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Kennesaw State University

African Conference on Information Systems and Technology

2020

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Predicting Factors Contributing To Road Traffic Accident And Implying Driver’S Driving Behavior In Addis Ababa City,, Shimelis Shiferaw Deneke Mr., Shimelis Shiferaw Deneke Mr, Abdurahman Ali Endalkachew Mr, Shimelis Shiferaw Deneke, Abdurehman Ali Jul 2020

Predicting Factors Contributing To Road Traffic Accident And Implying Driver’S Driving Behavior In Addis Ababa City,, Shimelis Shiferaw Deneke Mr., Shimelis Shiferaw Deneke Mr, Abdurahman Ali Endalkachew Mr, Shimelis Shiferaw Deneke, Abdurehman Ali

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This study tries to uncover which factor could be associated with Addis Ababa City rode traffic accident and implicate drivers driving behaviors based on the data collected from post-accident. Which is the capital city of Ethiopia. The main objective of this research is Appling data mining technique to explore on factors that could associated with drivers related factors with road traffic accident to provide an insight way to reduce road traffic accident. The data was collected from road traffic accident from the real-world data collected at accident time in Addis Ababa City/Ethiopia. Totally 4285 datasets with 20 attributes were used. …


Business - It Strategic Alignment Improvement Framework: A Case Study On An Ethiopian Bank, Menelik Belete, Yonas Hagos Jul 2020

Business - It Strategic Alignment Improvement Framework: A Case Study On An Ethiopian Bank, Menelik Belete, Yonas Hagos

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In recent years, the bank sector is heavily relies on IT and has been investing a lot to easily reach their customer and gain the competitive advantages. Unfortunately, due to alignment gap between the business and IT strategy, they were not able to maximize their IT return value. The purpose of this study is finding internal and external challenges that hinders business and IT strategy alignment in the context of an Ethiopian Bank, A. The study conducted as a qualitative case study. The main finding shows that vendor dependency, lack of proper system evaluation, lack of clear national regulation, external …


Adoption And Challenges Of Mobile Banking Systems In Ethiopia: The Case Of Cooperative Bank Of Oromiya, Ebisa Beyene Jul 2020

Adoption And Challenges Of Mobile Banking Systems In Ethiopia: The Case Of Cooperative Bank Of Oromiya, Ebisa Beyene

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The incorporation of information system into organizations for the purpose of getting competitive advantage, easing workload, providing intangible (soft) work place and coping up with technological advancement has become an indispensable for organizations. Due to these many companies (like banks) are getting advantages of information communication technology implementation like Mobile Banking (M-banking), Internet banking, Automatic Teller Machine, etc. Accordingly Ethiopian commercial banks have implemented Mbanking system into their service system. This research examine adoption of M-banking system in Ethiopia focusing on Cooperative bank of Oromiya with respect to the challenges which can influence the bank from taking advantage and expected …


Learnings From A Cloud Migration Project At A South African Retailer, Nonqaba Jaka, Carolien Van Den Berg Dr. Jul 2020

Learnings From A Cloud Migration Project At A South African Retailer, Nonqaba Jaka, Carolien Van Den Berg Dr.

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All industries are aware of the potential benefits of cloud computing, however, the migration to cloud has not been widely adopted by South African retailers. The purpose of this paper is to explore the motivations behind organisations deciding to migrate to cloud and the factors that may impact a successful cloud migration project. The paper discusses a case study that analysed the key drivers and the impact of cloud migration within a retail environment. The empirical findings suggest that skills and competencies largely impact every aspect of cloud migration, from decision making to execution and support. Furthermore, that migrating to …


Information Technology Disaster Recovery Plan (Itdrp) Framework For Banks In Ethiopia, Nigussie Tariku, Lemma Lessa Jul 2020

Information Technology Disaster Recovery Plan (Itdrp) Framework For Banks In Ethiopia, Nigussie Tariku, Lemma Lessa

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IT services and solutions in the banking sector should be protected to keep the business continuity in a disastrous scenario. This study aims to develop an Information Technology Disaster Recovery Plan (IT DRP) framework in the case of Ethiopian Banks. Qualitative case study method is employed to investigate current best practices and challenges in Ethiopian banks. The findings indicated that Banks do not have IT DRP in place. Lack of framework, lack of focused group, lack of experiences, and lack of standardization are some of the challenges identified. Accordingly, the IT DRP framework is proposed for Banks of Ethiopia. The …


Factors Affecting Mobile Payment Adoption By Merchants In Ethiopia, Firehiwot Abebe, Lemma Lessa Jul 2020

Factors Affecting Mobile Payment Adoption By Merchants In Ethiopia, Firehiwot Abebe, Lemma Lessa

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Nowadays the world witnessed a rapid growth in mobile commerce and widespread use of mobile devices. The growth of mobile commerce depends on widely accepted mobile payment systems. However, this trend is not well experienced in developing countries like Ethiopia. Even though merchants somehow benefited from the rapid growth in electronics commerce and use of mobile devices in ecommerce, they still hesitate to effectively employ in their day to day transactions. Little research has been conducted to examine and explain the merchants' views on the new payment technology. In this paper, we explore the factors that affect merchants’ adoption of …