Information Technology

Nowadays systems administrators are facing with huge challenges in securing and protecting information systems. Intrusions attempts are increasing and becoming more sophisticated by days leading to the common presumption that any information systems can be hacked into, no matter what level of security measures are being taken. Systems administrators are also relying heavily on security tools to secure their computer systems and security tools can be out-dated overtime. Therefore from digital forensics perspectives, preparing the systems in advance with the presumption that the information systems will be hacked, and taking all the necessary steps to ensure preservation of key evidences, can lead to successful legal prosecutions. The Authors proposed a simplified Digital Forensic Readiness Model as a framework that can be used to prepare any appropriate computer system forensically and increase its readiness at the same time.

E-learning based platforms that support multimedia content to enhance interactive learning demands large disk space. Despite research ground covered under e-learning circles, less attention has been devoted to solicit the best methods to address the disk space challenges at minimal cost. This research focuses on advancing a best architecture that meet the need for storage space when developing interactive multimedia e-learning based portals. Simulation was used using the CloudSim toolkit. Findings show that to precisely test the performance of viable architectures, there has to be a robust platform for such experiments. The main conclusions drawn from this research were that, there is room to improve on existing architectures to scale down on development costs so attributed to e-learning portals that are interactive in stature. Storage can be built from exiting personal computers through harnessing the cloud computing functionality designed as most of the personal computers are not fully being used by their owners. This research culminate by recommending the need to explore on best simulator packages that can be used to test the functionality of cloud computing based architecture for e-learning environments.

International Journal of Computer Science and Information Security (IJCSIS – established in 2009), has been at the forefront of new knowledge dissemination in research areas of computer science and applications, and advances in information security. The journal themes focus on innovative developments, research challenges/solutions in computer science and related technologies. IJCSIS aims to be a high quality publication platform and encourages emerging scholars and academicians globally to share their research output and findings in the fields of computer science.

IJCSIS archives all publications in major academic/scientific databases; abstracting/indexing, editorial board and other important information are available online on homepage. IJCSIS editorial board consisting of international experts solicits your contribution to the journal with your research papers, projects, surveying works and industrial experiences.

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With the establishment of the Namibia statistics agency (NSA) in
2011, Namibia, amongst other countries on the continent, made some of its public data sets available in open and reusable formats. These can be accessed through the NSA data portal. The free availability of these data sets creates the option of using and sharing information without restrictions, thus presenting many opportunities for citizens in the creation of new businesses and jobs, and the development of solutions that solve societal problems as well as being a tool to promote
transparency and hold the government accountable for their actions and commitments. However, the lack of awareness of these opportunities and benefits among citizens and the government’s reluctance to open up certain public data remains a challenge for open data. The ability of persuasive technologies such as mobile applications has proven to be
very efficient and effective in influencing a change in user behaviour. This paper presents a holistic and practical approach to increase open data awareness and consumption, using mobile apps that were developed in an open data innovation hackathon.

Today, cities across the world are faced with numerous challenges, which put a lot of pressure on city resources. Hence, the need for cities to address challenges they are facing in a smart, efficient and effective manner. Technological advancements present vast opportunities to shape up how cities are managed and deliver public services. The notion of smart city has emerged as a key strategy to mitigate issues such as waste management, traffic congestions, air pollution, and to anticipate future challenges. Europe is leading the smart city revolution with at least one smart city in every one of the 28 European Union countries. However, in this age of massive urbanization, other cities are increasingly following this path, adopting scalable and solutions that leverage on the power of open data and ICT to deliver better services, increase quality of life and meet the aspirations of citizens. Today, Windhoek is faced with challenge of massive urban migration and its population is anticipated to grow above half a million mark by 2030. This paper demonstrates how open data can be visualised into applications that connect citizens to the city public transportation to enhance service delivery. Thus, making public services easily accessible, more efficient and effective.

—Promising a world of endless opportunities, open data is increasingly becoming a global phenomenon, attracting interests from many governments; such as the United States of America, Germany, United Kingdom, Canada and Kenya to mention a few. Furthermore, institutions such as the United Nations, World Bank and the African Development Bank. Seeking ways to harness value from open data, these countries and institutions have established open data portals to serve as technical enablers, easing access to public data and acting as one-stop shop for a wide variety of data ranging from environment, education, health, transportation, geo-location, budget, weather, consumer products and consumer finance. These portals do not only enable citizens to access a wide variety of datasets but through APIs allow citizens to transform the data into innovative applications or solutions that solve local challenges and societal problems, thus, improve quality of life for citizens. Sequel to the possibilities that surrounds open data portal, it will be helpful to have an open data portal in Namibia. Consequently, to bridge the gap between the citizens, data and information, an open data portal becomes necessary. In this paper we provide practical, yet technical insights on how an open data portal we developed will ease access to information and facilitate the development of innovative solutions that will aid communities in solving societal problems in Namibia.

With the increasing adoption of digital technologies in many developing countries, it has become evident that countries in Africa have enabling environments and infrastructures to deploy state of the art ICT solutions to ease the burden of service delivery. Namibia amongst other African countries is pioneering e-governance. Additionally, e-services are becoming an integral component of governance in Namibia. However, more still needs to be done to ensure that e-services are inclusive, thus meeting the needs of intended users. In this paper, we highlight how government, developers, academia, corporate, and citizens can leverage on co-creation to design a wide range of e-services. Moreover, as a proof of concept, this paper refers to solutions developed during the 3rd Open & Big data innovation hackathon that was held at the Namibia Business Innovation Institute (NBII) in Windhoek, Namibia.

— Over the past few years, we have witnessed a paradigm shift in the way public data is administered. The need to effectively manage public data has led to an increased adoption of open data initiatives by many governments. Open data is an initiative that advocates for public data to be freely available for all to use and redistribute without restrictions. However, lack of awareness about opportunities and the benefits of open data among citizens, as well as the steadfastness of governments to control certain public data are some of the challenges facing open data initiatives. Nevertheless, high mobile internet penetration and the effectiveness of persuasive computing present an opportunity to alleviate these challenges and unleash open data potential. Furthermore, the power of persuasive technologies such as mobile applications to influence and change user behaviours present even greater opportunities to create awareness on a larger scale. This study proposes a mobile application as a best practice example to increase awareness, persuade both government and citizens to change their attitudes towards open data and therefore increase the use of public data in Namibia. The developed mobile application using public bus stops geolocation data aims at improving access to public transportation services within the City of Windhoek. The obtained results show that the application could extract stops and routes, and schedule information from the database as well as display them to the user. However, the application could not track buses in real time.