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ICT can contribute to the development and efficiency of education management and administration. Efforts to introduce ICT in teaching, learning and assessment aim to help meet a wide variety of goals in the education sector. This paper is based on a research project that was carried out in Strathmore University by @iLabAfrica, funded by the Kenya Education Network (KENET). The research was driven...
This paper presents the experience and process of implementing energy information systems, one in West Africa and the other in the MENA region. The intention is to showcase the work done, provide a return on experience, and illustrate the relevant role of regional institutions towards coordination and contribution to Sustainable Energy global data space.
Along with the gradual depletion of the current IPv4 Internet protocol address blocs, the issue of the new version of Internet protocol transition and support is getting more and more topical. Nowadays, IPv6 does not represent a topic for IT specialists only, but also for governments and policy and decision makers that more and more aware of the IPv6 role in the process of ensuring the access to the...
Setting up of intelligent infrastructures to exchange traffic at regional level, on a peering or transit basis, point to the emergence of a key infrastructure element — the Regional Internet Exchange Point (RIXP). RIXP plays a key role in advancing the development of the Internet ecosystem. RIXP provides a shared physical infrastructure for ISPs and RIXP to interconnect. The deployment of a Regional...
Since its existence for the past ten years, the SIP-based Voice Over IP (VoIP) network is playing a key role in the current and future communication by utilising the existing broadband Internet access. Unfortunately, Denial of Service and Distributed Denial of Service (DoS/DDoS) attacks can inflict harmful threats to various nodes (SIP proxy servers, User agents, etc) and may cause failure to the...
The spread of Living Labs across the world has been well documented in [10]. One possible reason for the popularity of Living Labs is the way in which they leverage ICT as a horizontal enabler. Both ICTs and Living Labs are at the centre of innovation in many societies. The continuous technological changes have promoted Living Labs development and countries have supported co-design and take up of...
The tourist industry needs an extensive information support to promote their activities. There are many existing information resources that have two main characteristics: focus on local initiatives and are very heterogeneous (using different data models, frequency of update etc). On the other hand users have their own requirements. They want to find interesting, attractive and credible information...
The present paper accordingly with some studies carried out within the UNESCO IFAP programme introduces a synthetic overview on the impact due to recent ICT trends on society and due to the participation in a worldwide observatory on eContent & Services presents a selection of African success stories in the field of digital creativity. A number of African countries are competing every year to...
Very often, public policies can only be evaluated after they have been implemented and deployed. The prior simulation of these policies can ensure several benefits: the design can be more accurately adjusted to the objectives of the policy makers; the policies can better reflect the motivations of the individuals involved in several roles (in the case of health services: users, doctors, nurses, civil...
In the past few years, the Online Social Network (OSN) industry has revolutionised the way in which information, often of a personal nature, is stored, shared and accessed by millions of online users. This has been used to the advantage of many individuals and even organisations, but it has also been abused by cyber criminals. We examine a few examples of how cyber criminals have adapted cyber crimes...
For centuries, rural communities have relied on their indigenous knowledge for survival and sustenance. Indigenous Knowledge (IK) is understood as local knowledge, which is unique and traditional to a specific community. Due to the fact that IK plays an important role in the general well-being of a community, IK needs to be properly collected and protected. In view of this, the South African government...
The Institute of Tropical Medicine in Antwerp hereby presents the results of two pilot distance learning training programmes, developed under the umbrella of the AFRICA BUILD project (FP7). The two courses focused on evidence-based medicine (EBM): with the aim of enhancing research and education, via novel approaches and to identify research needs emanating from the field. These pilot experiences,...
Information Technology (IT) significantly impacts the environment throughout its life cycle. Most organisations and data centres in Mauritius have not paid enough attention to this until recently. Given the relative energy and materials inefficiency of most IT infrastructures today, many green IT initiatives can be easily tackled at no incremental cost. The EU Code of Conduct for Data Centres (EUCOC)...
Mobile services and mobile content is available to diverse users in possession of the necessary mobile phones. However, some of the mobile services and mobile content is text intensive and this discounts low literate users in participation in the related mobile applications. Exploring typical challenges experienced by low literate users and adapting these mobile applications using visual interfaces...
The development and roll-out of ICT and information systems in Africa has steadily increased in recent years as African nations attempt to bridge the gap between the digital divide. This increasing reliance on information systems has introduced many security risks, the existence of which has prompted the greater necessity to protect these systems. The use of knowledge-based, token-based and biometrics-based...
Translation between one language and another is extensively carried out by students, tourists and business persons. The importance of translation cannot be underestimated, especially with the number of translation devices in use by travellers. Google Translate has set up a multilingual translation system and it is regularly used by people all over the world. In Mauritius, translation of the Mauritian...
Approximately more than eight hundred (800) First Year Students at the University of Namibia in 2010 and 2011 were enrolled in Mathematics class against a few teaching staff. As such this resulted in a challenge to individual students' attention, which yielded low passing rate. To improve that, the students in their spare time tried to make use of computer services to revise and practice their Mathematics...
Advances in Information Technology have brought about cloud computing, an evolutionary computing practice that facilitates the provisioning of computing services as a utility. Cloud computing has brought about change in the economics and sustainability of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) enabled service provision. In South Africa, major aspects of public cloud computing or cloud in general...
Biometrics is playing a major role in automating personal identification system deployed to enhance security in several applications including use of passports, cellular telephones, automatic teller machines, computer systems and driver licenses. The use of biometric features for identification purposes requires that a particular biometric factor be unique for each individual, that it can be readily...
Design and implementation of Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) is a challenging task because WSN research is usually application specific and each application requirement brings with it a different set of constraints and design objectives. Effective use of WSNs in large scale and long-term monitoring of industrial water pollution requires satisfying two inherently contradicting requirements particular...
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