Dlamini, Sifiso BHerselman, Martha EMarais, Mario A2025-05-122025-05-122018-08978-0-620-79456-5http://hdl.handle.net/10204/14251The focus and aim of this paper is to indicate what aspects should be considered when developing a definition of community resilience for the South African context, with a special focus on using ICT in rural educational contexts. The aspects will be constituted by applying a scoping literature review ranging from 2014-2018 and examine the size and scale of research activities on the following concepts/search terms: resilience, social resilience, community resilience, community focused resilience, adaptive capacity and social capital. We investigated international electronic databases including ACM digital library, Scopus, IEEE Xplore, Harzings software and ScienceDirect, ISI Web of Science and Google Scholar. The search terms were using the topic of a paper, the keywords as well as the abstracts. Extracted data were analyzed in terms of resilience definitions, types of resilience, domains, and community resilience assessment. Results: A table with the most important concepts to consider were developed based on the scoping review where only 17 papers were found to be best suited to the purpose of the paper out of 675 publications initially identified. These produced an interesting list of aspects to consider with relating to the definition of community resilience which can be applied when developing this definition specifically for a South African context where ICT is applied in rural education. Considerable inter dependency between and among aspects of the concept community resilience also emerged from this analysis and a Wordle is provided to summarize the most essential aspects to consider at the end of the paperFulltextenCommunity resilienceEcosystemsScoping reviewAdaptive capacitySocial capitalConference Presentation21285