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 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 child daycare system is the care of a child during the day by a person other than the child’s legal guardian, basically performed by someone outside the child’s immediate family. it is typically ongoing for a specific period, such as parents work time. the system will be used to register a child, monitor and verify who drops and picks the child, log of child’s activity, parents/guardian details, parents will be able to update a child’s details (e.g. record allergy, drug admin...
ABSTRACT Online Social Networks (OSN) provides active space for digital human interaction and are used daily. Human engagement is reflected by exploiting the dynamics of OSN, where the fundamental problem is to infer future interactions on the network, called link prediction. Most studies have employed classical algorithms which consider node similarity but neglected the link analysis algorithms which consider topological structure. This study focused on the comparative study of predicting r...