Department of Information Technology

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Ict and education: enabling two rural western Kenyan schools to exploit information technology
(2012) Boit, John; Menjo, David; Kimutai, James
The study was undertaken to evaluate the implementation of ICT to support learning, teaching, school administration and use of E-communication between cooperating rural secondary schools in Western Kenya under the Rotary project, Forssa Rotary Club of Finland District 1410. The study was conducted in two selected rural schools namely: Anin secondary school (Keiyo County) and Cheplaskei secondary school (UasinGishu County) under a Finnish project “Enabling rural Western Kenyan schools to exploit information technology” funded by the Suomen Rotaryn between May 2007-December 2009. A case study research design was adopted for this study where interviews, observation and open-ended questionnaires including document analysis were used to collect qualitative data. The respondents interviewed in each school were mainly head teachers, ICT instructors, ICT technicians, teachers (4), students (7), and Board of Governors (BOG) and Parents Teachers Association (PTA) members (2).The findings indicate that largely the initial objectives of the project had been realized. Teachers, students and the school administrators were now using computers to access educational resource material from the Internet, prepare and process examination results, manage, monitor and process financial reports, and communicate using email. There was also evidence that quality of teaching, learning and students’ level of interaction, reasoning, recall, synthesis and evaluation had improved tremendously. School discipline and student sense of self-esteem and pride had significantly been enhanced.
Pervasiveness of green ICT awareness amongst Kenyan ICT personnel
(International Journal of Application or Innovation in Engineering & Management, 2013-01-06) Wabwoba, Franklin; Wanyembi, Gregory; Omuterema, Stanley; Mutua, Stephen
There has been growing concerns about the rising costs of doing business and environmental degradation world over. Green ICT has been proposed to provide solutions to the two issues yet it is not being implemented fully in developing nations like Kenya despite the availability of the technologies of doing it. The study investigated pervasiveness of green ICT awareness amongst the ICT personnel, how they perceive it to be relevant to their organisations and the drivers towards implementation of the same. The study surveyed ICT personnel in four cases using a questionnaire on a seven scale likert scale. The study established that awareness level of green ICT in Kenya is low when compared with developed nations. It also established the green ICT drivers and how ICT personnel perceived it to be relevant to their organisations. The study recommends the raising of green ICT awareness levels through aligning the ICT personnel’s capacities
VIRTUAL REALITY IN EDUCATION: TRENDS AND ISSUES
(International Journal of Computers & Technology, 2013-02-09) Omieno, Kelvin; Wabwoba, Franklin; Matoke, Nahason
Computer-mediated learning is becoming an increasingly common form of education in institutions of higher learning (IHL). Many IHL in developing nations, such as Kenya, have greatly experienced an increase in demand for higher education. On the other hand, the ability to connect people with required sets of skills, regardless of their location in the world has been enabled by advances in information technology over the past 20 years. Use of virtual learning systems (VLS) has rapidly emerged as a very promising technology that will probably match the innovation of technologies such as multimedia/hypermedia. These VLS have the potential to provide opportunities for active, flexible, and increasingly individualized learning experiences. It also explains virtual reality principle, describes the interactive educational environment, highlights the challenges higher education face in the traditional mode of delivery and discusses educational benefits of implementing virtual learning environments in IHL. The paper makes a number of recommendations for successful adoption of VLS in higher education
A model for evaluating total cost of ownership of university enterprise resource planning: case of Maseno university
(2013-09)
Enterprise Resource Planning, (ERP) makes it possible to improve institutional efficiency and effectiveness. There is, however, a great deal of difficulty reported in the normative literature when it comes to the evaluation of investments in ERP, with organizations often finding themselves unable to assess the full implications of their ERP implementation. Organizations looking to reduce technology costs typically look for ways to reduce the Total Cost of Ownership (TCO). When properly analyzed, TCO captures all direct and indirect costs related to acquiring, configuring, deploying, managing and retiring a particular asset or system. Each one of these categories is a valuable opportunity to save scarce resources, improve IT and increase productivity. This research is based on cost analysis of an ERP system solution in universities. It explores on how to develop a model for evaluating the total cost of ERP ownership in a university and to provide basis upon which to monitor costs over time. The study sought to identify the major cost drivers that can influence the TCO of ERP in universities, to analyze the TCO of university ERP and to develop a model for evaluating TCO of university ERP. The study identified the major cost factors that can influence TCO in university ERP system as; the number of implementation locations, scope of business impact, technology familiarity among users, life cycle of technology, and the system support. The proposed TCO model was built based on Gartner’s TCO model, the Distributed Computing Chart of Account as the theoretical framework. The proposed TCO model has five cost elements which are; procurement costs, hardware and software acquisition costs, implementation costs, operations and maintenance costs and end-user usage costs. The model has seventeen nodes and sixty five background factors. The developed TCO model was used to determine the total cost of owning Maseno University ERP system. The results obtained indicate that operations and maintenance account for 51% of the TCO of ERP system followed by end-user usage with 23%. Hardware and Software Acquisition costs accounted for 16 %, Implementation costs with 7% and the least cost was taken by Procurements costs with 3%. Case study was used in gathering both qualitative and quantitative data from Maseno University. Maseno University currently comprises four campuses; Main Campus, College Campus, Kisumu City Campus and Homa Bay Campus. Interviews, document analysis, questionnaires as well as observation techniques were used to gather the research data. It is hoped that the results of this study will help higher educational institutions improve management of their ERP systems.
Green ICT Readiness Model for Developing Economies: Case of Kenya
(International Journal of Advanced Computer Science and Applications, 2013-12-15) Wabwoba, Franklin; Omuterema, Stanley; Wanyembi, Gregory; Omieno, Kelvin
There has been growing concerns about the rising costs of doing business and environmental degradation world over. Green ICT has been proposed to provide solutions to the two issues yet it is not being implemented fully in developing economies like Kenya. For its implementation, it is critical to establish the level of green ICT readiness of organisations to inform where to start and where to put more emphasis. Over the past few years this has been done using Molla’s G-readiness model. However this model assumes the basic level of G-readiness to be same for both developed and developing economies to be the same with regard to ICT personnel preparedness. Based on green ICT readiness in Kenya, the relationship between ICT personnel’s gender, age and training with the G-readiness variables as proposed in Molla’s G-readiness model was investigated. The study surveyed ICT personnel in four cases using a questionnaire on a seven scale likert scale. It established that there exists a significant relationship between the ICT personnel related variables and the G-readiness variables. Based on the findings on the relationship, the study extended Molla’s G-readiness model to include a sixth dimension of personnel readiness.
ENVIRONMENTAL IMPLICATIONS OF CELL PHONES PENETRATION AND DISPOSAL IN KENYA
(International Journal of Computers & Technology, 2014-05-25) Wabwoba, Franklin; Sakwa, Thomas; Mbugua, Samuel; Kilwake, Humphrey
ABSTRACT Kenya has over six million active mobile subscribers who may at some point want to replace or get rid of old mobile phones. A big number of the mobile phones were recently switched off for not being genuine without a prober mechanism being put in place for the disposal. If every affected individual or otherwise disposed off phones by throwing it away then there could a serious ecological disaster in waiting. Cell phones are hazardous materials because of electromagnetic radiation and electronic composition. They have substances such as antimony, arsenic, beryllium, cadmium, copper, lead, nickel and zinc which belong to a class of chemicals known as persistent toxins. These toxins pollute and remain in the environment for long periods. There are ill-effects of wireless and telecommunication devices on the environment are disastrous. The increased use of high resolution LCD screens leads to a potentially devastating environmental challenge. There is no clear policy frame work on e-waste management with a special focus on used mobile phones in the country. A proper disposal mechanism of wireless and telecommunication devices is a necessity in Kenya
E-trafiki model: electronic solution architect for police highway patrolling in Kenya
(2015) Tenge, Evans; Mneria, Esau; Gekombe, Dickson; Sanja, Michael; Ogalo, James
Among the six world regions, Africa remains least motorized but suffers the highest rates of road traffic fatalities causing deaths and fatal injuries. If these trends continue, traffic accidents will be among the top major causes of death worldwide. Highway patrolling is being used primarily for the purpose of overseeing and enforcing traffic safety compliance on roads and highways. In developing countries, traditional manual patrolling methods are still being used for traffic patrolling which is lagging behind, and it is not matched with the status of national costeffective development, reducing road accidents, reducing crime and corruption. In this paper, we're going to look this important sector and how electronic patrolling techniques and equipment have been utilized to overcome the traditional method of patrolling. We argue that developing solution architecture to expose traffic policemen to road traffic information electronically can boost their service provision and reduce road traffic accidents while at the same time be productive and cost efficient. Further, we illustrate the development of an eTrafiki framework to address these aforementioned properties to improve highway patrolling.
Evaluating total cost of ownership for university enterprise resource planning: case of Maseno university
(2015) Owoche, Patrick Oduor; Gregory, Wanyembi; Juma, Kilwake Humphrey
Higher learning institutions (HEI) are investing in IT to attain operational excellence. Organizations looking to reduce technology costs typically look for ways to reduce the Total Cost of Ownership (TCO). TCO captures all direct and indirect costs related to deploying a particular system. Understanding life-cycle costs provides opportunity to save scarce resources, improve IT and increase productivity. The study sought to analyze the TCO of university ERP system. The TCO analysis was based on Gartner’s TCO model, the Distributed Computing Chart of Account as the theoretical framework. Modified Gartner TCO model was used to determine the total cost of owning Maseno University ERP system. The aim of the study was to create awareness on life-cycle costs of ERP solutions. The results obtained indicate that operations and maintenance account for 51%, end-user usage 23% while technology acquisition costs accounted for 16 %, implementation costs with 7% and the least cost was taken by procurements costs with 3%. Case study was used in gathering both qualitative and quantitative data from Maseno University. Interviews, document analysis, and questionnaires were used to gather the research data. It is hoped that the results of this study will help HEIs improve management of their ERP systems.
The Role of ICT in Social Inclusion: A Review of Literature
(International Journal of Science and Research (IJSR), 2015-12-04) Motochi, Vincent; Barasa, Samuel; Owoche, Patrick; Wabwoba, Franklin
The questions we seek to answer in this paper are; Have ICT contributed to enhance social inclusion? Has use of ICT brought new forms of exclusion? And what is the way forward in using ICT for an inclusive society? Desk Top research was used. From the findings, one form of exclusion often leads to another, resulting to a cycle. a spanner and Nut Model was developed to show how Knowing which exclusion to reduce in order to break the cycle is critical in determining the type of ICT and how to apply it in order create an inclusive society.
The Role of ICT in Social Inclusion: A Review of Literature
(International Journal of Science and Research, 2015-12-13) Muchiri, Njoki; Wabwoba, Franklin
The questions we seek to answer in this paper are; Have ICT contributed to enhance social inclusion? Has use of ICT brought new forms of exclusion? And what is the way forward in using ICT for an inclusive society? Desk Top research was used. From the findings, one form of exclusion often leads to another, resulting to a cycle. a spanner and Nut Model was developed to show how Knowing which exclusion to reduce in order to break the cycle is critical in determining the type of ICT and how to apply it in order create an inclusive society.
Green ICT Policy Maturity for Actualization of Sustainable Computing in Developing Nations
(International Journal of Computer Science, Engineering and Information Technology, 2019-10-19) Wabwoba, Franklin
Green ICT Policy encompasses the frameworks an organization has developed and put in place to apply environmental sustainability criteria throughout its value chain. The lack of appropriate green policy alignment to application of ICT uptake challenges the reaping of the benefits often stated of ICT. Multiple case study design with case from different sectors of the economy selected based on information richness, accessibility, size as well as diversity in application of ICT was employed. Triangulation of data collection and findings interpretation was utilised. The study established that green ICT policy maturity was very low. In effect, calling for purposed policy set up on green ICT application by developing nations to ensure ICT benefits are realised while limiting environmental degradation.
Cyber Security Challenges to Mobile Banking in SACCOs in Kenya
(International Journal of Computer, 2020-09-05) Nambiro, Alice; Wabwoba, Franklin; Wasike, Jotham
Development of mobile technology has enabled mobile devices to be adopted in daily activities. Financial institutions are adopting mobile devices for banking purposes to enable their clients to bank from anywhere at any time. Although, the adoption of mobile technology enabled convenience to the users, it has brought about a great security challenge. This paper reviews the cyber security challenges to mobile banking and ways which SACCOs minimize the impact. Findings indicate that some mitigation strategies to cyber threats to mobile banking are in place though they seem not to address the major challenges.

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