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Using a productive distance PhD program to empower women in academia 利用富有成效的远程博士课程赋予学术界女性权力
2016 IST-Africa Week Conference Pub Date : 2016-05-11 DOI: 10.1109/ISTAFRICA.2016.7530698
S. Muñoz-Hernández, I. Osman
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引用次数: 2
Contribution of mobile messaging applications to improve citizen security 移动通讯应用程序对提高公民安全的贡献
2016 IST-Africa Week Conference Pub Date : 2016-05-11 DOI: 10.1109/ISTAFRICA.2016.7530688
Paul Dayang
{"title":"Contribution of mobile messaging applications to improve citizen security","authors":"Paul Dayang","doi":"10.1109/ISTAFRICA.2016.7530688","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ISTAFRICA.2016.7530688","url":null,"abstract":"Mobile technologies are nowadays perceived as the most reliable technologies in the context of developing countries. Getting acquainted and trained, users may enhance their livelihoods by adopting new technological approaches. The main motivation for adopting new technologies evolved from their use in own environment by solving daily problems. Therefore, users need to be convinced that the technology will work in their best interests, for instance for controlling and improving security issues among a given population. As security issues are important, also in Cameroon, the evident existence of mobile devices all over the land even in remote villages without electricity and drivable roads, is something we shall rely on. The overall existing mobile infrastructure is an established precondition for building and creating local adapted mobile services. Stuck to their devices, how can mobile users efficiently contribute to enhance security in own locality? In this paper, we suggest a software architectural model for the development of a system for collecting and dispatching security data amount a giving population. The proposed model resulted from the analysis of existing messaging applications and a survey conducted in the city of Ngaoundere in Cameroun by interviewing 46 qualified mobile users.","PeriodicalId":326074,"journal":{"name":"2016 IST-Africa Week Conference","volume":"2001 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-05-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127310953","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: 0
Women in ICT: Barriers to career advancement and strategies for improvement 信息通信技术中的妇女:职业发展的障碍和改进策略
2016 IST-Africa Week Conference Pub Date : 2016-05-11 DOI: 10.1109/ISTAFRICA.2016.7530588
Ursula Sekoaila, F. Adebesin
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引用次数: 2
Prototyping mAgriculture applications among smallholder farmers 在小农中示范农业应用
2016 IST-Africa Week Conference Pub Date : 2016-05-11 DOI: 10.1109/ISTAFRICA.2016.7530687
A. Gichamba, Peter Waiganjo, D. Orwa, R. Wario, B. Ngari
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引用次数: 5
Digital TV accessibility — Analogue switch off in Europe and Africa 数字电视的可访问性-在欧洲和非洲关闭模拟开关
2016 IST-Africa Week Conference Pub Date : 2016-05-11 DOI: 10.1109/ISTAFRICA.2016.7530658
T. Itagaki, T. Owens, P. Orero
{"title":"Digital TV accessibility — Analogue switch off in Europe and Africa","authors":"T. Itagaki, T. Owens, P. Orero","doi":"10.1109/ISTAFRICA.2016.7530658","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ISTAFRICA.2016.7530658","url":null,"abstract":"17 June 2015 was the deadline for the switchover from analogue to Digital Terrestrial Television (DTV) in Europe, Africa, the Middle East and Central Asia. The DTV4ALL Project was a project funded by the European Commission under the CIP ICT Policy Support Programme to facilitate the provision of access services on digital television across the European Union; The call for proposals under which the project was funded was issued in response to the switch-off of analogue terrestrial television service in Europe being set to begin in 2012. The motivation for the call was to ensure the switchover would take place in such a way as to be favourable to the provision of access services. This paper summarises the main lessons learned from the DTV4ALL Project in terms of the provision of access services on DTV and highlights their possible application in Africa for the purposes of fostering e-inclusion and e-accessibility through digital TV.","PeriodicalId":326074,"journal":{"name":"2016 IST-Africa Week Conference","volume":"120 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-05-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116366035","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: 4
Use of Social Media to strengthen Service Delivery for Urban Agriculture in Uganda 利用社会媒体加强乌干达城市农业的服务提供
2016 IST-Africa Week Conference Pub Date : 2016-05-11 DOI: 10.1109/ISTAFRICA.2016.7530594
Gorretti Byomire, F. Namisango, Maria Miiro Kafuko
{"title":"Use of Social Media to strengthen Service Delivery for Urban Agriculture in Uganda","authors":"Gorretti Byomire, F. Namisango, Maria Miiro Kafuko","doi":"10.1109/ISTAFRICA.2016.7530594","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ISTAFRICA.2016.7530594","url":null,"abstract":"The steadfast growth of cities in developing countries is accompanied by high levels of poverty and hunger which in turn forces urban dwellers to engage in farming activities to satisfy their food levels and sell the surplus. However these farmers lack acquisition of adequate knowledge and information to improve their farming practices. There is no forum that brings farmers together for lesson and message sharing. Social media as a form of ICT has caught a tremendous role of facilitating dissemination of agricultural information providing a platform for interaction between farmers. The study aimed at investigating the use of Social Media to strengthen service delivery for urban agriculture in Uganda using a survey. The results indicate that the use of social media for urban agriculture should consider the dimensions of: Perceived Value, Training, Social Influence and Social Awareness as factors for the successful use of Social Media to Strengthen Service Delivery for Urban Agriculture.","PeriodicalId":326074,"journal":{"name":"2016 IST-Africa Week Conference","volume":"19 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-05-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114462801","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: 3
Development of an Online Biometric-enabled Class Attendance Register System 在线生物识别系统的开发
2016 IST-Africa Week Conference Pub Date : 2016-05-11 DOI: 10.1109/ISTAFRICA.2016.7530647
Victor Oluwatobiloba Adeniji, M. Scott, Nomnga Phumzile
{"title":"Development of an Online Biometric-enabled Class Attendance Register System","authors":"Victor Oluwatobiloba Adeniji, M. Scott, Nomnga Phumzile","doi":"10.1109/ISTAFRICA.2016.7530647","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ISTAFRICA.2016.7530647","url":null,"abstract":"This study presents an automated Online Biometric-enabled Class Attendance Register System (OBCARS) prototype. The system design and development is aimed at addressing the challenges of misplaced and/or torn attendance register paper sheets in various classrooms in Higher Educational Institutions. Also, the system is aimed at providing an efficient and effective class attendance tracking method that prevents attendance marking impersonation among students, and eases students' attendance record computation. The system adopted the use of biometric fingerprint reader for an individual student to input his/her attendance record for lectures attended in the system's back-end database. The system was tested with 50 students in the Department of Computer Science, University of Fort Hare Alice, South Africa for usability and fingerprint recognition accuracy. The test result indicated 97% accuracy at system level. The average execution time for student attendance tracking is 8.7 seconds against 22.6 seconds using paper attendance.","PeriodicalId":326074,"journal":{"name":"2016 IST-Africa Week Conference","volume":"497 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-05-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127588583","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: 9
HealthMessenger: An e-health service to support ICT deployments in poor areas HealthMessenger:一项电子保健服务，支持在贫困地区部署信通技术
2016 IST-Africa Week Conference Pub Date : 2016-05-11 DOI: 10.1109/ISTAFRICA.2016.7530632
C. Gremu, A. Terzoli, Mosiuoa Tsietsi
{"title":"HealthMessenger: An e-health service to support ICT deployments in poor areas","authors":"C. Gremu, A. Terzoli, Mosiuoa Tsietsi","doi":"10.1109/ISTAFRICA.2016.7530632","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ISTAFRICA.2016.7530632","url":null,"abstract":"Development and implementation of appropriate e-services as well as revenue generation are key to deploying and sustaining ICT installations in poor areas in developing countries. The area of e-Health is a promising area for e-Services that are important to populations in poor areas and health service organisations that are already spending money on different health initiatives in these areas. This paper discusses an e-Health service that facilitates dissemination of health information to people living in poor areas and that is subsequently used to generate revenue to support deployment and development of ICT in the areas. The tool was developed within the context of the Siyakhula Living Lab (SLL), a multi-stakeholder operation that promotes ICT for Development in the Eastern Cape Province of South Africa. Creation of health content for the e-health service and its subsequent consumption happen in two different environments from a technological and social point of view. To enable this to happen, the e-service comprises two component applications that run in a peer-to-peer fashion. The component that is used to disseminate content for end-user consumption is called the HealthMessenger. The HealthMessenger is hosted on an environment called TeleWeaver, an application integration platform developed within the SLL to host software applications targeting people living in poor areas. The platform is customised to support services with a revenue generation component.","PeriodicalId":326074,"journal":{"name":"2016 IST-Africa Week Conference","volume":"40 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-05-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125641031","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: 3
The influence of national culture on information security culture 民族文化对信息安全文化的影响
2016 IST-Africa Week Conference Pub Date : 2016-05-11 DOI: 10.1109/ISTAFRICA.2016.7530607
Sunthoshan G. Govender, E. Kritzinger, Marianne Loock
{"title":"The influence of national culture on information security culture","authors":"Sunthoshan G. Govender, E. Kritzinger, Marianne Loock","doi":"10.1109/ISTAFRICA.2016.7530607","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ISTAFRICA.2016.7530607","url":null,"abstract":"The strength of information security within organisations and countries is very much determined by the information security culture of people. The human factor of information security plays a significant role in securing information assets. National culture has an impact on organisational culture and therefore is also a consideration for enhancing information security culture. This research looks at the value of information security culture in organisations, frameworks for information security culture and the impact of national culture on organisational culture.","PeriodicalId":326074,"journal":{"name":"2016 IST-Africa Week Conference","volume":"94 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-05-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126405980","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: 14
Information security management in local government 地方政府信息安全管理
2016 IST-Africa Week Conference Pub Date : 2016-05-11 DOI: 10.1109/ISTAFRICA.2016.7530584
Joshua De Lange, Rossouw von Solms, M. Gerber
{"title":"Information security management in local government","authors":"Joshua De Lange, Rossouw von Solms, M. Gerber","doi":"10.1109/ISTAFRICA.2016.7530584","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ISTAFRICA.2016.7530584","url":null,"abstract":"Information and Communication Technology (ICT) has become so pervasive in most organizations, that business functions are almost completely dependent on it. ICT is the platform that enables most of the organization's information processing and storage. Within the context of local government, this is also the case as ICT plays a crucial role in achieving their goal of service delivery to their communities. Due to its high importance, the information and related ICT systems should be adequately protected by the process of information security management. However, the problem remains that the efforts of local government in addressing information security is unsatisfactory. In order to address this, the objective of this paper is to propose an architecture, combined with a process model, which aims to assist local government to improve their information security management. This architecture and process model was refined by engaging with practitioners within local government and is not only applicable to South Africa, but also the rest of Africa.","PeriodicalId":326074,"journal":{"name":"2016 IST-Africa Week Conference","volume":"92 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-05-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125179229","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: 5
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