Hossana Twinomurinzi

University of Johannesburg | uj · Centre for Applied Data Science

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This study investigates the significant influence of patriarchy on the potential acceptance and use of local digital government innovations in resource-constrained countries, building on studies that highlight patriarchy’s impactful role in shaping innovation. The Unified Theory of Acceptance and Use of Technology (UTAUT) was adopted as the evaluat...

Appendix (supplementary) data to a manuscript titled: SMME Readiness Framework for SM Adoption -The Confirmation Phase

Economic growth, employment creation and resilience of businesses and industry in the 4 th Industrial Revolution which is intertwined with climate change realities depends much on the implementation of digital technologies and Artificial Intelligence (AI). The agricultural sector is no exception to these developmental realities. That is to say, the...

Introduction In the big data era, where corporations commodify health data, non-fungible tokens (NFTs) present a transformative avenue for patient empowerment and control. NFTs are unique digital assets on the blockchain, representing ownership of digital objects, including health data. By minting their data as NFTs, patients can track access, mone...

Blockchain technology is increasingly being recognized for its pivotal role in enhancing security, immutability, and transparency across government sectors, notably in land registration (LR) processes. This research emphasizes the need for contextually adapted blockchain technology solutions, particularly in resource-constrained and culturally dive...

Computational audiology (CA) has grown over the last few years with the improvement of computing power and the growth of machine learning (ML) models. There are today several audiogram databases which have been used to improve the accuracy of CA models as well as reduce testing time and diagnostic complexity. However, these CA models have mainly be...

PLS-SEM is frequently used in applied studies as an excellent tool for examining causal-predictive associations of models for theory development and testing. Missing data are a common problem in empirical analysis, and PLS-SEM is no exception. A comprehensive review of the PLS-SEM literature reveals a high preference for the listwise deletion and m...

The aftermath of COVID changed how students learn, mainly moving to a distance learning model. The research reported in this paper investigated the organizational and individual factors that influence the preference for continuing with distance / online learning post-COVID. Partial least squares structural equation modeling was applied to a model d...

Blockchain technology (BT) is increasingly important in digital government as a means of efficient information management, decision making and an instrument for reform. This study presents a systematic review of BT's potential and application in land registration within low-income countries. The study uncovers diverse approaches to BT implementatio...

African countries have persistently ranked poorly in the United Nations E-Government Development Index. This study, therefore, sought to make sense of the nature and form of digital transformation (DX) in African governments. It used a bibliometric analysis and a critical realist lens to explore some of the underlying structures and generative mech...

Smallholder farmers are key contributors to food security globally, and more so in developing countries. Despite their critical role in food security, smallholder farmers are highly constrained by specific contextual challenges such as climate change, productivity, cost of production, credit access, and financial resources constraints that impact t...

ChatGPT became the most popular Artificial Intelligence (AI) and digital technology platform in history after its launch in November 2022. According to the Diffusion of Innovation Theory, because it reached one million users within five days, and 100 million users within two months, ChatGPT marked an inflection point in society. This study presents...

Artificial intelligence (AI) has rapidly become one of the technologies used for competitive advantage. However, there are also growing concerns about bias in AI models as AI developers risk introducing bias both unintentionally and intentionally. This study, using a qualitative approach, investigated how AI developers can contribute to the develop...

Mobile learning (m-learning) offered opportunities for learning before COVID-19 disease (COVID-19) but experienced a significant surge in usage since learning moved to the homes. This systematic review collates studies published between 2020 and 2021 to understand the impact, challenges, opportunities, and gaps in m-learning during COVID-19. The ke...

Massive open online courses (MOOCs) have increased access to higher education by allowing South Africans to access free, online-based, open content created by higher education institutions worldwide. However, most MOOCs report significant student drop-out rates before completing a course. Higher education institutions must understand learner motiva...

There is increasing pressure on organisations and countries to manage the financial risks associated with climate change. This paper summarises research on climate change, credit risk and the associated losses, and specifically identifies methods that could contribute to quantifying the causal relationships between climate change and credit risk. W...

Transportation systems globally face challenges related to congestion, decreased quality of life, limited accessibility, increased harmful emissions and costs, growing use of private cars and in some cases lack of intra and intermodal integration. Smart Mobility is believed to be a solution to some of these challenges by providing comprehensive and...

Artificial intelligence ( AI) has rapidly become one of the technologies used for competitive advantage. However, there are also growing concerns about bias in AI models as AI developers risk introducing bias both unintentionally and intentionally. This study, using a qualitative approach, investigated how AI developers can contribute to the develo...

Background Industry 4.0 (I4.0) technologies have improved operations in health care facilities by optimizing processes, leading to efficient systems and tools to assist health care personnel and patients. Objective This study investigates the current implementation and impact of I4.0 technologies within maternal health care, explicitly focusing on...

BACKGROUND Industry 4.0 (I4.0) technologies have improved operations in health care facilities by optimizing processes, leading to efficient systems and tools to assist health care personnel and patients. OBJECTIVE This study investigates the current implementation and impact of I4.0 technologies within maternal health care, explicitly focusing on...

Thematic analysis coding for the paper titles "The role of AI management in AI algorithmic fairness"

Background: Infectious diseases represent a major challenge for health systems worldwide. With the recent global pandemic of COVID-19, the need to research strategies to treat these health problems has become even more pressing. Although the literature on big data and data science in health has grown rapidly, few studies have synthesized these ind...

Small Medium and Micro Enterprises (SMMEs) are significant contributors to economic growth and employment and therefore playing a vital role in wealth creation and human welfare. Yet despite their critical importance, SMMEs are yet to realize their full potential due to numerous challenges presented by the nature of operations in a global market, i...

BACKGROUND The healthcare-related artificial intelligence (AI) literature is growing rapidly and is considered a critical driving force for healthcare promotion. Artificial intelligence (AI) technology holds great promise for transforming mental health care and mitigating its potential risks. OBJECTIVE An in-depth scoping review of AI publications...

The Internet of Things (IoT) is an important emerging technology that enables (usually) pervasive ubiquitous devices to connect to the Internet. Medical and Healthcare Internet of Things (MHIoT) represents one of the application areas for IoT that has revolutionized the healthcare sector. In this study, a systematized literature review on the adopt...

Aim/Purpose: This study aimed to evaluate the extant research on data science education (DSE) to identify the existing gaps, opportunities, and challenges, and make recommendations for current and future DSE. Background: There has been an increase in the number of data science programs especially because of the increased appreciation of data as a m...

In light of the controversies surrounding COVID-19 vaccines, this study explored vaccine adoption through a theoretical model, focusing on France (n=2001) and South Africa (n=1107). Analysis using structural equation modelling and hierarchical cluster analysis revealed that social influences, personal opinions on vaccines, perceived severity of the...

The COVID-19 pandemic brought unprecedented challenges and changes to higher education. More than 100 countries went into lockdown, severely affecting education systems worldwide. There was an expectation that higher education institutes would “find solutions” — and fast. Many questions arose concerning the role of online courses, technology-mediat...

The fourth industrial revolution (4IR or Industry 4.0), fueled by cutting-edge technologies such as autonomous cars, advanced robotics, business analytics, and artificial intelligence, is expected to transform all aspects of today's workforce. Yet very few empirical studies have been conducted about the future skills needed to cope with this new in...

Digital transformation (DT) has been considered an essential enabler of operational and strategic change for any given organization across various industries. Based on the smart adoption and assimilation of cutting-edge tools and technologies, DT allows firms to develop new capabilities, including creating improved products and services, enhancing...

Population growth in urban cities has created transport problems such as traffic congestion, pollution, accidents, and infrastructure failures. These problems often lead to disruption of mobility, especially in emerging economies. The goal of any city is to have a resilient transport system that is free from frequent and severe disruptions. Resilie...

Industry 4.0 technologies have revolutionized how care is provided to patients and how operations in hospitals are conducted. The Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 3.1 aims to ensure access to healthcare facilities and a reduction in the global maternal mortality ratio to less than 70 per 100 000 live births. This paper investigates the state of t...

Infodemiologic methods could be used to enhance modeling infectious diseases. It is of interest to verify the utility of these methods using a Nigerian case study. We used Google Trends data to track COVID-19 incidences and assessed whether they could complement traditional data based solely on reported case numbers. Data on the Nigerian weekly COV...

Blockchain technology (BT) is a promising technology with compelling distributive and security capabilities for digitalising organisations and social systems. It is, however, often approached from a deterministic and technical perspective yet requires social, cultural and institutional changes as part of the process of adopting new technology in th...

BACKGROUND Infectious diseases represent a major challenge for health systems worldwide. With the recent global pandemic of COVID-19, the need to research strategies to treat these health problems has become even more pressing. Although the literature on big data and data science in health has grown rapidly, few studies have synthesized these indiv...

This paper sought to identify and compare disciplinary emphases in data science curricula across South Africa’s 26 public universities using a website scoping review method. The key findings reveal that only 12 of the 26 universities offer data science programmes that are publicly accessible on their websites. Of those 12, only 5 offer data science at...

Purpose The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic altered business and personal activities globally especially stimulating contactless financial transactions. However, despite the similar national lockdowns in cash-based economies, the adoption of contactless transactions through the widely available mechanism, mobile wallets, remained low....

This paper reports on the design and usefulness of a digital government innovation to share limited government resources in low-income countries (LICs) based on the sharing economy paradigm, collaborative consumption (CC). The innovation was developed using design science research and the usefulness was evaluated using the Unified Theory of Accepta...

BACKGROUND The spread of coronavirus continues around the world, causing a variety of problems in human health and the economy. One of the most important approaches to control the spread of this disease is to use a technological intervention based on Artificial Intelligence, such as a Chatbot system. The use of chatbots can aid in the fight against...

Background: Coronavirus continues to spread worldwide, causing various health and economic disruptions. One of the most important approaches to controlling the spread of this disease is to use an artificial intelligence (AI)-based technological intervention, such as a chatbot system. Chatbots can aid in the fight against the spread of COVID-19. O...

Pharmaceutical supply chain processes are complex and involve multiple stakeholders. Counterfeit drugs are one of the major global challenges in the pharmaceutical supply chain and healthcare sector that put patient lives at high risk. The danger of counterfeit drugs is that once the drugs are tempered, they become prone to inflicting unknown side...

The growth of digital technologies that enable the sharing of resources, underutilized assets, and services, is bringing new ways of shared consumption commonly called the “sharing economy” or “collaborative consumption”. This study used a design science paradigm and the elaborated action design method (eADR) to design and develop a “collaborative...

The traditional emphasis of fairness in AI algorithms tends towards developing fair standards, even though the field of AI and its subfields advance rapidly and creatively, meaning that any AI fair standards could similarly become obsolete rapidly. This paper argues rather for an emphasis on fair processes that are adaptable to AI’s continuous crea...

Aim/Purpose: Systematic literature reviews seek to locate all studies that contain material of relevance to a research question and to synthesize the relevant outcomes of those studies. The primary aim of this paper was to synthesize both research and practice reports on micro-credentials (MCRs). Background: There has been an increase in reports an...

This paper systematically reviews the literature on the adoption of blockchain technology in supply chain management (SCM) processes. Using the PRISMA (preferred reporting items for systematic reviews and meta-analysis) methodology, 53 peer-reviewed research publications from five different databases (IEEE Xplore, Science Direct, Scopus, Google Sch...

The Internet of Things (IoT) is an important emerging technology that enables (usually) pervasive ubiquitous devices to connect to the Internet. Medical and Healthcare Internet of Things (MHIoT) represents one of the application areas for IoT that has revolutionized the healthcare sector. In this study, a review of literature on the adoption of MHI...

South Africa (SA) being a high water stressed country, the demand is expected to grow by 17% in 2030. Beside these problems, over 37% of water in the urban piped system leaks out or is used illegally. This compounded effect pose as a serious threat to the future of the SA country as a whole. In view to partly mitigate to this alarming consternation...

This special issue aims to explore the interplay between digital transformation, resilience, and the role of the capabilities, considering the organizations and supply chains levels. This topic is highly relevant for practitioners and scholars to understand how this interaction can contribute to organizations and their supply chains responding the...

Despite being the fastest-growing field because of its ability to enhance competitive advantage, there are concerns about the inherent fairness in Artificial Intelligence (AI) algorithms. In this study, a systematic review was performed on AI and the fairness of AI algorithms. 47 articles were reviewed for their focus, method of research, sectors,...

Digital government innovation is being recognised as a solution to many problems faced by governments in providing services to their citizens. It is especially important for low-income countries where there are resource constraints. This research was aimed at exploring the moderating effect of gender on the adoption of a digital government innovati...

s: Digital government innovation is being recognised as a solution to many problems faced by governments in providing services to their citizens. It is especially important for low-income countries where there are resource constraints. This research was aimed at exploring the moderating effect of gender on the adoption of a digital government innov...

South Africa has endorsed both the UN Sustainable Development Goals (UN SDG) which is to be aligned to its National Development Plan and the agenda of the Fourth Industrial Revolution (4IR), which will inform economic direction and is supported in the country’s forthcoming Science and Technology White Paper. These two agendas are potentially diverg...

Purpose This paper aims to identify the dynamic capabilities of government organisations in Woredas of Ethiopia that digitally innovate on the existing government digital platform, the WoredaNet. Design/methodology/approach The study adopted a qualitative interpretive case study strategy using three government administrative regions in Ethiopia (c...

Investments in national Information and Communication Technology (ICT) infrastructure in low-income-countries provide a digital government platform that could facilitate the maximization of limited resources through a collaborative consumption (CC) model. In this study, an interpretive multi-case research method was used to investigate how limited...

This study examined how men and women who own micro-businesses in Lagos, Nigeria, use mobile apps for business. The paper analyses the findings from Amartya Sen's capability approach viewpoint. The two key findings suggest that women micro-business owners make more use of mobile apps compared to men and that they tend to exit micro-businesses as th...

This research explored the moderating effect of public service experience on the adoption of digital government innovations in Ethiopia. The results from the structural equation modeling (SEM) reveal that public service experience positively moderates the relationship between effort expectancy and behavioral intention to adopt digital government in...

This paper reports on the design and evaluation of an app that was designed using the newly created elaborated action design research method and critical realism to overcome the social and economic structural challenges that SMEs in Nigeria face. The results show that even though the app took into account the full range of SME dynamic capabilities...

This paper was aimed at developing a design artefact to identify opportunities for digital innovation based on the adaptive capabilities of government organizations in resource constrained low-income countries. The study was guided by the recent elaborated action design research method. Adaptive capability themes that were elicited from Woredas (go...

The failure of digital government in most low-income countries has often been attributed to, among many factors, culture. This paper investigated the moderating effect of the indigenous African cultural aspect of spirituality on the adoption and usage of digital government services among small and micro enterprises (SMEs). The base theory was the u...

Smart manufacturing, Industry 4.0 and Smart Factory are phenomena regarded as a key necessity for Small, Medium and Micro Businesses (SMMEs) worldwide. Even though these 4th Industrial Revolution (4IR) phenomena are generally used interchangeably, this paper sought to identify how SMME readiness for smart manufacturing has been investigated through...

Aim/Purpose: This study sought to investigate opportunities for digital transformation within the National Treasury Budget Process. Background: The study considered the impact of the Fourth Industrial Revolution (4IR), its potential impact, opportunities and challenges presented to the national budgeting process in the South African context. Meth...

This research investigated how mobile apps influence the dynamic capabilities of service sector micro and small enterprises (MSEs) in Lagos, Nigeria. Using an abductive method, data from 388 service sector MSEs was examined through exploratory factor analysis. The resultant model suggests that mobile app usage barely increases the absorptive capabi...

Appendices to I3E2020 Paper no:35 (Title: SMME Smart Manufacturing Readiness for Adoption: A Systematic Review)

Most evaluation methods for purchasing newer and enticing information and communication technology (ICT) in organisations are based on financial models, or are premised on the presumption that the new ICT is not replacing an existing ICT. However, the availability and constant proliferation of more powerful and functional ICT in most organisations...

Small and medium enterprises (SMEs) are exposed to agile and dynamic environments where information and communication technologies (ICTs) change frequently. As such, SMEs need to be counter-agile in response to these changes. The ability of an SME to respond dynamically to agile business environments is called dynamic capabilities. This paper inves...

Blockchain technology is considered as one of the fourth industrial revolution technologies that is transforming governments. This study systematically reviews literature on research into blockchain technologies for government with the aim to map opportunities, challenges and gaps. The main findings show that research has ignored the commercial val...

Although it is known that mobile apps are used for businesses, small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) tend to focus more on their internal business activities with little attention to the benefits of mobile apps in sensing opportunities and enhancing external competencies in a dynamic business environment. This study explores the role of mobile...

An organisation’s dynamic capabilities illustrate how the organisation renews its competencies in response to the evolving environment. This study explored the effect of mobile app usage on the dynamic capabilities (DCs) of SMEs in Nigeria from a critical realist viewpoint. Although literature suggests that mobile apps are used by SMEs, the elusive...

Unemployment is a significant global challenge with major social and economic implications. Unemployment has however not prevented the youth from owning and using mobile devices nor other Information and Communication Technologies (ICT). This exploratory paper investigated the mobile usage patterns among 104 participants in an effort to contextuali...

With the fourth Industrial Revolution highlighting the increased importance of the service sector, this research sought to understand how mobile apps influence the dynamic capabilities of service sector micro and small enterprises (MSEs) in Lagos, Nigeria. The study analysed data from 388 service sector MSEs in Lagos, using exploratory factor analy...