Information and communication technology (ICT) is playing an increasingly influential role in reshaping trade, growth, employment and production in large parts of the world. ICT presents unprecedented opportunities to combat poverty by increasing income, opening markets and providing a channel through which the voices of the poor can be heard. One of the world’s main challenges is to broaden th...

This paper looks at levels of access and extent of use of Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) among teachers in selected Kenyan secondary schools. For the past few years, an assortment of ICTs such as computers, lap tops, projectors, printers, e-blackboards and mobile phones have been available to teachers for use in integration of teaching and learning in schools. The paper attem...

Efficient crisis response and management requires well-informed actors and stakeholders and effective means for communication and policy enforcement. A secure and dependable geospatial information and communication technology (ICT) infrastructure may be an indispensable aid if it is tailored to the needs of the respective risk and crisis management phases and the various users. During an ISCRAM...

Poor infrastructure, inadequate literacy, availability of technology and socio-cultural settings are a few factors in the myriad of challenges facing the development of rural areas in South Africa. Healthcare is one of the most important sectors where governments of developing countries strive to enhance the situation by utilizing affordable ICT solutions. However, unlike developed regions, in ...

This paper presents a model of the drivers of e-Government maturity. We differentiate “maturity” from “readiness” on the basis that the former refers to demonstrated behavior, while the latter provides an idea of a country’s potential to achieve e-Government, and argue that maturity is a more accurate measure of a country’s progress. We explain the prevalence of affluent countries in many e-Gov...

This paper introduces a new approach for the design, deployment and operation of information and communication technology infrastructure for what we conceived as “Programmable Cities”. We address how urban environments can be retrofitted and complemented with technology considering the core nature of cities being systems of systems and complex adaptive systems. We believe that this novel approa...

This paper presents a model of laboratory framework for the student that was developed by the use of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) to conduct experiments on the internet employing a virtual environment based on LabVIEW. The general structure proposed is focused on web based access to real laboratory experiments by providing an advanced infrastructure offering data and computing...

Structured P2P networks have proven to be effective in the exchange of data between nodes whose identity and content are generally indexed in a DHT. For years, such DHT networks have allowed, among other users, third world inhabitants, such as African people, to exchange information among them and with the rest of the world without relying on a centralized infrastructure. Unfortunately, more th...

The construction industry has been traditionally recognised as a fragmented sector associated with a poor level of implementation and penetration of Information Communication Technology (ICT) by Small to Medium Size Enterprises (SMEs). Cloud computing is a collective term that can facilitate the ability to collaborate within a central repository that can act as a base for interoperability betwe...

The present case study describes the results of the educational data mining aimed at predicting the undergraduate courses of computer science (BCA and B.Tech.) students’ instant dropout or after first semester. For this purpose, the preliminary data of 220 students collected randomly in prescheduled format on personal interview to find out dropout rates and dropout reasons. The simple and intui...