Individual Characteristics as Correlates of Use of ICT in Makerere University

This survey sought to investigate links between use of ICT with six individual characteristics, namely interaction with ICT change agents, ICT training, cosmopolitanism, age, gender and income level. The study was a co-relational and cross-sectional survey biased to the quantitative approach, involving 145 teaching staff, 124 senior administrators and 175 graduate students. Primary data were collected using a self-administered questionnaire, and analysed using summary statistics (e.g. means and standard deviations), t-test, Analysis of Varince and Pearson correlation. Results indicated fair levels of use of ICT, although all individual characteristics but gender significantly related with use of ICT. Appropriate recommendations toward putting in place ICT change agents in all units in the University, training leading to possession of ICT qualifications, and special ICT help (including ICT training) for the less cosmopolitanism and the ageing and aged plus provision of institutional ICT so that the financially less able can also access and hence use the same, were accordingly suggested. General terms: Higher education, ICT, individual characteristics, innovation adoption, Makerere University ______________________________________________________________________________ IJCIR Reference Format: Bakkabulindi, Fred Edward. Individual Characteristics as Correlates of Use of ICT in Makerere University. International Journal of Computing and ICT Research, Vol. 5, Issue 2, pp 38-45. http://www.ijcir.org/volume5-number2 /article4.pdf ______________________________________________________________________________________