© 2008 Isaiah T. Awidi While technology has enabled online education in many countries, the same cannot be said for African public universities. Universities in Ghana have made some progress in building networking infrastructure and acquiring computers, but integrating technology into the teaching and learning process has been a challenge. Instructional delivery remains largely instructorled, w...

Kenya is in the midst of many transformations and transition processes of its institutions and administrative/governance structures following the promulgation of a new constitution on 27th August, 2010. Institutions for higher education, training and learning top the list of priority institutions targeted for these revolutions and evolutionary processes. The institutions are expanding at an ala...

South Africa’s young polity is faced with many challenges of addressing the socio-economic backlogs of the past. After the downfall of apartheid system in 1994, the South African government system was reengineered to address the socio-economic ills created by the apartheid legacy. In the process, detailed programmes and projects were initiated, with very insufficient and often less-developed st...

Both ICT and internet have become a vital part of citizens’ daily lives. In fact, many aspects cities, including culture, economy, education closely linked to ICT. Accordingly, the concept smart city has emerged attract interest governments, companies, educational institutions Universities [1]. Morocco, most universities or higher always been interested in keeping up with fast-paced world techn...

Public organisations are normally overwhelmed with socio-technical challenges of Information Systems (IS) innovation at both organisational and institutional levels. However, most studies of these challenges adopt an organisational perspective, leaving the institutional perspective largely unanalysed. In this paper, the IS innovation challenges faced by a British local authority are analysed to...

Although the HIV pandemic is witnessing a decline in the number of new infections in most regions of the world, the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) has a rapidly growing HIV problem. While generating HIV data has been consistently increasing since 2005, MENA’s contribution to the global HIV literature is just over 1% and the existing evidence often falls behind the academic standards. Sever...

This exploratory study uses a phenomenological approach to examine faculty attitudes in an institutional repository context as well as the socio-technical factors that affect scholarly communication and data sharing practices. The author conducts interviews and observations with Environmental Studies faculty at two large public research universities. This article reports preliminary results, th...