Key Issues for Cios in South Africa

Johnston, Kevin; Muganda, Nixon; Theys, Karen

doi:10.1002/j.1681-4835.2007.tb00206.x

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“…Examples include: A survey of challenges facing South African Chief Information Officers (K. Johnston, Muganda, & Theys, 2007), a survey of the impact of Black Economic Empowerment on IT Governance implementation (Mohapi & Njenga, 2012), and a survey of knowledge management practices among South African firms (Naicker & Omer, 2015). Other topics under the general business heading are trade (Bankole, Osei-Bryson, & Brown, 2015) and banking (Motjolopane & Lutu, 2011).…”

Section: General Businessmentioning

confidence: 99%

Assessing South African ICT4D research outputs: a journal review

Turpin¹

2018

SACJ

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South Africa is an ideal test bed for ICT4D research, since on the one hand it has stark development challenges, and on the other hand it has well established ICT infrastructure that could be utilised towards socio-economic development. Not surprisingly, a plethora of ICT4D projects are executed in South Africa by a variety of role-players. This paper focuses on how effective South African researchers are in converting ICT4D research activity into significant research outputs. Since effective research is assessed by journal publications, a review was done of papers published by South African authors in the prominent international ICT4D journals. It is found that while South Africa has a prominent presence in ICT4D journals, this prominence is concentrated in one research institution and one ICT4D journal. A surprising finding is that cooperation among research institutions that leads to co-authored publications is very low, even among neighbouring institutions. Future research is suggested to investigate the good practices of the most prolific research institution, to investigate reasons for the low cooperation between institutions and to more thoroughly investigate the research contributions made by the South African authors.

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Section: General Businessmentioning

confidence: 99%

Assessing South African ICT4D research outputs: a journal review

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2018

SACJ

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“…In a survey of key issues for chief information officers of listed companies in SA (Johnston et al, 2007), FOSS did not feature at all. Surprisingly, people development and skills development were also not listed as key issues, this in a developing country with a skills shortage and given the government's focus on skills development.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Free and Open Source Software in developing contexts

Miscione¹,

Johnston

2010

Journal of Information, Communication and Ethics in Society

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Purpose -Originating in the USA and Northern Europe, Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) found on the internet its fertile environment. In more recent years, FOSS is becoming an increasingly important element in strategies for development and implementation of information and communication technologies also in developing countries. Mainstream research on FOSS has catered to the underlying principles or freedom, open organizational forms, and on its economical aspects. The purpose of this paper is to shed new light on the actual consequences of FOSS, often left in the background. Design/methodology/approach -The paper examines where FOSS principles' assumptions are likely to be more evident: in contexts of developing countries, which are geographically and organizationally far from the original environment of FOSS. A mixed methodology characterizes this work: quantitative and qualitative methods bring readers' attention to unusual empirical settings and downplayed organizational processes of information technology (IT) implementation and adoption. Findings -The consequences of FOSS on IT implementation and actual use are ambivalent. It is argued that FOSS adoption does not happen spontaneously, neither by decree, and that the relevance of open technologies as public goods remains in the different role of local actual technical and organizational capabilities, and environment conditions. Originality/value -Such a focus complements existing studies on the economical relevance of FOSS, which are not the focus of this paper.

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