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Item AI-ENABLED CULTURAL HERITAGE PRESERVATION AND A BROWSER-BASED VIRTUAL MUSEUM: DESIGN AND IMPLEMENTATION OF A KENYA COASTAL HERITAGE PLATFORM(Open Access Research Journal of Science and Technology,, 2026-09-29) Anwar Hood Ahmed, Mathew Egessa, Patrick Oginga, Collins Becky and Titus NyandoroCoastal Kenya holds a wide-ranging cultural heritage expressed in material artefacts, oral traditions, indigenous and local languages, historical knowledge, and everyday community practices. Yet these resources are increasingly strained by modernisation and global circulation, shifting modes of cultural transmission, and gaps in systematic documentation. This study reports the design and implementation of the Kenya Coastal Heritage Digital Platform produced under the Leveraging Artificial Intelligence for the Preservation and Promotion of Coastal Cultural Heritage in Kenya (LAIPCH-K) project. The study examines how the project’s initially AI-focused aims were converted into a connected digital heritage system comprising a public heritage repository, a curator-mediated curation dashboard, and a browser-based virtual museum. Structured metadata, verified artefact records, multilingual resources, storytelling and oral-history materials, interactive 3D artefacts, and community-oriented governance arrangements are integrated into a single workflow. The virtual museum combines Three.js, WebGL, WebXR, Web Audio, and Web Speech, with procedurally generated Swahili inspired architectural elements, first-person navigation, on-demand loading of validated 3D artefacts, and an animated multilingual cultural guide named Amina. The study follows a digital-heritage design and implementation pathway grounded in the LAIPCH-K proposal, project documentation, engineering specifications, and prototype development. The results demonstrate an operational pipeline linking heritage contribution to curation and validation, metadata management, publication, and immersive presentation. The evidence does not, however, establish visitor learning outcomes, community satisfaction, AI-model performance, or broader socioeconomic effects. The study argues that durable digital heritage preservation depends on aligning technical systems with metadata practice, provenance, cultural validation, multilingual representation, accessibility, governance, and sustained community participation.Item MODERATING ROLE OF ENTREPRENEURIAL ORIENTATION ON THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY COMPETENCE AND FIRM PERFORMANCE IN KENYA(International Journal of Professional Business Review,, 2017-12-27) Stanley Ndungu, Kenneth Wanjau, Robert Gichira, Waweru MwangiThis study explored moderating role of entrepreneurial orientation on the relationship between Information Technology Competence and firm performance in Kenya. The impact of IT on FP remains debatable to-date because some results of previous studies have had high variations resulting from diversities in the conceptualization of the key constructs and their interrelationship, coupled with the exclusion of intangible effect of IT on performance. In Kenya, SMEs employ about 85 percent of the workforce. The need to link ITC with FP has become vital for firms striving to achieve superior performance. However, limited attention has been paid to the link and more so to the moderating role of EO on ITC- FP relationship model. To better understand this relationship, this paper adopted a mixed methods research guided by cross-sectional survey design. Quantitative and qualitative techniques were employed to analyze the collected data using SPSS, Ms-Excel, AMOS, SmartPLS, STATA, R-GUI and ATLAS.ti analytical softwares. Analyses were conducted using a two-phase process consisting of CFA and SEM models. The theoretical models and hypotheses were tested based on empirical data gathered from 94 SMEs in the 2013 Top 100 Survey. The study found that ITC had a positive relationship with FP. The results also revealed that EO did not significantly moderate the relationship between ITC and FP in Kenya. However, when run with the interaction term, the Technical (ITC and ISRA)*EO was statistically significant at 10% α-level. This study will enhance the skill set in Kenyan SMEs and produce a more sustainable solution.