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Suicide Prevention and Social Media: A framework for Young Australians using Community of Inquiry (CoI)
(ACIS, 2014)Suicide among young Australians is a serious public health problem which demands for a fresh approach. In this day and age the growth of social media to replace almost all channels communication amongst the younger generation ... -
A survey of Knowledge Management Practice among academic staff at the University of Botswana
(ACIS, 2014)Today Knowledge Management (KM) is being considered as a strategic management tool inclusive of all types of organisations. Universities being the research-intensive and knowledge generating academic institutions are better ... -
Sustainability of Environmental Programs: A Green IT Perspective
(ACIS, 2014)Sustainable development programs always form an important component of strategic initiatives in modern day organizations. However, very few firms successfully implement these programs and continue the same in the long run. ... -
Tactility and experience as transformational strategy
(Textile and Design Lab and Colab at Auckland University of Technology, 2014)The Awareness Project investigates the following question: Can dialogue tools that challenge tactile competencies support the development of fashion and textile design in a sustainable direction? In this article, we pay ... -
Taking a User Centred Design Approach for Designing a System to Teach Sign Language
(ACIS, 2014)User Centred Design (UCD) is today a widely accepted philosophy in systems development. UCD stresses the importance of involving and consulting users throughout the design and development of a system; it puts users and ... -
Technology Adoption as a Multi-Stage Process: Differing Levels of Significant
(ACIS, 2014)This study proposes that technology adoption be considered as a multi-stage process constituting several distinct stages. Using the Theory of Planned Behaviour (TPB), Ettlie’s adoption stages and by employing data gathered ... -
A Theoretical Approach to Conceptualize Information Quality in Social Media
(ACIS, 2014)While organizations strive to leverage the vast information generated daily from social media platforms, and decision makers are keen to identify and exploit its value, the quality of this information remains uncertain. ... -
Theorizing the Use of Multiple Conceptual Models in Combination
(ACIS, 2014)Conceptual modelling continues to be an important means for graphically capturing the requirements of an information system. Observations of modelling practice suggest that modellers often use multiple conceptual models ... -
To connect or disconnect – that is the question: ICT self-discipline in the 21st century workplace
(ACIS, 2014)Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) in the workplace are increasingly connecting employees to people and sources of information. As a result, this ICT connectivity has had both a positive and a negative impact ... -
Towards a complete understanding of information security misbehaviours: a proposal for future research with social network approach
(ACIS, 2014)Insider’s intentional misbehaviours without the malicious intent to harm and security workarounds are emerging issues in information security behavioural field. To mitigate these insider’s threats, prior research has been ... -
Towards a Framework of Digital Platform Disruption: A Comparative Study of Centralized & Decentralized Digital Payment Providers
(ACIS, 2014)Digital platforms are disruptive information technology (IT) artifacts that erode conventional business logic associated with traditional market structures. This paper presents a framework for examining the disruptive ... -
Towards a Model for User Technology Readiness in ICT4D Initiatives
(ACIS, 2014)Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) are fuelling the growth of global economy and intelligent use of ICT is a key to transform societies. ICT is widely used in today’s economies to solve a wide variety of ... -
Towards a Model of Cloud Computing Services for SMEs
(ACIS, 2014)Cloud computing can provide significant competitive advantages to the Small Medium Enterprises (SMEs) by reducing costs through a more scalable IT infrastructure model. However, the adoption of cloud based services can ... -
Towards a Taxonomy of Information Security Management Practices in Organisations
(ACIS, 2014)There is growing recognition of the role that management performs in protecting organisational information. However, our review of the academic and professional literatures did not find an empirically sound and coherent ... -
Towards a unified framework for governance and management of information
(ACIS, 2014)Provision of quality information is key in demonstrating accountability and transparency in organisations. However, this task is becoming more difficult to perform in organisations where misunderstanding or ambiguity of ... -
Towards Achieving Ambidexterity: An Exploratory Study of Australian CIOs
(ACIS, 2014)This Research-in-Progress paper explores the recommendations which enable the CIO to overcome the barriers to creating an Ambidextrous IS Function; one which is able to balance exploratory activities (involving the use of ... -
Towards An Agriculture Information Ecosystem
(ACIS, 2014)Stakeholders of a domain in their day today activities generate information which is a valuable resource. To obtain full value of this information it should reach right people at the right time. To investigate how this can ... -
Towards Conceptualizing Information Transparency and its Role in Internet Consumers' Concerns: A Literature Review
(ACIS, 2014)In recent years, calls for a safer online shopping environment are growing louder. Empirical studies on consumers’ expectations of ethical e-commerce practices have found that the top concerns among e-shoppers revolved ... -
Transformation: the conjunction of crafted process and the brain as memory repository
(Textile and Design Lab and Colab at Auckland University of Technology, 2014)Acknowledging Otto Von Busch’s work, “Shapeshifting can be considered a capacity or potential of sentient beings, a capability of organisms to auto-transformations, as responsive agency to their settings.” Fusing textiles ... -
Transformational strategies: the Margiela Rabbit and the Gecko Girl
(Textile and Design Lab and Colab at Auckland University of Technology, 2014)Elizabeth Costello, the elderly fiction writer in J.M Coetzee’s novel of the same name, discusses the possibility of how a human being can feel what it is like to be a bat. She believes that to feel thus, one does not need ...