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Guest editorial: SAICSIT 2019 special issue

Abstract:

In this special issue, we feature selected papers from the 2018 South African Institute of Computer Scientists and Information Technologists Research (SAICSIT 2018) conference, hosted by Nelson Mandela University at the Boardwalk International Convention Centre in Port Elizabeth on 26 to 28 September 2018. The authors of ten of the best SAICSIT papers were invited to submit extended versions of their research for this Special Issue. Two rounds of reviewing resulted in the six papers published here. The paper by Henri Knoesen and Lisa F Seymour presents an investigation into the factors which impact the adoption of mobile enterprise applications (MEASs). Understanding these factors are important to understand in order to translate their value to improving business performance. The authors present a conceptual model, making use of a survey and qualitative analysis to examine the factors influencing the adoption of three MEAs in the insurance industry. Their findings highlight the importance of willingness to fund devices based on the adoption by users and the importance of job relevance and location dependency on the usefulness of the MEAs. Yusuf Moosa Motara and Karl Van der Schyff present a paper that proposes and evaluates an alternative ontology of information systems. An information system ontology represents a way in which knowledge claims and theories are conceptualised and represented. Their proposed ontology is based on theory description, a method presented as more expressive than the dominant ontological model.