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Study examining whether the computer science curriculum at the sudanese high secondary schools is adequate to qualify the students to be computer literate 研究考察苏丹高中的计算机科学课程是否足以使学生具备计算机素养

2014 IST-Africa Conference Proceedings Pub Date : 2014-05-07 DOI: 10.1109/ISTAFRICA.2014.6880620

Atiga Yousif Elmubark

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引用次数: 0

User willingness to accept friend requests on SNS: A facebook experiment 社交网络用户接受好友请求的意愿:facebook实验

2014 IST-Africa Conference Proceedings Pub Date : 2014-05-07 DOI: 10.1109/ISTAFRICA.2014.6880610

F. Hattingh, Albertus A. K. Buitendag, W. Thompson

引用次数: 8

Predicting adoption of mHealth technology in resource constrained environments 预测移动医疗技术在资源受限环境中的应用

2014 IST-Africa Conference Proceedings Pub Date : 2014-05-07 DOI: 10.1109/ISTAFRICA.2014.6880628

Gilbert Maiga, Flavia Namagembe

引用次数: 7

Towards the development of a citizen-centric framework for evaluating the impact of eGovernment: A case study of developing countries 以公民为中心的电子政务影响评估框架的发展:发展中国家的案例研究

2014 IST-Africa Conference Proceedings Pub Date : 2014-05-07 DOI: 10.1109/ISTAFRICA.2014.6880644

Ibrahim Otieno, E. Omwenga

{"title":"Towards the development of a citizen-centric framework for evaluating the impact of eGovernment: A case study of developing countries","authors":"Ibrahim Otieno, E. Omwenga","doi":"10.1109/ISTAFRICA.2014.6880644","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ISTAFRICA.2014.6880644","url":null,"abstract":"eGovernment has emerged as one of the innovative ways of providing information and delivering services to citizens. It is providing governments with new opportunities of bringing services closer to the citizen in cost-effective, efficient and transparent ways. In spite of the implementation of e-government, there is little research that has been conducted in the context of developing countries to benchmark and appraise the impact of e-government on the target groups. Assessment of impact is important to justify public fund expenditure and inform future projects. Most studies on assessment of e-government have been done in developed countries where the context is different from that of developing countries. Therefore, there is need to develop frameworks that are suitable in the context of developing countries. Studies on assessing impact have been done at macro, meso and micro levels. These studies are largely based on supply-side and a few on demand-side with little focus on outcomes and impact. In this paper, we perform an analysis of various proposed e-government assessment frameworks with the aim of identifying and recommending the adoption of a framework that is suitable in the context of a developing country. We propose the adoption of a hybrid framework that amalgamates the frameworks developed by Bhatnagar and Singh and Verdegem et al due to their contextual suitability and citizen-centric approach. This is an exploratory study that lays foundation for further research in the development of an appropriate framework using the proposed approach.","PeriodicalId":248893,"journal":{"name":"2014 IST-Africa Conference Proceedings","volume":"167 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-05-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121432372","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

引用次数: 13

Cloud computing can reshape Uganda's development 云计算可以重塑乌干达的发展

2014 IST-Africa Conference Proceedings Pub Date : 2014-05-07 DOI: 10.1109/ISTAFRICA.2014.6880600

Collins Mwesigwa

引用次数: 1

Data structures for information retrieval 用于信息检索的数据结构

2014 IST-Africa Conference Proceedings Pub Date : 2014-05-07 DOI: 10.1109/ISTAFRICA.2014.6880643

D. L. Nkweteyim

引用次数: 2

Perun — Modern approach for user and service management Perun -用户和服务管理的现代方法

2014 IST-Africa Conference Proceedings Pub Date : 2014-05-07 DOI: 10.1109/ISTAFRICA.2014.6880654

M. Procházka, S. Licehammer, L. Matyska

引用次数: 9

PotatoSense: A wireless sensor network system for precision agriculture PotatoSense:一个用于精准农业的无线传感器网络系统

2014 IST-Africa Conference Proceedings Pub Date : 2014-05-07 DOI: 10.1109/ISTAFRICA.2014.6880613

K. Khedo, Mohammad Riyad Hosseny, Mohammad Ziyad Toonah

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引用次数: 15

Made in Africa: African digital creativity 非洲制造:非洲数字创意

2014 IST-Africa Conference Proceedings Pub Date : 2014-05-01 DOI: 10.1109/ISTAFRICA.2014.6880668

A. Ronchi

引用次数: 0