An Empirical Analysis on Users’ Acceptance and Usage of BYOD-Technology for Saudi Universities: A case study of Shaqra University

the environment of academics involves the usage of multiple levels of security when a student or an academician tries to enter the campus. “Bring your own device”, is now accepted across various industries and sectors. This paper is an illustration on the use of bring your own device for academic purposes where we propose a new system in order to use a smart phone with a Smart application, which acts as a key to access. As we all are aware that at various points and various checks many applications are being used and different type of servers are available for accessibility, but the use of bring your own device paradigm is actually providing a new taste and convenience of the user at the fingertips. The environment of academics, involves a large number of security mechanisms. Various governing servers regulate these mechanisms. The paper represents an empirical study for the readiness of the stakeholders, including students, staff members and administration to accept the BYOD technology. A simple model is proposed with the help of which, BYOD can be easily integrated in the system of Academia. This will felicitate students as well as staff members to use various services with the help of a single device and simple login procedure instead of various cumbersome server based systems.