- Title
- Developing a help-desk system for a multi-purpose ICT platform in a marginalised setting
- Creator
- Makombe, Farai
- Subject
- Computer industry -- Customer services
- Subject
- Rural development projects -- South Africa -- Eastern Cape
- Subject
- Information technology -- South Africa -- Eastern Cape
- Subject
- Case-based reasoning
- Subject
- Telecommunication -- Technological innovations
- Date
- 2011
- Type
- Thesis
- Type
- Masters
- Type
- MSc (Computer Science)
- Identifier
- vital:11381
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/10353/315
- Identifier
- Computer industry -- Customer services
- Identifier
- Rural development projects -- South Africa -- Eastern Cape
- Identifier
- Information technology -- South Africa -- Eastern Cape
- Identifier
- Case-based reasoning
- Identifier
- Telecommunication -- Technological innovations
- Description
- Attempts to bridge the digital divide between urban and rural Information and Communications Technology (ICT) users have led to the deployment of ICT platforms in remote rural areas. This puts an increased demand for skilled support in rural ICT platforms to assist users in resolving technical problems that they face on a daily basis. A web based help desk system is developed and implemented to allow knowledge sharing and collaboration amongst users and experts as a way of ensuring the technical sustainability of the Siyakhula Living Lab, a remote rural based Information and Communications Technology (ICT4D) intervention. The research describes the use of Transactional and Innovation & Creative knowledge management strategies and their associated applications such as case-based reasoning (CBR) methods and collaborative knowledge approaches to develop a help desk support system for a geographically distributed multipurpose ICT centre in Dwesa, a rural remote area in the Eastern Cape Province, South Africa. The system implemented in this study has been validated for functional adequacy and usability within the Siyakhula Living Lab. The results of the evaluation are presented in this thesis to provide the initial validation of the effectiveness of the help desk system. Keywords: ICT4D, ICT, Case-Based Reasoning; Collaborative Knowledge, Technical Sustainability, Help Desk Systems, Siyakhula Living Lab Forums, Issue Tracking, Rural Users, South Africa
- Format
- 104 leaves; 30 cm
- Format
- Publisher
- University of Fort Hare
- Publisher
- Faculty of Science & Agriculture
- Language
- English
- Rights
- University of Fort Hare
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