Mahamadou Kante

Institut des Sciences Humaines, Bamako

Recent developments in the Web, Social Media, Sensors and Mobile devices have resulted in the explosion of data set sizes. That has resulted in the emergence of Big Data. It has applications in industry ranging from retail, healthcare, financial services, government, agriculture, customer service among others. Nowadays, business depends on customer...

Understanding the stakeholders of mobile money services and systems in developing countries remain a critical issue that needs to be addressed. Using the Stakeholder Theory, along with the Diffusion of Innovation Theory and Unified Theory of Acceptance and Use of Technology, this study gathered data from 110 respondents to contribute to the underst...

Privacy is a critical concern in big data era. Users share their personal data to informal communities such as social media. Despite the evident benefits of social network sites and users concerns about privacy, people disclose personal information. Albeit users know the conceivable risks of sharing personal information, more users are doing so. It...

One of the current discussions is the resilience of health systems in developing countries. Online platforms users including health system users (patients, doctors) are worried about their privacy being violated. While the users of social media enjoy the opportunity to learn, connect, and share, their privacy on those platforms is at risk. A possib...

Structural equation modelling (SEM) is a statistical technique used in the field of Information Systems amongst others. The technique has been paid attention thanks to its flexibility and predictive power. However, there is a paucity of guidelines in the application of the technique in the field of Behavioural Information Security. Hence, this pape...

Privacy is a critical concern in big data era. Users share their personal data to informal communities such as social media. Despite the evident benefits of social network sites and users concerns about privacy, people disclose personal information. Albeit users know the conceivable risks of sharing personal information, more users are doing so. It...

Researchers have turned to various disciplines in search for theories that can contribute in different ways towards Information privacy. The data collection instrument (questionnaire) of these theories is in English. Nevertheless, issues related to Social Network Sites are meant for various groups with different cultural background. Therefore, cros...

Once the ancients had developed the capacity to think philosophically, they posed for themselves a number of important questions. The existence of God is a subject of debate in the philosophy of religion. In philosophical terms, the question of the existence of God involves the disciplines of epistemology and ontology and the theory of value. Diffe...