Abstract
The focus of the study was to study the influence an individual's cultural intelligence has on their technology acceptance. The study was done with third-year education students at the Hifikepunye Pohamba campus, one of the University of Namibia campuses in Namibia. A survey instrument was used to collect data using two existing instruments to measure students' technology acceptance and cultural intelligence, namely the Unified Theory of Acceptance and Use of Technology (UTAUT), modified to fit the context, and the Cultural Intelligence Scale (CIS). Literature was used to indicate that the items of the instruments used in the questionnaire had been validated in different contexts. Furthermore, Confirmatory factor analysis was done to confirm the fit of the items in the instruments used. The regression analysis was used to study the relationship among the variables. The results indicate that metacognitive motivation and behaviour had a significant positive influence on predicting technology acceptance, while the cognitive construct had no significant influence on predicting technology acceptance. The cultural intelligence constructs predicted the variance of technology acceptance with 51.1%, indicating an important relationship between the two variables.