Cloud SAMS: Cloud computing solution for public schools within South Africa's ‘second economy’

Citation:
"Cloud SAMS: Cloud computing solution for public schools within South Africa's ‘second economy’.". In: IST-Africa Week Conference, 2016 . Durban, South Africa ; 2016.

Date Presented:

11-13 May 2016

Abstract:

South Africa's education system is one of the most unique in the world; among other reasons for this, is the notion of ‘Second Economy” which the former president, Thabo Mbeki described in the “ANC Today, Letter from the President Characteristics of South Africa's first and third world economies” on 28th August 2003 [1]. The usage of this phrase (and its twin phrase; “two parallel economies”) in the context of the country is different from the conventional meaning found in Development Theory. It instead describes actual living conditions that affect more than one third of the South Africa's population - it is undeveloped, isolated from the first economy (and global economy), includes both urban and rural poor. Besides, this section of the society contributes very little to the country's economy ([2], [3] and [4]).
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Cloud computing, Education, Computational modeling, Delays, NIST, Software as a service

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