Journal Articles: Recent submissions
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Forms of power, politics and leadership in asynchronous virtual project environment: An exploratory analysis in South Africa
(2013)Purpose – The paper aims to investigate the forms of power, politics and leadership exercised by project leaders within asynchronous virtual project environments (VPEs). The purpose of this paper is to link effective ... -
Enabling Social Sustainability of E-Participation through Mobile Technology
(2015)The social sustainability of information and communication technology for development (ICT4D) projects such as e-government in developing nations remains a vexing issue. Particularly pertinent to the concept of e-government ... -
Towards a Nomadic E-Government Co-Evolutionary Framework (NECE) for Building Knowledge Infrastructures for African Countries
(2009)Purpose - E-Government, introduced in African countries under the banner of New Public Management (NPM), is envisaged to fundamentally aid in improving governance in developing countries. The imported model of EGovernment ... -
Groupthink Decision Making Deficiency in the Requirements Engineering Process: Towards a Crowdsourcing Model
(2012)We make an argument that requirements engineering, as a primer to information technology deployment in organizations, is largely failing because decision making in the requirements engineering (RE) process empathizes with ... -
Grassroots community participation as a key to e-governance sustainability in Africa: Section I: Themes and approaches to inform e-strategies
(2012)This article explores the theoretical sustainability of e-governance in Africa by assessing the nature of participation of stakeholders. It adopts an explanatory critique, drawing on perspectives debated in scholarly ... -
Key Issues for Cios in South Africa
(2007)Business strategy, operations, communication and technology have converged and resulted in increased demand for business flexibility. Chief Information Officers (CIOs) are particularly challenged because they operate at ... -
Global Diffusion of the Internet XIII:Internet Diffusion in Kenya and Its Determinants– A Longitudinal Analysis
(2008)This paper assesses Internet diffusion and its determinants in Kenya using the Global Diffusion of the Internet (GDI) framework. Kenya was selected due to its strategic importance for the economic progress of the great ... -
Emergence of the e-government artifact in an environment of social exclusion in Kenya
(2008)Purpose: E-Government, introduced in African countries under the banner of New Public Management (NPM), is envisaged to fundamentally aid in improving governance in developing countries. The imported model of E-Government ... -
Global diffusion of the Internet XI: Internet diffusion and its determinants in South Africa: The first decade of democracy (1994-2004) and beyond
(2007)South Africa has one of the most sophisticated information and communication technology (ICT) infrastructures in Africa, and was one of the early adopters of the Internet on the continent. This paper describes a longitudinal ... -
Assessing irreversibility of an E-Government project in Kenya: Implication for governance
(2010)This paper offers an exploratory analysis into the relationship between E-Government conceptualization and its intended impacts. By combining three independent research streams of technology transfer, information technology ... -
Practical aspects of implementation of institutional repositories in Africa with reference to The University of Nairobi
(University of Nairobi, 2015)Purpose – This paper aims to assess practical aspects of implementation of institutional repositories (IRs) in Africa with reference to the University of Nairobi and provide useful guidelines to the issues and lessons ... -
Honour and Shame in the Construction of Difference in Abdulrazak Gurnah's Novels
(2013)In Abdulrazak Gurnah's writings, characters invoke idea(l)s of honour/reputation/ dignity as contrasts of obverse attributes like shame/shamelessness to demarcate social, economic, religious and racial boundaries. Whether ... -
Natural Amphetamine Khat: A Cultural Tradition or a Drug of Abuse?
(2015-06)Khat, Catha edulis Forsk, is among the most widely used plant-based psychoactive substance in the world. Grown in Eastern Africa, Horn of Africa, and southwestern part of the Arabian Peninsula, its fresh young leaves and ... -
Education for Students with Intellectual Disabilities in Kenya: Challenges and Prospects
(2014)Kenya has great potential for enhancing education for individuals with intellectual disabilities. The fact that it has recognized the need to care for learners with special needs is commendable. In comparison to many African ...
