The viability of cloud computing adoption in SMME's in Namibia

2013 IST-Africa Conference and Exhibition, IST-Africa 2013

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages

  Tjikongo, Ricardo ^a   Uys, Walter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE WESTERN CAPE   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Adoption; Cloud Computing; Developing countries; Namibia; Small medium and micro enterprises (SMME's); Technology Acceptance Model

Indexed keywords

DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; EXHIBITIONS; INDUSTRY; INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY; SURVEYS;

ADOPTION; CLOUD COMPUTING SERVICES; HIGH-LATENCY NETWORKS; ICT INFRASTRUCTURES; MICRO-ENTERPRISES; NAMIBIA; TECHNOLOGY ACCEPTANCE MODEL; TECHNOLOGY ADOPTION MODELS;

CLOUD COMPUTING;

EID: 84893799006     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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