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Global Information Technology and Socio-Economic Development: 23 scholarly chapters by 30 authors (ISBN: 0-9648382-1-4); Editor: Mayuri Odedra-Straub; Order Now!
This 1997 book is still widely used by Information Technology, Public Administration, Economics and Industrial Organization users.
Represents a goldmine of research ideas and frameworks......Journal of Global Information Management
Chapter Titles/Authors ( chapter abstracts available on request):
1. Introduction (by: Mayuri Odedra-Straub)
2. Implementation of information technology projects and economic development: issues, problems and strategies (By: Tim Waema)
3. Sustainability of governmental use of micro-computer based information technology in Kenya (By: Gordon Z. Oyomno)
4. Good use and misuse of analysis applications for decision support in enterprises (By: Per Lind)
5. Geographic information systems for development planning in India: Challenges and opportunities (By: Shirin Madon and Sundeep Sahay)
6. The potential of information technology in the management of African crisis: Computers and AIDS (By: Katherine Getao and John Odhiambo)
7. The use of computer supported cooperative education to achieve development (By: Madelise Grobler)
8. Challenges in the use of information technology in preserving and accessing oral literature in Kenya (By: Muchugu Kiiru)
9. Opportunities fir IT enhancing socio-economic development of a developing country (By: G.E. Kiangi and K. Tjipanganjara)
10. Structural change via information technology in the Irish civil service: An interpretive case study (By: Brian O'Flaherty and Marie J. Cooney)
11. Applications of information technology in Grameen Bank (By: Subhash Bhatnagar)
12. Transferability of information technology and organisational practices (By: Christianthi Avgerou)
13. Computer systems development for "delinking" in Nigeria (By: Mikko Korpela)
14. Decentralisation, primary health care and information technology in developing countries: Case studies from Mongolia and South Africa (By: Jorn Braa)
15. Building a system within its context: A case study of Petroleos Mexicanos (By: Natalia Volkow)
16. MIS and systems analysis application in China: A case study from Research Institute of Standards and Norms (By: Simon Bell and Mingzhe Li)
17. A pluralistic approach to information systems development: What can it offer to the developing world (By: Linda Lai)
18. Mexico's nation health information system analysis: Identification of a problem situation (By: Cesar A. Macias-Chapula)
19. An information technology policy towards development in developing country: The situation in South Africa (By: A.P.S. Olivier)
20. The Indian information technology industry: Adapting to globalisation and policy change in the 1990s (By: G.H. Harindranath and Jonathan Liebeau)
21. Software development capabilities - a comparative analysis: India vs. the Philippines (By: C.J. Meadows)
22. A bill of rights for the information age which recognises the Third World (By: J.D. Roode and N.F. du Plooy)
23. Upgrading telecommunications infrastructure for fast I.T. diffusion: Brazil's Challenges (By: Renata La Rovere)
