Immanuel Ovemeso Umukoro

Immanuel Ovemeso UmukoroImmanuel Ovemeso Umukoro is a doctoral student in Information Systems at the Africa Regional Centre for Information Science, University of Ibadan, and also a researcher at Lagos Business School, Pan-Atlantic University, both in Nigeria. He holds both bachelor and master degrees in information science from Delta State University, Abraka and University of Ibadan respectively. His research experience cuts across digital financial services, financial inclusion and sustainability, business intelligence and analytics, social informatics, human resources/knowledge mapping and management, consumer information needs' analysis, digital libraries, development information systems and sources, collection development and management of information resources, ergonomics and man-machine interaction, web resources analysis and management information/decision support systems. Immanuel is a chartered member of the the Nigerian Institute of Management (NIM) and the Librarians' Registration Council of Nigeria (LRCN).

Publications

Enhancing Africa's Agri-Value Chains Through Digital Platforms
Enhancing Africa's Agri-Value Chains Through Digital Platforms
Immanuel Ovemeso Umukoro. © 2022. 23 pages.
Africa's food security may be at risk if food production does not increase, especially given that by 2023, African food market will more than triple in demand by moving from...
Africa's Platforms and the Evolving Sharing Economy
Africa's Platforms and the Evolving Sharing Economy
Immanuel Ovemeso Umukoro, Raymond Okwudiri Onuoha. © 2021. 288 pages.
Digital transformation concepts have created new business principles such as the on-demand economy and a new sharing economy. While the on-demand economy has primarily grown out...
Understanding SME Techno-Entrepreneurship in Nigeria's IT Clusters
Understanding SME Techno-Entrepreneurship in Nigeria's IT Clusters
Immanuel Ovemeso Umukoro. © 2021. 18 pages.
This chapter examines the concepts and issues of SME techno-entrepreneurship in ICT clusters. An integrative literature review was adopted and three purposively selected ICT...
Africa's Platform and the Sharing Economy: Introduction, Definitions, and Conceptualizations
Africa's Platform and the Sharing Economy: Introduction, Definitions, and Conceptualizations
Immanuel Ovemeso Umukoro, Raymond Okwudiri Onuoha. © 2021. 17 pages.
Platforms are altering business processes and value creation mechanisms as previously witnessed across traditional pipe businesses. Africa has over 300 active digital platforms...
Enhancing Africa's Agri-Value Chains Through Digital Platforms
Enhancing Africa's Agri-Value Chains Through Digital Platforms
Immanuel Ovemeso Umukoro. © 2021. 30 pages.
Africa's food security may be at risk if food production does not increase, especially given that by 2023, African food market will more than triple in demand by moving from...
Platform Governance: Dimensions, Mechanisms, and Tools
Platform Governance: Dimensions, Mechanisms, and Tools
Immanuel Ovemeso Umukoro, Uchechukwu Anagboso. © 2021. 24 pages.
This chapter focuses on governance-related issues in the platform economy. By providing contextual issues that affect how value is created and captured, the chapter highlights...
Africa's Platform and the Shared Economy: Opportunities, Challenges, and New Research Frontiers
Africa's Platform and the Shared Economy: Opportunities, Challenges, and New Research Frontiers
Immanuel Ovemeso Umukoro. © 2021. 21 pages.
As African economies make efforts to compete with the rest of the world's economies, technological innovations are critical towards attaining inclusive development. Platforms...
Adoption and Use of Mobile Money Services in Nigeria
Adoption and Use of Mobile Money Services in Nigeria
Olayinka David-West, Immanuel Ovemeso Umukoro, Omotayo Muritala. © 2019. 18 pages.
Nigeria, like many developing economies, has been fighting financial exclusion through different mechanisms and with a financial inclusion target set at 80% by 2020 by its...
Adoption and Use of Mobile Money Services in Nigeria
Adoption and Use of Mobile Money Services in Nigeria
Olayinka David-West, Immanuel Ovemeso Umukoro, Omotayo Muritala. © 2018. 15 pages.
Nigeria, like many developing economies has been fighting financial exclusion through different mechanisms and with financial inclusion target set at 80% by 2020 by its National...