Browsing by Author "Yonah, Zaipuna"
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Analysis of Factors for the Uncorrelated Relationship between the Broadband Internet Initiatives against Broadband Adoption for Rural Areas in Low and Middle-Income Countries: A Case of Tanzania
Kalula, Sadiki; Dida, Mussa; Yonah, Zaipuna (International Journal of Advances in Scientific Research and Engineering (ijasre), 2022-01)As evident as the contribution of broadband internet in developed countries’ economies has been, many developing countries have taken initiatives to exploit the same. However, the efforts are not reflected in the rural ... -
Application of Multiple Unsupervised Models to Validate Clusters Robustness in Characterizing Smallholder Dairy Farmers
Nyambo, Devotha; Luhanga, Edith; Yonah, Zaipuna; Mujibi, Fidalis (Hindawi The Scientific World Journal, 2019-01-02)The heterogeneity of smallholder dairy production systems complicates service provision, information sharing, and dissemination of new technologies, especially those needed to maximize productivity and profitability. In ... -
Applying Theory of Planned Behavior to Examine Users' Intention to Adopt Broadband Internet in Lower-Middle Income Countries' Rural Areas: A Case of Tanzania
Kalula, Sadiki; Dida, Mussa; Yonah, Zaipuna (Korea Institute of Science and Technology Information, 2024-03-30)Broadband Internet has proven to be vital for economic growth in developed countries. Developing countries have implemented several initiatives to increase their broadband access. However, its full potential can only be ... -
An Approach for Systematically Analyzing and Specifying Security Requirements for the Converged Web-Mobile Applications
Nyambo, Devotha; Yonah, Zaipuna; Tarimo, Charles (Scientific Publishing Center, 2014-09-01)As the use of web and mobile applications is becoming pervasive for service delivery and user mobility support, enterprises are now increasingly fighting against a huge number of emerging security threats which interfere ... -
External Services and their Integration as a Requirement in Developing a Mobile Framework to Support Farming as a Business via Benchmarking: The Case of NM-AIST
Kyaruzi, John; Yonah, Zaipuna; Swai, Hulda; Nyambo, Devotha (TRANSACTIONS ON MACHINE LEARNING AND ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE, 2020-10-30)Research on agricultural and rural development (ARD) systems in general, and farming as a business (FAAB) in particular, face the limitation of availability of credible and reliable benchmarking data, both for on-farm ... -
How Information Communication Technology Can Enhance Evidence-Based Decisions and Farm-to-Fork Animal Traceability for Livestock Farmers
Mwanga, Gladness; Mbega, Ernest; Yonah, Zaipuna; Chagunda, Gift (Hindawi, 2020-12-17)Due to changes in the livestock sector and the rise of consumer demand for comprehensive and integrated food security and safety, there has been a concern on the use of farm data in enhancing animal traceability and ... -
Machine learning models for predicting the use of different animal breeding services in smallholder dairy farms in Sub-Saharan Africa.
Mwanga, Gladness; Lockwood, Sarah; Mujibi, D F N; Yonah, Zaipuna; Chagunda, M G G (Springer Nature Switzerland AG., 2020-05-01)This study is concerned with developing predictive models using machine learning techniques to be used in identifying factors that influence farmers' decisions, predict farmers' decisions, and forecast farmers' demands ... -
Mobile application development framework to support farming as a business via benchmarking: the case of Tanzania
Kyaruzi, John; Yonah, Zaipuna; Swai, Hulda (International Journal of Advanced Computer Research (IJACR), 2019-11)Contributions from various researchers and scholars have made major advances relevant to a wide range of mobile applications at various scales. Although current agricultural and rural development (ARD) systems have features ... -
On the Identification of Required Security Controls Suitable for Converged Web and Mobile Applications
Nyambo, Devotha; Yonah, Zaipuna; Tarimo, Charles (International Journal of Computing and Digital Systems, 2016-01-01)Contemporary development of information systems for service delivery is at the present a matter of bringing together use of web and mobile applications. However, this advancement in the field of computing is happening at ... -
Review of Agricultural and Rural Development System Models and Frameworks to Support Farming as a Business via Benchmarking: The Case of Tanzania
Kyaruzi, John; Yonah, Zaipuna; Swai, Hulda (International Journal of Computing and Digital Systems, 2019-11)This paper presents a review of the current state of agricultural and rural development (ARD) system frameworks, focusing on their capabilities and limitations to support farming-as-a-business via benchmarking (FAABB). ... -
Review of Agricultural and Rural Development System Models and Frameworks to Support Farming as a Business via Benchmarking: The Case of Tanzania
Kyaruzi, John; Yonah, Zaipuna; Swai, Hulda (International Journal of Computing and Digital Systems, 2019-11-01)This paper presents a review of the current state of agricultural and rural development (ARD) system frameworks, focusing on their capabilities and limitations to support farming-as-a-business via benchmarking (FAABB). ... -
A Review of Characterization Approaches for Smallholder Farmers: Towards Predictive Farm Typologies.
Nyambo, Devotha; Luhanga, Edith; Yonah, Zaipuna (Hindawi, 2019-05-22)Characterization of smallholder farmers has been conducted in various researches by using machine learning algorithms, participatory and expert-based methods. All approaches used end up with the development of some subgroups ...