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MAWELA, TENDANI; TWINOMURINZI, HOSSANA; MSWELI, NKOSIKHONA; TAU, VICTORIA(National Electronic Media Institute of South Africa (NEMISA) and University of South Africa (UNISA), 2020-03-13)
The theme for the Digital Skills 2020 Colloquium and Postgraduate Symposium was “Enhancing
Human Capacity for Digital Transformation: It is about people”. It is widely accepted that current
digital changes that are ...
This thesis contributes to the ongoing global discourse in ICT4D on ICT and its effect on
socio-economic development in both theory and practice. The thesis comprises five studies
presented logically from chapters 5 to ...
Nyembe, Bangisisi Z. M.; Howard, Grant Royd(Springer, 2020-04-01)
It has been reported that WhatsApp, a social media application, had approximately 1.6 billion active users globally as of July 2019, almost one-fifth of the
total world’s population. Thus, research about WhatsApp’s influence ...
Van der Poll, A.E.; Van Zyl, I.J.; Kroeze, J.H.(Communications of the Association for Information Systems, 2020-04-01)
There has been a clarion call for the decolonization of South African universities. Decolonization focuses on the dismantlement of Western epistemological traditions and practices entrenched in the university culture and ...
The tendency of SMEs to focus on their core business activities often results in them overlooking competences to maximise ICT usage which, in turn, leads to the escalation of costs and the diminishing of investment returns. ...
Mobility and portability of wireless communication devices in Mobile
Ad Hoc Networks (MANETs) have introduced data security threats.
These threats are due to the utilisation of multiple hops resulting from
limited ...
The agile manifesto has certainly changed the way software is produced in the Information Communications Technology (ICT) industry. However, many persistent challenges cripple agile software development. One challenge is ...
Employment issues in South Africa (SA) are a significant problem. There are ongoing discussions revolving around the employability challenges facing South African graduates, particularly in the Information Technology (IT) ...
Investigations reveal that the failure rate of e-governance projects in developing countries is between 35% and 50% whereby, 35% is classified as a total failure and 50% is considered a partial failure. Furthermore, previous ...
There is growing evidence that knowledge co-creation and interactivity during learning interventions aid knowledge acquisition and knowledge transfer. However, learners have mostly been passive consumers and not co-creators ...
This dissertation aims to assist Agile champions in their organisations with their Agile adoption journey. Such a journey typically starts with identifying the Agile challenges and then determining how to address these ...
The role that locally relevant services and content can play in the development of societies cannot be underestimated. The proliferation of mobile phones in Africa’s developing countries is a significant enabler, which ...
Although research paradigms and philosophies are highly regarded as frameworks and guides for choices of methods, application thereof is not evident. One of the reasons for the relatively limited application is the complexity ...
The general aim of this research is to develop a conceptual privacy governance framework (CPGF) that can be used to develop a valid and reliable information privacy governance questionnaire (IPGQ) to assess the perception ...
Scrum is the most adopted and under-researched Agile methodology. The research conducted on Scrum adoption is mainly qualitative. Therefore, there was a need for a quantitative study to investigate Scrum adoption ...
Howard, Grant Royd(15th European Conference on Management Leadership and Governance (ECMLG 2019)-Academic Conferences and Publishing International Limited (ACPI), 2019-11-15)
In modern dynamic business environments, organisations typically experience organisational and Information Technology (IT) changes. However, the reported success rates of organisational and IT changes are low, less than ...