Pub Date : 2016-05-11DOI: 10.1109/ISTAFRICA.2016.7530689
G. M. Muriithi, M. Masinde
Cloud computing is coming of age; it involves on-demand access to a shared pool of configurable computing resources. There is an emerging consensus that cloud computing will play a critical role in redressing the digital divide especially in rural areas of Africa. In this paper, we report on a success story to this end; the use of cloud computing in expanding the access of students' records management system to resource-constrained schools in the Free State province of South Africa. This was motivated by the fact that despite the proven tight correlation between availability of data and quality of education, many schools that are considered part of the `second economy' in South Africa continue to operate in uni-direction data flow arrangements that do not provide them with adequate data for critical decision making. We implemented and evaluated a Cloud based School Administration and Management System; hereby called `Cloud SAMS' for these resource-constrained schools in the province (they account for over 80% of all schools). Starting off with 5 schools and later ramping it up to 50, `Cloud SAMS' enables schools to securely and privately share one copy of the system maintained in the cloud; this brings on board several benefits - low cost, faster implementation and resilience to failures.
{"title":"Cloud SAMS: Cloud computing solution for public schools within South Africa's ‘second economy’","authors":"G. M. Muriithi, M. Masinde","doi":"10.1109/ISTAFRICA.2016.7530689","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ISTAFRICA.2016.7530689","url":null,"abstract":"Cloud computing is coming of age; it involves on-demand access to a shared pool of configurable computing resources. There is an emerging consensus that cloud computing will play a critical role in redressing the digital divide especially in rural areas of Africa. In this paper, we report on a success story to this end; the use of cloud computing in expanding the access of students' records management system to resource-constrained schools in the Free State province of South Africa. This was motivated by the fact that despite the proven tight correlation between availability of data and quality of education, many schools that are considered part of the `second economy' in South Africa continue to operate in uni-direction data flow arrangements that do not provide them with adequate data for critical decision making. We implemented and evaluated a Cloud based School Administration and Management System; hereby called `Cloud SAMS' for these resource-constrained schools in the province (they account for over 80% of all schools). Starting off with 5 schools and later ramping it up to 50, `Cloud SAMS' enables schools to securely and privately share one copy of the system maintained in the cloud; this brings on board several benefits - low cost, faster implementation and resilience to failures.","PeriodicalId":326074,"journal":{"name":"2016 IST-Africa Week Conference","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-05-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132947541","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2016-05-11DOI: 10.1109/ISTAFRICA.2016.7530585
Dominic Afuro Egbe, M. Mutanga
Information and communication technology is one of the most versatile technologies that have substantially impacted all sectors of today's world. The flexibility and capability of these technologies to be dynamically and seamlessly integrated into diverse problem domains has made them an attractive problem solving tool. However, the adoption of ICT is not without challenges. In rural South Africa in particular, the sustainability of ICT projects, especially in rural schools, remains a potential hurdle. Concerted research efforts have dealt with the subject of sustainability in dimensions that focus more on addressing economic, socio-cultural, and political concerns. But, technical sustainability, which is critical to ICT infrastructure, has been given little or no attention. Considering technical sustainability in ICT models will salvage project failure and avert resource wastage among other benefits. This paper proposes a technical support model for sustaining rural ICT projects. The model incorporates an e-portal that is linked to a service Cloud. The e-portal provides access to e-resources and experts in real-time. This can help to groom technical skills amongst ICT users and reduce the normal waiting time for technical support.
{"title":"Technical sustainability in rural ICT deployments in South Africa","authors":"Dominic Afuro Egbe, M. Mutanga","doi":"10.1109/ISTAFRICA.2016.7530585","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ISTAFRICA.2016.7530585","url":null,"abstract":"Information and communication technology is one of the most versatile technologies that have substantially impacted all sectors of today's world. The flexibility and capability of these technologies to be dynamically and seamlessly integrated into diverse problem domains has made them an attractive problem solving tool. However, the adoption of ICT is not without challenges. In rural South Africa in particular, the sustainability of ICT projects, especially in rural schools, remains a potential hurdle. Concerted research efforts have dealt with the subject of sustainability in dimensions that focus more on addressing economic, socio-cultural, and political concerns. But, technical sustainability, which is critical to ICT infrastructure, has been given little or no attention. Considering technical sustainability in ICT models will salvage project failure and avert resource wastage among other benefits. This paper proposes a technical support model for sustaining rural ICT projects. The model incorporates an e-portal that is linked to a service Cloud. The e-portal provides access to e-resources and experts in real-time. This can help to groom technical skills amongst ICT users and reduce the normal waiting time for technical support.","PeriodicalId":326074,"journal":{"name":"2016 IST-Africa Week Conference","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-05-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127238526","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2016-05-11DOI: 10.1109/ISTAFRICA.2016.7530622
Trishana Ramluckan
The role of social media may be considered as an important development in aiding crisis, thus the purpose of this study was to determine the factors influencing the use of social media during crises. An online survey of 44 respondents was conducted. The study revealed that there is a need for the use of social media in crises, however there were underlying factors contributing to the use of social media within this context. The analysis of the surveys together with the interviews revealed the perceptions of respondents as to the influencing factors which were security, privacy, and legislative frameworks. The study revealed the importance of social media in crisis communications but with limiting factors and a need for awareness within South Africa.
{"title":"Factors affecting the use of social media as a crisis communication tool in South Africa","authors":"Trishana Ramluckan","doi":"10.1109/ISTAFRICA.2016.7530622","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ISTAFRICA.2016.7530622","url":null,"abstract":"The role of social media may be considered as an important development in aiding crisis, thus the purpose of this study was to determine the factors influencing the use of social media during crises. An online survey of 44 respondents was conducted. The study revealed that there is a need for the use of social media in crises, however there were underlying factors contributing to the use of social media within this context. The analysis of the surveys together with the interviews revealed the perceptions of respondents as to the influencing factors which were security, privacy, and legislative frameworks. The study revealed the importance of social media in crisis communications but with limiting factors and a need for awareness within South Africa.","PeriodicalId":326074,"journal":{"name":"2016 IST-Africa Week Conference","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-05-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124456878","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2016-05-11DOI: 10.1109/ISTAFRICA.2016.7530684
Roslyn Sanby, H. Suleman, Josiah Chavula
The proliferation of under-sea and terrestrial fibre optic cables in Africa is leading to an evolution of the interconnection among Africa's National Research and Education Networks (NRENs). To fully monitor and track this evolution, NREN stakeholders and researchers need to continuously run active network measurements to map the inter-NREN topology. However, active topology measurement tools, such as Traceroute, introduce additional traffic in the network, which maybe undesirable for networks that have limited bandwidth. Furthermore, many network routers are configured to block/drop network probing packets, thereby making the task of topology discovery a lot more difficult. The paper aims to show that by carefully analysing Internet path overlaps, significant reductions can be made on the number of packets required to probe the topology. Furthermore, by using multiple probing protocols and vantage points, it is possible to alleviate the impact of blocked packets. The paper reports on a Traceroute study carried out on African NRENs, which shows that by jointly using different probing protocols, and taking into consideration path overlaps, it is possible to map all probe destinations, while achieving a 65% reduction in the number of probe packets sent.
{"title":"Efficient topology discovery for African NRENs","authors":"Roslyn Sanby, H. Suleman, Josiah Chavula","doi":"10.1109/ISTAFRICA.2016.7530684","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ISTAFRICA.2016.7530684","url":null,"abstract":"The proliferation of under-sea and terrestrial fibre optic cables in Africa is leading to an evolution of the interconnection among Africa's National Research and Education Networks (NRENs). To fully monitor and track this evolution, NREN stakeholders and researchers need to continuously run active network measurements to map the inter-NREN topology. However, active topology measurement tools, such as Traceroute, introduce additional traffic in the network, which maybe undesirable for networks that have limited bandwidth. Furthermore, many network routers are configured to block/drop network probing packets, thereby making the task of topology discovery a lot more difficult. The paper aims to show that by carefully analysing Internet path overlaps, significant reductions can be made on the number of packets required to probe the topology. Furthermore, by using multiple probing protocols and vantage points, it is possible to alleviate the impact of blocked packets. The paper reports on a Traceroute study carried out on African NRENs, which shows that by jointly using different probing protocols, and taking into consideration path overlaps, it is possible to map all probe destinations, while achieving a 65% reduction in the number of probe packets sent.","PeriodicalId":326074,"journal":{"name":"2016 IST-Africa Week Conference","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-05-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123973577","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2016-05-11DOI: 10.1109/ISTAFRICA.2016.7530633
Mary Nsabagwa, Maximus Byamukama, J. S. Otim, R. Okou
Access to quality, accurate and timely weather information is important. In order to improve weather information quality and quantity, increasing the number of operational Automatic Weather Stations, also referred to in this document as densification should be prioritized. In this paper, we provide research findings of a survey conducted from November 2014 to January 2015 to ascertain the status of weather stations in Uganda. Weather station density was found to be sparse and yet many of the available weather stations were non-functional. Based on the distribution of available operational weather stations, we are proposing densification strategies including climatological zones, security and land policies. To achieve sustainability of the weather stations, we commend improving human resources aspects among other things.
{"title":"Network densification strategies for Automatic Weather Stations: Challenges and opportunities for Uganda","authors":"Mary Nsabagwa, Maximus Byamukama, J. S. Otim, R. Okou","doi":"10.1109/ISTAFRICA.2016.7530633","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ISTAFRICA.2016.7530633","url":null,"abstract":"Access to quality, accurate and timely weather information is important. In order to improve weather information quality and quantity, increasing the number of operational Automatic Weather Stations, also referred to in this document as densification should be prioritized. In this paper, we provide research findings of a survey conducted from November 2014 to January 2015 to ascertain the status of weather stations in Uganda. Weather station density was found to be sparse and yet many of the available weather stations were non-functional. Based on the distribution of available operational weather stations, we are proposing densification strategies including climatological zones, security and land policies. To achieve sustainability of the weather stations, we commend improving human resources aspects among other things.","PeriodicalId":326074,"journal":{"name":"2016 IST-Africa Week Conference","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-05-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130624400","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2016-05-11DOI: 10.1109/ISTAFRICA.2016.7530602
Reuben L. Mathule, B. Kalema
Integrating and processing data that reside in different legacy systems remains an often laborious process, requiring either manual steps or complicated programming yet legacy systems when used in silos make the sharing of information, security and management controls a nightmare. Such fragmentation of data leads to challenges of system processing inefficiencies, poor synchronization of reports, delayed decision making and hinders quick response to business demands. This calls for the integration of legacy systems into a single repository system to enable a central processing of data and improve decision making. However, such integration is always resisted by user. The objective of this paper was to identify factors influencing user acceptance of Legacy system integration. Data for the study was collected by using a close-ended questionnaire from a government department in South Africa. The collected data was analysed quantitatively and results indicated that culture, trust, social influence, information quality, and system quality are core antecedents of the acceptance of Legacy systems integration. This paper examines the factors that contribute positively or negatively to the user acceptance of legacy systems integration as well as those factors that could be considered by system developers when modernizing legacy systems. Management within organizations could leverage the findings of this study when dealing with issues of technology acceptance. This paper further provides a model for a relatively influential factors that could be considered by managers, developers and researchers that need a way to integrate standard data sets that are distributed across legacy systems.
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Pub Date : 2016-05-11DOI: 10.1109/ISTAFRICA.2016.7530575
N. Dlodlo, O. Gcaba, A. Smith
A smart city is a developed urban area that excels in the area of economy, governance, people and life through strong human capital, social capital and ICT infrastructure. It is a new approach to managing the complexity of city life, increase efficiency, reduce expenses and improve the quality of life of the citizens. This paper is on potential smart cities applications as applied to the domains of smart transport, smart tourism and recreation, smart health, ambient-assisted living, crime prevention and community safety, governance, monitoring and infrastructure, disaster management, environment management, refuse collection and sewer management, smart homes and smart energy. These smart cities applications support the future vision of cities, which aim at exploiting ICTs, namely internet of things technologies (IoT), for value-added service delivery. Furthermore, the paper presents a technical solution for energy control and comfort in a home for proof of concept of a smart city infrastructure application. The demonstrator described here is on how smart applications can manage energy control and comfort in a room that has a varied number of people and electrical appliances, with each being a source of heat.
{"title":"Internet of things technologies in smart cities","authors":"N. Dlodlo, O. Gcaba, A. Smith","doi":"10.1109/ISTAFRICA.2016.7530575","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ISTAFRICA.2016.7530575","url":null,"abstract":"A smart city is a developed urban area that excels in the area of economy, governance, people and life through strong human capital, social capital and ICT infrastructure. It is a new approach to managing the complexity of city life, increase efficiency, reduce expenses and improve the quality of life of the citizens. This paper is on potential smart cities applications as applied to the domains of smart transport, smart tourism and recreation, smart health, ambient-assisted living, crime prevention and community safety, governance, monitoring and infrastructure, disaster management, environment management, refuse collection and sewer management, smart homes and smart energy. These smart cities applications support the future vision of cities, which aim at exploiting ICTs, namely internet of things technologies (IoT), for value-added service delivery. Furthermore, the paper presents a technical solution for energy control and comfort in a home for proof of concept of a smart city infrastructure application. The demonstrator described here is on how smart applications can manage energy control and comfort in a room that has a varied number of people and electrical appliances, with each being a source of heat.","PeriodicalId":326074,"journal":{"name":"2016 IST-Africa Week Conference","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-05-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130416908","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2016-05-11DOI: 10.1109/ISTAFRICA.2016.7530630
C. Kulanga, Eric Saforo, S. Ollis, M. Mitchell
mHealth has revolutionized the health care service delivery at all levels of health care system in both developing and developed world. Both at patient level and service provider level, mHealth has become very useful in areas of decision support, data storage, data processing into useful information, information flow and information use just to mention a few. For service providers with multiple service deliveries, there is a challenge in managing well the various mHealth applications across the various program deliveries. Standalone applications on different phones or the same phone poses a number of challenges and complications in management and use of these individual applications for patients across the health system. One solution to such challenges is the use of integrated mHealth solutions. With mHealth integrated application, we can address the challenge of health workers having multiple phones and applications for use in various service deliveries which often target the same audience. Integration also facilitates the continuity of care of patients across different services usually provided by the same health service point. Integration also ensures optimum use of resources thereby redirecting further resources to other needed areas. For optimal results of integration process, it is important to clearly define the problem, outline the intervention in line with the entire health care system and provide for means to mitigate risks. As a rule of thumb, intensive verification, validation and testing of the integrated application is crucial to ensuring an acceptable solution that improves the health care of people. Documenting the processes and learning from the them is important in improving the next possible intervention. This paper discusses the motivation, approach and outcomes of the integration process of mHealth applications.
{"title":"Integrating mHealth applications: Motivation, approach and outcomes","authors":"C. Kulanga, Eric Saforo, S. Ollis, M. Mitchell","doi":"10.1109/ISTAFRICA.2016.7530630","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ISTAFRICA.2016.7530630","url":null,"abstract":"mHealth has revolutionized the health care service delivery at all levels of health care system in both developing and developed world. Both at patient level and service provider level, mHealth has become very useful in areas of decision support, data storage, data processing into useful information, information flow and information use just to mention a few. For service providers with multiple service deliveries, there is a challenge in managing well the various mHealth applications across the various program deliveries. Standalone applications on different phones or the same phone poses a number of challenges and complications in management and use of these individual applications for patients across the health system. One solution to such challenges is the use of integrated mHealth solutions. With mHealth integrated application, we can address the challenge of health workers having multiple phones and applications for use in various service deliveries which often target the same audience. Integration also facilitates the continuity of care of patients across different services usually provided by the same health service point. Integration also ensures optimum use of resources thereby redirecting further resources to other needed areas. For optimal results of integration process, it is important to clearly define the problem, outline the intervention in line with the entire health care system and provide for means to mitigate risks. As a rule of thumb, intensive verification, validation and testing of the integrated application is crucial to ensuring an acceptable solution that improves the health care of people. Documenting the processes and learning from the them is important in improving the next possible intervention. This paper discusses the motivation, approach and outcomes of the integration process of mHealth applications.","PeriodicalId":326074,"journal":{"name":"2016 IST-Africa Week Conference","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-05-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127645847","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2016-05-11DOI: 10.1109/ISTAFRICA.2016.7530677
Khumbo Masilela, A. Gerber, Alta van de Merwe
The entertainment industry world-wide provides lucrative business opportunities, and within South Africa, this market is still underdeveloped, especially within rural communities. Within this context, the FP7 MOSAIC 2B project aimed to empower micro-entrepreneurs by providing them with a Cinema-in-a-Backpack, which is a set of equipment allowing them to screen movies in rural areas within South Africa. However, to ensure compliance, these micro-entrepreneurs had to acquire the necessary licenses, which proved to be challenging given the regulatory environment as well as the different stakeholders involved. Using a systematic literature review as well as the MOSAIC 2B project as a case study, this paper reports on an investigation on the process and procedure necessary for a micro-entrepreneur to acquire licenses in order to screen multimedia content within rural South Africa. The paper provides an overview of the regulatory landscape as well as the nature of the film industry in South Africa. The main contribution of the investigation is a process model that could be used by a microbusiness to understand the requirements and process to follow when acquiring a legal licence for the screening of multi-media content within South Africa.
{"title":"Challenges and opportunities faced by micro-entrepreneurs to legally screen movies in rural South Africa","authors":"Khumbo Masilela, A. Gerber, Alta van de Merwe","doi":"10.1109/ISTAFRICA.2016.7530677","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ISTAFRICA.2016.7530677","url":null,"abstract":"The entertainment industry world-wide provides lucrative business opportunities, and within South Africa, this market is still underdeveloped, especially within rural communities. Within this context, the FP7 MOSAIC 2B project aimed to empower micro-entrepreneurs by providing them with a Cinema-in-a-Backpack, which is a set of equipment allowing them to screen movies in rural areas within South Africa. However, to ensure compliance, these micro-entrepreneurs had to acquire the necessary licenses, which proved to be challenging given the regulatory environment as well as the different stakeholders involved. Using a systematic literature review as well as the MOSAIC 2B project as a case study, this paper reports on an investigation on the process and procedure necessary for a micro-entrepreneur to acquire licenses in order to screen multimedia content within rural South Africa. The paper provides an overview of the regulatory landscape as well as the nature of the film industry in South Africa. The main contribution of the investigation is a process model that could be used by a microbusiness to understand the requirements and process to follow when acquiring a legal licence for the screening of multi-media content within South Africa.","PeriodicalId":326074,"journal":{"name":"2016 IST-Africa Week Conference","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-05-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128018449","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2016-05-11DOI: 10.1109/ISTAFRICA.2016.7530669
Othoman Elaswad, Christian Damsgaard Jensen
Online Identification and Authentication is an essential requirement for providing e-services. Few studies have investigated the challenges facing e-Government and IDM in developing countries and, to the best of our knowledge, none of the existing research has studied the challenges facing online identification and remote authentication in developing countries, such as the North Africa Countries (NAC), where a relatively large proportion of citizens are illiterate. Therefore, the design of a national IDM system in a NAC must explicitly consider illiteracy to allow this group of citizens to benefit from online services. Egypt is one of the NAC, which has implemented online identification and authentication services that are widely recognized as the most advanced among the NAC. This paper analyses the Egyptian digital IDM in order to identify IDM requirements for online identification and authentication services that guarantee equal access to online services and an inclusive society. The study identifies strengths and weaknesses of the Egyptian e-Government and IDM services, which we believe are common to most NAC, since the NAC are quite similar in terms of social culture, citizen's education level and skills, citizen's behaviours, digital infrastructure and legislation, but also common to many other developing countries. Our analysis of the Egyptian e-Government services indicates that the security requirements and principle of equal access are not fully met, which illustrates the difficulty of introducing e-Government in developing countries.
{"title":"Introducing E-Government in developing countries analysis of Egyptian e-Government services","authors":"Othoman Elaswad, Christian Damsgaard Jensen","doi":"10.1109/ISTAFRICA.2016.7530669","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ISTAFRICA.2016.7530669","url":null,"abstract":"Online Identification and Authentication is an essential requirement for providing e-services. Few studies have investigated the challenges facing e-Government and IDM in developing countries and, to the best of our knowledge, none of the existing research has studied the challenges facing online identification and remote authentication in developing countries, such as the North Africa Countries (NAC), where a relatively large proportion of citizens are illiterate. Therefore, the design of a national IDM system in a NAC must explicitly consider illiteracy to allow this group of citizens to benefit from online services. Egypt is one of the NAC, which has implemented online identification and authentication services that are widely recognized as the most advanced among the NAC. This paper analyses the Egyptian digital IDM in order to identify IDM requirements for online identification and authentication services that guarantee equal access to online services and an inclusive society. The study identifies strengths and weaknesses of the Egyptian e-Government and IDM services, which we believe are common to most NAC, since the NAC are quite similar in terms of social culture, citizen's education level and skills, citizen's behaviours, digital infrastructure and legislation, but also common to many other developing countries. Our analysis of the Egyptian e-Government services indicates that the security requirements and principle of equal access are not fully met, which illustrates the difficulty of introducing e-Government in developing countries.","PeriodicalId":326074,"journal":{"name":"2016 IST-Africa Week Conference","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-05-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133924070","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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