‘Data must fall’: mobile data pricing, regulatory paralysis and citizen action in South Africa

Moyo, Dumisani; Munoriyarwa, Allen

doi:10.1080/1369118x.2020.1864003

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“…There was a general awareness that ISPs service quality were poor and costly due to low competition. This result was confirmed by Moyo and Munoriyarwa (2020), who reported the cost of mobile data in South Africa to be among the highest globally, thus suggesting an uncompetitive market. Other areas of concern to SMEs included the lack of core organizational software (e.g., accounting packages) for mobile phones by the software providers (SME 8) and the provision of unfavorable contracts by infrastructure service providers (SME 7).…”

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Factors affecting the adoption of BYOD in South African small and medium enterprises

Akin-Adetoro

Kabanda

2021

E J Info Sys Dev Countries

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The advancement in technological development is now altering the conventional order in the diffusion of Information Technology innovation from a top‐down approach (organization to employees) to a bottom‐up approach (employees to organization). This change is more notable in developed economies and has led to the bring your own device (BYOD) phenomenon, which promises increased productivity for employees and their organizations. There have been several studies on the corporate adoption of BYOD, but few have investigated this phenomenon from a small and medium enterprise (SME) perspective and from developing countries specifically. This study investigated the BYOD phenomenon in South African SMEs. The goal was to identify contextual factors influencing BYOD adoption. A conceptual framework using the Perceived EReadiness Model (PERM) was adopted. The study took an interpretive stance and was qualitative. Data was collected from SMEs using semi‐structured interviews and analyzed using a thematic analysis approach. The findings show that for BYOD to be adopted and institutionalized in an SME, there needs to be organizational and environmental readiness. Organizational readiness in terms of awareness, management support, business resources, human resources, employees' pressure, formal governance, and technological readiness. Environmental readiness in terms of market forces, support from industry, government readiness and the socio‐cultural factor. These readiness factors present both opportunities and challenges that SMEs in developing countries need to concentrate on as they prepare for and use BYOD.

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Factors affecting the adoption of BYOD in South African small and medium enterprises

Akin-Adetoro

Kabanda

2021

E J Info Sys Dev Countries

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“…But it is the dominant paradigm -its theoretical orientation and methodology -that is most frequently applied to study online propaganda in the Global South. Less common are approaches dealing with important questions in the Global South of content moderation and hate speech (Sablosky, 2021), the political economy of the internet (Athique & Parthasarathi, 2020), internet regulation (Parthasarathi & Agarwal, 2020;Rajkhowa, 2015), internet access (Moyo & Munoriyarwa, 2021;Mukherjee, 2019;Nothias, 2020), and theorizations of what "fake news" might mean in the Global South (Wasserman, 2020). Scholars need to fill these gaps urgently.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…194-195). The issues of internet access, digital literacy, and propaganda are interconnected and need to be studied holistically (Moyo & Munoriyarwa, 2021;Mukherjee, 2019;Nothias, 2020).…”

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Overlooking the political economy in the research on propaganda

Abhishek

2021

HKS Misinfo Review

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Historically, scholars studying propaganda have focused on its psychological and behavioral im-pacts on audiences. This tradition has roots in the unique historical trajectory of the United States through the 20th century. This article argues that this tradition is quite inadequate to tackle prop-aganda-related issues in the Global South, where a deep understanding of the political economy of propaganda and misinformation is urgently needed.

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“…Lower mobile app recommendations have been reported in an international survey of healthcare professionals from 73 countries (46%: Vasiloglou et al, 2020). Canadian dietitians (57%: Lieffers et al, 2014) In South Africa, mobile data costs are among the highest in the world (Moyo and Munoriyarwa, 2021), despite 83% smartphone penetration in 2018 (nearly double that of 2016: ICASA, 2019). At the same time, internet and fibre-to-the-home/building internet subscriptions increased by 42% and 279%, respectively (ICASA, 2019).…”

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“…In South Africa, mobile data costs are among the highest in the world (Moyo and Munoriyarwa, 2021), despite 83% smartphone penetration in 2018 (nearly double that of 2016: ICASA, 2019). At the same time, internet and fibre-to-the-home/building internet subscriptions increased by 42% and 279%, respectively (ICASA, 2019).…”

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The development and usability of a web-based mobile application as a dairy intake screener for South African adults

Piderit

White

Wenhold

2022

Journal of Dairy Research

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Paper-based dietary assessment tools such as food frequency questionnaires (FFQ) and especially dietary screeners are making way for versions that use technology. Amidst low intakes of dairy and dairy-related nutrients in South Africa, and to increase public awareness thereof, we aimed to develop and evaluate the usability of an application (app) to screen for dairy intake in higher income South African adults. In a consultative process, a dairy intake screener (‘Dairy Diary’) was developed as an eight-item quantitative FFQ with four types of commonly consumed local dairy products: milk, maas (fermented milk), yoghurt, and cheese. For each dairy product, usual frequency of consumption and portion size per eating occasion were scored resulting in three risk classes: <1 serving daily; 1≤2 servings daily; ≥2 servings daily. Digitalisation included product- and portion-specific graphics with linkage to risk class-relevant preliminary dairy-related guidance as part of a web-based mobile app. For the evaluation of the usability, the 26-item end-user version of the Mobile Application Rating Scale (uMARS) was used in an online cross-sectional survey (Qualtrics; April 2020). Items were scored on a 5-point Likert-type scale, resulting in three final app scores. From a conveniently recruited sample of 1102, 703 (64%; 81% female; mean age 29.8 ± 11.0 years) were retained for analysis. uMARS-informed descriptive statistics summarise the findings. The uMARS app mean objective quality score (3.9 ± 0.85), app subjective quality score (3.5 ± 0.77), app-specific score (3.6 ± 0.94), and additional question on e-portion (4.3 ± 0.78) met the minimum acceptability score of ≥3.0. For the subscales, the mean score for aesthetics was the highest (4.4 ± 0.82), followed by information (4.3 ± 0.90) and functionality (4.0 ± 1.33). Engagement scored lowest (3.0 ± 1.55). The ‘Dairy Diary’ is a user-friendly screener for dairy intake.

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‘Data must fall’: mobile data pricing, regulatory paralysis and citizen action in South Africa

Cited by 23 publications

References 11 publications

Factors affecting the adoption of BYOD in South African small and medium enterprises

Factors affecting the adoption of BYOD in South African small and medium enterprises

Overlooking the political economy in the research on propaganda

The development and usability of a web-based mobile application as a dairy intake screener for South African adults

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