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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 emerging cloud computing technology provides a compelling prospect for Institutions of Higher Learning to outsource their Information and Communications Technology (ICT). Although its reputation is escalating quickly, there are concerns that must be taken into account. The goal of this paper is to explore the potential of cloud computing in transforming and automating the operations of Higher...
The development in information technology has improved quality, safety, and efficiency of the health care. This study focused on automation of the primary sources' data to handle the right information timely and efficiently to decision-making. It aimed to identify the perceived attitudes experienced by Sudan Peritoneal Dialysis Program staff toward electronic files. The study reviewed the manual recorded...
This report describes the background, and related theories, results and reflections based on a research — innovation (R&I) model comprising multi-stakeholder co-creative workshops. The resulting new concepts, solutions and prototypes produced in a short limited time-scale are extraordinary compared to the outcome of standard research and innovation approaches. The developed prototypes and work-processes...
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...
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...
A number of South African municipalities have embraced the use of advanced information technology to improve their services to citizens. However, this is not a common practice across the country; there are still municipalities within South Africa who have not automated their information systems for better service delivery to the public. This study develops a data model that can be applied by municipalities...
Recent technology has made it possible for many people to have access to the Internet, thereby increasing the sharing of data among individuals or groups. But accessing of patient records by the patients and sharing of patient records amongst different stakeholders still needs more room for improvement. Even though there are a lot of Patient Care Information Systems (PCISs) and Computerised Provider...
Many young college and university lecturers working in remote rural areas or working in foreign countries away from home are deprived of the opportunity of pursuing post graduate university degrees because of a number of logistical problems such as distance from a university offering a PhD degree or restrictions in their temporary country of residence. These problems are compounded if there are connectivity...
The adoption of mobile technology in crime prevention has substantially grown across the world. However, this is not the case in Kenya, because the public still have to go from one police station to another to report crimes and to receive general services from the police. The crime records are usually recorded manually in police Occurrence Book (OB) and therefore determining the accurate crime trends...
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...
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,...
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...
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...
The process of efficiently indexing large document collections for information retrieval places large demands on a computer's memory and processor, and requires judicious use of these resources. In this paper, we describe our approach to constructing such an index based on the vector-space model (VSM). We review the stages involved in generating an index, for weighting the index terms, and for representing...
While it might deceptively appear that the major issues in medication concern medicine prescription calculations and the subtleness of conversions between measuring units, research in healthcare shows that the key issues relate to the context in which medication is prescribed. For instance, calculation of dose for the elderly is particularly sensitive especially in cases of repeat prescriptions whereby...
Based on a dual approach, which incorporated both a literature survey as well as a direct experiment without the preamble to support any hypothesis, the objectives of the research was to determine the likeliness of a SNS users from two different parts of South Africa to accept a friend request from a totally unknown and fictitious user. The results seem to point to a general willingness to accept...
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