PhD Theses

2025

  • Information Infrastructural Violence - A Critical, Intersectional Study of the Consequences of Gender Recategorization in Government Information Infrastructures. Katherine Wyers (link).
  • The Role of Health Management Information Systems for Informed Action: An Effective Use Perspective. Josue Kuika Watat (duo.uio.no).
  • The Digitalization of Health Information Systems and Its Impact on the Health Manager’s Empowerment in Bangladesh. Abu Sadat Mohammad Sayem (duo.uio.no).

2024

  • Chasing freedom: Dilemmas and capabilities in Information and Communication Technology available to persons who use drugs seeking social harm reduction. Carolyn Kavita Tauro (duo.uio.no).
  • Liminal Digital Innovation: Understanding digital innovation during a crisis. Ragnhild Bassøe Gundersen (duo.uio.no).
  • Historical Analysis of the Institutional Dynamics Surrounding the Implementation of Health Management Information System in Developing Countries: The Case of Mozambique. Nilza Eliana Correia de Lemos Collinson (duo.uio.no).
  • Towards Re-Calibrating the IS-Notion of Affordances. Bjørnar Valbø (pdf).

2023

  • Institutional Shaping of Effective Use of Routine Health Data Management in the Context of Global Humanitarian Organizations. Marta María Vila Pozo (duo.uio.no).
  • Institutional work for digitally mediated AMR data management: A process-based approach in a resource constrained setting in India. Yogita Thakral (duo.uio.no).
  • Interplay of ICTs and social capital in building and scaling peace networks within contexts of violent ethnic conflicts: a study from Kenya. Festus Mukoya (duo.uio.no).

2022

  • Enterprise Software as Design Infrastructure. Magnus Li (duo.uio.no).
  • Frugal Digital Innovation for Health Information Systems in Resource-Constrained Settings: The Case of Sierra Leone. Eric Adu-Gyamfi (duo.uio.no).

2021

  • Challenges and Approaches of Implementing Standard Health Indicators in Hierarchical Organizations: A multi-sited study. Flora Nah Asah (duo.uio.no).
  • Digital Platforms for Standardisation in Global Health: The Case of the Digital Health Packages. Olav Poppe (duo.uio.no).
  • Institutional Work in Strengthening Health Information Systems in Fragmented Settings: An Action Research Study of Information Dashboards in East African Community and Indonesia. Wilfred Felix Senyoni (duo.uio.no).
  • Design Principles for Data Use in Health Information Systems Developing Countries Perspective. Denis Leonard Adaletey.

2020

  • Coordinating Patient Information in HIV/AIDS Care with Hybrid Health Information Systems: An Ethnographic Case Study from South Africa. Elise Østmo (duo.uio.no).

2019

  • Understanding Conditions of Uncertainty in Disease Surveillance and Response in Burkina Faso: An inquiry into the sociological aspects of health information construction and use. Stine Loft Rasmussen (duo.uio.no).
  • Understanding the Role of Institutional Incentives in Shaping Data Quality and Information Use in Devolved Health Systems: A Case of Health Information System Implementation in Kenya. Ayub Shisia Manya (duo.uio.no).
  • Geodata Maintenance and Collaboration in GIS Implementation in Health Sector in a Developing Country Context: The Case of DHIS2 GIS in Malawi. Patrick Albert Chikumba (duo.uio.no).
  • Scaling ICT4D Sustainably: A Naturalistic Inquiry of District Health Information System (DHIS) 2. Elisabeth Fruijtier (pdf).
  • Leveraging Open Source Software Platforms towards HIS Implementation in Developing Countries. Brown Chawanangwa Msiska (duo.uio.no) .
  • MHealth systems, Transformations in Work and Implications for Sustainability. Esther Namatovu Landén (duo.uio.no).

2018

  • Design Principles for Health Information Infrastructures in Developing Countries. Thanh Ngoc Nguyen (duo.uio.no).
  • FOSS as a Platform Ecosystem: Understanding governance of open source HIS implementation in a Low and Middle Income Country context. Roshan Hewapathirana (duo.uio.no).
  • Designing architectural patterns for distributed flexibility in health information systems. Lars Kristian Roland (duo.uio.no).
  • Digitalization Trajectories of Health Information Systems and the Role of Governance in Development Projects. Mikael Gebre Mariam (duo.uio.no).

2017

  • Transformational Feedback: Breaking the vicious cycle of information use in Health Information Systems - A case from Malawi. Christon Mesheck Moyo (duo.uio.no).
  • Empowerment: The invisible element in ICT4D projects? The case of public health information systems in India and Kenya. Arunima Mukherjee (pdf).
  • Crafting connections – practices of Infrastructuring: An ethnographic study of developing a village electricity grid in Bangladesh. Hanne Cecilie Geirbo (duo.uio.no).

2016

  • Bottom-up Architecting of National and Regional Health Information Systems in Malawi and West Africa. Edem Kwame Kossi (duo.uio.no).
  • Training as a Means for Cultivating Communities of Practice around Health Information Systems. Pandula Siribaddana (duo.uio.no).
  • An Institutional Perspective on Health Information Systems' Standardization: Multiple Case Studies. Selamawit Molla Fossum (duo.uio.no).
  • Producing the Agora: Appropriation of Health Information Systems in Developing Countries. Rangarirai Matavire (duo.uio.no).

2015

  • Health Information Systems Integration as Institutionalisation. Yahya Hamad Sheikh (pdf).
  • Distributed Collaborative Practices in Resource Restricted Settings. Ethnographic studies from the Tanzanian Primary Healthcare Information System. Nima Herman Shidende (pdf).
  • Grafting Information Infrastructure: Mobile Phone-based Health Information System Implementations in India and Malawi. Terje Aksel Sanner (duo.uio.no).
  • Developing HIS Infrastructure: Negotiating Tensions to Design, Implementation, and Maintenance. Tiwonge Davis Manda (duo.uio.no).
  • Development of Electronic Medical Record Systems for Maternal Health Services in Rural Settings. Marlen Stacey Chawani.
  • The Genus of Information Infrastructures: Architecture, Governance & Praxis. Saptarshi Purkayastha (pdf).

2014

  • Approaches for Improving the Quality and Accessibility of Maternal and Child Health Data from Rural Communities: Action-Case Studies from Tanzania. Caroline Ngoma (pdf).
  • Open Generification: The case of District Health Information Software. Abyot Asalefew Gizaw (duo.uio.no).
  • Exploring the Institutional Logics and Complexity of Health Management Information Systems Implementation. Ime Effiong Asangansi (duo.uio.no).
  • Customization of Generic Open Source Software for Health Sector in Developing Countries: A Practice Based Approach. Zeferino Saugene (duo.uio.no).

2013

  • Harnessing community knowledge for health: Case studies from community health service and information systems in Ethiopia. Zufan Abera Damtew (pdf).
  • Global Standards and Local Health Information Systems Applications: Understanding their interplay in the context of Tajikistan. Murodillo Latifov (duo.uio.no).
  • Global Scaling of Health Information Infrastructures: Circulating Translations. Johan Sæbø (duo.uio.no).

2012

  • In Search of the Missing Data: The case of maternal and child health data in Malawi. Chipo Kanjo (duo.uio.no).

2011

  • From technology for information to information for local action: the role of participatory networks from case studies in India. John Lewis (pdf).
  • Revisiting Networking of Actions and Knowledge Transfer:An Outline of Practice and Community Based Distributed Approach For Open Source Information Systems Implementation in Developing Countries. Cases from Ethiopia. Nigussie Tadesse Mengesha (pdf).
  • Organizational Open Source in the Global South: Scaffolding Implementation Based Distributed Development. Knut Staring (pdf).
  • Conceptualizing the Governance of Free and Open Source Software Development: A Framework Based on Case Studies of Three Software Projects in Norway. Zegaye Seifu Wubishet.

2010

  • Shaping Technology across Social Worlds: Understanding Learning Dynamics in Implementing Computerised IS in the Ethiopian Public Health System. Shegaw Anagaw Mengiste (pdf).

2009

  • A Complexity Inspired Approach to Co-Evolutionary Hospital Management Information Systems Development: Case studies from the "South". Vincent Shaw (pdf).
  • Understanding and improving medical students’ exposure to health management in rural settings of Mozambique. Humberto Muquingue.
  • Assessing the "window of susceptibility" in measels control: The case study from Mozambique. Jagrati V. Jani.

2008 

  • The Interplay between Transformation in Everyday Work Practices and IS Design and Implementation Processes: Empirical Experiences From the Health Information Systems in Tanzania. Faraja Igira (pdf).
  • Design-Reality Gaps in Open Source Information Systems Development: An Action Research Study of Education and Healthcare Systems in Tanzania. Juma Lungo (duo.uio.no).
  • Understanding the global and local interplay of standards: The case of the Expanded Program on Immunization in Mozambique. João Carlos de Timóteo Mavimbe.
  • Analysing Challenges and Opportunities of the Implemenation of e-Government Initatives for Development through the Lens of the Capability Approach: Case Studies from Mozambique. Gertrudes Adolfo Macueve.

2006

  • Decentralization and Sustainability of ICT Based Health Information Systems in Developing Countries: A Case Study from Tanzania. Honest Christopher Kimaro (pdf).
  • Re-Thinking Technology Transfer as Technology Translation: A Case Study of Health Information Systems in Mozambique. Jose Leopoldo Nhampossa (pdf).
  • Understanding Selves and Indentities of Information Technology Professionals: A Case Study from India. Marisa D'Mello.
  • Understanding Organisational Implementation of (G)IS From a Human Response Development Perspective. Jyotsna Sahay.
  • Exploring Tensions in Information Systems Standardization. Edoardo Jacucci (pdf).

2005

  • Understanding the Introduction of Computer-Based Health Information Systems in Developing Countries: Counter Networks, Communication Practices, and Social Identity: A Case study from Mozabique. Emilio Luis Mosse (pdf).

2004

  • Integrating Information Systems of Disease-Specific Health Programmes in Low Income Countries: The Case Study of Mozambique. Baltazar Gonçalo Mazungane Chilundo (pdf).
  • A participatory approach to the design of a child-health community-based information system for the care of vulnerable children. Elaine Byrne (pdf).

2003

  • The Challenges of Participation and Knowledge in GIS Implementation for Land Management: Case Studies from India. Satish K. Puri.

1998

  • Use and Design of Information Technology in Third World Contexts with a Focus on the Health Sector: Case Studies from Mongolia and South Africa. Jørn Braa.
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