Access coverage for remote connectivity framework (ACRCF): Facilitating scholarship awarding in Namibia
| dc.contributor.author | Ndiwakalunga, Immanuel O. | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2016-05-19T13:50:40Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2016-05-19T13:50:40Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2015 | |
| dc.description | A thesis submitted in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the Degree of Master of Science in Information Technology | en_US |
| dc.description.abstract | The corporate world was faced with the challenge of community development. As a result, Namibian companies have been offering scholarships to assist students as best as they can. It was however an insurmountable task to assist the populace without clarity of information or background knowledge. Consequently, the selection of students for scholarships was arguably questionable. Some students awarded scholarships were from rural areas and others from urban areas. However, notice had to be taken of those students in remote area schools where connectivity was lacking. In this age of growing technology, solutions to the dilemma of leaving out worthy students for scholarships should be available with the use of Long Term Evolution (LTE) technologies. The LTE powered technologies would provide seamless interlinking of remote students to the scholarship providers. LTE technologies based on the Access Coverage Remote Connectivity Framework (ACRCF) proposed in this study would deal with the high quality content requirements. The technology would provide a feasible service for the provision of improved interview sessions between students and sponsor selection panels. The interview panels would not have to request students to travel long distances to the interview venues, hence saving travel costs and time by ensuring students are interviewed economically. Interviews would be able to take place over Voice over Internet Protocol (VoiP) and other interfaces under the ACRCF infrastructure. The sponsors would be able to access student information readily at their fingertips through the providence of high quality presented student data on a website maintained under the ACRCF infrastructure. Terminals would be placed at the various remote schools to ensure that student data was updated and ready for use as required. These nodes at the various remote schools would hence be updated with all the student records at the specific remote schools to ensure that there was up-to-date data on the systems at the click of a button. A qualitative research approach was undertaken for the purposes of the study to explore the derivations from case studies. Interviews were held with various sponsors and students to confirm the current state of affairs. They were also held to establish the need for the ACRCF infrastructure to link sponsors to the remote students to improve the scholarship selection process. A quantitative research approach was used in the form of questionnaires handed out to various sponsoring institutions for sampling purposes. The data was analysed with use of the SPSS statistical software program. The findings indicated that selections for scholarships had a need to be improved in the area of equitability. Equitable selection would provide equal opportunities for all students whether in resource rich town centres, rural or remote areas. | en_US |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/11070/1671 | |
| dc.language.iso | en | en_US |
| dc.subject | Access coverage | en_US |
| dc.subject | Remote connectivity | en_US |
| dc.subject.lcsh | Computer network architectures | |
| dc.title | Access coverage for remote connectivity framework (ACRCF): Facilitating scholarship awarding in Namibia | en_US |
| dc.type | Thesis | en_US |