Browsing by Author "Kibukamusoke, Martha"

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    Information Communication Technology for enhanced credit Facilitation decisions for Agricultural Cooperatives in Uganda
    (International Journal of Technology and Management, 2019) Ahabyoona, Faith; Lubega, Jude T.; Kibukamusoke, Martha
    This paper unveils that problem grounded Information Communication Technology based solutions (ICTs) can enhance credit facilitation decision making that can ultimately improve financial Performance in Agricultural Cooperatives. This paper is motivated by two issues. Firstly, that the current financial performance measured in terms of loan portfolio, liquidity ratio and non-repayable loans is a result of decisions made in credit facilitation by cooperative managers in Uganda. Secondly that Information Communication Technology can provide an innovative mechanism which is theoretically grounded, and can improve the way of working of credit facilitation in agricultural cooperatives. This innovative ICT mechanism is called a Decision Enhancement Credit Facilitation Approach (DECFA) which is capable of enhancing the decisions of the credit facilitation process. The design of the DECFA was two- folded that is translating credit facilitation decision challenges into credit facilitation decision requirements. The requirements were translated into case scenarios which were presented as user case diagrams. These user case diagrams were translated into suites that were implemented in a studio environment. The design of the user case diagrams was done using the Unified Modified Language (UML). A fully designed DECFA can enhance credit facilitation decisions in agricultural cooperatives and it’s supported by information communication technology.
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    Leveraging Social Media in Higher Education: A Case of Universities in Uganda
    (European Journal of Open, Distance and E-learning, 2019) Mirembe, Drake Patrick; Lubega, Jude T.; Kibukamusoke, Martha
    Social media platforms have transformed the way we live and work. These platforms have opened up new opportunities for service provisioning and business models. Therefore, this paper presents findings of how leading Ugandan Universities are integrating social media in the teaching and learning processes. The researchers adopted a multi-methodology research approach which involved; collecting, analysing and integrating quantitative (surveys) and qualitative (focus group discussions and interviews) research methods. A total of 300 respondents were targeted (students and lecturers) of which 250 responded (196 male and 54 female). The respondents from Makerere University, Uganda technology and Management University (UTAMU) and Makerere University Business School. The results of the study indicated that majority (94.8%) of the respondents use WhatsApp, 86.5% Facebook, 82.1% YouTube, 53.8% Twitter, 39.8% Instagram and 9.2% snapchat. It was observed that 225 about 91.1% of student’s use social media for learning purposes. A total of 238 respondents use smartphones to access social media. While majority of students on social media platforms use these platforms for learning purposes, majority of lecturers (37.6%) never engage students on social media. Therefore, there is a mismatch on social media usage between students and lectures and this calls for the development of social media policies at universities to promote and guide the integration of these platforms in the teaching and learning processes.
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    Management of Credit Facilitation for Agricultural Cooperatives in Uganda: evidence From a Collaborative Approach
    (BANKERS, 2021) Ahabyoona Mugisha, Faith; Lubega, Jude T.; Kibukamusoke, Martha
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    Using ICTs to enhance duty bearer accountability and transparency to citizens in Eastern and Northern Uganda
    (International Journal of Information Technology, Communications and Convergence, 2019) Mirembe, Drake Patrick; Lubega, Jude T.; Kibukamusoke, Martha
    This article explores the use of ICTs to enhance engagement between citizens and leaders in Eastern and Northern Uganda. It highlights how ICT empowers citizens to demand accountability and transparency from leaders. The key objective was to establish the extent to which the use of ICT promoted leaders responsiveness to citizens’ concerns about accountability and transparency. A participatory action research was used through key informant interviews, focus group discussions and survey targeting 180 citizens and leaders. Findings show that nearly 83.1% of the citizens (108 of the 120 who responded to the question) do use ICT to engage duty bearers on government programmes and accountability issues and the most commonly used ICTs by citizens to engage with leaders are mobiles phones (about 83.1%) and radios (64.6%). It was clear that use of ICT does indeed improve leader responsiveness to citizen concerns.