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Table 5:1 Representation of participants’ position from government institutes
Position Ministries Departments Statutory
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Bodies
Total
Senior Officers 4 10 2 16
Middle Management 2 2
Others 2 2
Total 4 14 2 20
Q2. Existing mobile devices used in organizations include among others ordinary
cell phones, Smartphone, Blackberry devices, PDAs, laptops. Please give examples
of how one or more mobile devices are deployed in your department?
All respondents provide answers to this question. This question is intended to find out if
respondents are able to provide any examples mobile technologies that are deployed in
government ministries or departments. The majority of the respondents indicated that
ordinary cell phones and laptops were the most widely used mobile technology across
government organisations (Question2:Table2, Appendix E). People that have access to
these devices, particularly laptops and Smartphone are mostly used by senior managers
in government ministries, departments and other government statutory bodies, for
examples director generals and ministers.
“Mobile phone is one of the useful mobile technologies that are commonly use today, In
the department laptops are very useful and only senior managers in the department are
issued with Laptops”(Rp1q2, Rp3q2, Rp5q2, Rp6q2).
Only senior managers in government organisations use a Blackberry device and other
Smartphone. As one respondent indicated that the director generals and state ministers
use Blackberry to access their email. “Black Berry devices are not too common in the