The information needs of end-users of Sub-Saharan Africa in the digital information environment

Kebede, Gashaw

doi:10.1080/10572317.2004.10762644

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“…This is echoed by Petric (2006), who postulated that websites play important roles in providing the information people need to meet the goals they set in their everyday life. Kebede (2004) supported this with his position that the tasks people are involved in give rise to needs for content that may be retrieved from websites. Understanding and executing tasks require facts, figures and ideas that may be retrieved from websites.…”

Section: Addressing Web Contents Using Information Needs Theorymentioning

confidence: 86%

“…The literature shows that management, academic and non-academic, students and researchersinternal stakeholders -are among the frequent users of university websites (Dutta, 2009;Petric, 2006;Kebede;Given, 2002). Other users may include external stakeholders like parents, prospective students, staff and employers, accreditation agencies, immigration and law enforcement agencies, donors and competitors.…”

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confidence: 99%

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Contents and Architecture of Nigerian Universities’ Websites

Utulu

Bolarinwa²

2012

IISIT

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The study adopted information needs analysis theory to carry out analysis of the content of websites of 50 Nigerian universities. Two broad categories of possible website contents-official and everyday life information contents were identified and analyzed. It also adopted the Watson Addy Web Architecture test to carry out architecture analysis of the websites in the following areas: language syntax, style, spelling accuracy, down speed, file types and search engine compatibility using meta tag availability. The study was motivated by the growing interest of researchers in the role website content and architecture play in achieving high web usability. The findings exposed salient weaknesses like wrong domain name adoption, errors in syntax, poor style, spelling mistakes and non-availability of meta tags in the websites. In addition, the websites did not contain most of the official and everyday information expected to be in a university website. Based on the outcome of the study, Nigerian universities' websites can be generally categorized as having meager content and defective architecture. The paper presents recommendations for the improvement of contents and architecture of the websites.

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Section: Addressing Web Contents Using Information Needs Theorymentioning

confidence: 86%

Section: Addressing Web Contents Using Information Needs Theorymentioning

confidence: 99%

Contents and Architecture of Nigerian Universities’ Websites

Utulu

Bolarinwa²

2012

IISIT

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“…This concept is evident in the reasons advanced by IT adoption scholars on Africa and other least developed countries. ( Chowdury, 1998;Czemiewicz, 2004;Hudson, 2000;Kebede, 2004;Odedra et al, 1993;Rice, 2003;Udo and Edoho, 2000).…”

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confidence: 96%

An exploration of the theories that explain the failure of information technology adoption in africa

Totolo

2005

Proceedings of the 6th Conference on Information Technology Education

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The explanation of information technology adoption in Africa has been largely confined to the modernization paradigm, and this paradigm has included the Critical theory, Dependency theory, and Structuralism and Functionalism theories. The major contribution of the modernization paradigm has been in polling together several theories on development issues, thus giving African scholars a theoretical platform for IT adoption scenario. However, modern scholars have criticized this paradigm for its inability to institute an improvement on the political, social and economic situation in Africa, which was its main aim when it was conceived in the 1950's. (Tipps, 1973) Categories and Subject Descriptors A.m MISCELLANEOUS General Terms Theory KeywordsTheories and information technology adoption and Africa

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“…Other factors, beyond the lack of access to technology, such as relatively low levels in traditional literacy as well as ICT literacy skills including differences in written and spoken languages, reading comprehension and economic status, influence users' ICT needs and use (Kebede, 2004). SSA nations lag behind other developing nations in educational attainment and other human-development indices with average adult literacy being 49% in SSA compared to 81% for other developing nations (Oyelaran-Oyeyinka & Lal, 2005).…”

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Architecture for Managing Knowledge on Cybersecurity in Sub-Saharan Africa

Andoh‐Baidoo¹,

Osatuyi²,

Kunene

2013

Information Technology for Development

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In this paper, we present architecture for managing knowledge on cybersecurity in SubSaharan Africa. This architecture captures the critical contextual factors in the Sub-Saharan African region. The architecture enables the creation, storage/retrieval, transfer and application of knowledge on cybersecurity especially for home users while providing awareness and enforcement mechanisms to help home users protect themselves against cyber threats. The architecture can facilitate the building of expertise on cybersecurity among the stakeholders. The implications of the proposed architecture are presented.

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The information needs of end-users of Sub-Saharan Africa in the digital information environment

Cited by 10 publications

References 17 publications

Contents and Architecture of Nigerian Universities’ Websites

Contents and Architecture of Nigerian Universities’ Websites

An exploration of the theories that explain the failure of information technology adoption in africa

Architecture for Managing Knowledge on Cybersecurity in Sub-Saharan Africa

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