Current Issue : April-June Volume : 2023 Issue Number : 2 Articles : 5 Articles
Internet of Things (IoT) embraces Internet technologies supporting remote and mobile applications including Mobile Wallet (M-Wallet). The M-Wallet is an electronic wallet (ewallet), a mean that is widely used for digital payment. While literature indicated that neighboring countries advanced in the adoption of M-Wallet for digital payment, Malaysia is considerably “infant” as this technology is not extensively used. As such, a study had been conducted to investigate the users’ behavioral intention and the determinant to adopt mobile wallets as digital payment platform in a selected locality in Malaysia. Built upon three basic constructs of Unified Theory of Acceptance and Use of Technology 2 (UTAUT 2) and previous relevant research models, a model of factors influencing behavioral intention on mobile wallet for this study was proposed. Adopting the convenience sampling technique, the online questionnaire had been administered to 384 respondents. The 327 returned questionnaires had been examined and the 315 valid questionnaires were brought into analysis. Both SPSS and SmartPLS were used for descriptive analysis, internal consistency reliability analysis, indicator reliability analysis, convergent validity analysis, discriminant validity analysis, coefficient of determination (R2) analysis, path coefficients analysis and hypotheses testing where appropriate. The results revealed that Hedonic Motivation is the strongest and most crucial factor influencing the intention to use mobile wallet. The Perceived Risk, Perceived Security and Perceived Trust have significant influence on behavioral intention on mobile wallet usage....
In China, vocational education has ushered in the spring of development. The country pays more and more attention to vocational education. As the main force of young entrepreneurs, college students in higher vocational colleges have been paying attention to their entrepreneurial activities. This study selects business vocational college students as the research object, obtains data through questionnaire survey, uses SPSSAU software to analyze, and uses structural equation model to conduct path analysis and model testing. The conclusion of value puts forward a number of suggestions for innovation and entrepreneurship education in higher vocational colleges....
Cashless transactions also known as mobile payments have been a huge form of money exchange that replaced the use of cash and credit cards especially on COVID-19 pandemic period in different parts of the world. It broke world record for China making it the first cashless most user nation. Exchanges are done via devices like phones, tablets and the like. In order to cope with tourism transactions dynamics that truly affects the industry such abrupt changes forces tourist destinations like Tanzania to adapt. Using a qualitative approach the study examines on literatures pertaining to increased use of cashless transactions especially after COVID-19 pandemic. Results show that though Tanzania is one of the fast cashless transactions users in Africa it is not well prepared to host cashless travelers from China. It has not yet incorporated the giant Chinese cashless transactions platforms and still uses cash and cards in most of tourism financial transactions. With the huge shift of form of Chinese transaction behavior which has created a cashless society in China, the study advice African destinations on the importance of incorporating Chinese cashless platforms to be competent in attracting more tourists from that giant source market....
This article shows the opinion of Ukrainian students (from six different cities of Ukraine) about the quality of distance learning after having one-year experience with such type of education during Pandemic times. The survey was conducted in several main directions: attitudes towards distance learning, key factors influencing the quality of distance learning and forms of teaching that students would prefer in the future. The main purpose of this research is an estimation of perspectives on distance learning usage drawing on the Ukrainian student's current experience in such type of education. The study showed that the majority of answered students (557 respondents) could clearly imagine the potential use of distance learning forms even when Covid-19 is over and also admitted that the quality of distance learning after a year’s experience is higher compared with its quality at the beginning....
Primary healthcare is an essential part of the 1978 Global Health for All, the year 2000 Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) and the 2016 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Internet, especially social media, now appeals to city people searching for well-being experts for border-free help and advice on healthcare information. This study examined the awareness, adoption and usage of social media to search for health-associated information by patients of suburban primary healthcare centres. The overall objective of this study was to investigate the perceived benefits of using social media to seek health-associated information. Adopting the quantitative methodology, this study used the survey design for a cross-sectional examination of 221 patients from three selected primary health care centres at Yaba, a major suburban area in Lagos, Nigeria. Results indicated that most patients in suburban primary healthcare centres in Yaba, Lagos, Nigeria, subscribed to more than one social media account, with the majority clustering around Facebook. A weekly search for healthcare information on the common cold (flu), tiredness and hypertension showed that the respondents were active on social media. However, the high risk of misinformation was identified as a major drawback of using social media to seek information on healthcare on the Internet. The study concluded that the use of social media for healthcare information by patients of suburban primary healthcare centres is increasing. Therefore, stakeholders need to examine this development for a purposeful repositioning of healthcare information dissemination, especially in suburban centres....
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