Friend or Foe? Locating ICT within the South African Governmental Discourse on Indigenous Knowledge Systems

Kant: Friend or Foe of the Believer? Plantinga and Other American Christian Responses to Kant's Epistemology

Breytenbach and De Villiers Supply elasticity within the South African ICT labour market Supply elasticity within the South African ICT labour market

Creating a sufficient, sustained supply of tertiary level ICT skills at graduate level to stimulate growth in the developing South African economy is an important concern for all stakeholders involved in the South African ICT labour market. This article furthers the discourse on the much discussed ICT graduate shortage in South Africa by presenting a neoclassical labour market analysis of the d...

'Global' Disjuncture and the Production of Locality: Knowledge, Identity and ICT use in a South African Healthcare System An ECIS Doctoral Consortium Proposal by

This proposal describes research I am currently conducting into the implementation of a healthcare information system into local clinics in Nyanga and Mitchell's Plain, two disadvantaged areas in the Cape Region of South Africa. The research has two aims. First, I am seeking to address a current serious deficiency of detailed empirical studies into the implementation of information systems in s...

The role of indigenous knowledge in computer education in Africa

The integration of indigenous knowledge/languages in formal education is a contentious issue in post-colonial Africa. For historical and economic reasons, these are devalued in the formal education system. We argue that appropriate use of indigenous knowledge/languages can empower African students academically even in typically “Western” disciplines, such as Computer Science. We discuss the pot...

Friend or foe? Potential for native biodiversity in West Coast farming

The wet, warm West Coast climate favours tree production and pastures. Much of the land remains in indigenous forest under the control of Government agencies. In the more accessible parts of this land, and in land held under private ownership, we explore the feasibility of “farming” two examples of native biodiversity. Sphagnum moss production varies with location and differences in mesoand mic...