ABSTRACT This study, has intended to design a model for an Integrated Hospital Information System in Tanzania, and was conducted at four hospitals from Dodoma and Manyara regions respectively. A sample of 90 respondents participated in the study from a purposive and non purposive sampling. A Statistical Package for Social Science (SPSS) was used to analyze the quantitative data. Findings have revealed that, Integrated Hospital Information System (iHIS) in Tanzania requires infrastructure, sys...
ABSTRACT This study aimed at expanding e-commerce activities (application) on Social Network Application (SNA) by entrepreneurs beyond products/services advertisement in Tanzania. Surveys show that there is a large number of entrepreneurs and customers who are not using e-commerce for business and shopping activities in Wazo Ward. Instead, the majority use SNA. Therefore, this study used the Technology Acceptance Model (TAM) to determine users’ perception on the use of SNA. The study was ba...
ABSTRACT The overall goal of this research work was to develop and validate an e-Learning adoption model in Tanzanian secondary schools as literature had not revealed any comprehensive model that is specifically used in determining the adoption of e-Learning in Tanzanian secondary schools. The existence of this gap encouraged the carrying out of this research to empirically test and validate the combination of the Technology Acceptance Model (TAM), Task Technology Fit (TTF) and Technology Rea...
Abstract The advancement of wireless and mobile technologies has given rise to the mobile government (m‐Government). A new channel of public service delivery using a mobile phone. In Tanzania, several m‐Government initiatives have been undertaken. Among these, some can be said to have succeeded while others are still struggling. The reasons for these variations are not known. This study aimed to capture the critical success factors (CSFs) for the adoption of m‐Government and propose a f...
ABSTRACT The study was aimed at developing a mobile phone service (SMS based) to be used to raise awareness among women about cervical cancer in United Republic of Tanzania. The study investigated and analyzed factors that hinder the use and implementation of mobile phone service to increase women awareness about cervical cancer. Furthermore, the study determines content that should be included in a mobile phone service to increase awareness about cervical cancer. The designed SMS based facil...
ABSTRACT Students’ dropout from completing courses in higher learning institutions is a prevailing problem in Tanzania as in other countries. The intensity of the problem varies from one institution to another. Several measures have been taken by the institutions so as to reduce the number of students’ dropout. In this study, a support vector machine model is developed and tested in the prediction of the students’ dropout to help reduce the number of students dropping out of studies by...
ABSTRACT Environmental conservation is a great concern for the sustainable economic development. To archive high degree of environmental conservation, efforts shall be kept in educating people on environmental uses and conservation. This study aimed at improving environmental education delivery through the use of mobile phone SMSs and devised a prototype for delivering SMSs. The study identified the major sources of environmental degradation and found that charcoal production lead followed b...
ABSTRACT The study aimed to develop an ICT based framework that can be able to disseminate agricultural information to small scale farmers at the local levels. The study was conducted in Kondoa District Council. The study used qualitative and quantitative approach. The study adopted cross-section survey design. The sample size was calculated from population of four purposely selected wards of Kondoa District Council. Questionnaire, interview, observation and documentary review were used as a...
ABSTRACT ICT has presented a great opportunity for governments to offer better and quicker services to its citizens through e-Government platform. However, the expected goals of e-Government can only be realized if such e-Government systems are usable. Usability, which relate to user interface design aspects, play a pivotal role in the success or failure of e-Government systems. For the case of Tanzania, reports indicate low citizens’ participation in the use of e-Government systems. Severa...
ABSTRACT Forecasting of stock market trends has been an area of great interest to researchers who are attempting to uncover the information hidden in the stock market data and to traders who wish to profit by trading stocks. An accurate forecasting of stock market trends may yield profits for investors. Forecasting of stock price trend is regarded as a challenging task. Due to the complexity of stock market data, development of efficient models for forecasting stock market trends is highly ch...
ABSTRACT In this study students’ admission forms and the Internet were used to create datasets in order to design, implement and test a prototype for an inferential engine for degree programme recommendation. The said engine is a Machine Leaning (ML) tool to be used by students for selection of degree programmes. The dataset had 17 features which represented ordinary and advanced level performances, category of schools of admission and student gender. Data in the dataset was unevenly distri...
ABSTRACT The study has intended to investigate the application of mobile phones in information dissemination regarding pests control and diseases management for vegetable crops with a consideration of tomatoes productions in Kilolo district. The study aimed at bridging the gap that exists between farmers and agricultural officers. The study involved two wards, and was mainly qualitative supported by quantitative research paradigms to collect and analyse data from tomato farmers, ICT expertise...
ABSTRACT A significant part of Inventory Management is inventory monitoring. In recent years, many inventory management systems have been created. These frameworks allow stocks of products and items put away in amasses be taken up. It is important to track the inventory and that is where control systems for inventory come in. The stock data the board frameworks and stock observing frameworks are coordinated and sent together at a fixed point at store locations in some of the current inventory...
ABSTRACT A significant part of Inventory Management is inventory monitoring. In recent years, many inventory management systems have been created. These frameworks allow stocks of products and items put away in amasses be taken up. It is important to track the inventory and that is where control systems for inventory come in. The inventory information management systems and inventory monitoring systems are coordinated and sent together at a fixed point at store locations in some of the curren...
ABSTRACT With the presence of some faults in online protocols and operating systems, any person who is connected to a network, especially in a Local Area Network (LAN) can fall victim to his information getting monitored by another person that is connected to the same network. Due to this problem at hand, an uninformed person can have his private information endangered to getting exposed to other unknown persons. Such act is called “Sniffing” and mostly occurs on networks. By sniffing the...