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The growth and development of Africa and indeed Nigeria’s economy depends largely on foreign direct investment (FDI), which has been described as the major carrier for transfer of new scientific knowledge and related technological innovations. The need to step up Nigeria’s industrialization process and growth,…

In recent years, we have seen an explosion of mobile phone use, with an estimated 3.3 billion mobile phone subscribers worldwide.  Among this number a significant portion of users are children.  This is a group that has embraced mobile phone technology more than any other.…

The rapid transformation of the modern economies reveals the significance of knowledge, innovation and technology for economic growth. In Europe, the Lisbon Strategy set the very ambitious goal to “become the more competitive knowledge economy in the world by 2010” Besides public policies, the development…

Traffic congestion is an increasing problem in urban environments. As cities develop, more traffic is featuring on the roads.  However, adequate and timely measures are required in terms of infrastructure development to facilitate smooth flow of traffic.  In this research we have designed and implemented…

Advertising plays a major role in modern life. It shapes the attitudes of the society and the individual and inevitably influences customer behaviour. The customer has to contend with a huge amount of information and be able to make a choice, draw conclusions and make…

Multimedia Broadcasting System (MBS) is a distributed media software system that provides reliable broadcasting services using GRUM over the Internet. The proposed Multimedia Broadcasting System ensures that all media files broadcasted by the sender will be received by the receivers through copper-based public switching network…

Rules are the most important element in knowledge extraction. The performance or strength of rules will determine how good a model is.  Higher accuracy implies that a model is good and vise versa.    However, the strength of rules depends on the attributes.  The number of…

In the healthcare area, information and communication technologies (ICT) cannot improve performance of the involved stakeholders if they aren’t completely accepted and used. The resistance to end-user ICT by professionals in this area is a well-known matter. To help raise their acceptance in Morocco, we…

The call center industry is a relatively new in Bangladesh. Only telecommunications and very few organizations are now providing customer service and support via call centers. Call centers do not exist for the customer to physically interact with, apart from via the telephone. The nature…

Acceptance of e-procurement systems by employees working in the local government sector is important to ensure improved organisational effectiveness for city and rural councils alike. Although a rich body of literature exists regarding the organisational adoption decisions of e-procurement systems and their impact on organisational…