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South African teachers are under pressure due to rising expectations of their content knowledge and digital skills without guaranteed infrastructural or institutional support in using ICTs. The purpose of this study is to find out to what extent ICTs are being used by teachers in rural South African schools and also what support systems, if any, these teachers have. The theoretical lens is that of...Show More
Challenges Botswana’s Mobile Application Developers Encounter: Funding, Commercial and Technical Support
2018 IST-Africa Week Conference (IST-Africa)
Year: 2018 | Conference Paper |
Smart phone usage in Sub-Saharan Africa is expected to constitute more than half of all mobile connections by 2020. Therefore, it can be expected that mobile applications will change the way business is conducted and that mobile applications to address community needs would be developed by growing a mobile based entrepreneurship ecosystem. Departing from the literature on mobile-based entrepreneur...Show More
An implementation readiness framework for education systems: Integrating ICT into teaching and learning
2017 IST-Africa Week Conference (IST-Africa)
Year: 2017 | Conference Paper |
Sometimes ICT for education projects fail because the system itself is not ready for change. Traditional e-readiness tools employed in technology rollouts at schools focus on the readiness of the schools themselves, without looking at the full value chain. The implementation readiness tool was developed based on learning from ICT4RED and other ICT implementations in schools. It builds on the ICT4R...Show More
Development Informatics is a multi-, inter- and transdisciplinary field encompassing various research philosophies, realities and priorities. This diversity complicates connection and collaboration between researchers in the field and that can undermine the growth and impact of Development Informatics research. The objective of this paper is to propose social mapping as a mechanism to support rese...Show More
Many ICT4E projects fail once the implementation team withdraws. Although there are multiple reasons for this, the problem often lies with integration of the project into the day-to-day institutional arrangements of the education system. This puts pressure on the school environment, since schools are unable to sustain the change introduced without support from their formal support systems. Althoug...Show More
Design for Sustainability: Rural Connectivity with Village Operators
2011 IEEE Global Humanitarian Technology Conference
Year: 2011 | Conference Paper |
Cited by: Papers (5)
South Africa has approximately 26500 primary and secondary schools, of which at least 17000 are in remote rural villages. None of these rural schools have any form of Internet connectivity. The same rural villages may have one health facility for every 20 schools and very few other public or community service centres. This paper presents a model that is being developed and tested in South Africa t...Show More
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