Factors influencing undergraduates‟ intention to use e-government services: reference to south eastern university of Sri Lanka

Implementation and adoption of Electronic Government are in early stage in most of the developing economies. Users of such electronic government services include individual citizens, businesses, government agencies and other governments. The rewarding benefits of such implementation effort depends both on governments’ end as well as users’ end. This study used variables from Unified Theory of Acceptance and Use of Technology (UTAUT) model to identify the factors influencing undergraduates’ adoption of electronic government services in Sri Lanka. Undergraduates from South Eastern University of Sri Lanka (SEUSL) were the participants of the study. The real data disclosed that Effort Expectancy factor has significant effect whereas Performance Expectancy and Social Influence factors did not have effect on undergraduates’ intention to adopt Electronic Government services in Sri Lanka

University academics’ behavioural intention to use E-Government services in Sri Lanka

Implementation and adoption of Electronic Government services are in early stage in most of the developing economies. Users of such services include individual citizens, businesses, government agencies and other governments. The rewarding benefits of such implementation effort depends both on governments’ end as well as users’ end. This study amended and used Unified Theory of Acceptance and Use of Technology (UTAUT) model to identify the factors influencing university academics’ adoption of electronic government services in Sri Lanka. University teachers from South Eastern University of Sri Lanka were the participants of the study. The real data disclosed that Effort Expectancy and Social Influence factors have significant effect whereas Performance Expectancy factor did not have effect on university academics’ intention to adopt Electronic Government services in Sri Lanka

Evaluating the intention to use accounting information systems by small and medium sized entrepreneurs

When it comes to the usage or intention to use new technology any organization including small and medium sized ones, there are many factors influencing such decision. Despite the its various benefits that an organization can enjoy once it would have implemented an accounting system, the intention to use such systems is still very less in Sri Lankan context. This study deployed quantitative study based on questionnaire survey. Statistical analysis were run to find out what factors would influence small and medium sized entrepreneurs in their intention to use these systems, and delineated that Performance Expectancy, Effort Expectancy, Social Influence and Facilitating Conditions had significant influence

Real time bus tracking and scheduling system using wireless sensor and mobile technology

The public bus transportation system has the direct impact on economic development of the country. Scheduling, tracking and monitoring the schedule of the public bus transportation is one of the major issues for any public transportation sector. Presently, there are many vehicle tracking systems are available using Global Positioning Systems (GPS) technology. But there is no implementation at all buses in centralized scheduler. To keep track of buses in manual system is error-prone in the existing time keeping process by Time Keepers, and also this manual log is not being centralized to share with relevant authority and passengers. This project aims at designing a wireless sensor network that would identify and automatically provide the visual information for a real time movement of the public transport busses. The scheduler will dispatch data on arrival and departure with the bus ID and time-stamp from bus stops and passenger shelters along the bus route and it will report to the centralized scheduler. All these bus-stops and passenger shelters will be based on microcontrollers which is to be designed using the Arduino and RFID receiver. Bus will be equipped with front and rear tags. Detected RFID information will be sent through the Arduino and GSM / GPRS shields which are to be placed at the bus-stops into central scheduler, it will process the sensed raw data and will upload the derived coordinates on Google Maps, using Google Fusion tables. Administration and Passenger can check the real time movements over the web interfaces

Sri Lankan citizens’ use behaviour towards E-Government services

This research study focused on the main factors influencing Sri Lankan citizens’ adoption of e-Government services. After reviewing existing literatures on technology adoption, the researchers chose the UTAUT model and picked up key determinants from it. The researchers aimed at answering research questions and testing the credibility of hypotheses brought about from the model. Entire Sri Lankan populations’ internet users were selected as the population of this study and sample size was calculated properly for collecting data. Questionnaire was developed and made available in three languages; English, Sinhala and Tamil. Reliability test was carried out to see the internal consistency of the data. The collected data were analysed using SPSS 20 and Minitab 16, and Excel 2010 was also used at times. Correlation and regressions were calculated to see the underlying relationships among the constructs and their impacts. Analysis found that Performance Expectancy, Effort Expectancy, Social Influence had influence on Sri Lankan citizens’ Intention to Use e-Government services and this intention influenced Use Behaviour of the citizens

Mobile office and its implications for ERP systems : a review of literature

The surprisinggrowth of mobile technology has seen many benefits. During the recent decades businesses also try to benefit from this; one of them is mobile office / enterprise. When organizations become mobile-enabled, their ERP systems also face some implications which have to be carefully dealt with. The implementation of mobile-office forces organizations to reengineer some or all of its business processes, etc. If all opportunities offered by technologyare carefully acquired, organizations should be prospering for sur

Evaluating the Intention to use Accounting Information Systems by Small and Medium Sized Enterpreneurs

When it comes to the usage or intention to use new technology any organization including small and medium sized ones, there are many factors influencing such decision. Despite the its various benefits that an organization can enjoy once it would have implemented an accounting system, the intention to use such systems is still very less in Sri Lankan context. This study deployed quantitative study based on questionnaire survey. Statistical analysis were run to find out what factors would influence small and medium sized entrepreneurs in their intention to use these systems, and delineated that Performance Expectancy, Effort Expectancy, Social Influence and Facilitating Conditions had significant influence. Keywords: Accounting Information Systems, Small and Medium Sized Entrepreneurs, Sri Lank

Small and medium entrepreneurs’ perspective on E-commerce in eastern province of Sri Lanka

Even though there is a rapid development of social commerce, developing countries are still confronted by infrastructural and cultural issues related to the acceptance of e-commerce. Since Sri Lanka is a developing country, the acceptance of e-commerce by the small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs) is still in challenge by such barriers; it is now applying models for the acceptance of new technologies by SMEs. The paper aims to discuss these types of issues. This research study is endeavoring to develop a model, with the ideas of existing models on e-commerce, which will be applied with Sri Lankan conditions. The data collected by a survey is composed with prior models in e-commerce area to investigate this study, and it has been empirically tested to recommend an innovative model. The findings of this research reveal that poor awareness of the advantages of the e-commerce and organizational issues lined with its applications are the reasons for most of the e-commerce obstacles in Sri Lanka. The findings and suggestions of this study, can be applicable to other developing countries as well. This paper is giving a better representation of Sri Lankan market. Lastly the paper deliberates probable upcoming guidelines of this research, as well as its boundaries. This research supports to the hypothetical basis of information systems and e-commerce acceptance studies through recommending and testing a pre-acceptance model for e-commerce. The acceptance of e-commerce in SMEs in Sri Lanka has not been considerably inspected. It is obvious that the SMEs in Sri Lanka play a significant role in its economies. The findings of this study demonstrate a substantial affiliation between organizational readiness and the acceptance of e-commerce and validate the positive relationship between readiness of e-commerce and its acceptance

Characterization of Kuttiyadi ecotype of coconut (Cocos nucifera L.) using morphological and microsatellite markers

West Coast Tall (WCT) is the most popular coconut cultivar grown by the farmers in Kerala, which occupies over 95 per cent of the area under coconut. The long history of coconut cultivation throughout Kerala state has resulted in the development of many ecotypes of WCT. The present work compares the similarity/diversity of the morphological and molecular characteristics of the Kuttiyadi ecotype growing in the hilly, midland region of Kozhikode District, Kerala with those of the WCT cultivar of the coastal region of Kasaragod District, Kerala, using vegetative, reproductive and fruit component characters and microsatellite markers. Geographically, these two locations show a wide range of variation for soil and climactic factors. The vegetative, reproductive and fruit component characteristics and microsatellite markers showed wide variations between selected WCT palms from Kasaragod and Kuttiyadi. The similarity index based on Dice’s coefficient, obtained after pair-wise comparison of Kuttiyadi and WCT samples with 15 SSR markers, revealed that the percentage similarity varied from the coefficient range 0.20 to 0.97 between the WCT and Kuttiyadi palms. UPGMA clustering clearly distinguished the two populations with WCT and Kuttiyadi forming separate clusters. STRUCTURE analysis was also carried out, which also showed that the two populations studied were distinct