Tony Hooper

• Lecturer at Victoria University of Wellington

Payments via mobile and wireless terminal devices (i.e. cell phone/smartphone handsets) have been introduced by businesses for more than a decade now—alas mostly with less than desired success. There are numerous barriers to widespread adoption and the required wireless architectures are often prone to competitive as well as technological incompati...

This exploratory study investigates how post-graduate students manage information and knowledge and how these skills evolve over time during their post-graduate studies. The concepts of personal information management, personal knowledge management and brain filtering as well as the critical role of technology are discussed in the context of the po...

Social networking sites on the Internet have enjoyed considerable media publicity recently. Whereas conventional social interactions leave behind no record, similar social interactions performed on social networking websites, can leave behind detailed and possibly permanent records. A literature review of social networking sites and personal privac...

The contribution of BH Blackwell (BHB), and specifically of Miles Blackwell, to the development of libraries and librarians in South Africa is explored based on available literature sources and personal reminiscences. This article tells how Miles was true to his personal values and how he demonstrated his integrity in the exercise of his office. Mi...

The motivation of mid‐career students can be expected to be more considered and intense than students whose studies continue from undergraduate programmes. How students perceive their personal circumstances and their career when they first make the decision to enrol and what happens as a result of their studies can reveal how mid‐career management...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to examine the extent to which New Zealand business web sites conform to the provisions of the New Zealand Privacy Act, 1993 as an articulation of the national values on the rights of individuals to information privacy. The secondary aim is to assess whether adherence to these values might be used as criteria...

Government agencies are becoming increasingly dependent on e-mail systems as communication and information transfer tools. Many e-mail messages contain information vital to the business of government, and therefore organisations need to manage the messages in accordance with managerial, legal, and democratic requirements. On a daily basis, governme...

If academic institutions are to be responsive to changing student and industry requirements, they need to continually match their academic offerings with both market and student requirements. In recent years, universities throughout the world have experienced a serious decline in student enrolments in information systems and electronic commerce pro...

This paper takes a superficial look at the technologies that are impacting society to create a series of discontinuous social changes. These impacts are affecting all social institutions and giving rise to a phenomenon called The New Economy. After discussing some of the New Economy thinking and the expectations people have of businesses and manage...

Throughout the world, governments have realised that a proper audit trail of decision making and policy formulation is essential to the democratic process. These processes must be able to stand up to scrutiny in the form of media and opposition challenges. Effective recordkeeping is essential for balancing the executive, judicial and legislative fu...