Bokolo Anthony Jnr.

Institute for Energy Technology | IFE · Department of Applied Data Science

The recent growth in digital technologies are enabling cities to undergo transformations for streamlining smart services and offering new products. Digitization has changed the way citizens and stakeholders live, work, collaborate, and communicate. This disruptive change inter-connects with all information systems and processes that are important f...

Digitalization is important to realize enterprise sustainability, where processes, data, systems, and stakeholders are in a seamless connected environment. Presently, to achieve enterprise digitalization technologies such as Distributed Ledger Technologies (DLT) has now been deployed to support digital services provided by enterprises. Hence, there...

Digital transformation of Collaborative Enterprise (CE) both in terms of planning and implementation, relies on new business models and innovative technologies. One of such technologies is Distributed Ledger Technology (DLT) which deploys a decentralized approach requiring no need for intermediaries, thereby facilitating decentralized enterprise op...

Enterprises are surviving in a digital transitioning society, where the creation of strategic alliances is one important result of this constant change during the coronavirus 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic. A medium of conducting business where organizations can share their main capabilities in order to strive in a pandemic is the creation of Virtual Ent...

Institutions of higher education are implementing Blended Learning (BL) approaches to supplement traditional courses in enhancing students’ learning experiences. However, only fewer studies have examined BL acceptance based on the determinants that influence students’ perception towards BL integration in improving learning performance. Accordingly,...

Increase in urbanization drives the need for municipalities to make mobility more efficient, both to address climate goals as well as creating a smart living environment for citizens, with less noise congestion, and pollution. As vehicles are being electrified, further advances will be needed to meet social, environmental, and economic sustainabili...

Purpose-The concept of green urban mobility has emerged as one of the best approaches for promoting environmental-friendly transportation in local communities. Green urban mobility aims to reshaped public transportation system and enhance mobility, with emphasis on deploying digital technologies to promote sustainable public transportation. Therefo...

Distributed Ledger Technologies (DLT) is considered one of the foremost emerging technologies which can contribute to transform cities to smarter cities. DLT play important role in municipalities to accelerate the digitalization process towards changing the roles and services of enterprises in sustainable smart cities. Standardization of DLTs aids...

Purpose-The aim of this study is to propose a governance model and key performance indicators on how policy makers can contribute to a more accessible, inclusive, and sustainable mobility within and across smart cities to examine sustainable urban mobility grounded on the rational management of public transportation infrastructure. Design/methodolo...

Municipalities are concerned with addressing social issues such as mobility inclusion and safety by increasing access to transport facilities and services for all groups in society to create equitable and equal access for all citizens. Moreover, the public transportation systems provided in cities have to be inclusive and safe, driven by emerging t...

The transport sector is undergoing disruption due to trends such as tightening environmental targets, digitalization, and servitization, contributing to low-carbon mobility and offering citizen-oriented services. As a response, various initiatives, such as electric mobility (eMobility), have emerged that promote sustainable road transport and activ...

Public health crises such as the Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic across the world overstrained the health care system. Accordingly, telehealth and digital technologies were implemented. Telehealth and digital technologies refer to the provision of health care at a distance using electronic means for diagnosis, evaluation, treatment, mo...

Disasters and pandemics pose challenges to health care provision. Accordingly, the need for adopting innovative approach is required in providing care to patient. Therefore, the purpose of this study is to present telehealth as an innovative approach for providing care to patients and reducing spread of the infection and advocates for the adoption...

Purpose-Due to the use of digital technologies in smart cities, municipalities are increasingly facing issues related to urban data management and are seeking ways to exploit these huge amounts of data for the actualization of data driven services. However, only little studies discuss challenges related to data driven strategies in smart cities. Ac...

Purpose-As the novel coronavirus 2019 (COVID-19) impacts the world, software practitioners are collaboratively working remotely from home. The pandemic has disrupted software practitioner’s productivity forcing changes to agile methodology adopted by software practitioners in software organizations. Therefore, this study aims to provide implication...

Presently data is indispensably important as cities consider data as a commodity which can be traded to earn revenues. In urban environment data generated from Internet of Things (IoT) devices, smart meters, smart sensors, etc. can provide a new source of income for citizens and enterprises who are data owners. These data can be traded as digital a...

The emergence of wearable technologies, including smartwatches, has received a considerable attention from scholars across several sectors. However, there is a scarcity of knowledge regarding the determinants affecting the adoption of these wear-ables in education. Therefore, this research aims to propose a theoretical research model through the in...

Distributed Ledger Technology (DLT) has recently emerged as a disruptive system with a wide range of applicability, with prospect to improve societal interactions at large. In Virtual Enterprise (VE) context researchers and practitioners have started to investigate the deployment of DLT to automate the processing of data and implementation of decis...

One of the most recent topics in smart cities is community engagement which has been generally deliberated in both industrial and academic literature around the approaches and tools employed in urban environment. Accordingly, the purpose of this study is to advocate for community engagement as a key driver that supports the acquisition of knowledge...

Industries are now deploying smart initiatives and innovative business models towards digital transformation. One of such initiatives is the adoption of Distributed Ledger Technology (DLT) which promises to support smart industrial revolution. DLT facilitates non trusted entities to communicate and achieve a consensus in a fully distributed method...

Sentiment analysis furnishes consumer concerns regarding products, enabling product enhancement development. Existing sentiment analysis using machine learning techniques is computationally intensive and less reliable. Deep learning in sentiment analysis approaches such as long short term memory has adequately evolved, and the selection of optimal...

Purpose-Enterprise Architecture (EA) is usually adopted as an approach for managing enterprise complexities and aligning business and Information Technology (IT) capabilities. Although IT practitioners and researchers agree about the potential applicability and benefits of EA in smart cities, little is known about the factors that influences the ac...

Case-Based Reasoning (CBR) is an Artificial Intelligence (AI) technique that has gained huge attention over the last few years. It solves target problems based on the successful solutions of similar past issues or by adapting solutions of previous problems retained in a case-base. Therefore, this paper complements prior studies in CBR for regional...

Knowledge management technology is now ubiquitous in many businesses, yet it is much less common among local authorities. Following a “brainstorm meeting” in Lyon on knowledge management for regional planning and policymaking, a proposal was developed to set up a research agendum for future development of this topic. The main difficulty we identifi...

Distributed Ledger Technology (DLT) is a disruptive technology with the potential of improving Extended Enterprise (EE) which comprises of organizations that combine their capabilities and knowhow to achieve a common goal. Within the extended enterprise governance enables distributed ledger control, stewardship, and provides effective ways for enfo...

Background: The technological revolution has allowed users to exchange data and information in various fields, and this is one of the most prevalent uses of computer technologies. However, in a world where third parties are capable of collecting, stealing, and destroying information without authorization, cryptography remains the primary tool that...

There has been considerable interest in Blended learning (BL) and how it is transforming teaching and learning in higher education institutions. Research in this area is focused on course level issues in relation to how students and faculty members interact and adopt blended learning, with very limited focus on institutional adoption. There is the...

The emergence of wearable technologies, including smartwatches, has received a considerable attention from scholars across several sectors. However, there is a scarcity of knowledge regarding the determinants affecting the adoption of these wearables in education. Therefore, this research aims to propose a theoretical research model through the int...

The breakthrough of Distributed Ledger Technologies (DLT) has enabled the emergence and implementation of a wide range of digital platforms in Virtual Enterprises (VE) which collaborate to provide digital services. DLT has the potential to revolutionize VE by offering transparent, decentralized, trustworthy, data provenance, reliable, and auditable...

Presently cities are undergoing changes and transformations due to the adoption of information and communications technology. Enterprise Architecture (EA) is one of the approaches adopted by practitioners and researchers to facilitate smart city development as it can enhance the effectiveness of cities’ digital resources and sustainability capabili...

Cities are actively deploying modern digital technologies to foster digitalization due to the emergence of data-driven innovations. Through modern digital technologies, municipalities aim to enhance services performance. Despite prior studies that focused on digital transformation in smart cities, there have been few studies aimed at managing servi...

In this era of digitization, data is seen as the new oil due to the abundance of data generated from Internet of Things (IoT) sensors, social media and other platforms. Although prior studies have explored the challenges and opportunities that may arise in using these data to provide value added services, few studies explore how data from public, p...

Technological innovations such as Blended Learning (BL) are rapidly changing teaching and learning in higher education, where BL integrates face to face teaching with web based learning. Thus, as polices related to BL increases, it is required to explore the theoretical foundation of BL studies and how BL were adopted and implemented in relation to...

Distributed Ledger Technologies (DLT) are one of the emerging technologies adopted in organizations. Unlike traditional databases, the integrity of the DLT is maintained automatically by an algorithmic consensus mechanism and not by any dominant authority. Thus, the consensus mechanism controls the decision-making and governance process. But the ad...

Over the years Enterprise Architecture (EA) has become an intensively researched and applied approach aimed at managing transformation of cities into smart cities. Thus, most cities are deploying EA as an approach to manage enterprise's implementation of Information Technology (IT). While many cities deploy EA, there are initiatives that impacts th...

Enterprise architecture (EA) provides a medium to transform an enterprise and to continually align the institutions business and Information technology (IT) strategies. But, presently Enterprise Architecture (EA) adoption is significantly low irrespective of the benefits organizations can derived from implementing EA. Similarly, there are fewer qua...

HyFlex termed as hybrid-flexibility is a teaching approach where teachers and students have the alternative to participate in planned courses either remotely or face-to-face. This study examines the effectiveness of the HyFlex pedagogical method to teach highly interactive digital and face-to-face cyber security training in Nigeria amidst the pande...

As the years progresses, higher education has move towards implementing Blended Learning (BL) which is a combination of face-to-face and online mode of teaching and learning which have continued to advance in institutions all over the world. Accordingly, it is important to investigate the factors that may influence lecturers’ perception towards BL...

Generally, low flow in rivers occur as a result of extended period of dryness which is likely attributed to drought. Drought is a natural occurrence as an outcome of reduction in precipitation in a region for a long time. Hence, low flow is a growing concern as there are possibilities of more reduced flows in rivers. However, reservoirs can be util...

To support smart cities in aligning Information Technology (IT) and business strategies to achieve urban digitalisation. This study aims to develops an Enterprise Architecture Framework (EAF) to facilitate the digitalisation of urban environments. Technology Acceptance Model (TAM) was employed to design a research model and a mixed-mode methodology...

Due to the Coronavirus 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic social distance became a necessary strategy adopted in order to curb the fast-rise of infection. However, this strategy adopted by the government has impacted the socio-economic activities and lives of citizens as such new adaptive measures had to be put in place to cope with the pandemic. Accordingly...

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Today, more than 54% of the world’s population resides in cities. With almost four billion people presently residing in cities, a global trend of digital-age urbanization is ongoing. An increasing number of cities are advancing their cities into smarter cities. This development is leading to digital transformation of cities in deploying technologic...

Blended Learning (BL) has been implemented by lecturers in higher educations for promoting effective pedagogical practices. However, intention to use and actual usage of BL by lecturers in higher education seems to be a major setback for successful BL implementation. Therefore, this study developed a model to examine the factors that influences lec...

Purpose-Smart city services are supported by Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) referred to as digital technologies which increasingly promise huge opportunities for growth but are faced with system alignment and data integration issues when providing digital services. Therefore, this study aims to employ Enterprise Architecture (EA)...

The digitalization of the power grid to smart grid provides value added services to the prosumers and other stakeholders involved in the energy market, and possibly disrupts existing electricity services in smart cities. The use of Electric Vehicles (EVs) do not only challenge the sustainability of the smart grid but also promote and stimulate its...

The aim of this study is to integrate knowledge mapping technique by applying information flow analysis to facilitate collaboration between university and its alumni by developing a knowledge mapping-based system based on a designed knowledge mapping model. Questionnaire was employed to collect data from respondents in a university to evaluate the...

Purpose-The Coronavirus 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has already had a significant disruptive impact on the society, posing challenges to the provision of education across the world. Due to this crises governments over the world have temporarily closed educational institutions to help reduce the spread of COVID-19. Accordingly, educational institutions...

Purpose-In smart cities pervasive systems are deployed by enterprises and stakeholders in municipalities to provide digital services to citizens. But cities are faced with the challenge of achieving system pluggability, mainly service integration due to numerous actors and systems needed for smart urban transformation. Hence, there is need to emplo...

Institutions of higher learning such as universities have been positively influenced by the internet which has facilitated learning and teaching. Likewise, this same internet can also support student lecturer appointments, but currently students and lecturers are faced with issues such as finding free timeslot, difficulty of students to meet superv...

The importance of Blended Learning (BL) in institutions is momentarily increasing at all educational levels and particularly for higher education. However, relatively little research addresses students, lecturers, and administrators’ readiness towards BL adoption. Although, such study would support higher education to strategically assess current s...

Purpose-The aim of this study is to develop a model grounded by institutional theory to investigate Blended Learning (BL) implementation among faculty members in higher education and further validate the model. Design/methodology/approach-Quantitative methodology was employed, and data was gathered through questionnaires among 188 e-learning direc...

With the deployment of Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) and the needs of data and information sharing within cities, smart city aims to provide value-added services to improve citizens quality of life. But, currently city planners/developers are faced with inadequate contextual information on the dimensions of smart city required t...

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The current health care crisis and need for social distancing to protect medical practitioners and patients has necessitated the need to adopt new initiatives for treatment of patients. One of such initiatives is the adoption of telemedicine which involves diagnosis or medical service provided by a consulting physician to patients digitally. Teleme...

Telemedicine and eHealth refer to the use of information and communication technology (ICT) embedded in software programs with highspeed telecommunications systems for delivery, management, and monitoring of healthcare services. Application of telemedicine have become timely while providing great potentials to protect both medical practitioners and...

The aim of this article is to provide a critical understanding of techno-stakeholders’ perspective by considering data driven initiatives for smart city development. Particularly, a model is proposed based on a systematic literature review to explore techno-stakeholders’ perspective in smart cities. Findings from this study identifies that data dri...

The importance of Blended Learning (BL) in institutions is momentarily increasing at all educational levels and particularly for higher education. However, relatively little research addresses students, lecturers, and administrators' readiness towards BL adoption. Although, such study would support higher education to strategically assess current s...

The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has brought changes to the way medical care is delivered to keep health workers safe while simultaneously managing available resources. The well-being of patients and healthcare workers is crucial and has become a topic of debate as the world faces adjusts to the COVID-19 pandemic. Therefore, there i...

Municipalities are digitally transforming urban environment into smarter cities aimed at addressing urban growth and social challenges. This transition of urban space influenced by Information and Communications Technology (ICT) enables novel business models and Virtual Enterprises (VE) processes. Presently, there is need to provide insights into t...

Purpose-This study aims to explore the current Green practices implemented in Malaysia higher education institutions towards sustainability attainment by developing a multi-disciplinary comprehensive policy framework to further extend the collaboration among sustainability practitioners in providing integrated data on Green indicators linked to eco...

The novel coronavirus disease-19 (COVID-19) infection has altered the society, economy, and entire healthcare system. Whilst this pandemic has presented the healthcare system with unprecedented challenges, it has rapidly promoted the adoption of telemedicine to deliver healthcare at a distance. Telemedicine is the use of Information and Communicati...

This study examines the current Green practice implementation in Institutions of Higher Learning (IHL) towards attaining sustainable development. Accordingly, a theoretical analysis was conducted based on primary data from Green practice documents and secondary data from review of prior studies. Based on the findings from the theoretical data, a Gr...

Abstract Purpose-Blended learning (BL) has been increasing in popularity and demand and has developed as a common practice in institutions of higher learning. Therefore, this study develops a model to evaluate the critical predictors that determine students’ acceptance and deployment of BL in institutions of higher education based on the Theory of...

Big data is gaining visibility and importance, and its use is attaining higher levels of influence within municipalities. Due to this proliferation smart cities are posed to deploy architectures towards managing energy for Electric Vehicles (EV) and orchestrate the production, consumption, and distributing of energy from renewable sources such as s...

As the novel coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) continues to spread across countries, the need for innovative measures to provide high-quality patient care and manage its spread has become more imperative. Software-based systems such as medical software applications could provide valuable suggestion on health-related information to physicians towa...

Sustainability is a significant field in both research and practice as such Collaborative Enterprise (CE) are adopting sustainable initiatives to achieve efficient resource usage, CO2 emissions reduction, energy utilization reduction, moderate cost incurred, ethical waste management and natural resources conservation. Therefore, this research devel...

The current coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has caused significant strain on medical centers resources. Thus, concerns about the reducing and management of COVID-19 are on the rise, as there is need to provide diagnosis, treatment, monitoring, and follow-ups during the pandemic. Therefore, the COVID-19 pandemic has radically and quickl...

Electro Mobility (eMobility) involves deploying Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) and electric technologies in vehicles to enable electric propulsion of vehicles referred to as Electric Vehicles (EVs). EVs are key infrastructure for achieving a sustainable energy future since EV usage can support in achieving CO2 reduction. However,...

The development of smart cities becomes increasingly reliant on leveraging modern technologies such as Internet of Things (IoT), big data, cloud computing, and Artificial Intelligence (AI). While the importance of applying such technologies has been widely recognized, they might not have been effectively discussed in the early design phase. As a wi...

With increase in urban residents and CO2 emission from vehicles, there is need to deploy smart electric mobility services termed as Electric Mobility as a Service (eMaaS) facilitated by innovations in Information Communication Technology (ICT) to mitigate environmental issues, improve social inclusion, and enhance economic growth. However, citizens...

Special theme: The Climate Action: Mathematics, Informatics and Socio-Economics Accelerating the Sustainability https://ercim-news.ercim.eu/en121/special/fostering-smart-cities-based-on-an-enterprise-architecture-approach

Abstract Purpose- Electric Mobility as a Service (eMaaS) is suggested as a possible solution to ease transportation and lessen environmental issues by providing a collaborative transport sharing infrastructure that is based on Electric Vehicles (EVs) such as electric cars, electric bicycles, etc. Accordingly, this study proposes a multi-tier archit...

Smart city has emerged as a universal term for the pervasive utilization of Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) deployed to provide value-added services to citizens based on data generated from sectors such as energy, mobility, etc. However, current approaches are faced with interoperability as a challenging issue in processing big-da...

This study investigates the perception of Information Technology (IT) professionals and IT managers towards deployment of environmental-friendly practices in Collaborative Enterprise (CE). Through literature review this study develops a model based on Perceived Organizational e-Readiness Theory (POER) and Process-Virtualization-Theory (PVT) to inve...

The purpose of this paper is to identify various drivers which influence Information Communication Technology (ICT) departments of Collaborative Enterprise (CE) to infuse Green Information Technology (Green IT) and Green Information System (Green IS) as well as the Green IT/IS practices to be assimilated within their organizations. The identified G...

There has been rapid development in Blended Learning (BL) diffusion and prior studies mainly focused on issues related to students and lecturers in improving teaching and learning outcomes, but very few studies focused on institution’s readiness and diffusion issues. Thus, there is need for institutional-based research to guide universities, colleg...

This article examine the variables that influence Information Technology (IT) executives’ intention towards diffusing Green Information System (IS) for environmental sustainability attainment in organizations by utilizing IS as a solution to resolve the issues caused by traditional IT usage. Through the review of prior Green IS and Green IT studies...

This study develops a Green Information Systems (IS) interpretive model grounded on Technology Organization Environment (TOE) framework to identify the factors that influence Green IS refraction and further examines to what extent these factors impact Green IS refraction in Information Communications Technology (ICT) based firms for corporate ecolo...

The smart grid achieves bidirectional information and energy flow between energy consumer and utility grid, aiding energy users not only to utilize energy, but also to produce, sell, and share energy with other consumers or with the utility grid. This type of energy user is referred to as the "prosumer". Thus, prosumer management structures are imp...

In recent years, there has been a growing trend of large population of people moving towards urban living. As estimated that by 2030 more than 60 percent of the world population will live in urban geographical location, as more than half of the world’s population currently resides in urban areas. Such complex and enormous inhabitation of people cer...

Purpose This paper aims to investigate the current value chain activities grounded on Porter’s value chain theory and to examine the drivers of strategic environmentalism that influence sustainable value chain adoption. This study further constructs a prescriptive model to reveal the extent to which information communication technology (ICT)-based...

As the years progress there has been rapid growth in Blended Learning (BL) adoption, but only few research focused on adoption issues related to learners, academic staffs and management. Thus, research is needed to guide universities in strategically examining learners, academic staffs and management adoption of BL. Accordingly, this study develops...

This study aims to develop an eco-sourcing tool grounded on Model View Control (MVC) architecture for Small and Medium Enterprise (SME) to enable clients’ select automobiles products online and order any automobile by just selecting the product using an internet enabled platform. Furthermore, once an automobile product has been selected from the to...