Sifiso Dlamini

• Master of Arts
• Senior Researcher at Council for Scientific and Industrial Research, South Africa

The increasing adoption of IoT technologies in various sectors including health has proven that the benefits and value offered by these systems continue to have an impact. The design of the Health Internet of Things (HIoT) technologies mainly operate in functionalities with limited or lack of resilient security. Although the HIoT continues to trans...

South Africa has seen research and development (R&D) efforts in Information and Communication Technologies for Development (ICT4D) to provide rural schools with mobile technologies for improving the quality of teaching and learning. The challenge however is that most of the interventions fail when the project team withdraws from the beneficiary sch...

The Modernisation Case Study at Kolomela Mine develops a deeper understanding of the key people-related factors that affect the success or failure of modernisation initiatives. The project was conducted concurrently with the project Three Case Studies on Historical Modernisation Effects and Management Measures. These projects examined people- relat...

South Africa has seen Research and Development (R&D) efforts in Information and Communication Technologies for Development (ICT4D) to pro-vide rural schools with mobile technologies for improving the quality of teaching and learning. The challenge however is that most of the interventions fail when the project team withdraws from the beneficiary sc...

The South Africa Connect national broadband policy of 2013 aims to ensure that the country achieves universal internet access by 2030, thereby fostering digital skills development. This study investigates one dimension of the South Africa Connect policy objectives, by considering rural teachers' adoption of information and communication technologie...

The purpose of this paper is provide evidence of how the selected teachers at 24 schools in 7 provinces in South Africa reacted to questions pertaining to the extent of their prior training, attitudes towards technology, perceived self-confidence in integrating ICTs and finally using ICTs on a daily basis. The project is known as the Information C...

The Information Communication and Technology for Rural Education Development (ICT4RED) initiative in South Africa which was aimed at the introduction of ICTs into schools in disadvantaged communities, was coordinated by a government agency (the Meraka Institute). The initiative was supported by a number of government stakeholders, namely the Depart...

The purpose of this paper is to indicate what aspects should be considered when developing a definition of community resilience for the South African context, with a special focus on using ICT in rural educational contexts. The aspects will be constituted by applying a scoping literature review ranging from 2014-2018 and examine the extent, range a...

Many ICT4E projects fail once the implementation team withdraws. Although there are multiple reasons for this, the problem often lies with integration of the project into the day-today institutional arrangements of the education system. This puts pressure on the school environment, since schools are unable to sustain the change introduced without s...

The high failure rate of development interventions is well known. An approach to sustainable interventions is defined, based on a systems perspective that focuses on the ability of a system to integrate an intervention. The design of an intervention requires an understanding of the current state of the system from the perspective of being able to r...

The purpose of this paper is to present research findings that investigate the extent of Internet usage as well as options for extending the current reach of the wireless network in Dwesa, a rural area in South Africa’s Eastern Cape Province. A mix of methodologies, encompassing ethnographic and quantitative approaches, is used to study the need to...