Research Outputs (Institute of Corporate Citizenship)
https://hdl.handle.net/10500/5695
2024-03-28T12:59:59ZThe role of accessibility and usability in bridging the digital divide for students with disabilities in an e-learning environment
https://hdl.handle.net/10500/25864
The role of accessibility and usability in bridging the digital divide for students with disabilities in an e-learning environment
Schoeman, Marthie; Eloff, Mariki; Maboe, Motlhabane
The 2018 conference theme is "Technology for change". This conference theme should stimulate ideas on the way forward in Computer Science and Information Systems given the current debate on decolonisation and Africanisation in the tertiary sector. It may guide the contributions that our academic disciplines can and should make to enrich the knowledge and practice of Information and Communication Technology from an African perspective.
2018-09-01T00:00:00ZGlobal Data Breaches Responsible for the Disclosure of Personal Information: 2015 & 2016
https://hdl.handle.net/10500/25822
Global Data Breaches Responsible for the Disclosure of Personal Information: 2015 & 2016
Botha, J.; Grobler, M.M.; Eloff, Mariki
Data breaches have gained extensive coverage as businesses and organisations of all sizes become more dependent on digital data, cloud computing and workforce mobility. Companies store sensitive or confidential data on local machines, enterprise databases and cloud servers. To breach a company’s data one needs to gain access to restricted networks. Although this is a difficult task that requires specialised skills, hackers continuously identify vulnerabilities and loopholes to gain access and conduct data breaches. The Privacy Rights Clearinghouse1 recorded 901,010,077 data breaches since 2005, with only 5,220 data breaches made public. In 2015 some of the world’s largest recorded data breaches occurred; yet a total of only 266 data breaches were made public. 2016 still had a number of major data breaches and a total of 472 breaches were made public. When conducting business in the modern era, data protection and management of personal information have become an integral aspect for organisations and individuals. Despite increased focus on personal information and the existence of data protection legislation internationally, data breaches remain a common occurrence resulting in major cost implications. This paper investigates the most significant data breaches in 2015 and 2016 responsible for the leakage of personal information, with the aim of identifying a general trend in terms of data breaches and personal identifiable (PII) leakage.
Proceedings of the 16th European Conference on Cyber Warfare and Security, University College Dublin, Ireland, 29-30 June 2017 e
2017-06-01T00:00:00ZCo-leadership in climate change: An agenda for 2013 and beyond.
https://hdl.handle.net/10500/20170
Co-leadership in climate change: An agenda for 2013 and beyond.
Nhamo, Godwell
The climate change (CC) discourse has moved from the dominance of science into other contesting spaces that include politics, economics, religion, social justice and the business arena. Two questions are addressed in this paper: (1) which actors (human), actants (non-human) and networks have been and are shaping the CC narrative? (2) Who could be the appropriate leaders and leadership models to address the challenges associated with CC in our times? Powerful scientific, political and economic groupings spearheading the CC agenda have emerged. To this end, co-leadership might be an appropriate model for addressing CC in this century. A co-leadership model recognizes the existence and interface of leaders and co-leaders. In CC co-leadership places this narrative at the centre, driving various kinds of leaders and co-leaders as well as leadership and co-leadership tied to numerous CC leadership zones. Among some of the leadership zones are mitigation, adaptation, financing, technology, social dynamics, and policy framework. The entire work is informed by an analytical framework that permits documentation, understanding and tracing of actors, actants and networks, thus, the Actor/Actant Network Theory.
2009-01-01T00:00:00ZBiting the hand that feeds you: green growth and electricity revenues in South African metropolitans
https://hdl.handle.net/10500/20169
Biting the hand that feeds you: green growth and electricity revenues in South African metropolitans
Nhamo, Godwell; Mjimba, Vuyo
Local governments are central in green growth (green economy) transition. They set framework conditions for investments, draw up incentives and finance, inform private behavior and drive local innovation and scaling up. Consequently, South African metropolitan municipalities have been engaging with the green growth transition agenda as informed by the need to mitigate negative impacts of climate change through green growth transition strategies. Green growth transition is, however, associated with both risks and opportunities for local governments, especially when one considers electricity revenues. Through a case study of the impact of mitigating the demand for coal generated electricity demands in the Johannesburg, Tshwane and Cape Town metropolitan municipalities, this research sought to identify risks associated with such transition so that these are minimized whilst opportunities are enhanced. Among the key measures aimed at mitigating demand for this ‘dirty’ electricity, the retrofitting of energy efficient technologies in municipal and private facilities and the use of renewable energy sources (dominated by the use of solar technologies) are the most prominent. This paper, however, finds that the use of these technologies poses the risk of ‘biting the hand that feed the metropolitans’. This is so given that significant revenue is generated from rates charged on usage of this dirty electricity. The conclusion from this work is that whilst there is pressure for metropolitan municipalities in South Africa and globally to embrace the green growth agenda, due diligence must be undertaken to minimize the risks associated with this transition.
2014-01-01T00:00:00Z