Browsing by Author "Mongi, Hector"

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    Addressing land degradation in Tanzania: Contemporary issues related to policies and strategies
    (Elsevier, 2012) Mongi, Hector
    Several attempts have been made since the early years of independence of Tanzania to address land degradation. Policies and strategies were formulated that emphasized on the importance of land conservation in achieving economic growth. However, the context in which the earlier strategies were designed and implemented led to further land degradation. Failure of these interventions was partly because policies which backed them remained sectoral and most of them adopted the top-down approach with very little involvement of communities. The United Nations Conference on Environment and Development (UNCED) of 1992 in Rio de Janeiro created a new chapter in the country by insisting on the importance of sustainable development. The new policies and strategies were formulated with intentions to correct the past mistakes. This paper has assessed the extent to which Tanzania’s post-UNCED policies and strategies address the recent challenges of climate change on land degradation as reported by the IPCC in 2007. It involved review of selected policies, strategies and related literature on land degradation and climate change. The National Strategy for Growth and Reduction of Poverty (NSGRP) and two other sectoral strategies were reviewed in addition to the environmental, agricultural and water policies. The study finds that significant short and long-term measures to combat the negative effects of land use practices on the land resource are addressed. However, constant review of the policies and strategies is required to ensure that emerging challenges are addressed as part of the overall efforts to combat impacts of global climate change
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    An empirical study of critical success factors for the adoption of m-government services in Tanzania
    (Springer Singapore, 2021) Ishengoma, Fredrick; Mselle, Leonard; Mongi, Hector
    For the past decade, the Tanzanian government has started implementing m-government initiatives. However, little is known about the factors surrounding m-government adoption in Tanzania. Consequently, some m-government services have been successfully adopted while others are still struggling (having a low level of adoption). In this chapter, the authors investigate critical success factors (CSFs) that favor the adoption of m-government services from a web analytics point of view. The results show that inspecting the web analytics data from multiple viewpoints and varying levels of detail, gives insights on the CSFs towards the adoption of m-government services. The findings suggest that perceived usefulness, user needs, and usability favor the adoption of one m-government service over the other. Moreover, factors like the loading time of the service, the number of requests, and bounce rate seem not to have an effect.
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    Integrated ICTs for water basins management in Southern Africa: systematic review and meta-analyses for perceived relevance criteria
    (Faculty of Economics and Management CULS Prague, 2016) Mongi, Hector; Meinhardt, Markus
    User-focused design and an implementation of a computer-based Information System (IS) or Information Technology (IT) are considered to play a key role in enhancing adoption, supporting activities and contributing to the sector specific sustainability goals. However, there are general concerns over the practical applications derived from records of failure rates of IS/IT projects in the developing world. This paper aggregates and analyzes stakeholders’ perceived usefulness criteria that were documented from water basin focusing on IS and related projects in Southern Africa. Systematic literature reviews and meta-analysis were adopted for data collection and analyses. Literature with academic, practice and hybrid viewpoints was collected from five water basins in Southern Africa. Designed data collection flow chart guided the search for appropriate literature. Analyses of the data were performed by using Statistical Package for Social Sciences (SPSS). Results of the search were classified and presented basing on the domain, yearly waves from 2000 to 2015, trans-basin nature and basin of focus. Literature was distributed across the classes at different magnitudes. The study has found out that relevance criteria as measure of usefulness have been incorporated in designing and implementing the IS/IT projects in the river basins. However, incorporation of relevance criteria was periodically increasing with technological advancement and increasing complexity of managing the water basins. In general, it was responsive to increasing challenges of water resources in the developing countries. This anticipated better results at the levels of output, outcome and impacts of IS/IT projects in the Southern Africa. The study concludes that the current trends of incorporation of the relevance criteria in designing and implementing the IS/IT projects on water resources are potential for impact-based interventions in Southern Africa.
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    Leveraging intelligent decision support system to promote inclusive remote teaching and learning in institutions of higher education in East Africa: Prototype development
    (Elsevier, 2023) Muchungi, Kendi; Mukami, Victoria; Mongi, Hector; Fabian, Flora; Ombui, Edward; Kiguru, Mary; Tandika, Pambas; Moshi, Fabiola; Ombeni, Joram
    The need for an intelligent system to support the decision-making process on remote teaching and learning during pandemics was realized during Covid-19. It was learned that during the pandemic most higher learning institutions could not respond as rapidly as the situation manifests to protect academic activities from disruptions. The objective of this paper is to describe the proposed prototype of an intelligent decision support system (IDSS) to inform the current and future remote teaching and learning in East African Higher Education in response to pandemics such as COVID-19. The research adopted the design science research approach to analysis, design, and development of the prototype. The development was preceded by understanding the situation where Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities, and Challenges (SWOCs) were analyzed. From the analysis, the requirements for the system were identified. Three stages were followed to develop the prototype. First, the development of a web interface or landing website, then designing the prototype framework with stakeholders' evaluation and actual development of the prototype. The SWOC analyses showed varying enabling environments within institutions in a country and between institutions in East Africa. Inadequate policy and legal and regulatory provisions for a rapid switch to remote teaching and learning during the pandemic were compounded by inadequate infrastructure, trained human resources, and organized rapid decision-making. Based on these findings, a prototype framework was then designed to support the decision-making on remote teaching and learning amid the pandemic in East Africa. The preliminary evaluation of the framework suggests that the system has great prospects to inform the decision-making process in the wake of pandemics thereby achieving the rapidity and efficiency of decisions. Further development and evaluation are ongoing.
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    Power distance and users behavior towards the adoption of m-Government services in Tanzania: a web analytics study
    (Open Information Technologies Lab (OIT Lab), 2019) Ishengoma, Fredrick Romanus; Mselle, Leonard; Mongi, Hector
    Citizens adoption of m-Government services can be achieved through voluntary or mandatory settings. In Tanzania, some government authorities have chosen mandatory adoption approach in order to increase adoption rate, efficiency, and reduce the costs of public administration. One of the crucial dimensions of mandatory adoption is power distance (PD). Literature review, mostly from developed countries, have shown contradicting results on the role of PD towards the adoption of m-Government services. Meanwhile, there is a lack of research studies from African developing countries. This research seeks to fill this gap by examining if PD is a success factor towards the adoption of m-Government services and model users’ behaviors. The study analyzed the 1-year transactions logs that cover before and after the mandatory electronic payment system is adopted. Furthermore, the study analyzed the 1-year traffic of data from government recruitment agency by using web analytics to understand users’ pattern. Findings show that PD is a significant success factor in the adoption of m-Government services in Tanzania. The study also reveals the existence of flash effect (FE) pattern. Finally, the study proposes a Flash Event Mitigation Algorithm (FEMA) to mitigate the impact of the FEs on m-Government services.
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    Sustenance of the digital transformations induced by the COVID-19 pandemic response: lessons from Tanzanian public sector
    (Emerald Insight, 2022) Shao, Deo; Mwangakala, Hilda; Ishengoma, Fredrick; Mongi, Hector; Mambile, Cesilia; Chali, Frederick
    The emergency of the COVID-19 pandemic has affected organizations differently, leading to adopting alternative business operation models, including digital technologies. The rapid adoption of digital technologies during the COVID-19 pandemic demonstrates how adaptive technologies intersect with human and social institutions in potentially risky or inequitable ways. However, the sustenance of the digital transformations (DTs) induced by the COVID-19 crisis is still unclear. Thus, this study aims to evaluate the sustenance of DTs accelerated by the emergence of the COVID-19 pandemic response in the Tanzanian context amid the crisis. The study used a qualitative approach that included a literature review and semi-structured interviews with Information and Communication Technology (ICT) personnel from selected public institutions in Tanzania. The interviews elicited interviewees’ perspectives on the following: the digital revolution that occurred during the COVID-19 outbreak; how it affects their work; and the country’s future digital landscape. Additionally, a literature analysis established and generalized the practices used by the governments during the COVID-19 crisis. The results show that there is enormous, colossal press toward adopting digital solutions. The use of digital technologies, such as digital payments, e-commerce, telemedicine and online education, has attracted the attention of businesses and individuals in Tanzania. Consequently, the move has enabled the country to cope with the cascading impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic and progressive economic recovery to achieve its development goals. Furthermore, the findings offer policy strategies for taking the induced DTs to the next level and sustaining it. This study reports the lessons from the DTs induced by COVID-19 and their sustenance. It also contributes toward forward-thinking reforms and policy measures that could help Tanzania and the likes harness the DTs'’ potential in the wake of the pandemic.
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    Usage of big data for global tobacco control: exploring the trends in quantitative research from 2006 to 2015
    (Tobacco Induced Diseases, 2018) Mongi, Hector
    Measuring the impact of tobacco control initiatives like in other major themes of research relies on the data. Recently, there has been growing interest in the usability of big data which is characterized by large volumes, high computer processing speeds and huge storage networked databases. All these offer opportunity to make senses out of data through discovering new patterns and possibly creating new fields. This study tried to discover the usage trends of volumes of data in quantitative research to inform WHO FCTC impacts on tobacco control across the world between 2006 and 2015.