Draft:Abdisalam Issa-Salwe

Abdisalam Issa-Salwe is currently Vice Chancellor of East Africa University. He is a professor of information systems/ Information Management at the Faculty of Information Science and Technology.

His research interests include Strategic Alignment of IT/IS with Business Strategy, Strategic Information Systems Planning (SISP), Systems Thinking to Solve Business Strategies, and Curriculum Development, Analysing organisational situation to help with better decision making.

He has been Asst/associate Professor in Information Systems in the Faculty of Computer Science and Engineering at Taibah University in Medina, Saudi Arabia. Between June 2003 to June 2008. He was a lecturer in Information Systems at Thames Valley University in the United Kingdom, and between 1992 to early 2003 he also worked as an Information Technology lecturer in the Training & Employment Centre of the British Refugee Council.

Before joining Taibah University, he was a Lecturer at Thames Valley University, UK. He graduated with a Ph.D. in Information Management from Thames Valley University, UK. His research interests include: Systems thinking to information systems development, evaluation and management, Information Security.

Issa-Salwe has MSc in Computing & Information Systems from School of Computing and Mathematical Sciences, University of Greenwich, London, UK), and MA in Political Studies from School of Humanities & Social Sciences (University of Greenwich, London, UK).

Issa-Salwe's primary areas of research interest include information systems management and implications of systems thinking in complex problem formulation and systems design. He is engaged in the research field of information management/ information systems, using systems thinking as a worldview. (Dool, 2004)

Issa-Salwe is also a specialist in political history and matters pertaining to the Horn of Africa, and has published several works dealing with the region in general within the field of Somali studies.(Dool, 2004)

Major works and publications

I. Academic Journals

1.	Abdisalam M Issa-Salwe and Abdullahi Salah Osman. Has Prime Minister Abiye Ahmed Failed History at The School? Failure In History May Lead Him To Failure In Leadership

January 10, 2024. Wardheernews.com,

2.	Abdisalam M Issa-Salwe, Abdi Ahmed Mohamed (Baffo), and Said Ahmed Ali Maah. Controlling Quality Standards to Enhance Higher Educational Quality Assurance. Advances in Social Sciences Research Journal – Vol. 10, No. 4. April 25, 2023.

3.	Abdisalam M. Issa-Salwe and Said Ahmed Ali Maah (2022): Standardising Curriculum Development in the Higher Education Institutions using Higher Education Commission. Advances in Social Sciences Research Journal – Vol. 9, No 8

4.	Abdisalam M. Issa-Salwe and Abdullahi Salah Osman (April 25, 2023): Why Has Somaliland Not Been Recognised as A Sovereign State? Advances in Social Sciences Research Journal – Vol. 10, No. 4.

5.	Abdisalam M Issa-Salwe and Abdifatah D Shafat (2022): Somalia and the Islamist War: Assessing the Probability of Al-Shabab Winning or Losing the War with Somalia. Advances in Social Sciences Research Journal – Vol. 9, No 6.

6.	Abdisalam M Issa-Salwe (2022): How Are SMEs with STEM Education Critical for a National Sustainability Development? Journal of Sustainable Development Studies. Vol 15, No 2

7.	Abdisalam Issa-Salwe (2020): Fostering the Educational Policies of Somalia: Resolving Somalia’s Underdeveloped Economy through the Educational Sustainability Development”, Journal of Sustainable Development Studies, July 2020, Vol 13, No. 2.

8.	Abdisalam Issa-Salwe. Adapting UN Sustainable Development Goals to Somali Situation: Using Puntland Somalia as a Case Study, Journal of Sustainable Development Studies, February2020, Vol 13, No 1.

9.	Hoda MF Wahba, Tamer H. Emara, Ahmed Elbokl, Muhyadin Hassan Mohamed, Abdisalam M. Issa-Salwe and Abdalla Abdisalam Du’al  (2020): The Feasibility of the ‘Treat and Teach’ Telemedicine Package: the Somali Pilot. Health and Technology (2020) 10:1515–1523

10.	Abdisalam Issa-Salwe (2016): “Survey of Information Systems Undergraduate Programmes Taught at Saudi Arabian Universities”, International Journal of Educational Research, 2016.

11.	Abdisalam Issa-Salwe and Khurram Mustafa (2016): Security Assurance through Strategic Information Systems Planning, International Journal of Latest Trends in Engineering and Technology.

12.	Abdisalam Issa-Salwe (2011): “A Comparison of Information Systems Programmes Taught to Undergraduates at Saudi Arabian Colleges”. International Journal of Engineering and Advanced Technology (IJEAT), Volume-5 Issue-2, December 2011

13.	Abdisalam M. Issa-Salwe, “Organizational Planning for Information Systems Strategies”, Journal of E-Technology, 49-53, Vol. 2, Issue 2, May 2011

14.	Abdisalam M. Issa-Salwe, “A Supplementary Web-Based Open-Learning Model for Undergraduate Projects”, The International Journal of Information Studies (IJIS), Volume 3, Number 3, July 2011.

15.	Muhammad Kabir, Abdisalam M. Issa-Salwe and Munir Ahmed, “Modelling and Simulation: Implementing Selective Catalytic Reduction Catalyst for Removal of Nitrogen Oxides from Exhaust Gas of Combustion Engines”, International Journal of Vehicle Systems Modelling and Testing, (IJVSMT), InderScience, Vol. 5, No.4 pp. 358 – 378. 2010.

16.	Muhammad Noman Kabir, Abdisalam M. Issa-Salwe and Munir Ahmed: “Simplified Model of Combustion Process in a Diesel Engine for Real Time Operation”, International Journal of Vehicle Systems Modelling and Testing, (IJVSMT), InderScience, Vol. 5, No.4 pp. 358 – 378. 2010.

17.	Abdisalam M. Issa-Salwe, Munir Ahmed, Khalid Aloufi and Muhammad Kabir.

”Strategic Information Systems Alignment: Alignment of IS/IT with Business Strategy”, Journal of Information Processing Systems, Vol.6, No.1, March 2010.

II. Publications from my dissertation

1.	Abdisalam M Issa-Salwe. “The Internet Medium and Poetry Transmission: The Poetry Combat of Doodwanaag”, Halabuur Centre for Culture and Communication, 2: 1, 12-19. 2009.

2.	Abdisalam M. Issa-Salwe and Anthony Olden. “Somali Web Sites, History and Politics, Aslib Proceedings”, Information Management Journal, 60: 6, 570-582. 2008.

3.	Abdisalam M Issa-Salwe, “The Internet and the Somali Diaspora: The Web as a Means of Expression”, Bildhaan, Journal of Somali Studies: Vol. 6, Article 8. 2006

III. Conferences/Workshops Publications

1.	Abdisalam Issa-Salwe (September 2023):  “Somalia Needs A Systematic Sustainable Peacebuilding Solution to Exist As A Nation State”. Paper presented at the PDRC Annual Peace-Learning Conference between 21-23 September 2023. Garowe, Puntland, Somalia.

2.	Abdisalam Issa-Salwe (July 2023 ):  “Why Somali Peacebuilding Has Been Hard to be Achieved”. Presented at the East Africa Association for Research and Development (DAD), 22-23 July 2023. Mogadishu, Somalia.

3.	Abdisalam Issa-Salwe, “A Decentralised Political System Is Life for the Somali Midnimo”, PDRC Research Paper, September 2021.

4.	Abdisalam Issa-Salwe “Fostering the Educational Policies of Somalia: Resolving Somalia’s

Underdeveloped Economy through Educational Sustainability Development”, Journal of Sustainable Development Studies, July 2020, Vol 13, No. 2.

5.	Abdisalam Issa-Salwe, Fostering Education to Boost Sustainability Development, Puntland Investment Forum 15-17 September 2019.

6.	Abdisalam Issa-Salwe, Diaspora and the Adoption of Web and Mailing List Technology. Somali Media and Diaspora Workshop Programme in Comparative Media Law & Policy Centre for Socio-Legal Studies University of Oxford, June 29-30, 2012.

7.	Abdisalam M. Issa-Salwe and Khalid Aloufi, “Integrating Competitive Advantage with Strategic Information Systems Planning: A Review”, Business and Information Proceedings, Volume 8, Issue 1, 2011, Academy of Taiwan Information Systems Research, Bangkok, Thailand.

8.	Mohamed A. Azim, Mohamed Noman Kabir, Munir Ahmed, Abdisalam M. Issa-Salwe, (2009): “Availability Analysis of M:N Protection System in WDM Networks”, The Fourth International Conference on Ubiquitous Information Technologies and Applications (ICTU 2009), IEEE Conference, Fukuoka, Japan, Dec. 20-22, 2009.

9.	Abdisalam m Issa-Salwe, Historical Perspective On The Challenge Facing The Somali Sacral Unity Paper Presented At "Il Corno D’africa Fra Storia, Diritto E Politica", Rome, 13-14 December 2002

10.	Abdisalam M Issa-Salwe, “The Welfare State of The Somali Nation: A Possible Solution to the Somali Dilemma” in Pour Une Culture de la Paix en Somalie, Mohamed Mohamed-Abdi et Partice Bernard, (eds.) (Paris, Association Européenne des Etudes Somaliennes, 1997).

IV. Book /Book Chapter Publications

1.	Book Chapter: Abdisalam M. Issa-Salwe, Nasrullah K. Khilji, and Stephen A. Roberts (2024): “Chapter 12: Transitions in Information Systems Education: Confronting Technological and Societal Change in the Face of Global Realities and Disparities” in Teaching Information Systems. Mark Hwang (Ed). Edward Elgar Publishing.a

2.	Book Chapter: Abdisalam Issa-Salwe, Stephen Roberts and Nasrullah Khilji: “Trend and Model Curriculum Quality Assurance and Accreditation in Higher Education”, Handbook of Teaching and Learning in Information Systems. Mark Hwang (Ed). Edward Elgar Publishing (due date January 2024).

3.	Book Chapter: Abdisalam Issa-Salwe, Stephen Roberts and Nasrullah Khilji: “Trend and Model Curriculum Quality Assurance and Accreditation in Higher Education”, Handbook of Teaching and Learning in Information Systems. Mark Hwang (Ed). Edward Elgar Publishing (due date January 2024).

4.	Book Chapter: Abdisalam Issa-Salwe (2020): The Mullah: Sayyid Mohammed Abdullah Hassan and his Movement, in Scovazzi, T. and E. Carpanelli (Ed). The Origins of Italian Colonization in Somalia: Political and Legal Aspects of Italian Colonialism in Somalia (pp. 75-134). Collection of the Department of Law of the Milano-Bicocca University, G. Giappichelli Editore. Turin, Italy.

5.	Abdirazak Haji Hussein (2017): My Role in the Foundation of the Somali Nation-State, A Political Memoir; Abdisalam Issa-Salwe (Ed), the Red Sea Press, USA. (ISBN-10: 1569025312; ISBN-13: 978-1569025314).

6.	Abdisalam M. Issa-Salwe (2010): Electronic Communication and an Oral Culture: The Dynamics of Social Web Environment Case Study, LAP Lambert Academic Publishing. 2010 (ISBN-10: 3838349350; ISBN-13: 978-3838349350)

7.	Abdisalam M. Issa-Salwe (2010):Oral Culture and Computer Mediated Communication: Social Dynamics of Mailing Lists, LAP Lambert Academic Publishing. 2010 (ISBN-10: 3838346009; ISBN-13: 978-3838346007)

8.	Abdisalam M. Issa-Salwe (1996): The Collapse of the Somali State: The Impact of the Colonial Legacy, Haan Associates Publishers, 1996, ISBN-10: 187420991X; ISBN-13: 978-1874209911).

9.	Abdisalam M. Issa-Salwe (2000): Cold War Fallout: Boundary Politics and Conflict in the Horn of Africa, Haan Associates Publishers, 2000, (ISBN-10: 1874209839; ISBN-13: 978-1874209836).

10. Abdisalam M. Issa-Salwe:  The Failure of The Daraawiish State: The Clash Between Somali Clanship and State System, Paper Presented at the 5th International Congress of Somali Studies

December 1993 - Thames Valley University, London, UK

Dissertation

Electronic Communication and an Oral Culture: The Dynamics of Somali Websites and Mailing Lists – unpublished doctoral dissertation, Thames Valley University, UK, November 2005

References

Dool, Abdullahi (2000). Somalia: a creative political philosophy for the new Somali generation, Issue 3 of Somalia (London, England). Horn Heritage Publications. http://books.google.ca/books?id=PF6NAAAAMAAJ.