African biblical studies: Illusions, realities and challenges

African Anti-Corruption Agencies: Challenges and Prospects

Corruption has become an issue of major political and economic relevance in recent years. This has led to a resurgence of interest in analyzing the phenomenon and the diverse forms that it assumes in developing politics with an expectation that democratization and economic liberation offer potential routes to dealing with the problem. Anti-corruption strategies range from institutional reforms ...

Obesity in African-Americans: Perceptions and Realities

Resilience, Realities and Research in African Environments

Knowledge Management: Problems, Promises, Realities, and Challenges

Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it. —George Santayana Innovation is everywhere; the difficulty is learning from it. —John Seeley Brown T he first quote reflects the motivation underlying traditional knowledge management (KM), in which the goal is to store information from the past so that lessons will not be forgotten. This perspective implies that future information ...

Big Data: Challenges, Opportunities and Realities

With the advent of Internet of Things (IoT) and Web 2.0 technologies, there has been a tremendous growth in the amount of data generated. This chapter emphasizes on the need for big data, technological advancements, tools and techniques being used to process big data are discussed. Technological improvements and limitations of existing storage techniques are also presented. Since, the tradition...