the path

Cloud platforms have been relieving users from managing their own infrastructures and simplifying the task of application development. In recent years, containerized cloud platforms further accelerate the development process and provide a fine-grained billing model. For enterprise users, many challenges exist when migrating their applications to cloud platforms. The challenges include resource isolation

Internet protocol (IP) is a part of the Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) /IP suite that operates below the network layer of the Open Systems Interconnection (OSI) reference model and is employed as an interface between the network and data link layer. The address resolution protocol (ARP) is a protocol used by IP for mapping an IP address to the corresponding media access control address that is

Recently, the right to privacy has become an important global issue, and laws are being enacted in different countries to ensure that citizens have control over how their data are stored and used. In this scenario, corporates face an increasing burden to comply with these laws, while ensuring that their business models and workflows are interrupted to as little a degree as possible. This article presents

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Internet of Things (IoT)-enabled devices were developed to make everyday life easier. Smart devices are becoming ubiquitous and increasing rapidly in number and applications. The growing popularity of smart devices indicates that the Internet of Things (IoT) technology is becoming more and more prominent in our everyday life. The IoT market was valued at $190 billion in 2018 and is expected to reach

In response to claims that 5G will “change the world,” 5G mobile communications systems have drawn considerable attention, from consumers and practitioners, to policymakers and academics. Amid mass-marketing campaigns and public posturing by early 5G pioneers in the telecom industry, cutting through the hype to understand the actual implications of this new technology is difficult. This article examines

Conducting a risk assessment (RA) for cloud computing platforms presents new challenges in the space of Information Security Management Systems (ISMS). ISO 27001 RA methods have been used for Alcohol Monitoring Systems (AMS) across a portfolio of products and services. Scaling these localized techniques to national and international cloud security standards shows that a ‘one size fits all’ RA approach

The four articles in this special issue focus on communications recovery and resilience. Communications recovery and resiliency is a topic of great concern in current times as disasters have taken a greater toll on society. The current COVID-19 pandemic has made us more dependent on communications networks and this has increased the premium placed on technologies and its operations. Communications

Resilience in telecommunication networks is viewed as a level of connectivity among nodes. This article discusses a preference-based edge weights assignment strategy. Preference values bias the selection of node and edge-related attributes to compute the level of connectivity.

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The datacenter networks we use today are based on a 50-year-old design. While it has served us well, that design no longer meets the needs of today's distributed applications. The result is failures visible to the users of those applications in spite of developers’ best efforts. We believe it is time to provide a new design, one that takes into account what today's applications need. To that end, we

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Satellite networks have long been regarded as a key enabler for ubiquitous Internet access and global data distribution. However, since they are highly dynamic and much more vulnerable to various failures, how to detour traffic around fault satellites and interrupted links becomes an important but challenging issue. Thanks to the emerging software-defined networking, great controllability can be introduced

In the last three decades, the great powers have become increasingly dependent on satellite communication (SATCOM), very high frequency (VHF), and ultrahigh frequency providing high bandwidth line-of-sight communications. These military communication channels lack resilience because an electronic warfare (EW) campaign can affect both VHF and SATCOM simultaneously. The 1940s preferred spectrum, high

This article explores the information systems involved in disaster relief supply chain for Hurricane Harvey survivors. We interviewed three organizations, the United Way, the BakerRipley, and the American Red Cross, on how information systems were used in this concerted effort of long-term recovery. We found that data sharing is the major challenge, and it is further constrained and complicated by

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Resilience is an organization's end-to-end capability to handle disruptions and recover postdisruption. This resilience depends on an organization's ability to predict disruptions and the preparedness of the leadership to handle them. Predictability and preparedness are functions of data science in the data-driven world of today's digital business. Artificial Intelligence (AI) within data science is

We propose a new method for life rescue operations after a hazard where the cellular network coverage is limited or nonexistent. The aim is to find survivors quickly by locating them even without their active participation. Our approach is based on deploying unmanned aerial vehicles as parts of the cellular network. We exploit the fact that, increasingly, almost everyone carries cellular mobile devices

A smart city provides significant services to it is inhabitants. Continued operation of these service is critical. This article investigates resilience against failures in a smart city. It classifies applications based on their impact of service degradation. It provides an overview of a wide range of faults and failures that could lead to service degradation. It also explores strengths of existing

Technostress is stress that individuals experience due to their use of information technology. It is associated with critical workplace consequences including reduced productivity. While the negative consequences are well known, what is less understood is how individuals can cope with technostress to alleviate them. We report on two studies that explain how organizational IT users can cope with technostress

Recent years have seen the continuous evolution of technology, which has led to the definition of frameworks such as the internet of things (IoT) and Industry 4.0. These paradigms are producing enormous quantities of data every single day. These data are subject to data analysis, shared publicly or kept secret. Traditionally, this task was carried out using databases. With the advent of Blockchain

Telecommunications service providers build highly available networks using equipment redundancy and overload protection mechanisms. However, because of network equipment misconfiguration or a natural disaster, the network equipment failover could be unsuccessful. This article proposes a linear programming model for determining the optimal distribution of user sessions in a commercial network such that