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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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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. ...
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 ...
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, ...
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 ...
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, ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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, ...
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 ...
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 ...
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) 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 ...
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 ...
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, ...
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 ...