1.8.1 Research Contributions Table 1.1: Linking DSR activities with thesis chapters Table 1.2: Cluster, Random Sample and Sample example for Secondary Schools Table 1.4: Data collection tool, participants and their number .7 Semi-structured interviews Table 1.5: Objectives, Research questions, Data collection instruments, sources of data and 2.10 Significance of the study Figure 2.1: Cellphone Ownership, adapted from the Pew Research Centre, 2014 irtually reaching most parts of Africa redefining communication and information access Figure 2.3: Financial inclusion, by Potraz, 2015 and FinMark Trust, 2015 ommunities of Zimbabwe, as shown in the figure 2.3. Figure 3.1: Distribution of fixed landlines, by POTRAZ, 2015 urban areas and stood at 75% in rural areas (Lancaster, 2016). Table 4.1: Overview of the four research philosophies (Saunders, Lewis, & Thornhill, 2009; chosen paradigm and logical steps taken to complete the research. 4.2 Research paradigms Figure 4.3: Evaluating the mobile phone application 4.7 Activity 6: Communication 4.4.8 Research Contributions Figure 4.5: TAM2 (Adapted from Venkatesh and Davis 2000) Relationship between TAM? constructs, baseline and artefact evaluation questionnaire 4.7 Mobile phone application design Figure 4.6: Southern Africa map showing Zimbabwe’s Matabeleland South Province 4.11 Sampling frame and sample solicit information that will be used to design the mobile phone application. A sampling frame is a complete list of all possible cases within the study population and, for Table 4.4: Activity, sampling technique and justification As shown in table 4.5, cluster sampling was used to group all of the secondary schools in the Table 4.5: Using cluster sampling to select secondary schools Table 4.6: Using random sampling to select wards Table 4.7: Using random sampling to select Secondary schools Table 4.8: Using cluster and random sampling in clinics Table 4.9: Using random sampling to select clinics 4.13 Research instrument Table 5.2: Cronbalch alpha measurement 5.5 Data analysis technique 5.5.3 Level of education Research revealed that 75% of respondents had attained a secondary school education, 16.8% 3.5.4 Ownership of ICTs Table 5.5: Level of education The respondents indicated which ICT devices that they owned and, for 95%, it was a mobile Table 5.7: Mobile phones’ ease of use 5.6 Accessing socioeconomic information Table 5.10: Access to news 5.6.4 Accessing national or current news 5.6.5 Accessing agricultural information Table 5.14: Difficulties faced before mobile phones 5.6.8 Challenges addressed by the mobile phone Table 5.18: Issues that hinder uptake and use of ICTs in rural areas 5.6.11 Frequency of mobile internet usage 5.6.12 Applications downloaded Table 5.20: Frequency of mobile internet usage Figure 5.2: Most downloaded mobile applications 5.6.14 Infrastructure’s main use Table 5.21: Do you think infrastructure is adequate? Table 5.22: Infrastructure’s major use 5.6.15 Type of data connection Table 5.25: Factors influencing choice of MNO 5.6.17 Importance of news sources Table 5.26: How do you view access to the following media? 5.6.18 Accessibility and availability of media Table 5.27: Rate accessibility and availability of media 5.6.19 Hindrance to ICT uptake Figure 6.1: Overview of the data gathering, design and development of the application shown in figure 6.3, where Google portrays high level of consistency across its product babili komba woga tjowuluka’”’. The layout of the home screen is shown in figure 6.4. in the stack overlap to the nearest layers. 6.14.1 RESTful “comments” is a view created in the database for viewing articles that have been created. \ll articles published on the app will be stored in this database. From the database schema, Table 6.2: Mobile application API Routes flip-board and then refined. The questions and responses are summarised in appendix 6. Table 6.3: General topics and sub categories raised by participants Transforming the paper based prototype the application as shown in table 6.4. incorporated. Figure 6.12: Mobile Application prototype version 2 —- Home screen Table 6.4: Functional requirements isfied with screens and the relevance of the content in enhancing access to information features which the users wanted versus what was technically feasible. Participants we 7.2 Pilot deployment ‘able 7.1: Demographics of the participants who evaluated the mobile phone application Table 7.3: Mobile Application evaluation scores 7.5.1 Functionality Please indicate the extent to which you rate the importance of the following: Please indicate the extent to which you rate the importance of the following: 13.4 If answer is No, what are the reasons?
