Electronic Journal for Information Systems In Developing Countries
The Electronic Journal for Information Systems In Developing Countries (EJISDC) strives to become the foremost international forum for practitioners, teachers, researchers and policy makers to share their knowledge and experience in the design, development, implementation, management and evaluation of information systems and technologies in developing countries.
The Journal's
Rationale
Contemporary Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) are a curse and
at the same time a blessing to developing countries. In 1997, something like
84% of global expenditure on ICTs took place in North America, Western Europe
and Japan. Such spending confers enormous competitive advantages on economies
that are already well-endowed with expertise, intellectual capital and advanced
know-how. This comparative superiority threatens to perpetuate the imbalances
that characterise relationships between developed and developing economies,
and there is a clear association between national well being and expenditure
on ICTs. However, this fact has not gone unnoticed within developing countries,
so that, conversely, the same technologies that endanger efforts at levelling
the international economic playing field now offer real opportunities to developing
nations to catch up with their more prosperous trading partners in the North,
and at a fraction of the cost which the developed nations have invested over
many years of ICT evolution.
EJISDC targets the digital divide. Our aim is to situate contemporary trends in ICTs within a fully global context that moves away from the current skewed perspective of developed countries. Outside of North America, Western Europe, Australasia and Japan, there exists a wide and varied world that is struggling to make sense of technological advances in its own way. A world in which priorities for investments in information systems compete with the provision of the basic necessities of life such as decent housing, clean water and primary healthcare. Yet ICT investments can and do contribute to the betterment of the lives of the poor. They are able to leverage the values of third-world assets in much the same way as they do in the first world, sometimes to a far greater extent because of the lower starting point. However, developing countries suffer from a number of conditions that serve to dampen the effects of ICT implementations, viz.: inadequate skills and infrastructures, dependence on imports, scarcity of capital, low levels of economic activity, and poor basic services.
EJISDC is edited by:
Editor-in-Chief: Robert Davison, City University of Hong Kong robert@ejisdc.org
Senior Editors:
Roger Harris: roger@ejisdc.org
Doug Vogel, City University of Hong Kong, doug@ejisdc.org
Gert-Jan de Vreede, Delft University of Technology, gertjan@ejisdc.org
Visit the journal's website for further information
To submit a manuscript please email any of the editors
The EJISDC Editorial Review Board consists of:
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H. Abdul-Gader, King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals |
Mikko Korpela, University of Kuopio Murray Jennex, San Diego State University Noel Jones, Independent Consultant Paul Licker, Oakland University Peter Mbile, World Agro Forestry Centre Peter Wolcott, University of Nebraska, Omaha Philip Musa, University of Alabama, Birmingham Ricardo Gómez, Bellanet Ron Lee, Erasmus University Sajda Qureshi, University of Nebraska, Omaha Schahram Dustdar, Vienna University of Technology Sherif Kamel, American University in Cairo Shirin Madon, London School of Economics Subbiah Arunachalam, MSSRF Sy Goodman, Georgia Institute of Technology V. Balaji, ICRISAT Victor Mbarika, Louisiana State University |
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