Jean-Paul Van Belle

Jean-Paul Van Belle joined the Department of Information Systems of UCT in 1997 and became an associate professor in 2006. He is currently Head of the Department. He obtained a licentiate in 1983 (Rijksuniversiteit Gent, Belgium), an MBA in 1988 (GSB, Stellenbosch University, South Africa) and his PhD in 2004 (UCT, South Africa). In the last 8 years, he has authored or co-authored about 15 books/chapters, 15 journal articles and more than 60 peer-reviewed published conference papers. His key research area is the social and organisational adoption of emerging information technologies in a developing world context. The key technologies researched include e-commerce, M-commerce, e-government and, more recently, open source software. He has considerable experience with both quantitative survey approaches as well as qualitative case study research. His main research focus for the near future will be on small organisations i.e. small and micro-businesses as well as NGOs.

Publications

Scalability and Sustainability of M-Government Projects Implementation in Developing Countries
Scalability and Sustainability of M-Government Projects Implementation in Developing Countries
Olalekan Samuel Ogunleye, Jean-Paul Van Belle. © 2016. 23 pages.
Mobile technology has played a crucial role in facilitating democratic change in many of the developing countries. Many countries have attempted to implement Mobile Government...
Scalability and Sustainability of M-Government Projects Implementation in Developing Countries
Scalability and Sustainability of M-Government Projects Implementation in Developing Countries
Olalekan Samuel Ogunleye, Jean-Paul Van Belle. © 2016. 24 pages.
Mobile technology has played a crucial role in facilitating democratic change in many of the developing countries. Many countries have attempted to implement Mobile Government...
Using Social Media Technology to Improve Collaboration: A Case Study of Micro-Blogging Adoption in a South African Financial Services Company
Using Social Media Technology to Improve Collaboration: A Case Study of Micro-Blogging Adoption in a South African Financial Services Company
Garron Stevenson, Jean-Paul Van Belle. © 2013. 29 pages.
This chapter examines the use and adoption of micro-blogging within a large South African financial services company. This is done by means of a case study, which draws on three...
E-Government Status and M-Government Readiness in Malawi
E-Government Status and M-Government Readiness in Malawi
John Mtingwi, Jean-Paul Van Belle. © 2013. 31 pages.
This chapter investigates the readiness of the Malawian government to engage in mobile government (m-government). It explores the exciting potential of mobile technologies to...
ICTs for Global Development and Sustainability: Practice and Applications
ICTs for Global Development and Sustainability: Practice and Applications
Jacques Steyn, Jean-Paul Van Belle, Eduardo Villanueva Mansilla. © 2011. 474 pages.
Many hundreds of millions of dollars have been wasted by well meaning philanthropists, aid agencies and governments in projects to deploy ICT solutions in developing contexts....
Web Mining for Strategic Competitive Intelligence: South African Experiences and a Practical Methodology
Web Mining for Strategic Competitive Intelligence: South African Experiences and a Practical Methodology
Lynnda Wagner, Jean-Paul Van Belle. © 2011. 19 pages.
This chapter explains the use of web mining for gathering strategic competitive intelligence. It first discusses some concepts relating to web mining. This is followed by the...
Adoption of Mobile Technology by Public Healthcare Doctors: A Developing Country Perspective
Adoption of Mobile Technology by Public Healthcare Doctors: A Developing Country Perspective
Nesaar Banderker, Jean-Paul Van Belle. © 2011. 17 pages.
South African doctors working in the public healthcare sector are faced with the unique resource constraints prevalent in a developing country. Mobile information and...
Factors Influencing User Satisfaction with Internet-Based E-learning in Corporate South Africa
Factors Influencing User Satisfaction with Internet-Based E-learning in Corporate South Africa
Craig Cadenhead, Jean-Paul Van Belle. © 2011. 27 pages.
This chapter looks at the factors that influence user satisfaction with Internet based learning in the South African corporate environment. An electronic survey was administered...