Personal Details

Dr. Andile S. Metfula

Ph.D, MSc, BSc (Hons)

Senior Lecturer - Department of Computer Science

Ph.D Information Systems - University of Cape Town, South Africa

Research Areas

1. Software Engineering
2. ICT4D

Courses taught

1. Practices in Software Engineering I
2. Practices in Software Engineering II
3. Internship Training

Research Profile

1. Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=_gZ60AAAAJ&hl=en

Recent Published Journal Articles

1. Fashoto, S.G., Metfula, A.S., Matsebula, B.B. and Fashoto, B.Y., 2018. Multi-Target Regression Prediction on Cervical Cancer for. Asian Journal of Information Technology, 17(2), pp.160-166.
2. Fashoto, S.G., Ajiboye, P., Owolabi, O., Metfula, A. and Fashoto, O.Y., 2018. Assessment of the Readiness of Academic Staff of a Tertiary Institution for Performance Evaluation using a Dynamic Human Resource Information System. AFRICAN JOURNAL OF COMPUTING & ICT, p.53.
3. Chigona, W., Nyemba, M. and Metfula, A., 2012. A review on mHealth research in developing countries. The Journal of Community Informatics, 9(2).
4. Gillwald, A., Chigona, W., Vergeer, J.W. and Metfula, A.S., 2012. The South African broadband policy: In the eyes of the media. info.
5. Vergeer, J., Chigona, W. and Metfula, A.S., 2011, September. A media discourse of broadband policy in a developing country context. In IFIP International Working Conference on Governance and Sustainability in Information Systems-Managing the Transfer and Diffusion of IT (pp. 340-356). Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg.
6. Metfula, A.S. and Chigona, W., 2013. The effects on policy of the composition of the ICT public policy network in Swaziland: challenges in leadership of ICT policy and e-development. The African Journal of Information and Communication, 2013(13), pp.83-94.
7. Metfula, A.S. and Chigona, W., 2012, October. The impact of the composition of a public ICT Policy Network on a policy: A case of a developing country. In 2012 e-Leadership Conference on Sustainable e-Government and e-Business Innovations (E-LEADERSHIP) (pp. 1-10). IEEE.
8. Metfula, A.S., 2007. Rural Electricity Supply in the Kingdom of Swaziland-Survey and Simulation (Doctoral dissertation, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute).
9. Chigona, W., Nyemba, M. and Metfula, A.S., 2012. A review on mHealth research in developing countries. The Journal of Community Informatics, 9(2).

Conference papers

1. Akinnuwesi, B.A., Fashoto, S.G., Metfula, A.S. and Akinnuwesi, A.N., 2020, April. Experimental Application of Machine Learning on Financial Inclusion Data for Governance in Eswatini. In Conference on e-Business, e-Services and e-Society (pp. 414-425). Springer, Cham.
2. Metfula, A.S. and Chigona, W., 2014, September. In search of development in a national ICT policy: The case of Swaziland. In Proceedings of the Southern African Institute for Computer Scientist and Information Technologists Annual Conference 2014 on SAICSIT 2014 Empowered by Technology (pp. 183-191).
3. Metfula, A.S., Kunyenje, G. and Chigona, W., 2016, November. The influence of external actors in the formulation of national information and communications technology policies in developing countries: Case of Swaziland. In 2016 International Conference on Advances in Computing and Communication Engineering (ICACCE) (pp. 137-145). IEEE.