Journal Articles: Recent submissions
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Learning Social Skills through Literature for Children and Adolescents.
(2001)This article offers guidelines for using children's and adolescents' literature as a means of fostering social learning while developing literacy skills. It reviews the literature on teaching social skills, considers book ... -
Housing strategies in Kenyan towns and dweller-initiated transformations-Case estates from Nairobi
(2011)Housing demand in Nairobi city has exceeded her rapid population growth culminating in shortage, contributory to informal settlements, and now increasingly attributed to dweller-initiated transformation in formal housing. ... -
Key Issues for Information Officers in South Africa
(2006)Business strategy, operations, communication and technology have converged and resulted in increased demand for business flexibility. Chief information officers (CIO) are particularly challenged because they operate at ... -
Leadership for the electronic age: towards a development-oriented, socio-technical ontology of leadership: scene setting
(2013)The idea of an ontology of leadership for the electronic age raises "big questions" from the perspective of leadership as a broad interdisciplinary practice. This article aims to capture the current dilemma in leadership ... -
Summary of two notes of this year: On corruption and madness, and about false Christians
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Linking Reasoning to Theoretical Argument in Information Systems Research
(2013)This paper looks at the application of theory in research by linking theory use to reasoning and the influence of paradigms. The paper relies on how theory is conceptualized in the philosophy of science and an argument is ... -
Linking the Role of Government to Internet Diffusion in Nigeria: Is the 'Giant'of Africa Awakening?
(2012)This paper focuses on the role of government in the development of the Internet, as a representative artifact of a National Information Infrastructure (NII) of a country. We consider Nigeria, a developing country that has ... -
Forms of power, politics and leadership in asynchronous virtual project environment: An exploratory analysis in South Africa
(2013)Purpose – The paper aims to investigate the forms of power, politics and leadership exercised by project leaders within asynchronous virtual project environments (VPEs). The purpose of this paper is to link effective ... -
Enabling Social Sustainability of E-Participation through Mobile Technology
(2015)The social sustainability of information and communication technology for development (ICT4D) projects such as e-government in developing nations remains a vexing issue. Particularly pertinent to the concept of e-government ... -
Towards a Nomadic E-Government Co-Evolutionary Framework (NECE) for Building Knowledge Infrastructures for African Countries
(2009)Purpose - E-Government, introduced in African countries under the banner of New Public Management (NPM), is envisaged to fundamentally aid in improving governance in developing countries. The imported model of EGovernment ... -
Groupthink Decision Making Deficiency in the Requirements Engineering Process: Towards a Crowdsourcing Model
(2012)We make an argument that requirements engineering, as a primer to information technology deployment in organizations, is largely failing because decision making in the requirements engineering (RE) process empathizes with ... -
Grassroots community participation as a key to e-governance sustainability in Africa: Section I: Themes and approaches to inform e-strategies
(2012)This article explores the theoretical sustainability of e-governance in Africa by assessing the nature of participation of stakeholders. It adopts an explanatory critique, drawing on perspectives debated in scholarly ...