Institute of Corporate Citizenship: Recent submissions

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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 (ACM New York, 2018-09)

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 ...
Global Data Breaches Responsible for the Disclosure of Personal Information: 2015 & 2016

Botha, J.; Grobler, M.M.; Eloff, Mariki (2017-06)

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 ...
Co-leadership in climate change: An agenda for 2013 and beyond.

Nhamo, Godwell (2009)

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 ...
Biting the hand that feeds you: green growth and electricity revenues in South African metropolitans

Nhamo, Godwell; Mjimba, Vuyo (2014)

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. ...
Benchmarking the effectiveness of mitigation measures to the quality of environmental impact statements: lessons and insights from mines along the Great Dyke of Zimbabwe

Gwimbi, Patrick; Nhamo, Godwell (2015)

The environmental impact statement (EIS) plays an important role in informing decision makers about the likely impacts of development projects on the environment and suggesting mitigation measures for addressing such ...
An Investigation into Kyoto Protocol’s Clean Development Mechanism as Kenya’s Green Economy Transition Mechanism

Nyambura, Brenda; Nhamo, Godwell (2014)

This article focuses on the Kyoto Protocol’s Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) as a transition mechanism to Kenya’s green economy and the contribution of CDM projects towards sustainable development in Kenya. Accordingly, ...
Suppression of seed germination and early seedling growth by plantation harvest residues

Schumann, A.W.; Little, K.M; Eccles, N.S. (Taylor & Francis Publishers, 1995)

The role of forestry plantation residues (leaf and branch) in the suppression of establishment of four weed species (Conyza sumatrensis, Trifolium spp., Echinochloa uti/is and Lactica sativa) was investigated. Of the three ...
An Investigation into Kyoto Protocol’s Clean Development Mechanism as Kenya’s Green Economy Transition Mechanism

Nyambura, Brenda; Nhamo, Godwell (2014-03)

This article focuses on the Kyoto Protocol's Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) as a transition mechanism to Kenya's green economy and the contribution of CDM projects towards sustainable development in Kenya. Accordingly, ...
A Sustainable Information Security Framework for e-Government - Case of Tanzania

Wangwe, Carina Kabajunga; Eloff, M.M.; Venter, Lucas (2012)

The government of Tanzania adopted an e-Government strategy in 2009 that is aimed at improving efficiency in government and providing better services to citizens. Information security is identified as one of the requirements ...
Integration of policy aspects into information security issues in South African organisations

Dagada, R; Eloff, M.M. (2013-08-21)

Information for individual organisations should always be secured. Organisations need to protect their information from attackers or competitors as these could lead to law suits or loss of business. With the more advanced ...
Psychosocial Risks: can their effects on the Security of Information Systems really be ignored?

Frangopoulos, E.D.; Eloff, M.M.; Venter, L.M. (2013)

A psychosocial risk at the workplace is a well-researched subject from a managerial and organizational point of view. However, the relation of psychosocial risks to Information Security has not been formally studied to the ...
Cybersecurity Economics - Induced Risks, Latent Costs and Possible Controls

Frangopoulos, Evangelos D.; Eloff, M.M.; Venter, L.M. (2015-01-12)

Financial decisions indirectly affect and are affected by the effort towards Information Security. The 'Economics of Cybersecurity' should thus constitute a significant part of the Information Security Posture Assessment ...
Agents, security and ethics: a framework for analysis

Eloff, Mariki; Smith, E.; Venter, L.M.; Barnard A.; Pretorius, Laurette (2003-12)

The domain of information security research is no longer exclusively of a technological nature as it has become permeated with aspects of human behaviour. Similarly the broad field of ethics is no longer only a human issue, ...
Regulating plastics waste, stakeholder engagement and sustainability challenges in South Africa.

Nhamo, Godwell (2008)

In May 2003, the South African government enacted regulations banning the production of thin-film plastic shopping bags. The government advocated that such thin-film plastic shopping bags were indiscriminately discarded ...
Socio-Economic Determinants of Climate Change Awareness among Communal Farmers in Two Districts of Zimbabwe

Mudombi, Shakespear; Nhamo, Godwell; Muchie, Mammo (2014-09)

Climate change poses a serious threat to agriculture-based livelihoods that farmers need to be made aware of. The study objectives of this article were to evaluate and determine socioeconomic factors that have a significant ...
Access to weather forecasting and early warning information by communal farmers in Seke and Murewa districts, Zimbabwe

Mudombi, Shakespear; Nhamo, Godwell (2014)

In the context of current climate variability and the projected climate change there is need to strengthen the resilience of communities particularly those whose livelihoods are highly sensitive to change. Climate change ...
Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) and Green Economy Transition: Feasibility Assessment for African Higher Education

Nhamo, Godwell (2013)

Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) are a new phenomenon globally and in Africa. MOOCS have attracted student registration in hundreds of thousands per course in certain instances, as well as gaining acceptance across ...
Addressing women in climate change policies : a focus on selected east and southern African countries, Agenda: Empowering women for gender equity

Nhamo, Godwell (2014)

This Article responds to claims in the literature that gender mainstreaming is lacking in international and national climate change policy regimes. A scan of climate change policies from selected east and southern African ...
Blue in the green economy : land use change and wetland shrinkage in Belvedere North and Epworth localities, Zimbabwe

Mutisi, Luke; Nhamo, Godwell (2015)

The blue in the green economy is an emerging term that speaks of the importance of water and wetlands in the green economy. The research sought to assess the extent of wetland degradation with respect to land use change, ...
Appropriateness of non-destructive measures of young pine tree performance in weeding experiments

Eccles, N.S; Kritzinger, J.L; Little, K.M (1997-03)

The objective of this work was to compare several commonly used measures of tree performance in three commercially grown pine species (Pinus patula, P. taeda and P. elliottii) during the first growth season in a weeding ...

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