Many companies make considerable efforts in implementing supply chain management systems to increase their competitiveness. In particular, there are significant investments in their ICT (Information and Communication Technology) and supply chain. However, considerable diversity exists in how well firms have been able to assimilate ICT and leverage the business value of it. In addition, studies on supply chains, particularly Real Time Enterprise (RTE) competence, which is cited for rapid information sharing and dynamic capabilities for each role in the supply chain, are insufficient. The purpose of this paper is to explore and evaluate effect of ICT utilization capabilities, including ‘ICT internal cooperative capabilities’ and ‘ICT operational flexibility capabilities’, on RTE capabilities (flexibility, visibility and prediction) and supply chain performance. To validate the research model proposed in the study, survey was conducted on companies using ICT along the supply chain of manufacturing industries. 216 data were used, SPSS and AMOS were used for the analysis methods. Study results showed that ICT internal collaboration capabilities affect agility, one of RTE capabilities, but not visibility and prediction, and ICT operational flexibility capabilities have affected all three RTE capacities. And, RTE capabilities had a huge impact on supply chain performance as expected. In this paper, it has been found that the ICT capabilities in manufacturing are an important factor in improving RTE capabilities that are important in the supply chain and improving the performance of the supply chain.

The applications of information and communication technology (ICT) into real industrial fields are getting great attentions in recent years. More and more industrial practitioners and scientific researchers are conducting studies and trying to adopt the technologies into diverse industrial fields. The purpose of this study is to review the technologies such as big data and smart sensors and to provide application cases in order to facilitate grafting the 4th industrial revolutionary technologies onto the safety and health systems. Based on the comprehensive reviews on literature, reports, and industrial cases, we found that big data technology has been used in industries for investigating work related disease. In addition, digital image technology and drone have been applied to establish safety system in construction industry. Lastly, some companies have tried to apply the technologies to build their own safety and health system.

This study examined the influence of ICT on vocational and technical skills acquisition among polytechnic students in Osun State. The sample of the study was 350; consisting of undergraduate students from 2 Polytechnics in Osun State. Self-developed questionnaires were made and validated through pilot testing and administered to the sample for the collection of data. The researcher personally visited respondents, thus 100% of data were collected. The collected data were tabulated and analyzed by using percentage, frequency count and t-test analysis. The major findings of the study were that there is a significant difference in the impact of ICT on vocational and technical skills acquired by students of Polytechnics in Osun State, ICT has a greater impact on vocational and technical skills acquired by male students than that of females. It was also concluded that there is a significant difference in the impact of ICT on vocational and technical skills acquired by students of Polytechnics in Osun State based on specialization. Based on the findings of the study, major recommendations were enumerated as the government should develop ICT software that will be applicable to their indigenous cultures so as to make ICT more relevant to the local needs of the people, educators should be sponsored to attend workshops, seminars, and conferences, both locally and internationally, and educational programmes should be restructured to make them utility oriented, among others.

Honey bees are affected by a variety of factors, so they have to be thoroughly managed according to their lifestyle. The activity of the honey bee foragers represent an important parameter of the hive state. Here, the real-time and automatic monitoring system using dual infrared sensors was applied for counting the foraging activity of honey bees based on ICT. According to this study, this system is very accurate with a relative error of 3.98% / 4.43% compared to manual counting through video analysis. This system showed the scalability of the system through the internal and external temperature sensors connected through the main board and BLE module. Furthermore, the data measured through this system for one month were analyzed, the monthly average foraging activity and the number of lost foragers were measured (1.88% of outgoing bees), and at the same time, the foraging patterns according to the changes of temperature and time were analyzed. This study suggests that the development of apicultural, scientific and educational materials with more powerful real-time monitoring tools through expansion of a complex monitoring system and big data accumulation.

Many countries around the world have been pursuing the mission to fulfill the right to education of persons with disabilities. The usage of ICT has been well recognized internationally as essential to foster education, access to information and knowledge, and assist in the learning and teaching process. Furthermore, ICT has the great potential to ensure inclusion for persons with disabilities. The Government of Mongolia has been making efforts toward ensuring inclusion. However, the integration of ICT in schools for students with disabilities still needs further development through proper ICT policy. Therefore, this study intended to formulate the major principles of ICT Policy for improving ICT integration in education to meet the needs of students with disabilities. In this study, the content analysis of 39 academic articles from the period of 2006-2018 has been conducted in order to identify the best practices from other countries and find the applicable ones to Mongolia. As a result of this study, 7 principles have been formulated to improve ICT integration in education for students with disabilities in Mongolia.

In this paper, we identify risk factors that are likely to occur during the lifecycle of a new product development (NPD) project from the literatures, and identify the three objectives or three constraints that will ultimately be achieved for project success in the ICT industry : performance (scope/quality), schedule (time), and cost. Firstly, we interviewed the project experts to classify the risk factors according that the final project objectives are changeable based on scope/quality, time and cost budget constraints. Secondly, the survey for pairwise comparisons between the risk factors was asked to the project managers and members who had ever actually participated in the NPD projects of ICT industry to determine the priority ranks on relative importance using AHP (Analytic Hierarchy Process). The risk factors negatively affecting the goals of projects were analyzed by using the AHP respectively in four project stages during the life cycle of the project. The comparison of risk factors within each stage is a different approach unlike the literatures which have covered project’s overall risk assessment. There is an advantage that risk management can be effectively performed with priorities according to each stage from the start to the end of the project. In other words, it is necessary to identify what risk factors will occur in each stage, and to have ideas at each stage with the priorities so that they can be mitigated and eliminated before actual occurrence. As a result, risks on scope & quality changes were found to be the most important considerations for initiative stage of NPD projects in the ICT industry, whereas in the final stage, risks on schedule (time) changes were the most important priorities. Among the ICT industry product categories, ‘communication and broadcasting devices’ and ‘IT and communication based devices’ generally have a high priority in terms of risks on scope & quality changes when initiating the project. At the closing stage of the project, however, considering that schedule (time) changeable risk is getting higher, these products tend to target at B2B market rather than B2C because the new products must be delivered and launched in time as customer firm required.

ICT 기반의 표고 스마트 재배시설 모델을 개발하기 위하여 외부환경 영향을 감소시킨 재배하우스를 선정하였다. 선정된 재배사 내외부에는 재배환경 변화를 모니터링하기 위한 센서를 설치하였으며 센서에 의해 수집되는 환경변화 데이터를 기반으로 실시간으로 모니터링 및 제어가 가능한 제어반을 제작하였다. 표고재배 환경관리를 효율적으로 진행하기 위하여 재배과정 분석을 통해 4가지 과정으로 구분하고 각 과정에 따라 환경제어 모듈을 설계하였다. 원격 모니터링 및 제어를 위한 PC, 모바일 소프트웨어를 개발하여 재배자가 편리하게 재배환경을 관리하고 보다 안정적으로 버섯을 생산할 수 있는 재배시스템을 개발하였다.