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Assessing the Effects of the Mobile Money Service on Small and Medium Sized Enterprises: Study on EVC-Plus Services in Somalia
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The development of mobile money services permits businesses and individuals to get access to financial services and become part of the financial system. Access to the financial system is a key driver to business growth and entrepreneurial development in Somalia and in many parts of the world. The purpose of this study was to examine the contribution of mobile
money services to the growth of small and medium-sized enterprises in Somalia. We applied dynamic capability theory to examine the factors that affect business growth. This study employed cross sectional research design and used quantitative techniques to analyze the data of the study. The target population of the study was business owners that are in major cities in Somalia. A sample of 138 businesses categorized by trade, services, and manufacturers were studied. Descriptive and inferential statistics were used to analyze the cross-section data collected from the various respondents. For regression analysis, Robust Least Squares (ROBUSTLS), is used to estimate the model parameters of the study. We rejected the null hypothesis examined by
this study and we found that all variables have a positive contribution that is different from zero and is statistically significant. The result shows that a one percent increase of the access to finance contributes to business growth of about (0.186%) while a (1%) increase in sales growth, leads business to grow about (0.183%). The enhancement of the risk management by (1%) increases
business growth to about (0.225%). Product development is a dominant variable that leads to business growth as (1%) increase of the product development, leads business to grow about (0.254%). These results indicate that mobile money service has a positive and significant influence on the business’s ability to access finances. The increase of the mobile money adoption by(1%), causes access to finance to increase about (13%). Mobile money also contributes to the sales growth as a (1%) increase in the use of mobile money, causes sales to surge by (3%). Results show that a (1%) increase in the use of mobile money, leads the risk management to improve about (4%) and that a (1%) increase of the mobile money services, leads the product development to increase to about (9%). The stability of the data was examined using the CUSUM test and we found that the data is stable. The model has no multicollinearity problem and the heteroskedasticity and the serial correlation were correcte
Brokerage Event Towards a FAIR Compliant Commons in the ASREN Region - Experience from Ethiopia
Full text linkThis presentation describes experiences from Ethiopia in the framework of the Brokerage Event Towards a FAIR Compliant Commons in the ASREN Region, which is part of the program of the 16th International Open Repositories Conference (OR2021)
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No full textDr. Mohamed Abdi Adam has given this presentation at SomaliREN Annual Council Meetings in Jigjiga, Somali region of Ethiopia
Somali Research and Education Repository: motivations, status, perspectives, and opportunities
Full text linkLike many other countries in Africa, Somalia suffers from a gap with respect to other countries in the world for what concerns openness of research and visibility of research outputs. Research outputs produced by local universities and research institutions are not adequately showcased to interested communities and citizens outside academic institutions and this has negatively branded the local institutions as in-competent to produce any form of research contents. As an example, printed copies of students' theses and dissertations are usually archived inside the university and nobody is basically able to see them after the defending day.
In order to overcome this problem and bridge the above-mentioned gaps, the Somali National Research and Education Network (SomaliREN), which gathers 20 universities and research institutions from all over the country, is developing a program based on three strategic pillars: connectivity, community, and content. Under the latter, SomaliREN has launched an initiative to deploy a centralized open access multi-institutional digital repository, and the Somali Research and Education Repository (SORER) has recently come online.
SORER has been installed in collaboration with experts from the University of Catania, Italy, and the Italian National Institute for Nuclear Physics (INFN). It is a scalable, standard-based, FAIR principle and Plan S compliant repository meant to promote and enable the Open Science paradigm in the country. The digital asset management system is based on Invenio and Zenodo, with some add-ons developed by INFN, allows persistent identification of contents, through DataCite digital object identifiers, for easy discovery and citation of research products stored as well as for a direct link to the ORCID profiles of their authors, sports an OAI-PMH compliant endpoint, for easy harvesting of metadata from aggregators and search engines, and supports federated authentication, for an easy configuration of the repository as a Service Provider of an Identity Federation.
In this contribution, we would like to share with all the participants the motivations that drove the creation of SORER for the uptake of Open Science practices in Somalia, its current status and future plans – towards the certification of the archive and the establishment of a national open access policy - as well as to discuss the opportunities of collaboration with universities/organizations belonging to the WACREN region willing/planning to install FAIR compliant digital repositories at their premises. Collaboration may include technical support for the deployment and/or training on administration/use of the repository
A Resume Analyzer Application for Matching Candidates with Job Requirements, Using A Parsing Algorithm
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Technology innovation has introduced big improvements to enhance career selection processes nowadays. With more tools developed, companies have adopted tools that help them recruit talents more efficiently. This paper proposes a resume parser called pyresparser, which is a python package that is used to extract the relevant information from resumes and analyze it based on the different attributes. Once the resume is uploaded it is saved into a PostgreSQL database ready to show itself to the employers. With the identification of the attributes, the proposed system is directed to adopt a word similarity algorithm for PostgreSQL trigram module to match the skills of the job seekers against the requirements of the job posted by the prospect employers. The system helps the human resource team to find suitable candidates for a particular job and make more informed final decisions or use it as a shortlisting means for ultimate interview sessions
THE WORLD DECLINING ECONOMY AND CORONAVIRUS PANDEMIC: SYSTEMS SHOULD BE CONTINUED
Full text linkThe appearance of coronavirus disease which is called COVID-19 in China on December 2019 has led to huge global outbreak that is strongly related to the bad health issue in the whole world. As of 27 March 2020, data from the World Health Organization have shown the countries, territories or areas with reported laboratory-confirmed COVID-19 cases and deaths. It shows that the most affected European country is Italy, where the total confirmed cases are 80539, while in Western Pacific Region, China was the first affected country by 82078 as total confirmed cases; however, the United States of America has total confirmed cases of 68334. Thus, the authorities of public health around the world must keep supervising the situation carefully, as the more the scientists can search about this deadly virus and its associated outbreak, the response and result will be better. Otherwise, the situation will go further to include damage to the whole world including the economic severe crisis. Based on that, the current study uniquely contributes to suggesting which systems should be continued under the unusual economic changes facing the whole world because of this awful pandemic. This study takes advantage of the 2020 financial crisis due to Coronavirus as a sudden and negative exogenous trauma that influenced the economies of all countries and the rest of the vital and social pillars in the world via focusing on Corporate Governance and Islamic Finance Industry as control systems and methods that should be continued in the time of the current pandemic. Noting that because of the current pandemic, there has been a shift to digital platform instead of keeping on using physical financial documents and this will lead to a diversity in purposes, highly efficient trade and secur
Bacteriological study of wound infections and their antimicrobial susceptibility pattern of isolates from patients at shaafi hospital Mogadishu, Somalia
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Background: Wound infection is one of the public health problems worldwide associated with the colonization of bacterial pathogens and resistance to commonly used antibiotics. The study aimed to identify the most common bacterial pathogens that cause wound infections and their antimicrobial susceptibility of isolates from patients at shaafi Hospital in Mogadishu, Somalia. Methods: This study was a descriptive cross-sectional design conducted from January to June - 2020 at shaafi Hospital in Mogadishu –Somalia. A total of 80 patients were taken from wound swab; all specimens were directly cultured on standard media, then Gram stain and Biochemical tests were also done antimicrobial susceptibility test was performed following Standards guidelines and procedures of (CLSI). Results: A total of 80 patients were taken from the wound swab; of these, 25 samples shown significant growth, isolating 38 bacteria strains. The most bacteria that isolated was Staphylococcus aureus 15 (39.47%), followed by Escherichia coli 12 (32%), Klebsiella pneumonia 8 (21%), Proteus Vulgaris 2 (5%), and Pseudomonas aeruginosa 1(3%). Staphylococcus aureus was entirely resistant to penicillin G, Ampicillin, and Methicillin, less sensitive to amoxicillin, and strongly sensitive to gentamicin. Moreover, All isolates of Escherichia coli, Klebsiella pneumonia, Proteus Vulgaris were sensitive to gentamicin and norfloxacin. In contrast, all isolates of Pseudomonas aeruginosa were resistant to gentamicin and norfloxacin. Conclusions: The study revealed that bacterial pathogens of wound infection were resistant to commonly used antibiotics in Mogadishu, Somalia, showing an increasing trend of antibiotic-resistant. The study suggested that timely diagnosis with antimicrobial susceptibility is necessary before prescribing appropriate antibiotics. Keywords: Antimicrobial susceptibility test; Antibiotic resistance, Wound infection; Bacteria, Somali
Evaluating Students' Performance of Social Work Department Using K-means and Two-step Cluster "A Case Study of Mogadishu University"
Full text linkEvaluating Students’ Performance of Social Work Department Using K-means and Two-step Cluster
“A Case Study of Mogadishu University
Examining Somalia's Digital Economy Development
Full text linkEng. Abdullahi Guled Ibrahim, ICT Specialist of Ministry of Communication and Technology delivered this presentation at the 5th Annual Conference of the Somali Network Operators' Group (SomNOG)