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eHealth integration and interoperability issues: towards a solution through enterprise architecture

Adenuga, Olugbenga A; Kekwaletswe, Ray M; Coleman, Alfred (2015-05-13)

Abstract Investments in healthcare information and communication technology (ICT) and health information systems (HIS) continue to increase. This is creating immense pressure on healthcare ICT and HIS to ...
Information Security Culture and Information Protection Culture: A Validated Assessment Instrument.

Martins, Nico; Da Veiga, Adele (Elsevier, 2015)

A strong information protection culture is required in organisations where the confidentiality, sensitivity and privacy of information are understood and handled accordingly. This is necessary to reduce the risk of human ...
Improving the information security culture through monitoring and implementation actions illustrated through a case study.

Da Veiga, Adele; Martins, Nico (Elsevier, 2015)

The human aspect, together with technology and process controls, needs to be considered as part of an information security programme. Current and former employees are still regarded as one of the root causes of information ...
Digital divide, the role of awareness in the use/non-use of the Internet: the experience of South African developing communities

Mwim, Emilia N.; Kritzinger, Elmarie (2016)

Efforts have been made by researchers to comprehend the nature and factors that contribute to the digital divide in developing countries and several attempts have been made to bridge this divide. Literature mostly investigates ...
Metrics for the Case Management Modeling and Notation (CMMN) Specification

Marin, Mike A; Lotriet, Hugo; Van Der Poll, John A (SAICSIT, 2015-09-28)

The Case Management Modeling and Notation (CMMN) speci cation, published by the Object Management Group (OMG) in 2014, describes a declarative style for modeling business processes. The declarative nature of CMMN is ...
Measuring Method Complexity of the Case Management (CMMN)

Marin, Mike A; Lotriet, Hugo; Van Der Poll, John A (SAICSIT, 2014-09-29)

In 2014, the Object Management Group (OMG) published the Case Management Modeling and Notation (CMMN) ver- sion 1.0 speci cation, which is a new process modeling spec- i cation to complement its Business Process Modeling ...
An IS Theory of Reciprocal Change

Howard, Grant (2016-06)

This paper proposes an IS theory of reciprocal change. The research problem addressed in the paper is the absence of an IS theory that explains the reciprocity of change within IS. The questions that the paper answers is, ...
Views of Digital Divide: A Literature Review

Mwim, Emilia N.; Kritzinger, E (2016-07)

The term ‘digital divide’ was introduced in the mid-1990s and has become popular as an area of interdisciplinary concern. The term has received much attention from many researchers and policy makers. However it remains an ...
Proposed countermeasures to reduce the cyber divide – a South African perspective

Mwim, Emilia; Kritzinger, Elmarie (ACCC, 2014-11)

The digital divide has been a problem since the early days of information and communication technology (ICT) and it manifests itself in many forms, for example in a lack of access to the Internet, inadequate ICT skills and ...
Internet access as a structural factor in career choice: a comparison between computing and non-computing major students

Alexander, Patricia; Lotriet, Hugo; Matthee, Machdel (2011)

The career choice model of Adya and Kaiser posits the availability of technology resources as a structural element impacting on career choice. The model distinguishes between accessibility at school and at home. Based ...
Towards understanding the contextual role of traditional leadership in the establishment of cyber communities amongst rural peoplein South Africa: The case of Dr J.S. Moroka Municipality

Mashinini, M J; Lotriet, Hugo H. (2011)

ICT policies instituted over a number of years by the South African government have failed manifestly in establishing cyber communities amongst rural people in South Africa. The authors of this paper argue that for rural ...
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 ...
Towards the incorporation of activity-based learning and reflection into Botswana information systems development practice

Selaolo, Tjongabangwe; Lotriet, Hugo (Copyright © 2014, Emerald Group Publishing Limited, 2014)

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to report on a co-design process that was initiated between government and the private sector in Botswana to redesign current ISD practice with particular focus on finding a solution ...
A Framework to Manage Sensitive Information during its Migration between Software Platforms

Ajigini, Olusegun Ademolu; Van der Poll , John Andrew; Kroeze, Jan H (2015)

Software migrations are mostly performed by organizations using migration teams. Such migration teams need to be aware of how sensitive information ought to be handled and protected during the implementation of the ...
The expatriate information flow model: Towards understanding Internet usage in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia

Hattingh, Marie; Matthee, Machdel; Lotriet, Hugo (2015-08)

Expatriate adjustment research has identi ed a number of challenges that expatriates experience when adjusting to the host country. These include spousal in uence, cultural training/understanding, uency in the host ...
iSemServ: A model-driven approach to developing semantic web services

Mtsweni, Jabu; Biermann, Elmarie; Pretorius, Laurette (2014)

The benefits of incorporating Semantic Web Services in web applications are well documented. However, both the real-world implementation and adoption of these services are still rather limited in practice. This is despite ...
Self-perceived intrinsic and extrinsic differences between Infor-mation Systems and Computer Science university students

Alexander, PM; Lotriet, Hugo; Pieterse, Vreda (2014-07)

Strong arguments exist that the sub-disciplines of Information Systems (IS) and Computer Science (CS) can be meaningfully distinguished, and the literature indicates that teams in which there are variety of personalities ...
A New Approach to Assessing End-User Computing

Schoeman, Marthie (2001)

The Department of Computer Science and Information Systems at UNISA has adopted a new method of assessing students who has registered for End-User Computing (EUC). UNISA is a distance-education university offering tuition ...
An Agent-Oriented Framework for Constructing Mobile Agent Systems

Schoeman, Marthie; Venter, Lucas; Cloete, Elsabé (2007)

Agents and mobile agents hold significant benefits for current trends in computing. Despite some industries actively exploring mobile agent applications the promised deployment has not taken place as expected. Possible ...
Architectural components for the efficient design of mobile agent systems

Schoeman, Marthie; Cloete, Elsabé (2003)

Over the past eighteen months, there has been a renewed interest in mobile agent technology due to the continued exponential growth of Internet applications, the establishment of open standards for these applications, as ...

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