Browsing by Author "Etene, Yonah"

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Modelling cloud computing environment towards accessible information communication technology integration in primary schools
(KIBU, 2019-11) Etene, Yonah
Cloud Computing technology has developed with the proliferation of the Internet, broadband access networks and high-speed processors. This has led to the development of software defined networks and storage, to respond promptly to the requirements of users and applications. Information and communication technologies when employing cloud computing can open up new opportunities that can improve delivery of education. In financing the acquisition of ICT technologies for integration in education in Kenya, there is need for proper planning to realize accessibility of ICT Integration in education. The purpose of the study was to model the use of cloud computing so as to make ICT integration in primary school education accessible. These was achieved by assessing the ICT technologies being used for integration, analyzing the human capacity for managing ICT integration, developing a cloud computing environment model towards accessible integration of ICT and a cloud computing accessibility evaluation tool to assess the level of accessibility of ICT integration in primary schools. The study was guided by the design science research design. The design was used in the study to do a background research in order to collect data on the ICT technologies being used in schools and the ICT human capacity for managing the technologies. It was then used to develop a model. The target population was (425) Primary schools. The sample frame included 100 schools which had ICT equipment. Purposive sampling technique was used to select the schools where a sample size of (30) was obtained. A head teacher (1) and two (2) teachers from each school were used in the study corresponding to (90) respondents. The primary data was collected using questionnaires and guided interviews. To stablish content and face validity the study involved a team of three (3) experts while reliability was obtained through a pilot study. Data was analyzed using both descriptive and inferential statistics. The study found out that, hardware devices dominant in schools were mostly laptops, tablets and projectors. The learning management system was found to be the most important system required for accessible ICT integration in education. It was also found that technical skills were highly required, followed by basic hardware skills and green Computing skills. Training in ICT is thus required to develop a competent human capacity for successful accessible ICT integration in education. The study also established that Internet connection in schools was very key in the integration process yet many schools were not connected. The findings of the study provides an Integrated Cloud Computing Environment Model that can used to realize accessible ICT Integration in education. This will guide the government and education stakeholders in planning for ICT integration of in primary schools. The model was used to develop a Cloud Computing Accessibility Evaluation Tool that can be used by the MOE to assess ICT integration accessibility level in primary schools.
Multi-agent based healthcare for the affordable and accessible health consultancy services-Kenya
(KIBU, 2019-06-12) Muyobo, Daniel; Etene, Yonah; Gichuki, Dennis
The health sector is an enormous environment characterized by its shared, distributed decisional aspect, its management of care, requiring a communication and a complex coordination of the various medical departments, medical staffand patients. The appropriate use of available information, knowledge and communication technologies can make a significant contribution towards achieving a sustainable health system and adoption of semantically interoperable health information systems. Healthcare sector in Kenya is faced with many problems such as inadequate medical expertise, poor infrastructure and coordination amongst the staff. Currently, the information systems in hospitals are not able to deal with the heterogeneous problems such as coordination, cooperation and communication between all actors and different services which are not adequately conducted. Incorporating Multi-agent Technologies and expert systems can provide better healthcare than the traditional medical system. Multi-agent systems will employ multiple agents to perform distinct tasks and operations in different capacities of a human agent. Their potential is to extract out meaningful relationship with a data set that can be used in diagnosis, treatment and predicting outcome in many clinical scenarios. Therefore, the purpose of this paper is to analyze the requirements for Multi-agent based healthcare system for affordable and accessible health care consultancy services. This will focus on the representation of a guideline in form of expression, knowledge type, maintenance, local adaptation which will involve knowledge acquisition process directly from domain experts. The study will employ design science research. This will provide the specifications for the multi-agent based health care consultancy services that will be of benefit to the government, patients and other different stakeholder in provision of affordable and accessible health care service.