Information Systems and their Effect on Organizational Performance: An Inquiry into Job Satisfaction and Commitment in Higher Education Institutions
Sergio Araya Guzmán, Patricia Figueroa Fóster, Patricio Ramírez-Correa, Elizabeth E. Grandón, Jorge Alfaro-Perez
Journal of Information Systems Engineering & Management, Volume 3, Issue 4, Article No: 26.
https://doi.org/10.20897/jisem/3937
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This work, which is a first advance of a project in development, presents a study whose objective is to establish if the success of information systems affects the job satisfaction and job commitment among the people, affecting the organizational performance considering as a study area the university education institutions. It is also analyzed if certain capacities associated with information systems can influence the success of these systems. To this end, surveys have been applied to non-academic professionals with at least one year of seniority in the institution and who use information systems as a support tool in their usual work. Given that this study is in the process of development, an analysis of the results obtained for 50 people surveyed from these institutions is presented. The analysis of results indicates that there are capacities associated with information systems that influence the success of these systems, and that this success affects job satisfaction and job commitment, and through the latter to organizational performance.
Keywords: information systems, university education institutions
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An ICT Based Solution for Pesticides Authenticity Verification: A Case of Tanzania
Catherine Cleophace Ngirwa, Mussa Ally
Journal of Information Systems Engineering & Management, Volume 3, Issue 4, Article No: 27.
https://doi.org/10.20897/jisem/3938
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Pesticides authenticity is important for human health and environmental protection also economic progress of users, dealers and the government benefits through levies. In order to ensure that authentic pesticides are sold in Tanzania, laws have been enacted and government bodies given mandate to enforce these laws. Despite the efforts, counterfeits are found in markets. Companies that spend a lot in research so as to produce authentic pesticides products end up losing hope as no substantial return in investment. This study targets on an ICT based solution for pesticides authenticity verification in the market which is a case study of Arusha region. In order to prove the need for the solution, literature review has been done and presentation of data gathered from the identified three groups of pesticides stakeholders, which are regulatory authority, registrants/formulators/importers and users preferably farmers all from Arusha region. The findings from the collected data reveals that, despite high awareness on availability of counterfeit pesticides among respondents, still most of them declared to have been buying counterfeits. Hence, there is a need of more reliable ICT based solution to help pesticides users in authenticity verification of products during purchase.
Keywords: ICT, pesticides, authentic pesticides, counterfeit pesticides, ODK
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Evaluation of the Implementation of the General Data Protection Regulation in Health Clinics
Isabel Maria Lopes, Pedro Oliveira
Journal of Information Systems Engineering & Management, Volume 3, Issue 4, Article No: 28.
https://doi.org/10.20897/jisem/3939
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The new General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) was approved on April 27 2016. The GDPR 2016/679 aims to ensure the coherence of natural persons’ protection within the European Union (EU), comprising very important innovative rules that will be applied across the EU and will directly affect every Member State. Furthermore, it aims to overcome the existing fragmented regulations and to modernise the principles of privacy in the EU. This regulation will come into force in May 2018, bringing along several challenges for citizens, companies and other private and public organisations. The protection of personal data is a fundamental right. The GDPR considers a ‘special category of personal data’, which includes data regarding health, since this is sensitive data and is therefore subject to special conditions regarding treatment and access by third parties. This premise provides the focus of this research work, where the implementation of the GDPR in health clinics in Portugal is analysed. The results are discussed in light of the data collected in the survey and possible future works are identified.
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Extension System for Improving the Management of Vegetable Cropping Systems
Theofrida J. Maginga, Thibault Nordey, Mussa Ally
Journal of Information Systems Engineering & Management, Volume 3, Issue 4, Article No: 29.
https://doi.org/10.20897/jisem/3940
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Horticulture as the part of agriculture sector plays the role for food security, economic growth and nutrition improvement. In developing countries where agriculture is regarded as the backbone of most countries’ economy it draws attention for most governments as the main source of employment and livelihood for the majority. Agricultural extension has been the key facilitator for achieving high crop productivity and an enabler to knowledge resources for these countries. However, lack of clear information for vegetable cultivations, crop requirements, climatic information, pests and diseases to constantly help farmers to come up with proper potential yield of the vegetable crops reduce the potential of horticulture in improving the farmers livelihood and countries economic gain , Therefore, this study aims at bringing the ICT- enabled extension support system for farmers to help them make decision on proper ways of cultivating their crops based on locations’ and timely climatic condition.
Keywords: extension system, web and mobile application, horticulture, vegetable cropping system
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GDPR Compliance in SMEs: There is much to be done
Maria da Conceição Freitas, Miguel Mira da Silva
Journal of Information Systems Engineering & Management, Volume 3, Issue 4, Article No: 30.
https://doi.org/10.20897/jisem/3941
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The obligatory adaptation of Organizations to the General Data Protection Regulation (EU) 2016/679 (GDPR), will imply a set of legal, technological and functional changes, with a direct impact on the daily life of Organizations as a result of their increased responsibility with data protection subjects that has been reinforced by the new legislation. On the other hand, the transfer of responsibilities from the national authorities to the Organizations obliges them to prove, at all times, full compliance with the legislation. Organizations are subject to heavy fines when a non-compliance is detected. This new reality is a challenge for any Organization, and in particular for small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), which have fewer human and financial resources to carry out the necessary measures to comply with legislation. In order to know how SMEs are preparing themselves, we have conducted face-to-face interviews with ten industrial SMEs. The main conclusion is that, given these companies' lack of awareness of their obligations and duties in relation to Personal Data Protection, it is urgent to define a methodology to be able to comply with GDPR.
Keywords: GDPR, personal data protection, SME, general data protection regulation (EU) 2016/679
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Evidence based Practices for Drug Abuse Information Management and Awareness Approaches
Joyce Philipo Mnunguli, Michael Kisangiri
Journal of Information Systems Engineering & Management, Volume 3, Issue 4, Article No: 31.
https://doi.org/10.20897/jisem/3942
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The harmful use of illicit drugs “Drug abuse” is the most frequent problem in the world. Khat, heroin, cocaine, cigarette and cannabis have been the most common used drugs in African countries, for instance Tanzania. Youth have been identified as the most vulnerable group and highly affected. Drug abuse results into economic, social and health effects including; mental retardation, lung diseases, heart diseases and Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV), disorders in adolescence, young adults and the general public. Several awareness and initiatives program were done by the government and private sectors in bringing awareness on the effects of drug abuse through community and school based education, distribution of brochures as well as media. However, in Tanzania, management of addict’s data, statistics about addicts, storage and accessibility of drug abuse information are conducted on paper based approaches resulting into several problems such as damage of data and loss of information, time consumption in data collection, delay in reporting, and difficulties in reaching the large number of people during awareness programs. This paper presents the evidence of practices, awareness and information management on drug abuse, case of Dar es Salaam and Arusha major cities in Tanzania, with web and mobile application designed solution for drug abuse data management and awareness creation.
Keywords: drug abuse, awareness, addict data collection, addict information management, drug addiction
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Federation of Attribute Providers for User Self-Sovereign Identity
Pedro Coelho, André Zúquete, Hélder Gomes
Journal of Information Systems Engineering & Management, Volume 3, Issue 4, Article No: 32.
https://doi.org/10.20897/jisem/3943
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In a world where people must subject themselves to high scrutiny in every process they initiate, and in a world where the digital environment grows incessantly, we anticipate more online services asking for personal attributes and their need to trust in such attributes. For tackling such need, we describe a proposal for a secure, decentralized and shared repository of certified personal attributes. Individuals benefit because they have full control over the disclosure of their set of certified attributes (e.g. to assert their identities to service providers). The certifying entities benefit from a blockchain-based, resilient and decentralized infrastructure, avoiding the higher costs of an always-on, centralized infrastructure, while retaining the power to issue and revoke certified attributes. Finally service providers benefit from the correctness and freshness of the certified attributes that individuals disclosed to them.
Keywords: self-sovereign identity, distributed ledger technology, personal attributes
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Introduction to the Analysis of Tourism Services through Feelings Mining
Hector F. Gomez, Edwin Fabricio Lozada, Carlos Eduardo Martínez, Freddy Patricio Baño, Gustavo Adolfo Álvarez, Walter V. Culque, Natalia Soledad Bustamante-Sánchez, Rosario Estefanía Sánchez Cevallos
Journal of Information Systems Engineering & Management, Volume 3, Issue 4, Article No: 33.
https://doi.org/10.20897/jisem/3944
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One of the sources of information to detect the level of customer satisfaction is the set of reviews they leave on websites such as Trip Advisor. A problem arises when there is a large number of reviews and administrators have difficulty identifying those that reflect the client's feelings from the reviews. For this study, some applications generated in the Python programming language were used in order to assign an excellent and bad criterion by adding a feeling textually. The Sentistrength classifier was also used, which analyzes text to return a value of positive or negative sentiment; these two contexts were used mathematically and statistically to obtain referential data based on an analysis of the ROC curve with values of true positives and true negatives as well as false positives and false negatives.
Keywords: tourism, semantic, orientation, opinion
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