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  • Sacred space in cyberspace : an African perspective 
    Phahlamohlaka, L.J. (Letlibe Jacob); Kroeze, J.H. (Jan Hendrik); Phahlamohlaka, Jackie (Unisa Press, 2005-11)
    Although information can currently be regarded as a vehicle of mainly western civilisation and culture, Africans should not merely accept it as such, because that would imply subjugation to anew, techno-cultural colonialism. ...
  • The scholarly divide : insights from the AIS well-being project 
    Wright, Ryan T.; Saunders, Carol S.; Sarker, Saonee; Kankanhalli, Atreyi; Whitley, Edgar A. (Association for Information Systems, 2023-07)
    This article provides an overview of the findings from the Information Systems (IS) Well-Being Project that was started in the fall of 2020. There were two goals of this project: 1) to understand the physical, mental, ...
  • Selective exclusion : the digital divide in the context of indigenous knowledge systems in South Africa 
    Lotriet, H.H. (Hugo H.); Matthee, Machdel C.; Mazanderani, Fadhila (Department of Knowledge and Information Management, University of Johannesburg, 2009-03)
    This article provides an alternative view to questions of technological inclusion and exclusion in sub-Saharan Africa via an analysis of the South African governmental discourse on indigenous knowledge systems (IKS). The ...
  • The semantic functions of embedded constructions in Biblical Hebrew 
    Kroeze, J.H. (Jan Hendrik) (Department of Ancient Studies at the University of Stellenbosch., 2003-07)
    In traditional grammars on the syntax of Biblical Hebrew one often finds sections which describe the various types of clauses, for example, circumstantial, causal, conditional, concessive, comparative, temporal, final and ...
  • Semantically annotated learning paths 
    Unternahrer, Charline; Hinkelmann, Knut; Schlick, Sandra (CEUR-WS, 2023)
    This paper shows an application of semantic lifting in the education domain. We present a metamodel for graphical representation of learning paths. This supports lecturers in the design of courses and learners to navigate ...
  • Servqual as a socio-technical approach to measuring e-Government service quality and guiding e-Governance strategies 
    Twinomurinzi, Hossana; Zwane, Mphikeleli Gabriel; Debusho, Legesse Kassa (Learning Information Networking and Knowledge (LINK) Centre, Graduate School of Public and Development, 2012)
    e-Government services and e-governance have been embraced in many African countries. Nonetheless, measuring the value of e-government remains a challenge. Key to a successful evaluation of progress towards e-governance ...
  • The small group subtlety of using ICT for participatory governance : a South African experience 
    Twinomurinzi, Hossana; Phahlamohlaka, Jackie; Byrne, Elaine (Elsevier, 2012-04)
    The greater number of government efforts to stimulate participative governance in communities using Information and Communication Technology (ICT) often fall short of expectations. In South Africa extending egovernment to ...
  • SMEs in South Africa : the era of adopting mobile payment solutions 
    Chingapi, Alick; Steyn, Adriana Aletta (Riana) (Springer, 2021-09)
    This research paper is the result of analysis into critical factors impacting the adoption and wide spread usage of mobile payments by South African small medium enterprises (SMEs). The research involved a qualitative ...
  • The so-called nominative uses of 'et : a semantic solution 
    Kroeze, J.H. (Jan Hendrik) (Unisa Press, 2008)
    The particle 'et is most often used to mark definite direct objects. It can also be used to mark other verbal extensions, and therefore it has been called an object marker or nota accusativi. This, however, does not ...
  • Social enablers and constraints related to the publication and use of open government data in a developing country 
    Nuhu, Hubeidatu; Van Belle, Jean-Paul; Turpin, Marita (Springer, 2020-12)
    The promise of Open Government Data (OGD) rests on the publication, availability, use and reuse of government data. This research focused on how social factors such as data ownership, network creation and power enabled or ...
  • Social relationships in IT project teams :  its role, complexity and the management thereof 
    Leonard, A.C. (Awie); Van Zyl, Dawid Hermanus (SciKA, 2014)
    Compared to other projects, information technology (IT) projects, characterized by emergency and uncertainty, are unique. To implement an IT project successfully, many aspects need to be monitored and carefully controlled ...
  • A social representations analysis of design science research 
    Naidoo, Rennie; Van der Merwe, Alta; Gerber, Aurona Jacoba; Hevner, Alan (Computer Society of South Africa, 2015-07)
    Compared to positivist survey and interpretive case study research, design science research (DSR) is a relatively novel and unfamiliar research paradigm within the computing eld in South Africa. In light of recent interest ...
  • The socio-economic benefit of the livestock traceability system on communal beef farmers in Swaziland 
    Prinsloo, Tania; De Villiers, Carina; McCrindle, Cheryl Myra Ethelwyn (Centre for Community Informatics Research, Development and Training, 2019)
    Swaziland is a small African country that implemented a livestock traceability system to benefit both communal and commercial farmers. The communal farmers are also able to export beef to European countries, markets ...
  • A South African institution perspective of a framework for enterprise resource planning systems 
    Shimange, Tahani Prudence; Pillay, Komla (AOSIS, 2023-01)
    BACKGROUND : Public sector organisations encounter many challenges because of their complex legislative requirements, social responsibilities and higher public expectations. In the early 1980s, governments worldwide started ...
  • Speeding-up graph-based keyword spotting in historical handwritten documents 
    Stauffer, Michael; Fischer, Andreas; Riesen, Kaspar (Springer, 2017-05)
    The present paper is concerned with a graph-based system for Keyword Spotting (KWS) in historical documents. This particular system operates on segmented words that are in turn represented as graphs. The basic KWS process ...
  • The status quo of enterprise architecture implementation in South African financial services companies 
    Matthee, Machdel C.; Tobin, Peter K.J.; Van der Merwe, P. (Association for Professional Managers in South Africa, 2007-03)
    This article presents the findings of research that was conducted amongst Enterprise Architecture (EA) practitioners in the South African financial services sector. Due to the duration and cost implications of EA projects, ...
  • Student-faculty partnership in design : evaluating a co- creation practice and sharing of findings within the South African Higher Education context 
    Botha, Adriana Johanna Maria; Steyn, Adriana Aletta (Riana) (Higher Education South Africa, 2020-11)
    Creation of content in the higher education context has long been considered as a faculty responsibility. However, a drive towards inclusive curriculum transformation was requested by both students and professional ...
  • A study using a graphical syntax for actor-network theory 
    Silvis, Emile S.; Alexander, Patricia Margaret (Emerald, 2014)
    PURPOSE – Actor-network theory (ANT) is considered to be both a theoretical position and a methodology. ANT has been the centre of vigorous debates regarding its ontological viewpoint but has also been found to have ...
  • Surface realization architecture for low-resourced African languages 
    Mahlaza, Zola; Keet, C. Maria (Association for Computing Machinery, 2023-08)
    There has been growing interest in building surface realization systems to support the automatic generation of text in African languages. Such tools focus on converting abstract representations of meaning to text. Since ...
  • A survey on applications of bipartite graph edit distance 
    Stauffer, Michael; Tschachtli, Thomas; Fischer, Andreas; Riesen, Kaspar (Springer, 2017-05)
    About ten years ago, a novel graph edit distance framework based on bipartite graph matching has been introduced. This particular framework allows the approximation of graph edit distance in cubic time. This, in turn, makes ...