Teachers’ ICT Adoption in South African Rural Schools: A Study of Technology Readiness and Implications for the South Africa Connect Broadband Policy

Autor: Samuel Dick Mwapwele, Mario A Marais, Sifiso Dlamini, Judy van Biljon

Publikováno v: The African Journal of Information and Communication, Iss 24, Pp 1-24 (2019)
The African Journal of Information and Communication, Volume: 24, Pages: 1-21, Published: 2019

The South Africa Connect national broadband policy of 2013 aims to ensure that the country achieves universal internet access by 2030, thereby fostering digital skills development. This study investigates one dimension of the South Africa Connect pol

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MOBILE TECHNOLOGY AFFECTING TEACHING AND LEARNING IN RURAL SCHOOLS

Autor: Keneilwe Maremi, Mario A Marais, Sifiso Dlamini, Martha E Herselman, Adele Botha

Publikováno v: Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Mobile Learning 2020.

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https://doi.org/10.33965/ml2020_202004l003

ICT Support Environment in Developing Countries: The Multiple Cases of School Teachers in Rural South Africa

Autor: Sifiso Dlamini, Judy van Biljon, Samwel Dick Mwapwele, Mario A Marais

Publikováno v: 2019 IST-Africa Week Conference (IST-Africa).

South African teachers are under pressure due to rising expectations of their content knowledge and digital skills without guaranteed infrastructural or institutional support in using ICTs. The purpose of this study is to find out to what extent ICTs

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https://doi.org/10.23919/istafrica.2019.8764859

ICT4D and Sustainability

Autor: Mario A Marais

Publikováno v: The International Encyclopedia of Digital Communication and Society

Sustainability is a systems concept, and ICT4D plays a vital role in a sustainable earth, as well as in sustainable communities. The concept of resilience is introduced since rapid change can push a system into another, possibly undesirable, state. R

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An Exploration of the Integration Challenges Inherent in the Adoption of ICT in an Education System

Autor: Mario A Marais, Merryl Ford, Isabel Meyer, Sifiso Dlamini

Publikováno v: IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology
14th International Conference on Social Implications of Computers in Developing Countries (ICT4D)
14th International Conference on Social Implications of Computers in Developing Countries (ICT4D), May 2017, Yogyakarta, Indonesia. pp.463-474, ⟨10.1007/978-3-319-59111-7_38⟩
Information and Communication Technologies for Development ISBN: 9783319591100
ICT4D

Part 11: Sustainability in ICT4D; International audience; The high failure rate of development interventions is well known. An approach to sustainable interventions is defined, based on a systems perspective that focuses on the ability of a system to

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