The world met the COVID-19 pandemic with various national strategies to handle crisis. In Norway, upon advice of health authorities, government imposed a societal lockdown on 12 March 2020. This had major consequences for people’s work lives and organisations’ management daily operations. Many employees were temporarily dismissed, while others suddenly increased workloads. Working from home bec...

This chapter examines how trust can emerge and be sustained in the context of mobile transactions. It focuses on M-PESA, a mobile banking system in Kenya, using data from an ethnographic study that was deployed in Kibera—one of Africa’s largest slums. We present research in progress and discuss two main findings. Firstly, interpersonal trust relations between the customers and agents are weak. ...

More and more mobile devices feature wireless communication capabilities. They can self-organize in a mobile ad hoc network in order to communicate and maintain connectivity without any infrastructure component. In this context, some devices may benefit from established trust relations in order to communicate private data. Various solutions already exist for establishing and detecting such trus...

This submission will examine how trust can emerge and be sustained in the context of mobile transactions. M-PESA, a mobile banking system in Kenya, will be the focus of this paper. Data will be used from an ethnographic study that was deployed in Kibera—one of Africa’s largest informal settlements. This paper presents research in progress and discusses two main findings. Firstly, interpersonal ...

We obtain several combinatorial results about chains, cycles and orbits of the elements of the symmetric inverse semigroup ISn and the set Tn of nilpotent elements in ISn. We also get some estimates for the growth of |ISn| and |Tn|, and study random products of elements from ISn.