Lighton Phiri

Full Name

Lighton Phiri

Email Address

lighton.phiriATunza.zm

Role

Academic Staff

Research Interests

Data Mining

Digital Libraries

Technology-Enhanced Learning

Biography

Lighton Phiri is a Lecturer and Researcher in the Department of Library and Information Science at The University of Zambia. He was awarded a PhD in Computer Science at the University of Cape Town. His broad research interests lie within the areas of Digital Libraries and Data Mining. He also has on-going research interest in Information and Communication Technologies for Development (ICT4D) and Technology-Enhanced Learning.

Projects

Automatic Classification of IR Objects

Smart IR Deposit Platform

Scholarly Research Output Online Visibility

Zambia National ETD Portal

Enterprise Medical Imaging

Educational Data Mining

Publications

**2022**
Zulu, Ernest Obbie, and Lighton Phiri. 2022. “Enterprise Medical Imaging For Improved Radiological Workflows: Towards An Interoperable And Standards-Based Medical Imaging Platform In Public Health Facilities In Zambia”. In Zambia Digital Health Conference 2022. Lusaka, Zambia: Ministry of Health. https://www.moh.gov.zm/?wpfb_dl=160.	More Info.
Zulu, Ernest Obbie, and Lighton Phiri. 2022. “Enterprise Medical Imaging In The Global South: Challenges And Opportunities”. In 2022 Ist-Africa Conference. IEEE.	More Info.
Chanda, Mulenga, Elizabeth Chirwa, Mirriam Kamanga, Mwenya Kayula, and Lighton Phiri. 2022. “Factors Influencing Co-Creation Of Open Education Resources Using Learning Object Repositories”. In 14Th International Conference On Computer Supported Education (Csedu 2022), 405-412. SciTePress. doi:10.5220/0011090300003182.	More Info.

**2021**
Mbewe, Mathews, Mathews Mwewa, Moonga Habukali, Nandi Sikazindu, Nozyenji Mwale, and Lighton Phiri. 2021. “Effective Ingestion Of Digital Objects In Institutional Repositories Using Subject Repositories”. In 2021 Ist-Africa Conference (Ist-Africa), xxx-xxx. South Africa: IEEE. https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9576906.	More Info.
Chipangila, Bertha, Eric Liswaniso, Andrew Mawila, Philomena Mwanza, Daisy Nawila, Robert Msendo, Mayumbo Nyirenda, and Lighton Phiri. 2021. “Improved Discoverability Of Digital Objects In Institutional Repositories Using Controlled Vocabularies”. In 2021 Acm/Ieee Joint Conference On Digital Libraries (Jcdl 2021). Champaign, IL, USA: IEEE. doi:https://doi.org/10.1109/JCDL52503.2021.00022.	More Info.