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The Internet is our largest shared global resource so we all need to participate in the creation and maintenance of a healthy Internet. There are five main determinants of internet health, namely: decentralization, digital inclusion, online privacy and security, openness, and Web literacy. Web Literacy : Everyone needs to be able to read, write and participate in the digital world. More people need to move from consuming to creating and defending the Web. Everyone should have the knowledge needed to tap into the full power of the internet and use it to improve their lives. The promoted concept of universal Web literacy emerged in response to the deficiency in web creators and defenders. This concept states that everyone should be able to read, write and participate online. Everyone needs to possess the skills required for healthy internet citizenship. These skills enable users shape the Web, keep themselves safe and/or even make a living with the Internet. Web literacy is much ...

Blogs (short for Web Logs) first emerged almost a decade ago as a medium for posting online diaries. (In a perhaps apocryphal story, Wired Magazine claimed the term “Web Log” was coined by Jorn Barger, a sometimes homeless, yet profoundly prolific, Internet poster). [1] Blogs in the typical sense, provide comment mechanisms where users can post feedback for authors and other readers. The blogging community form what is today known as the blogosphere (a powerful voice for change). Popular blogs are discovered via blogging apps like ‘trackbacks’. Blog popularity is reinforced mainly through the use of ‘blog rolls’. Blog-ranking indexes and websites then take over with the blog classification. Trackbacks are links in 
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IT infrastructure can be defined from two main perspectives. These are the technical and service perspectives. The Technical perspective is defined as the shared technology resources that provide the platform for the firm’s specific information system applications. It consists of a set of physical devices and software applications that are required to operate the entire enterprise. From the service perspective, IT infrastructure is defined as providing the foundation for serving customers, working with vendors, and managing internal firm business processes. In this sense, IT infrastructure focuses on the services provided by all the hardware and software. IT infrastructure is a set of firm-wide services budgeted by management and comprising both human and technical capabilities. IT infrastructure today is composed of seven major components. These are: internet platforms, computer hardware platforms, operating systems platforms, operating system platforms, Enterprise Softw...

An information system is any organized combination of people, hardware, software, communications networks, and data resources that stores, retrieves, transforms, and disseminates information in an organization (O'Brien & Marakas, 2006) . Information systems have three main roles in business: support strategies for competitive advantage; support business decision-making; and support business processes and operations. This fall in line with the six major strategic business objectives ( Operational excellence; New products, services, and business models; Customer and supplier intimacy; Improved decision making; Competitive advantage; and Survival). Operational excellence Operational excellence involves the improvement of efficiency to attain higher profitability. Information systems enabled by technology are reliable tools for achieving greater efficiency and productivity. Customers should be able to perceive operational excellence as it transmits through ease in cus...