Information systems and developing countries: Failure, success, and local improvisations

R Heeks - The information society, 2002 - Taylor & Francis
… — many information systems in developing countries can be cate… affect IS in developing
countries: country context gaps and … local IS improvisations in developing countries. Overall, the …

Information systems in developing countries: a critical research review

C Avgerou - Journal of information Technology, 2008 - journals.sagepub.com
Information Systems (IS) research on how developing countries have attempted to benefit
from information … change that coexist in information systems in developing countries (ISDC) …

Research on information systems in developing countries: Current landscape and future prospects

G Walsham, S Sahay - Information technology for development, 2006 - Taylor & Francis
… of the information systems research literature concerned with developing countries is …
a conceptual view as to how to study information and communication technologies (ICTs) in …

Foreword: Special issue on information systems in developing countries

G Walsham, D Robey, S Sahay - MIS quarterly, 2007 - JSTOR
… tion Systems and Organizational Deep Structures") investi gate the implementation of strategic
information systems (SIS) in a developing country … of a hospital information system by the …

Networks of action: sustainable health information systems across developing countries

J Braa, E Monteiro, S Sahay - MIS quarterly, 2004 - JSTOR
… in developing countries. The first concerns the challenge to make an information system
This involves shaping and adapting the systems to a given context, cultivating local learning …

Information systems as social systems: Implications for developing countries

G Walsham, V Symons, T Waema - … Technology for Development, 1988 - Taylor & Francis
systems strategy. We next consider the relevance of these cases in a developing country
The implications of our approach for information systems in developing countries are then …

Developing health information systems in developing countries: the flexible standards strategy

J Braa, O Hanseth, A Heywood, W Mohammed… - Mis Quarterly, 2007 - JSTOR
… This article addresses the issue of strategies for developing information infrastructure … the
development of information systems support for the health care sector in developing countries

Failure, success and improvisation of information systems projects in developing countries

R Heeks - Development Informatics Working Paper, 2002 - papers.ssrn.com
… This can happen in a number of ways, but the domain of developing country information
systems is particularly dominated by the transfer of Northern designs to Southern realities. This …

Implementing public information systems in developing countries: Learning from a success story

S Krishna, G Walsham - … Technology for Development, 2005 - Wiley Online Library
… Walsham [1993] analyses a case that is typical: “Information systems were … of information
systems in developing countries. In this paper we report on two large scale IT systems

Health information systems in developing countries: benefits, problems, and prospects

MC Azubuike, JE Ehiri - The journal of the Royal Society for …, 1999 - journals.sagepub.com
… organised health information system is felt in most developing countries, the resource
implication could pose a strong barrier to its development and maintenance. For such a system to …