Search Results - "2015 IST-Africa Conference"

Heuristics for evaluating usability of Learning Management Systems in Africa by Mtebe, Joel S., Kissaka, Mussa M.

“…The adoption and use of various Learning Management Systems (LMS) to enhance education in Africa is becoming common. However, the majority of institutions have…”
Get full text

Using TV White Spaces and e-Learning in South African rural schools by Masonta, Moshe T., Ramoroka, Tlou M., Lysko, Albert A.

“…This paper uses the example of the television white space (TVWS) project in Limpopo Province of South Africa to consider benefits of TVWS technology to enable…”
Get full text

Sentiment analysis of the ICT4Rural Education teacher professional development course by Featherstone, Coral, Botha, Adele

“…This paper reports on an attempt to gauge the experiences of teachers participating in a teacher professional development course through sentiment analysis…”
Get full text

Citizen-centric critical success factors for the implementation of e-government: A case study of Kenya Huduma Centres by Otieno, Ibrahim, Omwenga, Elijah

“…The development of the Internet and emerging technologies offer government new opportunities to serve and interact with citizens in transformative ways that…”
Get full text

Digital forensics in the Cloud: The state of the art by Sibiya, George, Venter, Hein S., Fogwill, Thomas

“…The advent of cloud computing has brought new challenges to digital forensics. To address these challenges, new approaches in conducting digital forensic are…”
Get full text

An exploration of critical success factors for e-Governance project initiation: A preliminary framework by Hatsu, Sylvester, Ketcha Ngassam, Ernest

“…E-Governance (e-Gov) has generally been acclaimed as innovation that can provide an impetus for socio-economic development across the globe. As a result,…”
Get full text

Factors determining digital divide in Ghana's basic schools by Quaicoe, James Sunney, Pata, Kai

“…This paper explores the concept of digital divide (DD) in Ghana's basic schools in Sekondi-Takoradi Metropolis in Western Region. We tested the ICT culture…”
Get full text

A model for mobile phone adoption in maternal healthcare by Byomire, Gorretti, Maiga, Gilbert

“…Uganda's maternal mortality ratio persists at 435/100,000 live births. Progress towards the country's target ratio of 131/100,000 live births, as derived from…”
Get full text

The adoption of crowdsourcing platforms in South Africa by Chuene, Daniel, Mtsweni, Jabu

“…Crowdsourcing has increasingly become a popular phenomenon where organisations solicit the help of the public to accomplish activities that are usually…”
Get full text

Designing for sustainability: Involving communities in developing ICT interventions to support water resource management by Ssozi-Mugarura, Fiona, Blake, Edwin, Rivett, Ulrike

“…Rural Africans have poor access to clean and safe water compared to other developing areas. Many Information and Communication Technology (ICT) interventions…”
Get full text

Design of an open ICT4D knowledge repository by Platz, Melanie, Van Biljon, Judy

“…Reputable Information and Communication Technology (ICT) for Development (ICT4D) collections focused on Sub-Saharan Africa exist but a platform where these…”
Get full text

Heterogeneous wireless network based on Wi-Fi and ZigBee for cattle monitoring by Nkwari, Patrick Kibambe Mashoko, Rimer, S., Paul, B. S., Ferreira, H.

“…The combination of using Wi-Fi and ZigBee technologies in an application to monitor cattle has the potential to increase the range of the network when the…”
Get full text

Improving South Africa's Cyber Security by cyber securing its small companies by Von Solms, Basie

“…The 2013 Norton Cyber Security reports reveal that South Africa has the third highest number of cybercrime victims in the word - only surpassed by China and…”
Get full text

MOOCs for pre-service teachers: Their notions of 21st Century Learning Design by Goto, Jameson, Batchelor, Jacqueline, Lautenbach, Geoffrey

“…New and emerging learning technologies are continuously disrupting educational practice. In this study, Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) were used in the…”
Get full text

Mobile e-learning: The choice between Responsive/Mobile Websites and Mobile Applications for Virtual Learning Environments for increasing access to Higher Education in Malawi by Chilivumbo, Chifundo

“…This study seeks to look into deployment of open source virtual learning environments, such as Moodle, for developing country situations using Malawi as a case…”
Get full text

A lightweight mobile e-procurement solution for rural small scale traders implemented using a living lab approach by Ntawanga, Felix, Coleman, Alfred

“…Proliferation of mobile technologies usage in emerging regions represents an opportunity for leveraging the benefits of mobile ICTs by rural communities…”
Get full text

SIEMA: A system to improve the access to medical emergency services by Calado, Mateus, Antunes, Luis, Ramos, Ana

“…Health is one of the issues that present more challenges in Angola. These challenges come not only from the constraints of the area itself, but result also…”
Get full text

Cultivating lifelong learning: Pre-service teachers and their MOOCs by Batchelor, Jacqueline, Lautenbach, Geoffrey

“…The South African Council for Educators (SACE) is in the process of implementing their Continuous Professional Teacher Development (CPTD) management system…”
Get full text

Mobile solution for better reading instruction in rural Africa by Ojanen, Emma, Jere-Folotiya, Jacqueline, Yalukanda, Christopher, Sampa, Francis, Nshimbi, Chomba, Katongo, Maggie, Choopa, Mapenzi, Lyytinen, Heikki

“…GraphoGame Teacher Training Service is a mobile-based solution for providing teachers with scientifically validated pedagogical training in literacy…”
Get full text

Preparing teachers to integrate tablet computers into teaching and learning by Batchelor, Jacqueline, Olakanmi, Eunice Eyitayo

“…This paper presents on-going research at one of the pilot school sites involved in the HP- National Education Technology Assessment (HP-NETa) project which…”
Get full text