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A Sociocultural Framework to Analyse M-Learning Options for Early Childhood Development (ECD) Practitioner Training 分析儿童早期发展(ECD)从业人员培训的移动学习选择的社会文化框架
Pub Date : 2021-12-06 DOI: 10.23962/10539/32209
S. Oosthuizen, Nicky Roberts
This article, a contribution to m-learning (mobile learning) research, centres on the motivation for, and development of, a suitable framework to analyse m-learning options for early childhood development (ECD) practitioners. Grounded in a sociocultural learning perspective, the framework was developed as part of a larger study into the feasibility of m-learning for ECD practitioners in the Penreach professional development programme in Mpumalanga Province, South Africa. Analysis of existing frameworks enabled the development of a new, modified framework to suit the Penreach context. Here we unpack the framework and explain its development. The new, modified framework aims to assist researchers, developers, and implementers by prompting consideration of five sociocultural learning features associated with m-learning in ECD, namely: device access, data affordability, authenticity, collaboration, and personalisation.
这篇文章是对移动学习(移动学习)研究的贡献,重点是分析幼儿发展(ECD)从业者的移动学习选择的合适框架的动机和发展。该框架基于社会文化学习的角度,是作为南非普马兰加省Penreach专业发展计划中幼儿发展从业者移动学习可行性的更大研究的一部分而制定的。对现有框架的分析使我们能够开发出一个新的、经过修改的框架,以适应Penreach的环境。在这里,我们打开框架并解释它的发展。新的、经过修改的框架旨在通过促使考虑与幼儿发展中的移动学习相关的五个社会文化学习特征来帮助研究人员、开发人员和实施者,即:设备访问、数据可负担性、真实性、协作和个性化。
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引用次数: 1
Intermediation Capabilities of Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) in Ghana’s Agricultural Extension System 加纳农业推广系统中信息和通信技术的中介能力
Pub Date : 2021-12-06 DOI: 10.23962/10539/32212
Nyamwaya Munthali, R. Lie, R. Van Lammeren, Annemarie van Paassen, R. Asare, C. Leeuwis
Information and communication technologies (ICTs), specifically those that are digital and interactive, present opportunities for enhanced intermediation between actors in Ghana’s agricultural extension system. To understand these opportunities, this study investigates the capabilities of ICTs in support of seven forms of intermediation in the context of agricultural extension: disseminating (information), retrieving (information), harvesting (information), matching (actors to services), networking (among actors), coordinating (actors), and co-creating (among actors). The study identifies the types of ICTs currently functioning in Ghana’s agricultural system, and applies a Delphi-inspired research design to determine the consensus and dissensus of researchers, scientists, and practitioners about the potential of these ICTs to support each of the seven intermediation capabilities. The findings reveal that experts reached consensus that interactive voice response (IVR) technologies currently have the highest potential to support disseminating, retrieving, harvesting, and matching. Meanwhile, social media messaging (SMM) technologies are currently seen as highly capable of supporting coordinating and, to a lesser extent, co-creating, but no consensus is reached on the potential of any of the technologies to support networking.
信息和通信技术(ict),特别是数字和互动技术,为加强加纳农业推广系统中行动者之间的中介提供了机会。为了了解这些机会,本研究调查了信息通信技术在农业推广背景下支持七种中介形式的能力:传播(信息)、检索(信息)、收获(信息)、匹配(行动者与服务)、网络(行动者之间)、协调(行动者)和共同创造(行动者之间)。该研究确定了目前在加纳农业系统中运行的信息通信技术的类型,并采用了受德尔菲启发的研究设计,以确定研究人员、科学家和从业人员对这些信息通信技术支持七种中介能力的潜力的共识和分歧。调查结果显示,专家们一致认为,交互式语音应答(IVR)技术目前在支持传播、检索、收获和匹配方面具有最大的潜力。与此同时,社会媒体消息传递(SMM)技术目前被认为具有支持协调的高度能力,并且在较小程度上具有共同创造的能力,但对于支持网络的任何技术的潜力尚未达成共识。
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引用次数: 0
Social Media Use, Disbelief and (Mis)information During a Pandemic: An Examination of Young Adult Nigerians’ Interactions with COVID-19 Public Health Messaging 大流行病期间社交媒体的使用、不信任和(错误)信息:尼日利亚年轻人与新冠肺炎公共卫生信息的互动研究
Pub Date : 2021-12-06 DOI: 10.23962/10539/32215
Olutobi Akingbade
This study contributes to transdisciplinary understanding of the COVID-19 pandemic through an examination of perceptions of public health messages as consumed primarily through social media by a purposively enlisted set of young adult Nigerians. The research used focus group discussions and in-depth interviews to elicit the views of 11 young adults, aged 21 to 24, resident in Ajegunle, a low-income community in Lagos, Nigeria’s commercial capital. The study identifies the centrality of social media platforms to the respondents’ processes of meaning-making, and draws on Hall’s (1980) encoding/decoding model in order to bring to the fore their oppositional interpretations of public health messages. The study also identifies respondents’ varying levels of disbelief about the realities of COVID-19, their mistrust of the government officials conveying and enforcing decisions to combat the pandemic, and the propensity for the social media messages they consume and propagate to serve as channels of misinformation.
本研究通过对一组有意招募的尼日利亚年轻人主要通过社交媒体消费公共卫生信息的看法进行调查,有助于对COVID-19大流行的跨学科理解。该研究采用焦点小组讨论和深度访谈的方式,征求了11名年龄在21岁至24岁之间的年轻人的意见,他们居住在尼日利亚商业首都拉各斯的低收入社区Ajegunle。该研究确定了社交媒体平台对受访者意义生成过程的中心地位,并借鉴了Hall(1980)的编码/解码模型,以突出他们对公共卫生信息的对立解释。该研究还确定了受访者对COVID-19现实的不同程度的不相信,他们对政府官员传达和执行对抗大流行的决定的不信任,以及他们消费和传播的社交媒体信息成为错误信息渠道的倾向。
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引用次数: 0
Applying Blockchain Technology to Security-Related Aspects of Electronic Healthcare Record Infrastructure 将区块链技术应用于电子医疗记录基础设施的安全相关方面
Pub Date : 2021-12-06 DOI: 10.23962/10539/32211
Ryno Adlam, B. Haskins
The centralised architecture employed by electronic health records (EHRs) may constitute a single point of failure. From the perspective of availability, an alternative cloud-based EHR infrastructure is effective and efficient. However, this increased availability has created challenges related to the security and privacy of patients’ medical records. The sensitive nature of EHRs attracts the attention of cyber-criminals. There has been a rise in the number of data breaches related to EHRs. The infrastructure used by EHRs does not assure the privacy and security of patients’ medical records. Features of blockchain platforms, such as decentralisation, immutability, auditability, and transparency, may provide a viable means of augmenting or improving services related to the security of EHRs. This study presents a series of experimental data flow configurations to test the application of blockchain technology to aspects of EHRs. The insights gained from these experiments are founded on a theoretical base to provide recommendations for applying blockchain technology to services related to the security of EHR infrastructure. These recommendations may be employed by developers when redesigning existing EHR systems or deploying new EHR systems.
电子健康记录(EHRs)采用的集中式架构可能构成单点故障。从可用性的角度来看,另一种基于云的EHR基础设施是有效且高效的。然而,这种可用性的增加带来了与患者医疗记录的安全和隐私相关的挑战。电子病历的敏感性吸引了网络罪犯的注意。与电子病历相关的数据泄露数量有所增加。电子病历所使用的基础设施不能保证患者医疗记录的隐私和安全。区块链平台的特性,如去中心化、不变性、可审计性和透明性,可以提供一种可行的方法来增加或改进与电子病历安全性相关的服务。本研究提出了一系列实验数据流配置,以测试区块链技术在电子病历各方面的应用。从这些实验中获得的见解建立在理论基础上,为将区块链技术应用于与EHR基础设施安全相关的服务提供建议。开发人员在重新设计现有EHR系统或部署新的EHR系统时可以采用这些建议。
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引用次数: 0
E-Government Information Systems (IS) Project Failure in Developing Countries: Lessons from the Literature 发展中国家电子政务信息系统项目失败的经验教训
Pub Date : 2021-12-06 DOI: 10.23962/10539/32210
Joseph B. Nyansiro, J. Mtebe, M. Kissaka
E-government information systems (IS) projects experience numerous challenges that can lead to total or partial failure. The project failure factors have been identified and studied by numerous researchers, but the root causes of such failures are not well-articulated. In this study, literature on e-government IS project failures in developing-world contexts is reviewed through the application of qualitative meta-synthesis, design–reality gap analysis, and root cause analysis. In the process, 18 causal factors and 181 root causes are identified as responsible for e-government IS project failures. The most prevalent of the 18 causal factors are found to be inadequate system requirements engineering (with 22 root causes), inadequate project management (19 root causes), and missing or incomplete features (16 root causes). These findings can be of use to future researchers, policymakers, and practitioners seeking to identify methods of avoiding e-government IS failures, particularly in developing-world contexts.
电子政府信息系统(IS)项目经历了许多挑战,这些挑战可能导致全部或部分失败。许多研究人员已经确定并研究了项目失败的因素,但这些失败的根本原因并没有很好地阐明。在本研究中,通过定性综合、设计-现实差距分析和根本原因分析的应用,回顾了发展中国家背景下电子政务IS项目失败的文献。在这一过程中,18个原因和181个根本原因被确定为电子政务信息系统项目失败的原因。在这18个原因中,最普遍的是系统需求工程不充分(有22个根本原因)、项目管理不充分(19个根源原因)和功能缺失或不完整(16个根源因素)。这些发现可供未来的研究人员、政策制定者和从业者使用,以确定避免电子政务信息系统失败的方法,特别是在发展中国家。
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引用次数: 3
Cybersecurity Policymaking in the BRICS Countries: From Addressing National Priorities to Seeking International Cooperation 金砖国家的网络安全决策:从解决国家优先事项到寻求国际合作
Pub Date : 2021-12-06 DOI: 10.23962/10539/32208
Luca Belli
In the concluding statement of the 2021 BRICS Summit, the bloc’s five members—Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa—pledged to pursue enhanced cooperation on cybersecurity issues, including by “establishing legal frameworks of cooperation among BRICS” and a BRICS intergovernmental agreement on cybersecurity. This piece briefly outlines the mounting relevance of cybersecurity for the BRICS countries, recent national policymaking in this area in the bloc, and the dynamics at play as the BRICS countries seek to further intensify and structure their cooperation on cybersecurity matters.
在2021年金砖国家领导人会晤的总结声明中,巴西、俄罗斯、印度、中国和南非五个成员国承诺加强在网络安全问题上的合作,包括“建立金砖国家合作的法律框架”和金砖国家政府间网络安全协议。本文简要概述了网络安全对金砖国家日益增长的相关性,金砖国家近期在该领域的国家政策制定,以及金砖国家寻求进一步加强和构建网络安全事务合作的动态。
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引用次数: 0
The Cyber Threat Landscape in South Africa: A 10-Year Review 南非网络威胁形势:十年回顾
Pub Date : 2021-12-06 DOI: 10.23962/10539/32213
H. Pieterse
The world is witnessing a rise in cyber-related incidents. As information technology improves and the reliance on technology increases, the frequency and severity of cyber incidents escalate. The impact is felt globally, and South Africa is not immune to the effects. The country’s fast-paced technological evolution continues to increase the attack surface within the cyber domain. The increased attack surface is confirmed by recent cyberattacks affecting well-known and established South African organisations. This article reviews findings from an evaluation of South Africa’s cyber threat landscape that analysed 74 cyber incidents identified as occurring between 2010 and 2020. The 74 incidents are categorised according to incident type, affected sector, perpetrator type, and motivation. It is found that the most common incident type is data exposure, the most-affected sector is the public sector, the most prevalent perpetrators are hackers, and the most common motivation is criminal. The article makes recommendations about how South Africa can reduce the risk factors in its cyber threat landscape.
世界正在目睹网络相关事件的增加。随着信息技术的进步和对技术的依赖程度的增加,网络事件的频率和严重程度也在上升。全球都能感受到这种影响,南非也不能幸免。该国快节奏的技术发展继续增加网络领域内的攻击面。最近的网络攻击影响了知名和成熟的南非组织,这证实了攻击面的增加。本文回顾了对南非网络威胁形势的评估结果,该评估分析了2010年至2020年间发生的74起网络事件。这74起事件按事件类型、受影响部门、肇事者类型和动机进行分类。研究发现,最常见的事件类型是数据泄露,受影响最大的部门是公共部门,最常见的肇事者是黑客,最常见的动机是犯罪。本文就南非如何减少其网络威胁环境中的风险因素提出了建议。
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引用次数: 5
Drivers and Modalities of Collaborative Innovation among Nairobi’s MobileTech Start-ups 内罗毕移动科技初创企业协同创新的驱动因素和模式
Pub Date : 2020-12-15 DOI: 10.23962/10539/30359
Victor B. Nzomo, Jacquelene Mwangi, Louisa Matu-Mureithi, C. Muchiri, Isaac Rutenberg
This article sets out findings from research into the collaborative modalities presentin the innovation practices of mobile tech start-ups in the Kenyan capital, Nairobi.Drawing on findings from qualitative data collection from respondents at 25 startupsin the Nairobi mobile tech ecosystem, the study explores the start-ups’ participationin tech hubs, their internal collaborative activities, their external collaborations,their approaches to managing the knowledge and innovations they generate, andtheir approaches to the scaling of their enterprises. The study finds that three keydrivers of the start-ups’ collaborative innovation practices are openness, networking,and informality.
本文列出了对肯尼亚首都内罗毕移动技术初创企业创新实践中出现的协作模式的研究结果。根据内罗毕移动技术生态系统中25家初创企业受访者的定性数据收集结果,该研究探讨了初创企业对技术中心的参与、其内部合作活动、外部合作、管理其产生的知识和创新的方法,以及其企业规模扩张的方法。研究发现,初创企业协作创新实践的三个关键驱动因素是开放性、网络化和非正式性。
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引用次数: 3
Social Entrepreneurs’ Use of Fab Labs and 3D Printing in South Africa and Kenya 社会企业家在南非和肯尼亚使用Fab实验室和3D打印
Pub Date : 2020-12-15 DOI: 10.23962/10539/30356
Tobias Schonwetter, Bram Van Wiele
This article outlines findings from a study in South Africa and Kenya that exploredsocial entrepreneurs’ use of fabrication laboratories (fab labs), and in particular fablab 3D printing services, in order to advance their social innovations and enterprises.Based on interviews with representatives of fab lab initiatives and social enterprises,the study found strong linkages between social entrepreneurship and fab labs, andbetween social entrepreneurs and the use of 3D printing technology. However, it wasalso found that social entrepreneurs tend not to rely primarily on fab labs for accessto 3D printers, preferring to buy and build their own printer units—a practice madecost-effective through the selection of low-cost, open source models. In respect ofthe computer-aided design (CAD) software used to design the files for 3D printing,it was found that social entrepreneurs prefer the stability and user-friendliness ofproprietary CAD software, despite the cost implications. At the same time, it wasfound that social entrepreneurs frequently use free and open source CAD filesavailable online, and that they seek, in turn, to share their designs on a free and opensource basis.
本文概述了南非和肯尼亚的一项研究结果,该研究探讨了社会企业家利用制造实验室(fab labs),特别是fablab 3D打印服务,以推动他们的社会创新和企业发展。基于对晶圆厂实验室倡议和社会企业代表的采访,该研究发现,社会创业与晶圆厂实验室之间,以及社会企业家与3D打印技术的使用之间存在着密切的联系。然而,研究还发现,社会企业家往往不主要依赖晶圆厂实验室来获得3D打印机,他们更喜欢购买和建造自己的打印机单元——通过选择低成本的开源模型,这种做法具有成本效益。在用于设计3D打印文件的计算机辅助设计(CAD)软件方面,发现社会企业家更喜欢专业CAD软件的稳定性和用户友好性,尽管这会带来成本影响。同时,研究发现,社会企业家经常使用在线提供的免费开源CAD文件,反过来,他们寻求在免费开源的基础上分享自己的设计。
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引用次数: 3
Innovation Entanglement at Three South African Tech Hubs 南非三个科技中心的创新纠缠
Pub Date : 2020-12-15 DOI: 10.23962/10539/30358
Lucienne Abrahams
This study explores innovation modalities at three South African tech hubs: BandwidthBarn Khayelitsha and Workshop 17 in Cape Town, and the Tshimologong Digital Innovation Precinct in Johannesburg. The study finds that tech start-ups’ability to scale is generally enhanced by their participation in the hubs. Furthermore, it is found that scaling by start-ups, and by the tech hubs hosting them, is enhanced when they actively drive the terms of their “entanglement” with exogenous and endogenous factors and external entities—a conceptual framework first developed in an earlier study of university research linkages (Abrahams, 2016). This present study finds that innovation entanglement by the hubs and their start-ups allows them to work through the adversity and states of complexity prevalent in their innovation ecosystems.
本研究探讨了南非三个科技中心的创新模式:开普敦的BandwidthBarn Khayelitsha和Workshop 17,以及约翰内斯堡的Tshimologong数字创新区。研究发现,科技初创企业的规模化能力通常会因其参与中心而增强。此外,研究发现,当初创企业和托管它们的科技中心积极推动其与外生和内生因素以及外部实体的“纠缠”时,它们的规模会得到增强——这是早期大学研究联系研究中首次提出的概念框架(Abrahams,2016)。本研究发现,中心及其初创企业的创新纠缠使他们能够在创新生态系统中度过普遍存在的逆境和复杂状态。
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