As global real-estate and finance markets have become increasingly fluid and governments at all levels have embraced neoliberal policies, pressures of large-scale gentrification and redevelopment of our inner-cities have become increasingly prevalent. With these relatively new developments, there has been a great deal of debate surrounding the most effective way to deal with the dilapidated are...

A common observation in dialogue research is that people tend to entrain, or align, linguistically with their interlocutors. This phenomenon offers a potentially important way to shape user behavior in human-computer dialogue interactions but little is known about the mechanisms that underlie it and how they may be affected by interlocutor design. We report a Wizard of Oz study that explored ho...

As part of and to align with these developments, institutions and organisations in South Africa are reflecting on HIV within a public health and health systems perspective and on research, teaching and practice in public health as a field. To that end, UWC’s School of Public Health has been convening consultations and reflections aimed at clarifying the strategic directions which would enable b...

We describe how social networks can help reduce certain situations of free riding in organizations. The technique uses the homophily of an organization’s social network to select an advisory monitoring peer group likely to share knowledge and skills with each participant, and therefore most able to detect free riding in situations requiring those skills. We illustrate this application in the co...

The success of Indian manufacturing in meeting global competition will depend on its speed to move itself from a protected domestic to a world-class global manufacturing status. This paper analyses a survey conducted for the purpose of determining world-class status of Indian manufacturing companies and identi"es important issues that need to be addressed in order to be a world-class manufactur...

[Context and Motivation] The main role of requirements engineering (RE) is to guide development projects towards implementing products that will appeal to customers. To effectively achieve this RE needs to be coordinated with and clearly communicated to the later software development activities. [Question/Problem] Communication gaps between RE and other development activities reduce coordinatio...

A key challenge for research roadmapping in the crisis response and management domain is articulation of a shared vision that describes what the future can and should include. Visioning allows for far-reaching stakeholder engagement that can properly align research with stakeholders' needs. Engagement includes feedback from researchers, policy makers, general public, and end-users on technical ...

C ompensation figures for the top managers of large firms are on the news frequently. Newspapers report the salaries, the bonuses, and the profits from selling stock options of the highest paid executives, often under headlines suggesting excessive levels of pay or a very weak relation of pay to the performance of the firms.1 Especially after the fraud scandals at Enron and other important corp...

This paper utilises the resource-based view as a framework to examine the interactions between information technology (IT) governance, IT management and organisational information systems. Analysis of data collected from medium and large Australian organisations indicates that IT governance capabilities act to improve IT management capabilities which in turn improve the performance of organisat...

South Africa has legally exported substantial quantities of lion bones to Southeast Asia and China since 2008, apparently as part of the multinational trade substituting bones and body parts of other large cats for those of the tiger in wine and other health tonics. The legal sale of lion bones may mask an illegal trade, the size of which is only partially known. An observed component of the il...