Open source software adoption by South African MSEs

Ellis, Jason Brent; Belle, Jean-Paul Van

doi:10.1145/1562741.1562746

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“…Technology (ICT) infrastructure at reduced cost, its diffusion even in these enterprises has been notably slow (Ellis & Belle, 2009). …”

Section: Figure 2 Oss Implementation Challenges In Governmentmentioning

confidence: 99%

A Review of Users Adoption of Open Source Software in Africa

Kamau¹,

Namuye²

2012

CIS

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In the current world, software is increasingly becoming important in the human activity. It is widely recognised that Open Source software (OSS) is freely available to anyone who needs it. However, loyalty of computer users to proprietary operating systems and general office applications seems to be still high especially in developing countries. OSS has a great potential of saving costs for developing economies in Africa and reducing the cost of doing business and automating operations. The software would be very useful especially in the current period of economic hardships being faced by many developing countries. African governments have also not taken the lead in adopting the OSS software and many do not have policies in place regarding it. A review of literature on studies conducted in Africa on OSS in order to establish the level of user adoption, possible barriers to OSS adoption in developing countries in Africa is done in this paper. The findings are of great value to all stakeholders, namely the software developers, policy makers and computer experts in their endeavour to achieve high user adoption of OSS.

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“…Technology (ICT) infrastructure at reduced cost, its diffusion even in these enterprises has been notably slow (Ellis & Belle, 2009). …”

Section: Figure 2 Oss Implementation Challenges In Governmentmentioning

confidence: 99%

A Review of Users Adoption of Open Source Software in Africa

Kamau¹,

Namuye²

2012

CIS

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“…This framework is a comprehensive and well received framework in the context of innovation adoption by organizations and has been used in many studies [13][14][15][16]. According to Tornatzky and Fleischer [18], technology adoption within an organization is influenced by factors pertaining to the technological context, the organizational context, and the external environment.…”

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Understanding the Adoption of Electronic Banking in China

Kurnia

Peng

Liu

2010

2010 43rd Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences

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Electronic banking (e-banking), facilitated by various Electronic Commerce (EC) technologies, has helped commercial banks to stay competitive through productivity gains, transaction cost reduction and customer service improvement. Despite its benefits, however, developing countries still lag behind developed countries in the adoption of e-banking. To address the lack of studies on e-banking adoption in developing countries, this paper explores factors impacting e-banking adoption in China, as an example of a developing country. Facing an intense competition from foreign-owned banks, Chinese domestic banks have recently been actively engaged in e-banking initiatives. A research framework developed based on technology-organizational-environmental framework is used to guide the study. The findings from this study involving one of the four state-owned banks complement the existing knowledge in this area to better understand the adoption and development of ebanking in China.

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“…Esto representa un problema importante, porque los países en desarrollo a menudo carecen de los recursos financieros y humanos que son necesarios en las empresas para fomentar infraestructuras TIC eficientes. Dado lo anterior, el software libre presenta a los países en desarrollo la oportunidad de superar algunos de los problemas tecnológicos y reducir la brecha digital a un costo relativamente bajo (Ellis & Van Belle, 2009). …”

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“…La falta de conocimiento y la publicidad de este tipo de sistemas son fundamentales para la lenta difusión de OSS. Los factores clave que contribuyen a la falta de conocimiento del producto son la falta de comercialización OSS y proveedores de OSS de fácil acceso (Ellis & Van Belle, 2009). …”

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Factores implicados en la adopción de software libre en las Pyme de Medellín

Moreno-Agudelo

Arias

2017

Rev. CEA

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El software de código abierto trae beneficios para las Pyme en economías emergentes, como ahorro en costos de adquisición, modificación del código fuente, independencia del proveedor, mayor calidad y seguridad del software. El objetivo de este artículo es identificar los factores de los adoptantes y no adoptantes de software libre y estructurar estrategias que fomenten la adopción en las Pyme de la ciudad de Medellín, a través de una entrevista a gerentes y jefes de las áreas de sistemas. Una de las conclusiones es que la cultura tecnológica de la organización y su infraestructura son factores que determinan la facilidad de su uso. Que la calidad del software es un determinante para percibir la utilidad del software libre y que tanto el apoyo gubernamental como la disponibilidad de personal capacitado en TIC son factores que influyen en la actitud que toma la empresa frente al uso de estas tecnologías libres.

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Open source software adoption by South African MSEs

Cited by 18 publications

References 4 publications

A Review of Users Adoption of Open Source Software in Africa

A Review of Users Adoption of Open Source Software in Africa

Understanding the Adoption of Electronic Banking in China

Factores implicados en la adopción de software libre en las Pyme de Medellín

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