ICT can be used to access and promote equity in education through providing educational opportunities to a larger number of people of all ages that include the underserves or the traditionally unserved for example those in rural and remote areas and people with disabilities. It can be used to enhance the quality of learning and teaching through providing access to a greater variety of the current educational resources and enabling the participatory pedagogies. Kiambu County has a high secondary school learner population in the country, however, the levels performance of most of these schools remains significantly low. The purpose of this study was to investigate the influence of ICT integration projects on performance in public secondary schools in KCSE in Kiambu County Kenya. The study sought to investigate the following objectives: to assess the influence of ICT infrastructure on performance of public secondary schools in KCSE in Kiambu County, Kenya; to examine the influence of development of digital content on performance of public secondary schools in KCSE in Kiambu County, Kenya; to determine the influence of capacity building of teachers on performance of public secondary schools in KCSE in Kiambu County, Kenya; to examine the influence of procurement of ICT devices on performance of public secondary schools in KCSE in Kiambu County, Kenya. The study adopted a descriptive survey research design. The target population of the study of 4403 was drawn from the head teachers, ICT head of departments and teachers from Kiambu County. A sample size of 351 participants was extrapolated from the target population using FISHERS formula from which a proportionate stratified sampling was used to obtain a sample for each stratum. Data was collected using questionnaires. The data collection instrument was tested using 35 questionnaires that were administered to headteachers, ICT head of departments and teachers in Nairobi County which had similar characteristics with the study area. The Cronbach’s alpha coefficient of 0.762 was obtained through the test-retest technique to check reliability of the research instruments. Descriptive statistics in the form of frequencies, percentages, mean and standard deviation was used to analyze the data. The analysed data using SPSS was presented in the form of tables. Pearson correlation coefficient was used to determine the relationship between the variables in the study. The study revealed that there was a positive moderate correlation between ICT infrastructure and performance of public secondary schools in KCSE (r=0.552, p=0.000), development of digital content and performance of public secondary schools in KCSE demonstrated a positive weak correlation (r=0.436, p=0.000), capacity building for teachers and performance of public secondary schools in KCSE indicated a positive weak correlation (r=0.232, p=0.000) and procurement of ICT devices and performance of public secondary schools in KCSE indicated a positive moderate correlation (r=0.502, p=0.000). The study concluded that that the independent variables under the study influence the performance of public secondary schools in KCSE. The study recommends that public secondary schools should be adequately equipped with more ICT infrastructure, digitize classroom content, increase capacity development for ICT and allocate more funds to procure ICT devices to improve KCSE performance. The study further suggests that research should be carried out to investigate the influence of ICT integration projects on the new curriculum goals of public secondary schools in KCSE.

Linda Mama provides a package of basic health services accessed by all in the targeted population on the basis of need and not ability to pay, positioning Kenya on the pathway to Universal Health Coverage (UHC). Linda mama's goal is to "Achieve universal cases to maternal and child health services and contribute to the country's progress towards UHC" Despite its considerable success Linda Mama has still faced a number of challenges. However existing studies have not examined project management practices and uptake of Linda mama services. In light of these contextual gaps, this study aimed to assess the influence of project management practices on Linda Mama services uptake in Kirinyaga County. The purpose of the study was to investigate the project management practices and uptake of Linda mama services in Kirinyaga County, Kenya. Specifically, the objectives were to assess the influence of project initiation process on the uptake of Linda Mama services in Kirinyaga County, to establish the influence of project planning process on uptake of Linda Mama services in Kirinyaga County, to establish the influence of project implementation process on the uptake of Linda Mama services in Kirinyaga County. The study was conducted in Kirinyaga County. The study adopted descriptive research design and targeted 293 respondents (112health workers and senior managers and 191 pregnant mothers and nursing mothers) in Kirinyaga County as its target population. Non probability sampling that included convenience and probability sampling was used to select respondents. Using structured questionnaires, data was gathered from primary sources. Descriptive statistics (mean and frequencies) and subsequently inferential statistics (ANOVA)were used to analyze data collected. The study findings from the health workers data revealed that project initiation (β=0.298, p=0.02), project planning (β=0.623, p=0.001), and project implementation (β=0.129, p=0.032) have statistical significant relationship with uptake of Linda Mama. The study findings from the pregnant and nursing mothers also indicated that project initiation (β=0.422, p=0.02), project planning (β=0.303, p=0.036), and project implementation (β=0.118, p=0.000) have statistical significant relationship with uptake of Linda Mama. The study concluded that project initiation, project planning and project implementation influences uptake of Linda mama. The study recommended that the government should give prioritization of project management in uptake of Linda Mama Services. The study contributes to enhancing maternal policy in Kenya and knowledge on effectiveness of maternal programmes in developing countries.

Information security has become an important aspect in today’s business environment, where all operations are technology centered. Over the years lots of effort has been put to ensure that organizations manage information security in a standardized manner. There are several frameworks and standards such as COBIT, ITIL and ISO/IEC 27001 that have been proposed for this purpose. In this work the focus was on ISO/IEC 27001 which is an international standard that provides specification for an Information Security Management System (ISMS). The standard is designed to assist large and small enterprises to manage their information security processes in line with international best practice. Small and Medium-sized Enterprises (SMEs) usually find it difficult to comprehensively implement the prescriptive requirements of the standard. This study proposes a toolkit approach in helping SMEs implement the requirements of the standard. It proposes and develops an ISO/IEC 27001 information security toolkit as a prototype for guiding organizations in implementing information security controls. Apart from toolkit design and implementation, the study also assesses the toolkit and its usability. Results indicated that majority of SMEs would embrace the toolkit and that it can be of great importance in guiding them implement controls of the standard. Furthermore, the study found out that with further enhancement of the toolkit features, to incorporate all aspects of ISO 27001 standard, the toolkit can be used for both large enterprises and small enterprises in implementing the standard requirements.

Digitization and changes in technological trends have necessitated the need for enterprises to start or have plans of migrating their services to cloud computing environments. This is to benefit from the many advantages that come with cloud computing. Third party providers whom majorly consume multi-tenancy architectures mainly offer the cloud platforms. This come with some challenges mostly when it comes to trust. The cloud consumers and cloud providers agree on some cloud service level agreements. Mostly the consumers have faith that they benefit from what they have agreed with the provider but lack a way of verifying the SLAs as well as doing QoS monitoring on their own. This research project focuses on coming up with a multi-tenancy cloud trust model using QoS monitoring. Our key focus was the infrastructure as a service cloud model. It also involved developing a prototype to show case the proposed model. The overall research strategy employed was exploratory. The model developed assists cloud consumers to be able to evaluate cloud services before they purchase services. This prevents them from leasing already congested clouds, or which do not meet their specifications. They also have the capability of continuous QoS monitoring of the cloud environment in real time when need be. On the other hand, cloud providers also benefit from the trust provided by our model because it might lead to good company reputation making them to sell more.