Papers by Bokolo Anthony Jnr.
Local Environment, 2024
People above 65 years of age, are confronted with several issues that limit
them from fully parti... more People above 65 years of age, are confronted with several issues that limit
them from fully participating in society and exercising their rights to
accessing the local environment. But older people’s ability to travel
independently and freely to participate in society is crucial for their
quality of life. The question of how to maintain mobility equity and
equality for older people is, however, a complex one. This is because
older people, especially those with disabilities, are often faced with
mobility exclusion due to physical barriers around the public
transportation and built environment. This has been further intensified
as existing mobility accessibility initiatives employed by municipalities
have not involved vulnerable groups in society such as older people.
Therefore, this study adopts a systematic literature review based on
data collected from 83 sources indexed in Scopus and Web of Science
database. The findings from this article present factors that influence
the local environment in achieving mobility equity and equality from
the perspectives of older people, living without and with disabilities.
Evidence from this study proposes guidelines grounded on a universal
design framework to help municipalities foster mobility equity and
equality for older people based on recommendations provided to
inform urban transport policies on universal accessibility.
Internet of Things, 2024
The society is witnessing an accelerated large-scale adoption of technology with transformative e... more The society is witnessing an accelerated large-scale adoption of technology with transformative effects on daily transport operations, with cities now depending on data driven mobility services. Disruptive technologies such as Artificial Intelligence (AI), the Internet of Things (IoT), and decentralized technologies for example Distributed Ledger Technologies (DLT) are being deployed in smart cities. However, AI is faced with data security and privacy issues due to its centralized mode of deployment. Conversely, DLT which employs a decentralized architecture can be converged with AI to provide a secure data sharing across various IoT thereby overcoming the existing setbacks faced in deploying AI in smart cities. Evidently, the convergence of AI and IoT as AIoT and DLT have great potential to create novel business models for improved data driven services such as intelligent mobility in smart cities. Although research on the convergence of AI, IoT and DLT exists, our understanding of its integration in achieving intelligent mobility services in smart cities remains fragmented as current research in this area remains scarce. This study bridges the gap between theory and practice by providing researchers and practitioners with insights on the potential benefits of converging AIoT and DLT. Grounded on the Technology Organization Environment (TOE) framework this study presents the technological, organizational, and environmental factors that impacts the convergence of AIoT and DLT in smart cities. Additionally, findings from this study present use cases on the applicability of AIoT and DLT to support intelligent mobility services in smart cities.
Renewable Energy Focus, 2024
Presently Rural Energy Communities (REC) are faced with challenges such as the inefficient distri... more Presently Rural Energy Communities (REC) are faced with challenges such as the inefficient distribution of energy from Renewable Energy Sources (RES), unfair pricing, and the inclusion of prosumers into the electricity market. Therefore, this article proposed an approach that employed enabling technologies such as Distributed Ledger Technologies (DLT), self-enforcing smart contracts-enabled Internet of Things (IoT), and Artificial Intelligence (AI) for sustainable energy sharing and tracking in REC. Additionally, a model is proposed based on key factors that influence the adoption of enabling technologies in REC. For the methodology qualitative data is collected from secondary sources and descriptive analysis is employed to present the key findings. Key findings from this study contributes to develop a decarbonized, decentralized, and digitized energy management approach to support the sustainability of REC. The deployment of AI can facilitate prediction short-term energy planning for RES production and consumption based on real-time data from IoT devices. More importantly, findings from this study presents use case scenarios of energy sharing and tracking, and green electric vehicle charging in REC suggesting that DLT based smart contracts, IoT, and AI offers an effective approach to accelerate the sharing and tracking of RES in REC. Besides, DLT and smart contracts enables real-time electricity consumption monitoring, energy trading management, and pricing.
Jurnal Teknologi, 2016
Recently, organisations have incorporated various methods into their business process in mitigati... more Recently, organisations have incorporated various methods into their business process in mitigating risk. Although, Information and Communication Technology (ICT) practitioners is not capable mitigate the identified risk systematically due to the high magnitude of loss caused by operational, technical and strategic risk. The ICT practitioners need to improve their ability to identify and mitigate the risks to ICT infrastructures. Besides that ICT practitioners in organization find it difficult to mitigate risks if they don’t utilize completely their knowledge. There is need for ICT practitioner to codify knowledge, especially through the development of policies and practices to guide decision makers in mitigate risk in their organizations. The aim of this paper is to develop a process model for capturing, storing, disseminating and utilizing risk knowledge of knowledge-based supporting ICT practitioners to make decisions. Quantitative research methodology was adopted for reviewing o...
CITIES, 2024
The role of prosumers who are consumers who produce, store, and consume energy is vital to the up... more The role of prosumers who are consumers who produce, store, and consume energy is vital to the uptake of renewable energies in Local Energy Communities (LEC). However, the integration of prosumers in the smart grid to facilitate bidirectional flows of energy and information depends on intelligent operations of energy systems and flexible structures of the existing energy markets. But existing energy trading mechanisms are faced with issues of trust, privacy, security, and energy pricing determination. Also, there are fewer studies based on a citizen-centric prosumer approach. Thus, there is need to provide reliable solutions that addresses the aforementioned challenges faced by prosumers in LEC. Advancements in disruptive technologies, such as Distributed Ledger Technologies (DLT), Artificial Intelligence (AI), and the Internet of Things (IoT) have transformed a broad spectrum of intelligent systems in smart cities. Therefore, this study examines the integration of AI and IoT as AIoT and DLT towards a citizen-centric prosumer approach for decentralized energy markets trading. Additionally, this article develops an architectural model for energy prosumption in LEC using design science approach based on a user-centred design method that shows a possible implementation concept to support energy sharing and trading in LEC. The architectural model supports trust, data privacy, security, and energy pricing determination using AI and smart contracts to provides real-time energy trading monitoring, easy access, control, and immutable logs to unearth underlying energy demand and supply patterns thereby supporting citizen-centric prosumer approach. Finally, a use case scenario of DLT and AIoT for prosumption operations is presented.
Tehnicki vjesnik - Technical Gazette, 2019
Sustainability is a concern that has been raised in many domains especially in institutions of hi... more Sustainability is a concern that has been raised in many domains especially in institutions of higher learning such as universities. Hence, universities are implementing Green practices to promote sustainability. Similarly Green practice implementation in universities for attaining sustainability has been the priority for most universities across the world, mainly in ensuring the effectiveness and efficiency of Information Technology (IT) related service. Over the years, a few approaches have been developed to facilitate Green practice in institutions of higher learning, however these approaches are not autonomous and do not provide adequate information on Green implementation initiatives. Moreover, institutions of higher learning utilize manual checklist assessment questionnaire to evaluate their current Green practice. Therefore, this study proposes a system model that integrates hybrid multi-agent and Case Based Reasoning (CBR). The CBR technique facilitates Green implementation by providing information on how institution of higher learning can adopt Green practices initiative, whereas software agents autonomously assess the current Green practice initiative implemented in institutions of higher learning. Findings from this paper show how the hybrid multi-agent and CBR aid universities implement Green practice for sustainability attainment in institutions of higher learning.
International Journal of Human–Computer Interaction, 2024
Intelligent Conversational Voice-assistants (ICV) can interpret the speech of human and respond b... more Intelligent Conversational Voice-assistants (ICV) can interpret the speech of human and respond back using synthesized voices and are increasingly employed for interacting with different applications. ICV offers promising tool to address the increasing mobility accessibility challenge faced by older people. Yet, irrespective of the increased ageing population, studies that employed ICV to improve the mobility, walkability, and wayfinding of older people are scarce. This is because the development of ICV in the mobility domain presents several designs, technical, and linguistic challenges. A systematic literature review was adopted grounded on secondary data from the literature and descriptive analysis was employed. Grounded on user-centred design perspective based on the "ability-based design framework" and "ISO 9241-110 framework for ergonomics of human-system interaction." Therefore, this study describes the requirement specifications needed to design an ICV suitable for supporting the mobility behavior of older people. Findings from this paper identifies the perceived factors that influences the use of ICV by older people. Additionally, findings from this study discusses how ICV that simulates human-like behavior can provide personalized mobility, walkability, and wayfinding guide when older people walk in cities. This study provides recommendations for the implementation of a user-centred ICV for safe, independent, accessible mobility for older people in urban environment.
AI & SOCIETY, 2024
Voice-assistants are becoming increasingly popular and can be deployed to offers a low-cost tool ... more Voice-assistants are becoming increasingly popular and can be deployed to offers a low-cost tool that can support and potentially reduce falls, injuries, and accidents faced by older people within the age of 65 and older. But, irrespective of the mobility and walkability challenges faced by the aging population, studies that employed Artificial Intelligence (AI)-based voice-assistants to reduce risks faced by older people when they use public transportation and walk in built environment are scarce. This is because the development of AI-based voice-assistants suitable for the mobility domain presents several techno–social challenges. Accordingly, this study aims to identify user-centered service design and functional requirements, techno–social factors, and further design an architectural model for an AI-based voice-assistants that provide personalized
recommendation to reduce falls, injuries, and accidents faced by older people. Accordingly, a scoping review of the literature grounded on secondary data from 59 studies was conducted and descriptive analysis of the literature and content-related analysis of the literature was carried out. Findings from this study presents the perceived techno-socio factors that may influences older people use of AI-based voice-assistants. More importantly, this study presents user-centred service design and
functional requirements needed to be considered in developing voice assistants suitable for older people. Implications from this study provides AI techniques for implementing voice-assistants that provide safe mobility, walkability, and wayfinding for older people in urban areas
Enterprise Information Systems, 2024
Presently to achieve enterprise digitalization technologies such as Distributed Ledger Technologi... more Presently to achieve enterprise digitalization technologies such as Distributed Ledger Technologies (DLT) has now been deployed to support digital services provided by enterprises. But several challenges in DLTs remain to be addressed, including the interoperability, standardization, and integration. Therefore, this study provides theoretical and practical understanding of DLT interoperability and identified the factors that influence the interoperability of DLTs. Also, an architecture is designed to shows how interoperability can be achieved in DLTs and legacy systems supported by Application Programming Interface (API). A case study is presented to illustrate the applicability of the architecture to support a digital energy marketplace.
Journal of Engineering and Technology Management, 2020
This study investigates the perception of Information Technology (IT) professionals and IT manage... more This study investigates the perception of Information Technology (IT) professionals and IT managers towards deployment of environmental-friendly practices in Collaborative Enterprise (CE). Through literature review this study develops a model based on Perceived Organizational e-Readiness Theory (POER) and Process-Virtualization-Theory (PVT) to investigate the factors that influence IT professionals' and IT managers intention to deploy Green IT/IS practices which are based on the current environmental-friendly initiatives deployed in CE. Data was collected using questionnaire and results indicate that the POER factors influence CE's perception towards Green IT/IS. Moreover, results also reveal that PVT initiatives are influenced by the current environmental-friendly initiatives. waste generation (Ardito et al., 2019b). It was maintained that Green IT/IS practice in CE possess the prospective to decrease 3% of the total global CO 2 emission by 2020 by encouraging non-wasteful initiatives as well as the efficient use of IT infrastructures. Accordingly, this study focuses on CEs in Malaysia, due to the fact that CEs in Malaysia are deploying environmental-friendly initiatives in an attempt to achieve sustainability towards reducing Greenhouse gases emission by 40 percent by 2030 (Anthony et al., 2018. Moreover, Malaysian CEs are committed to contribute towards the reduction of negative effects imposed on the natural environment caused by societal daily activities by implementing environmental management standards such as ISO 14001 Jr et al., 2017a. ISO 14001 supports Malaysia CEs in attaining environmental targets Jr et al., 2017b).
Journal of science & technology policy management, Jun 3, 2019
PurposeThe purpose of this study is to identify the key Green information technology (IT) compone... more PurposeThe purpose of this study is to identify the key Green information technology (IT) components needed to be considered by government-based institutions and to develop a Green policy framework based on the identified Green IT components to facilitate government-based institutions achieve sustainability.Design/methodology/approachThe Green policy framework and associated propositions are developed to facilitate government-based institutions achieve sustainability. In addition, a case study approach was adopted to verify the proposed framework based on data collected from open-ended interviews and sustainability report documents from two government-based institutions in Malaysia. Furthermore, the collected data were analyzed based on content analysis using descriptive and narrative method to present the findings of Green IT components adopted in the selected case studies.FindingsFindings show that sustainability considerations are increasingly being deliberated in institutions. Moreover, finding from the analyzed data also indicates that there is an increased interest towards implementation of Green IT initiatives for developing, operating and usage by practitioners and staff within government-based institutions.Research limitations/implicationsFindings from this study suggest that the Green policy framework components have implications to support only government-based institutions address environmental, social and economic-related issues.Practical implicationsThe developed Green IT components serve as robust indicators or constructs to measure management of Green IT initiatives currently being implemented and thereby provide a framework for sustainability committee members to benchmark their current Green IT practice.Social implicationsThis study provides an agenda to guide government-based institutions achieve sustainability goals. Accordingly, government-based institutions can adopt the framework’s components to evaluate their progress, hence improving their target of attaining sustainability. Besides, this research provides an approach for assessing current practices adopted in government-based institutions against the Green IT components.Originality/valueThe originality of this study is attributed to the fact that this study presents Green IT policy framework to be considered by government-based institutions in achieving sustainability. The framework provides an agenda to simultaneously consider all three dimensions of sustainability the people, planet and profit (social, environment and economic). Moreover, this is one of the first studies to explore Green IT practices in government-based institutions.
Advanced Science Letters, Feb 1, 2018
IT industry is facing risks that make IT projects not able reach the scheduled and quality. There... more IT industry is facing risks that make IT projects not able reach the scheduled and quality. Therefore, there is an important for risk mitigation in IT Governance to support IT team. Risk mitigation provides expert assistance during IT project activities in supporting team members and decision makers to identify risks associated with in IT process by providing risk documentation of probability and impact of IT risks. Risk mitigation introduces risk advice and designing appropriate strategic alternatives to treat the risk by providing support for the reuse of knowledge. There are, numerous studies have been suggested for seeing the issues in risk mitigation. This paper is a contribution to study on implementation of risk mitigation people management, process management, technology management and quality management involved in IT Governance. The findings of this review indicate that there are some limitations experienced by IT practitioners in mitigating risk effectively.
2017 8th International Conference on Information Technology (ICIT)
The present need for software organizations to seamlessly carryout software development objective... more The present need for software organizations to seamlessly carryout software development objectives and aims results to significant high cost of electricity usage and the emission of CO2 in the environment and climate. Therefore there is need for software practitioners to adopt sustainable practices in software development process, when they utilized software to lessen electricity usage and reduce CO2 emission. Sustainable practice adoption is an attempt for software practitioners to tackle the current climatic problem, and can also improve the economic performance of software organizations. Software practitioners' adoption of sustainable practices is beneficial to the society, climate and humanity. Existing approaches mainly focus on achieving sustainability when software practitioners develop software. Thus this paper contributes to sustainability research by presenting a model that offers an understanding of how software practitioners can adopt sustainable practices when they utilize software applications in software process. Findings from this paper show how Green practices can be diffused by software practitioners when they utilize software application in software organizations.
2018 21st Saudi Computer Society National Computer Conference (NCC), 2018
Research and development related to smart city is evolving as a response to the issues faced by c... more Research and development related to smart city is evolving as a response to the issues faced by cities mostly in developing countries. However, prior studies are mostly focused on technical perspective which alone cannot lead to a sustainable society. Accordingly, this study develops a trivial approach that identifies crucial dimensions to be considered in achieving and improving city potential in being a smart city. Moreover, a qualitative research method was adopted by carrying out a single case study to confirm the identified dimensions. The data was collected through archival research technique and semistructured interviews from practitioners based in Malaysia. Findings from this study indicate that cities should incorporates governance, mobility, living, facilities, services, environmental, social, economic, technologies and information to achieve a sustainable, prosperous and inclusive future for its citizens. Significantly, the developed trivial approach can be adopted by sustainable city managers in planning, designing, deploying and monitoring of sustainable city goals towards a sustainable society for future generations to come.
International Journal of Software Engineering and Computer Systems, 2017
As software organizations try to mitigate operational and technical risk that occurs when using s... more As software organizations try to mitigate operational and technical risk that occurs when using software, there is need to develop a knowledge intensive system to assist team members in mitigating both operational and technical risk. Knowledge mapping in risk mitigation context is in its infancy and has the potential to address both operational and technical risk faced by software organizations. However, as the amount and depth of organizational knowledge increases, it poses some challenges to software organizations. The key challenges for knowledge intensive organizations are how to identify, assimilate, disseminate, and apply these risk knowledge; particularly between different team members in same software development project. Thus this paper proposes a knowledge mapping process model to assist in mitigating risk (operational and technical) that occurs in software organizations. Knowledge mapping is the field within Knowledge Management (KM) that aims to optimize the efficient and effective use of the organization's knowledge. The mapping process model can support software management teams in measuring and treating risk, thus aiding decision making in software management. Data was collected using semistructured interview through case study. The interview transcripts were coded and categorized using Nvivo software.
2017 8th International Conference on Information Technology (ICIT), 2017
Sustainability has progressively become significant to research and practice in educational secto... more Sustainability has progressively become significant to research and practice in educational sector over the year as a result of rapid reduction of natural resources and sudden climatic changes. The fast changing global weather requires Information Technology (IT) practitioners in university institutions to respond to these changes and implement Green strategies and initiatives. However the literature on implementing Green practices by university campuses is still in its infancy, an emphasis on sustainability has been argued to support IT practitioners enhance the use of IT infrastructures, while achieving a sustained university campus. While sustainability has gained increasing attention from researchers and academicians in organizations and industries, sustainability practice implementation in university sector is still not fully successful since IT practitioners currently uses manual based Green assessment methods. IT practitioners in university campuses lack the capability to assess their current Green practices automatically. Therefore there is need for architecture to support IT practitioners in assessing, benchmarking and rating their current Green practice implementation to ascertain if the sustainability goal of economic, people and environment is archived or if they need to improve their Green process implementation. To overcome the aforementioned problems this research proposes an agent based Green assessment architecture to evaluate the current practice implementation in university campuses automatically. The proposed Green assessment system architecture also provides Green process implementation suggestions to IT practitioners.
Software industries, society and government are becoming increasingly concerned about the impact ... more Software industries, society and government are becoming increasingly concerned about the impact of the increasing use of IT infrastructure on the environment, especially in terms of energy efficiency, emission reduction and toxic waste. There are few models or frameworks that can assist software practitioners in making decision on how to integrate sustainable green practices in software management process. Thus this paper contributes and studies on the use of information systems to support sustainability in software industries known as “Green IS” and provides a preliminary insight into the utilization and integration of sustainability in software management process as well as the variables that influence eco-environmental practices by proposing a model that will assist decision making for sustainable software management process. Thus contributions of Green Information Systems (IS) to the objectives of software management process are examined by exploring secondary data from literat...
Information technology (IT) organizations are faced with various risks such as strategic, operati... more Information technology (IT) organizations are faced with various risks such as strategic, operational and technical risks. These risks should be identified, measured and mitigated. Risk mitigation gives an opportunity to IT practitioners and management to compute risks and develop suitable strategies to treat the risk.Risk mitigation in organizations provides a disciplinary environment for decision making to measure and treat potential risk continuously. Existing model and frameworks provides inadequate support to practitioners in making risk decision pertaining risk mitigation. This is due to the fact that existing models or frameworks lacks the capabilities to support practitioners. In order to address this challenge, this research identifies the processes and components of risk mitigation in organization’s and proposes a framework of risk decision for mitigating both technical and operational risk using software agents and knowledge mapping as techniques. Qualitative research was...
World Review of Science, Technology and Sustainable Development, 2020
This study examines the current Green practice implementation in Institutions of Higher Learning ... more This study examines the current Green practice implementation in Institutions of Higher Learning (IHL) towards attaining sustainable development. Accordingly, a theoretical analysis was conducted based on primary data from Green practice documents and secondary data from review of prior studies. Based on the findings from the theoretical data, a Green campus governance model grounded on economic, social and environmental dimension of sustainability was developed to further extend the collaboration among sustainability practitioners by providing incorporated data on factors that influences sustainable development in universities. Accordingly, findings from this study present the declarations and summits, background, importance and issues faced by institutions of higher learning in attaining sustainable development. Moreover, evidence from this study presents sixteen universities in Malaysia that currently implements Green practices. Respectively, the derived factors in the developed Green campus governance model can be employed as an assessment tool for benchmarking sustainable development in universities.
2018 International Conference on Innovation and Intelligence for Informatics, Computing, and Technologies (3ICT), 2018
Automobile based firms involve enterprises that deal with the sale of cars products from differen... more Automobile based firms involve enterprises that deal with the sale of cars products from different manufactures. Hence, over the years several studies have contributed to e-businesses, but at the moment there are fewer studies that have contributed to improving e-sourcing operation in automobile based firms. Therefore, this paper aims to develop an innovative e-sourcing system for automobile based firms based on Model View Control (MVC) architecture to facilitate procurement operation among consumers and sales staffs. The developed system aims to lessen the labor of sales staff thus decreasing manual task carried out. Additionally, the proposed tool substitutes the manual approach by facilitating administration in the form of automating automobile data. The tool also aids in managing and retaining of clients’ data. Furthermore, the developed tool facilitate customers in viewing catalog of new automobile products and ordering new automobile products from several automobile manufactur...
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Papers by Bokolo Anthony Jnr.
them from fully participating in society and exercising their rights to
accessing the local environment. But older people’s ability to travel
independently and freely to participate in society is crucial for their
quality of life. The question of how to maintain mobility equity and
equality for older people is, however, a complex one. This is because
older people, especially those with disabilities, are often faced with
mobility exclusion due to physical barriers around the public
transportation and built environment. This has been further intensified
as existing mobility accessibility initiatives employed by municipalities
have not involved vulnerable groups in society such as older people.
Therefore, this study adopts a systematic literature review based on
data collected from 83 sources indexed in Scopus and Web of Science
database. The findings from this article present factors that influence
the local environment in achieving mobility equity and equality from
the perspectives of older people, living without and with disabilities.
Evidence from this study proposes guidelines grounded on a universal
design framework to help municipalities foster mobility equity and
equality for older people based on recommendations provided to
inform urban transport policies on universal accessibility.
recommendation to reduce falls, injuries, and accidents faced by older people. Accordingly, a scoping review of the literature grounded on secondary data from 59 studies was conducted and descriptive analysis of the literature and content-related analysis of the literature was carried out. Findings from this study presents the perceived techno-socio factors that may influences older people use of AI-based voice-assistants. More importantly, this study presents user-centred service design and
functional requirements needed to be considered in developing voice assistants suitable for older people. Implications from this study provides AI techniques for implementing voice-assistants that provide safe mobility, walkability, and wayfinding for older people in urban areas
them from fully participating in society and exercising their rights to
accessing the local environment. But older people’s ability to travel
independently and freely to participate in society is crucial for their
quality of life. The question of how to maintain mobility equity and
equality for older people is, however, a complex one. This is because
older people, especially those with disabilities, are often faced with
mobility exclusion due to physical barriers around the public
transportation and built environment. This has been further intensified
as existing mobility accessibility initiatives employed by municipalities
have not involved vulnerable groups in society such as older people.
Therefore, this study adopts a systematic literature review based on
data collected from 83 sources indexed in Scopus and Web of Science
database. The findings from this article present factors that influence
the local environment in achieving mobility equity and equality from
the perspectives of older people, living without and with disabilities.
Evidence from this study proposes guidelines grounded on a universal
design framework to help municipalities foster mobility equity and
equality for older people based on recommendations provided to
inform urban transport policies on universal accessibility.
recommendation to reduce falls, injuries, and accidents faced by older people. Accordingly, a scoping review of the literature grounded on secondary data from 59 studies was conducted and descriptive analysis of the literature and content-related analysis of the literature was carried out. Findings from this study presents the perceived techno-socio factors that may influences older people use of AI-based voice-assistants. More importantly, this study presents user-centred service design and
functional requirements needed to be considered in developing voice assistants suitable for older people. Implications from this study provides AI techniques for implementing voice-assistants that provide safe mobility, walkability, and wayfinding for older people in urban areas