User Acceptance on Coffee Farm-to-Market Information System in the Philippines: A Conceptual Framework

Author(s):  
Teresita R. Tolentino ◽  
Alexander A. Hernandez
2020 ◽  
Vol 16 (4) ◽  
pp. 39-57
Author(s):  
Teresita R. Tolentino ◽  
Alexander Arcenio Hernandez

An agricultural market information system with analytics is considered valuable in farming activities in developing countries. However, due to several factors, the agricultural market information system with analytics adoption remains limited. The paper aims to understand the factors that may influence users' intention to adopt the agricultural market information system with analytics in the coffee farming sector. The developed framework considered two external variables—computer self-efficacy and system complexity based on the technology acceptance model—through a field survey conducted in coffee farm sites and rural agriculture offices in the Philippines. The results show that the system's perceived usefulness has nothing to do with the computer self-efficacy and system complexity. On the other hand, the perceived ease of use is affected by computer self-efficacy alone and not with system complexity. Also, the perceived ease of use affects both the perceived usefulness and attitude towards using the system. Thus, solving the issues of perceived ease of use by providing training to gain computer skills will ensure the positive implications of perceived usefulness and attitude towards using. This study also discussed some practical and research implications.


Health Policy ◽  
2006 ◽  
Vol 78 (1) ◽  
pp. 26-38 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yves Eggli ◽  
Patricia Halfon ◽  
Mehdi Chikhi ◽  
Till Bandi

Author(s):  
Darmawan Napitupulu ◽  
Rahmi Kartika Jati ◽  
Janner Simarmata ◽  
Leon Andretti Abdillah ◽  
Muhammad Ikhsan Setiawan ◽  
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2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 94-99
Author(s):  
Farida Ardiani

Online Public Access Catalog (OPAC) is one of the e-catalog information technologies applied in libraries. OPAC is a library information retrieval system that can be accessed online. State Islamic University of Sunan Kalijaga Yogyakarta has been using OPAC since 2012 and OPAC users are increasing from year to year. An information system will be used by users if it suits their needs. The successful implementation of OPAC raises questions about the factors that influence this success. For this reason, this study aims to determine the factors that influence users to use OPAC. Structural Equation Modeling (SEM) is a multivariate statistical technique which is a combination of factor analysis and regression analysis (correlation) which aims to examine the relationships between variables in a model. Processing using SEM will be carried out to find the relationship between the variables to be tested, which variables are interconnected, and are there any unrelated variables. The results of processing the variables using SEM can show what variables attract users to use the e-catalog. Acceptance of information systems can be measured by several evaluation models that have been developed at this time. There are many evaluation models used to measure. Technology Acceptance Model (TAM) is the appropriate model to use for this study, because this study is about the acceptance of a system. In addition, several previous studies used by researchers as references also used TAM as their study method to assess user acceptance of a system. This study modifies TAM, which is used to determine user acceptance of an information system, by adding three exogenous variables, information quality, perceived enjoyment, and user interface. Results of this study proved that information quality, user interface, perceived usefulness, perceived ease of use, and behavioral intention to use, are all factors that influence the actual use of OPAC. Perceived enjoyment is a variable that cannot be proved affects the actual use of OPAC.


2003 ◽  
Author(s):  

In September 2000, the Population Council launched a nine-month project to test the effectiveness of teams of “policy champions” to increase the utilization of operations research (OR) findings in reproductive health (RH) policy and programs in the Philippines. The team members, chosen from government, nongovernment, academic, and media institutions, received three days of orientation to become policy champions. The strategy was built upon evidence that local decision-makers in decentralized health systems often have little knowledge of RH, and rarely use research findings in their decision-making. The effort focused on using a research-tested community-based monitoring and information system to help providers identify and respond to unmet need for family planning. As noted in this brief, the approach of involving teams of mobilized policy champions proved effective at influencing program managers to use a research-tested information system for identifying clients with unmet need for family planning. This approach was adopted by regional and national organizations, which plan to expand use of the management tool.


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