ABSTRACT Data mining is the process of determining patterns, discovering correlations, trends or relationships in the area with large data sets Information Technology, medical science, biology, education, and human resources. In Healthcare, DM is useful in medical data to anticipate novel, useful and potential knowledge that can save a life, lessen treatment cost, increases diagnostic and prediction accuracy as well as save human resources. Data mining contains several techniques such as ano...
ABSTRACT State owned teachers‟ colleges in Tanzania have been teaching ICT to student-teachers in an environment that is more or less the same to all teachers‟ colleges. However, little is known about what exists in the ICT teaching and learning environment in the diploma teachers‟ colleges. This study assesses the ICT teaching and learning environment to see whether it matches the aims of introducing ICT to teacher training. The study used 280 respondents from five teachers‟ college...
ABSTRACT Grammar checker is a writing assistance tool developed for checking rules of the Natural Languages automatically. Every natural language has a set of rules which are used to guide users of that language. Swahili is one of the most widely spoken languages in the East African countries and specifically in Tanzania. Efforts have been made so far towards the development of the tool. However, to the best of our knowledge there is no assistance tool developed and reported for detecting th...
ABSTRACT This study entitled “Determining factors contributing to slow adoption of District Health Information System Application programme on health services in Tanzania” was conducted in Chamwino District Dodoma region. Specifically, the study was done at Buigiri, Iringa Mvumi, Chamwino, Haneti, Handali and Mpwayungu health centers were selected. Results from this study indicated that; the impact of DHIS Application programme on health services in Tanzania is increasing. The contents o...
ABSTRACT The diffusion of information generated in Social Networks Sites is the result of more people being connected. The connected people chats and comments by posting contents like images, video and messages. In fact the social networks have been and are useful to communities in such they bring relatives together especially in sharing experiences and feelings. Although social networks have been beneficial to users, some of the shared messages and comments contain sexual and political hara...
ABSTRACT This study sought to develop a model that could be used to hasten technology integration for out-of-school time (OST) primary school learning, leading to improvement in academic performance. Using developmental design, the study deployed a mixed research approach where a total of 730 participants were involved (i.e. 16 government officials, 3 non-government officials, 2 University experts, 402 primary school learners, 205 parents and 102 teachers) from Dar es Salaam, Arusha and Mwanz...
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...