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Enhancing procedural fairness in administrative action of the Administrative Justice Act of South African using web - based Group Support Systems

Twinomurinzi, Hossana; Phahlamohlaka, Jackie (2005)

The Government of the Republic of South Africa is committed to establishing a society grounded on democratic ideals, social fairness and fundamental human rights. For this to happen, any decisions to be taken by the ...
Simulating the Implementation of the Administrative Justice Act with ThinkLets and GroupSystems: A Comparative Analysis from Three Field Studies

Twinomurinzi, Hossana; Phahlamohlaka, Jackie (2006)

We present in this paper the results of three simulation exercises performed as part of a series of field studies whose object is the implementation of the Promotion of Administrative Justice Act. The unit of analysis of ...
AN E-COLLABORATION APPROACH TO BUY-IN OF DEVELOPMENT INNOVATIONS IN RURAL COMMUNITIES: A SOUTH AFRICAN EXPERIENCE

Twinomurinzi, Hossana (2007)

South Africa is attempting to rewrite its history as a national heritage of empowered citizens working in close collaboration with the government. Recognising the inherent capabilities in fast-tracking development, ICT is ...
Modelling the factors that influence mobile phone adoption

Van Biljon, Judy; Kotze P. (2007)

Technology adoption models specify a pathway of technology acceptance from external variables to beliefs, intentions, adoption and actual usage. Mobile phone adoption has been studied from a variety of perspectives, including ...
Assessing the quality of the ‘TurnStormer’ thinkLet as a Collaboration Engineering building block for the Implementation of the Promotion of Administrative Justice Act of South Africa

Twinomurinzi, Hossana; Phahlamohlaka, Jackie; Ojo, Rosemary Bukola; Mahlangu, Zodwa; Masanabo, Lindiwe (2008)

This paper assesses the quality of the TurnStormer thinkLet as a building block for Collaboration Engineering for the Implementation of the Administrative Justice Act of South Africa. Although a complete research paper ...
Towards an inclusive approach to e-Governance: A Case for Administrative Justice in South Africa

Twinomurinzi, Hossana; Byrne, Elaine (2008)

Impartial, fair and reasonable decision making by public institutions in South Africa as advocated for in administrative law, still faces significant challenges. In this paper, we propose a different approach to the ...
Don't do this - pitfalls in using anti-patterns in teaching human-computer interaction principles

Kotze P; Van Biljon, Judy; Renaud, Karen (2008)
Cultural factors in a mobile phone adoption and usage model

Van Biljon, Judy; Kotze P (2008)
A qualitative study of the applicability of technology accptance models to senior mobile phone users

Van Biljon, Judy; Renaud, Karen (2008)
TOWARDS A CRITICAL-INTERPRETIVE ANALYSIS FRAMEWORK FOR ICT4D IN GOVERNMENT

Twinomurinzi, Hossana; Byrne, Elaine; Phahlamohlaka, Jackie (2009)

The road of development through Information and Communication technology (ICT4D) is lined with deep potholes and dead ends since little is done to “accumulate either knowledge or practical guidance” (Heeks and Bailur, ...
Using Mobile Technology to Support Government Service Delivery: A Case Study on the Pension System in South Africa

Twinomurinzi, Hossana; Ojo, Rosemary Bukola (2009)

The flow of information between a government administrator and a citizen is critical for the administrator to make a just, fair and reasonable decision. South Africa recognizes that it struggles with non-compliance in ...
Using web based Group Support Systems to enhance procedural fairness in administrative decision making in South Africa

Twinomurinzi, Hossana; Phahlamohlaka, Jackie (2009)
E-Government & Public Service Delivery: Enabling ICT to put “People First” – A Case Study from South Africa

Twinomurinzi, Hossana; Visser, Wikus (2009)

The literature on the effectiveness of e-government in developing countries towards improving public service delivery is littered with failure stories. Notwithstanding, the failures have not stopped most governments in ...
Diffusing the Ubuntu philosophy into E-government: A South African Perspective

Twinomurinzi, Hossana; Byrne, Elaine; Phahlamohlaka, Jackie (2010)

Information Systems (IS) researchers are increasingly calling for contextual approaches to Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) innovations [1]. The call proceeds from the realization that ICT and e-government ...
m-Government and Service Delivery: A Case Study on the Pension System in South Africa

Twinomurinzi, Hossana; Ojo, Rosemary Bukola (2010)

The ability for a government administrator to make just, fair and reasonable decisions, better known as administrative decision making, is dependent on the information flow between the administrator and a citizen. South ...
From Simulating Citizen – Government Interaction to Facilitating Service Delivery through ICT use: Experiences from the web-based collaboration and thinkLets project

Twinomurinzi, Hossana; Phahlamohlaka, Jackie; Masanabo, Lindiwe; Mahlangu, Ntombizodwa (2010)

The first aim of this short paper is to demonstrate that despite the many constraints facing ICT4D researchers in developing countries, it is possible to conceptualise, design and execute an ICT use study that is well ...
Multiplicity in supervision relationships: a factor in improving throughput success?

De Kock E; Van Biljon, Judy (2011)
CORRUPTION IN DEVELOPING COUNTRIES AND ICT: THE URGENT NEED FOR WORK SYSTEMS TO PRECEDE E-GOVERNMENT

Twinomurinzi, Hossana; Ghartey Tagoe, Kow Bondzie (2011)

As governments in developing countries (DC) come under increasing pressure to deal with corruption, Information and Communications Technology (ICT) has become an important strategic resource. Although the use of ICT in ...
An exploratory survey of e-skills training supplied by small private training institutions in Gauteng

Twinomurinzi, Hossana; Naidoo, Rennie (2011)

In the South African context, small private training institutions are arguably one of the crucial stakeholders supplying e-skills. However, researchers have devoted little attention in prior e-skills research to examine ...
Career Choice Factors over Time: Implications for Pre-Tertiary E-Skills Training

Twinomurinzi, Hossana; Alexander, P.M (2011)

This paper reports on a longitudinal study carried out amongst 3825 students at one South African university over three years. The research identifies changes in perceptions regarding the factors that these students consider ...

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