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The concept of systems thinking has been difficult for most people to comprehend. Both terms “system” and “thinking” often bring different understanding to people. The common associations with systems are computer systems and management control systems.

With emerging technological trends, it imperative to understand how Ethics influence our technological future…

The research paper is written on the value of Health Information Technology. The paper outlines the need to enhance the quality of health care provision as one of the global development goals.

Software evolution refers to the change a software undergoes over a period. The change may include maintenance, refactoring and re-engineering. The concept of software evolution dated as far back as the late 1960s and it encompasses the processes by which programs are modified and how these programs adapt to changes in the environment.

The webinar is based on the growing importance of critical thinking in IT education. The writer highlighted in the webinar how criticisms are levelled against IT education that the skills learnt in IT could be out of date by the time the student is out of school.

Software engineers often face challenges with performing design and development of software systems especially on a large scale. In order to aid the engineer, software development activities have been formulated as optimization problems enabling the use of metaheuristic search methods.

Mobile technology known as Mhealth is transforming the health system of African countries.  The technology known as Mhealth has strengthened the health system in both rural and urban areas in the low-income countries.

Nigeria which is one of the most populated African nations has one of the highest infant and maternal mortality rate in the world. The maternal mortality ratio is 576 out of 100,000 live births (Turner, 2016). Most of the deaths are due to delays within the health system especially in the rural areas which suffer from staff shortage and poor facilities.

Mobile technology is a powerful technological means of offering support to health care patients. Health care providers need to communicate with the public constantly on the need to make healthy life choices.

The use of mobile devices has become increasingly common and indispensable in this technological era. The portability of mobile devices coupled with the convenience of connecting to online services, facilitating monetary transactions as well as transferring personal data has necessitated the use of mobile devices for secure access control.

In the past five years there has been a dramatic increase in work on Search-Based Software Engineering (SBSE), an approach to Software Engineering (SE) in which Search-Based Optimization (SBO) algorithms are used to address problems in SE. SBSE has been applied to problems throughout the SE lifecycle, from requirements and project planning to maintenance and reengineering.

Cybersecurity is a critical concern for governments, organizations, and individuals worldwide. This white paper provides a comprehensive overview of the state of cyber security in Africa with a specific focus on Ghana.