Changing Information Systems Skill Requirements: Comparing Australia and Thailand

Due to the dynamic nature of information technology (IT) and its possible impacts on the nation’s economical well being, decision makers face considerable challenges in formulating National IT policies, IT human resource planning, and information systems (IS) education. This paper examines the changing IS skills requirements from the perspectives of IT industry professionals and IT academia in two countries-Australia and Thailand. Preliminary results support the proposition that the desired IT skill set is changing, and new IS skills in both the technical areas and the human-oriented areas are likely to emerge in the next few years. Also there are measurable differences in the perceptions of the IS people between the two countries

On Landing and Internal Web Pages

There is a rich body of literature on measuring and optimizing nearly every aspect of the web, including characterizing the structure and content of web pages, devising new techniques to load pages quickly, and evaluating such techniques. Virtually all of this prior work used a single page, namely the landing page (i.e., root document, "/"), of each web site as the representative of all pages on that site. In this paper, we characterize the differences between landing and internal (i.e., non-root) pages of 1000 web sites to demonstrate that the structure and content of internal pages differ substantially from those of landing pages, as well as from one another. We review more than a hundred studies published at top-tier networking conferences between 2015 and 2019, and highlight how, in light of these differences, the insights and claims of nearly two-thirds of the relevant studies would need to be revised for them to apply to internal pages.Going forward, we urge the networking community to include internal pages for measuring and optimizing the web. This recommendation, however, poses a non-trivial challenge: How do we select a set of representative internal web pages from a web site? To address the challenge, we have developed Hispar, a "top list" of 100,000 pages updated weekly comprising both the landing pages and internal pages of around 2000 web sites. We make Hispar and the tools to recreate or customize it publicly available