Healthy democracies require high levels of explicit participation by citizens in political life of their countries, from voting empowerment to monitoring government performance. ICT is a tool which when used appropriately ...
The advancement of Information Communication Technology in recent years and the increase in the number of social networking technologies, has led to educators facing complex choices and challenges when it comes to exploiting ...
Initiatives for library digitization in Kenya are scattered all over with the university libraries, showing greatest progression. Despite the Government supporting the implementation of ICT related changes in universities, ...
Cloud-based services are the services that are provided to users through the Internet when they need them. They are designed to provide easy and scalable access to applications, resources and services. Such services include ...
Academic institutions now operate in highly competitive environments. Consequently, myriad mechanisms for rating the services and impact of universities have emerged as a means of influencing the choice of potential students, ...
The purpose of this chapter is to investigate and present the impact of knowledge management strategies on insurance firms in Kenya. The objectives of the study, that informs this chapter, were to examine the current ...
Information management is critical in influencing an organisation’s ability to sustain a long-term competitive advantage. This chapter, resulting from a research study, examines the impact of information management practices ...
Knowledge is an important asset and tacit knowledge is located in the minds of people. To succeed, organisations have to make the best use of their knowledge assets. This can be achieved through diverse initiatives such ...
Since the dawn of history, humanity has always sought more knowledge to feed families, stay healthy, argue with neighbours, and understand the immediate environment, among other issues. Before scientific approaches of ...
Knowledge management has emerged as a discipline in the recent past. In spite of its growing popularity, confusion still exists on what the discipline is really about and whether it is actually distinct. This confusion ...
A quick response (QR) code is a matrix barcode readable by smart-phones and other mobile phones with cameras. The QR code typically appears as a small white square with black geometric shapes. The information encoded in a ...
Infobesity is the condition of individuals who exhibit difficulty in understanding issues and effectively making decisions because they have too much information about that issue. Persons who suffer from infobesity exhibit ...
Hongo, Henry Ogada; Kwanya, Tom; Kiplang’at, Joseph(2019-07-17)
Technostress is the feeling of anxiety or mental pressure caused by working with multiple and rapidly changing computer systems, and mediating between these systems and the demands of one’s organisation, staff, customers, ...
Big data is the term used to refer to any group of datasets so huge and composite that it is difficult to process the same using traditional data processing applications. Big data analytics is a set of procedures and ...
This chapter analyses the strategies used by the National Police Service (NPS) in Kenya to manage its social media content. The study from which the chapter is extracted investigated the types of social media content ...
This chapter explores the research trends by Technical University of Kenya’s staff in Google Scholar for the period of 2013-2016. The study from which the chapter has been extracted analysed research output including all ...
Whereas some studies on digitisation in the banking sector in Kenya have been conducted, none has investigated the technologies and systems used as well as their suitability for the purpose. By using a fit-viability analysis, ...
The changing information landscape in today’s library environment has compelled libraries to shift from the conventional library service models to new service models. One of the new service models is Information Commons ...
Using a bibliometrics analysis, this chapter examines the collaboration patterns in knowledge management research in Eastern and Southern Africa (E&SA) region as indexed in Scopus database for the period 1991-2016. The ...
There is a widely-held belief that the library and information science (LIS) field does not have theories of its own but borrows heavily from a variety of fields. One of the subject domains from which LIS borrows theories ...