WELCOME TO THE INSTITUTE FOR ICT ADVANCEMENT (IICTA)
The Institute for ICT Advancement (IICTA) is a formal research institute that resorts in the Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University School of Information and Communication Technology.
IICTA is a multi-disciplinary institute, supervising and facilitating multidisciplinary research into information and communication technology in government, business and society. The IICTA website serves as an on-line platform to make all the members and their research publications accessible to the greater research community.
IICTA consists of 5 main research groups:
Information Security Management and Governance is one of the most important assets in any organization today. For this reason, it is important that information and its related information technologies are properly protected and secured. The protection of these assets is a multi-dimensional discipline involving, amongst others technical, managerial, legal, best practices, auditing, certification, and compliance.
Enterprise Knowledge Engineering focuses on enterprise knowledge management and engineering, with a special focus on the human factors issues (societal, indigenous knowledge, human-technology interaction, technology acceptance, knowledge sharing, organizational issues, and advanced skills development) over and above the technological issues.
The Group employs the principles of systems thinking to analyse enterprise knowledge domains and to propose appropriate technologies for supporting knowledge capturing, preservation and dissemination.
Health Informatics is a vibrant and topical area, which addresses the resources and methods that are used to optimize the acquisition, processing and application of health-related information and the systems that help one achieve this.
There are many areas of interest that can be researched, such as public health informatics, health informatics law, security and privacy in health informatics, health informatics standards and consumer health informatics.The goal of the usability and user experience is to ensure that the products are easy and logical to use and that they provide a positive emotional experience to the user.
Usability refers to the product's ability to fulfill target user's goals and needs with effectiveness and efficiency in a specified context of use. Usability is a characteristic of the entire system.
End-to-end service design. IT serves business. We investigate how IT is integrated and managed to provide a better service to business needs.
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