Comparative Analysis of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) Application by Male and Female Academics in Africa
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Journal of Information Engineering and Applications
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This study aims to investigate or verify whether gender affects the use of Information and Communication
Technology (ICT) facilities among academics. The study used a survey approach that involved questionnaires to
solicit data from 154 academics. For the past few years, an assortment of ICT facilities such as computers,
laptops, projectors, printers and many others have been available to academics for accessibility and use in
collaboration, teacher-student communication, online assignment, research, teaching and learning.
Using the t-test analysis, access rates and use of ICT among male and female academics was observed to be
insignificant. Again, the findings revealed a significant difference between male and female academics on ‘ICT
increasing collaboration with other tertiary faculty members’, ‘performing information/data management
activities’ and ‘accomplishing tasks more quickly’. Strategies have been suggested to utilize ICT in educational
institutions and these are improving on ICT infrastructure, provision of a policy environment, increasing Internet
bandwidth, providing alternative power supply, improving on ICT infrastructure, enhancing ICT training
programs, recruiting more ICT personnel and collaboration between academics and industry.
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Research Article