http://ir.mu.ac.ke:8080/jspui/handle/123456789/18 2026-04-20T21:32:04Z 2026-04-20T21:32:04Z Thomas Ibrahim Okinda, Shadrack Marwa Chacha http://ir.mu.ac.ke:8080/jspui/handle/123456789/9109 2024-05-21T05:25:49Z 2012-09-01T00:00:00Z

Organizational Factors Influencing the Adoption of Electronic Publishing Among Book and Journal Publishers in Kenya Thomas Ibrahim Okinda, Shadrack Marwa Chacha This study examined organizational factors influencing the adoption of e-publishing amongbook and journal publishers in Kenya. Using descriptive survey design and stratified randomsampling, data was collected from 20 publishing firms using questionnaires, personalinterviews, and content analysis of their websites. The research findings revealed thatmajority of the respondent firms were engaged in the e-publishing activities of onlineproduction, distribution, marketing, sales and customer service. Very few publishers havefully adopted e-book or e-journal publishing technologies and even though the majority ofthose which have adopted these technologies have their e-publications in Portable DocumentFile format. Organizational factors influencing the adoption of e-publishing among therespondent firms were; existence of innovation champions, availability of funds and marketdemands for e-publications. Yeas in existence, staff sizes and threat of competition fromother publishers were not considered significant influencing factors. The major challenges tothe adoption of e-publishing in Kenya are; high implementation cost of e-publishing, lack orhigh cost of electricity, inadequate awareness of the existence and use of e-resources and lowInternet skills among potential customers. Resistance by both authors and readers, fears ofpiracy and low market demands for e-publications were identified as impediments to thesuccess of e-publishing in Kenya. The researchers recommend that Kenyan publishers shouldbe more proactive so as to embrace e-book technology, reliable security codes to counterpiracy are used. Mass media should play a key role in disseminating information on theoperations, advantages and attributes of e-publishing. The Government of Kenya through theMinistry of Education should provide computers to public schools. The government shouldexpand Internet access and electricity supply especially in rural areas. Local publishersshould devise mechanisms for partnerships with foreign publishers who have successfullyembraced e-publishing technologies (1) (PDF) Organizational Factors Influencing the Adoption of Electronic Publishing Among Book and Journal Publishers in Kenya. Available from: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/317718826_Organizational_Factors_Influencing_the_Adoption_of_Electronic_Publishing_Among_Book_and_Journal_Publishers_in_Kenya [accessed May 17 2024].

2012-09-01T00:00:00Z Ng'eno, Emily Jeruto http://ir.mu.ac.ke:8080/jspui/handle/123456789/6932 2022-10-18T06:53:40Z 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

Embracing e-Government in service delivery and business to people through libraries: A case for Kenya Ng'eno, Emily Jeruto E-government is the use of information technology to enhance access to and delivery of government information and services to the public for effectiveness, efficiency and quality government operations. An effective e-Government service depends on a clear vision, mission and strategy to facilitate service delivery in all parts of the country especially in the rural areas where infrastructure is a challenge. The success of an e-Government strategy depends on sound leadership in the Information and Communication Technology (ICT) arena. Implementation of ICT will facilitate access to government information and services and by its nature promote efficiency, accountability and transparency in the rendering of those services. Access to business information, opportunities and marketing through the e-Government will be enhanced especially through the network of the Kenya National Library Services having provincial, district, community, and mobile (camel mobile) libraries which are currently using the ICT to provide their services. Hence, this will lead to information society.

2010-01-01T00:00:00Z Boit, John Menjo, David Kimutai, James http://ir.mu.ac.ke:8080/jspui/handle/123456789/6079 2022-03-14T06:49:06Z 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

ICT and education : enabling two rural western Kenyan schools to exploit information technology Boit, John; Menjo, David; Kimutai, James The study was undertaken to evaluate the implementation of ICT to support learning, teaching, school administration and use of E-communication between cooperating rural secondary schools in Western Kenya under the Rotary project, Forssa Rotary Club of Finland District 1410. The study was conducted in two selected rural schools namely: Anin secondary school (Keiyo County) and Cheplaskei secondary school (Uasin-Gishu County) under a Finnish project "Enabling rural Western Kenyan schools to exploit information technology" funded by the Suomen Rotaryn between May 2007-December 2009. A case study research design was adopted for this study where interviews, observation and open-ended questionnaires including document analysis were used to collect qualitative data. The respondents interviewed in each school were mainly head teachers, ICT instructors, ICT technicians, teachers (4), students (7), and Board of Governors (BOG) and Parents Teachers Association (PTA) members (2).The findings indicate that largely the initial objectives of the project had been realized. Teachers, students and the school administrators were now using computers to access educational resource material from the Internet, prepare and process examination results, manage, monitor and process financial reports, and communicate using email. There was also evidence that quality of teaching, learning and students' level of interaction, reasoning, recall, synthesis and evaluation had improved tremendously. School discipline and student sense of self-esteem and pride had significantly been enhanced.

2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Gudu, Jael Balikuddembe, Joseph Mwebaze, Ernest http://ir.mu.ac.ke:8080/jspui/handle/123456789/6078 2022-03-11T09:49:27Z 2017-01-01T00:00:00Z

Semantic design for unstructured health data: a review Gudu, Jael; Balikuddembe, Joseph; Mwebaze, Ernest The healthcare sector today is largely driven by data; as such the need for information exchange between the various stakeholders is on the rise. To date various software applications have been developed to facilitate this exchange. However, there are emerging challenges preventing direct exchanges (interoperability) among healthcare software applications current in use in most developing countries. A large proportion of healthcare data is still in unstructured formats that are either not captured, or is poorly captured in structured data. Exchanging this type of data between hospitals and different healthcare applications is currently problematic since a clear well-defined method is yet to be put in place. This work therefore seeks to understand the most plausible method (s) that can be adopted to not only improve the exchange and retrieval of unstructured health data but also extract meaningful health knowledge from the largely fragmented and distributed unstructured health data without affecting the free text.

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