10th International Conference on Social Implications of Computers in Developing Countries

Dubai School of Government (DSG) and International Federation for Information Processing (IFIP)

Dubai, United Arab Emirates
May 26-28, 2009

Agenda

DAY ONE

 

		Room 1 - L13 - Auditorium (Red ROOM)				Room 2 - L13 - BREAK OUT ROOMS				Room 3 - L7 - EDPA CLASSROOM
Tuesday 5/26/2009		DAY ONE
09.00-09.30		Welcome & Introduction
		DSG Welcome	Tarik Yousef, Dean, Dubai School of Government
		Chairs Introduction	Brian Nicholson
09.30-10.45		Plenary Address
		Discourses on Innovation and Development in Information Systems in Developing Countries Research	Chrisanthi Avgerou
10.45 - 11.15		TEA/COFFEE
11.15-12.45		ICT Policy				Health Information Systems
		Chair - Hossana Twinomurzi				Chair - Fatma Abdulla
		FP: What determines broadband uptake in emerging countries? An empirical study	Mona Farid Badran, Adla Ragab, Ahmed El Sherbini			FP: IT innovation in a Health Information System in Kenya: Implications for a sustainable open source software model in Developing Countries	Roberta Bernardi
		FP:Expertise Determinism and Selective Forgetting: ICT initiatives and Policy in Developing Countries	Chris Westrup, Saheer Al Jaghoub			WIP: Complex Dynamics In The Socio-Technical Infrastructure: The Case Of The Nigerian Health Management Information System	Ime Asangansi, Jerome Shaguy
		FP:Contextualizing ICT for sustainable development: an institutional account of the Amazon rainforest monitoring system	Raoni Guerra Lucas Rajao, Niall Hayes			WIP:From information for decision making to information for keeping core knowledge updated – health managers who know their population	Zufan Damtew, Jens Kaasbøll, Louisa Williamson
12.45 - 14:00		LUNCH
14.00-15.30		Theoretical Aspects of IT4D				Health Information Systems				E-policies in developing contexts (Panel Discussion)
		Chair- Jens Kaasbøll				Chair - Chrisanthi Avgerou				Chair - Gianluca Miscione
		WIP: Towards a Critical-Interpretive Approach to ICT4D in government	Hossana Twinomurinzi, Jackie Phahlamohlaka, Elaine Byrne			WIP:From Centralization to Coordination: in the institutionalization of the integrated Health Information System in Zanzibar	Yahya Hamad Sheikh			E-Policies and Rhetoric: free or for-a-fee access to geographic data	Yola Georgiadou
		PR:The Multiple Perspectives Approach as a framework to analyse social systems in a developing country context	Marita Turpin, Jackie Phahlamohlaka, Mario Marais			FP:THE RELATIONSHIPS BETWEEN ECONOMIC, CULTURAL FACTORS, AND THE NETWORK READINESS OF AFRICAN NATIONS: A TEN-COUNTRY DATA ANALYSIS	Princely Ifinedo			E-Policies as Artefacts: How They are Constructed, Circulate, and Consumed	Chris Westrup
		FP:Translations as Shaped by Installed Base and Actors’ Interests	Nigussie Tadesse Mengesha			FP: The data to indicator (mis)match: Experiences from trying to strengthen this link in the Health Information System in Tajikistan	Sundeep Sahay, Murodillo Latifov			e-Policy for Sub-Saharan AFRICA:  Accelerating the Development and Transformation of Human Capital and Reducing Poverty	Muhammadou Kah, Jainaba Kah
15.30 - 16.00		TEA/COFFEE
16.00-17.30		ICT Policy
		Chair - Abiodun Bada
		FP:Aligning national policy imperatives with internal information systems innovations: A case study of an Open Source Enterprise Content Management System in the South African Public Sector	Lizette Weilbach, Elaine Byrne
		FP:INVESTIGATING PERCEPTION OF THE ROLE OF ICT TOWARDS THE QUALITY OF LIFE OF PEOPLE IN RURAL COMMUNITIES IN UGANDA	Florence Nameere Kivunike, Love Ekenberg, Mats Danielson, F. F. Tusubira
		WIP:TRYING TO DEVELOP INFORMATION SOCIETY IN ALBANIA. A Case Study	Neki Frasheri
18:30		DSG Distinguished Lecture Series: "How Can Today's Globalized Temples of Consumption Avoid Becoming Tomorrow's Global Dinosaurs?”	George Ritzer