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  • Digital Innovation and Transformation Conference: Digital Skills 2019 
    Twinomurinzi, Hossana (National Electronic Media Institute of South Africa (NEMISA), 2019-08-29)
  • Digital Platforms for Research Collaboration: Using Design Science in Developing a South African Open Knowledge Repository 
    Van Biljon, Judy; Marais, Mario; Platz, Melanie (Routledge, 2017-05-23)
    Research involving the use of information and communication technology for development (ICT4D) inhabits an interdisciplinary space characterized by various philosophies, aspirations, realities and priorities. This diversity ...
  • Digital Re-imagination Colloquium 2018: Preparing South Africa for a Digital Future through e-Skills 
    Twinomurinzi, Hossana; Mawela, Tendani; Rampa, Kanye; Imail, Mymoena (National Electronic Media Institute of South Africa (NEMISA), 2018-03-13)
    The theme of the 2018 colloquium, "Digital Re-imagination: Preparing South Africa for a Digital Future through e-Skills" sought to establish an innovative research network through providing a platform for government, ...
  • Digital Skills Colloquium 2020: Enhancing Human Capacity for Digital Transformation 
    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 ...
  • Digital Skills in South Africa at the Citizen Level 
    Twinomurinzi, Hossana; Mawela, Tendani; Msweli, Nkosikhona T.; Phukubje, Phuti (NEMISA & Unisa Press., 2021-01)
    The environmental scan on digital skills in South Africa at the citizen level is a South African innovation in an emerging field aimed at understanding the state of digital skills in South Africa. The results from the ...
  • Digital Technologies and Digital Skills in Organisations and Government in South Africa: An Environmental Scan 
    Twinomurinzi, H; Msweli, Nkosikhona T.; Phukubje, Phuti (Unisa Press and NEMISA., 2020-11)
    This environmental scan research report represents the beginning of a research journey that seeks to identify the changing nature of digital skills in South Africa as a result of technological advancements, more popularly ...
  • Direct Fortran/lDMS Interface (without the use of a DML) on the ICL 1904/2970 Computers, using a geological data base as example. 
    Day, Barbara (Computer Society of South Africa (on behalf of SAICSIT), 1979)
    The Integrated Data Base Management System (IDMS) originally had only a CO~C?L d~ta manipulation language (DML). Recently a DML for FORTRAN on the 2900 series of ICL computers has been produced. This 1s a piece of software ...
  • Discriminators for authorship attribution 
    Paijmans, H (South African Computer Society (SAICSIT), 1999)
    This paper describes some experiments with the automated attribution of authorship. Lexical cohesion in combination with machine learning techniques are used as a method to compare texts of different authors. A methodology ...
  • Disk delay lines 
    Machanick, P (1998)
    Latency goals often relate to response times seen by users, which are slow by computer standards, but scaling up to large numbers of users presents a problem. Examples include transaction-based systems and web sites. ...
  • A Disk Space Management System 
    Cuthbertson, A.J.; Van Niekerk, I.J.; Turton, Trevor (Computer Society of South Africa (on behalf of SAICSIT), 1983)
    This paper describes the research that was undertaken in designing a disk space management system. The system has strong similarities to the management of real storage in a virtual storage environment. These similarities ...
  • Distance Education as enabler in crossing the digital divide : will the Phoenix fly? 
    Van Biljon, Judy; Renaud, Karen (International Development Information Association, 2009-10-28)
    Education, powered by technology, has been hailed as the silver bullet for empowering developing communities and helping them to cross digital divides. The path to success becomes obscured by the complexities of crossing ...
  • A distributed approach to the scheduling problem 
    Ram, V; Warren, P (2000)
    The focus of many Artificial Intelligence approaches to solving the computer-based scheduling problem is on reducing the size of the search spaces that characterise such problems. The approach presented in this paper ...
  • Distributed Computer Systems - A Review 
    Peberdy, N.J. (Computer Society of South Africa (on behalf of SAICSIT), 1979)
    The past five years have seen a dramatic changeabout in traditional hardware/software relationships: hardware costs have plummeted, and the size, environmental requirements and reliability of computing elements have altered ...
  • Distributed operating systems: a study in applicability 
    Prange, J; Bishop, J (South African Computer Society (SAICSIT), 1999)
    This study will attempt to show the path of research and development of a huge and currently implemented SCADA (Super­visory Control and Data Acquisition) system product. The designers and their managers have identified ...
  • Do Visualizations Ease Dissertation Assessment? 
    Van Biljon, Judy; Renaud, Karen (University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, 2015)
    South Africa is working hard to improve the education levels of all their citizens, and, as a consequence, many South African Universities have seen an impressive increase in the number of postgraduate students. On the ...
  • Documenting a Database System with a Database 
    Hunter, D.A. (Computer Society of South Africa (on behalf of SAICSIT), 1984)
    The South African Data Centre for Oceanography (SADCO) has implemented a multi d1sc1plinary oceanographic database using OMS 170, a relational database management system Using a high level query language sc1ent1sts from ...
  • Does the engagement between science and society pose risks for intelligent scientific practice? 
    Lotriet, Hugo (AOSIS Publishing, 2015)
    This paper examines the interaction between science and society. Society considers these interactions as vital to understand and reduce the uncertainty of the impact of scientific activity on society. The purpose of this ...
  • Don't do this - pitfalls in using anti-patterns in teaching human-computer interaction principles 
    Kotze P; Van Biljon, Judy; Renaud, Karen (2008)
  • Dual-method usability evaluation of e-commerce websites : in quest of better user experience 
    Moczarny, Izabela Maria (2011-10)
    E-commerce has increased substantially, as e-retailers engage with consumers online. Users require more than products and quality service; they also expect a good user experience. User experience is affected by branding, ...
  • Dynamic deadlock avoidance: a prototype 
    Blewett, CN; Erwin, GJ (South African Computer Society (SAICSIT), 1996)
    In this paper, we describe a prototype of an expert system software advisor for the deadlock treatment of a lock manager in a database system. The software advisor, called EAGLE (External Advisor for Granting Locks ...

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