Irene MbarikaICT University | ICT
Irene Mbarika
Doctor of Philosophy
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Dr. Mbarika's research interest is in educational technology and its application in developing countries and cultural issues and how they shape higher education. She is comfortable with qualitative and quantitative methods and has also done some work with mixed methods research.
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The study involved a survey of Ugandan small and medium enterprises that develop software on critical factors influencing the adoption of Software Capability Maturity Model. The research examined the software development environment in these Small and Medium Enterprises and the operational tenets of the Software Capability Maturity Modeling in orde...
Despite the numerous benefits of Requirements Engineering Process Improvement, many Ugandan software developing companies seem not to properly conduct it. This has implications on the quality of software being produced by these organizations. Moreover, little research has been conducted to establish the challenges being faced by the Small and Mediu...
Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) lags behind the rest of the world in education. Less than 25% of qualified high school graduates in this region won’t make it to the university level, mainly because most countries within
the region have fewer than three universities. Furthermore, alternatives to universities, such as two-year colleges and training programs...
It might come as a surprise that sub-Saharan Africa is now the world's fastest growing wireless market. The rate of growth for the entire continent has been more than 58% per year, compared with the almost 22% annual growth rate in America. This development is primarily attributed to the fact that Africa's landline networks and institutions are ina...
The sub-Saharan Africa, with 34 of the 50 poorest countries on Earth, is now the world's fastest-growing wireless market. The main reason for this that Africa's national telecommunications monopolies are poorly managed and corrupt, and they can't afford to lay new lines or maintain old ones. The African cellphone revolution thrives on a combination...
The Internet in developing countries grew substantially in recent years. Given the large income disparities and low telephone penetration. rates in most Latin American countries, only about 4% of the region's population can access the Internet. The International Telecommunication Union reports that teledensity (the number of telephone land-lines pe...
