IFIP TC6 Open Digital Library

8. HCC 2008: Pretoria, South Africa

Social Dimensions of Information And Communication Technology Policy, Proceedings of the Eighth International Conference on Human Choice and Computers (HCC8), IFIP TC 9, Pretoria, South Africa, September 25-26, 2008

Chrisanthi Avgerou, Matthew L. Smith, Peter Van den Besselaar

Springer, IFIP 282, ISBN: 978-0-387-84821-1



Contents

Human choice and ICT policy: Introduction to the HCC8 Conference proceedings.

Matthew L. Smith, Peter Van den Besselaar, Chrisanthi Avgerou

 1-13

Communication, information, and ICT policy: Enabling research frameworks.

Robin Mansell

 15-28

The shaping of national and international ICT policies and their effects

The argumentative structure of spatial data infrastructure initiatives in America and Africa.

Yola Georgiadou, Vincent Homburg

 31-44

ICT policy as a governance domain: The case of Greece and the European Commission.

Ioanna Chini

 45-62

National variations of the information society: Evidence from the Greek case.

Dimitris Boucas

 63-79

Technology, globalisation, and governance: Research perspectives and prospects.

Tony Cornford, Diego D. Navarra

 81-94

Globalisation and national security issues for the state: Implications for national ICT policies.

Jackie Phahlamohlaka

 95-107

Next generation ICT policy in South Africa: Towards a human development-based ICT policy.

Walter Brown, Irwin Brown

 109-123

Challenges of ICT policy for rural communities: A case study from South Africa.

Mpostol Jeremia Mashinini

 125-137

Harnessing the empowering capacity and ICT

Digital divides and the role of policy and regulation: a qualitative study.

Panayiota Tsatsou

 141-160

Empowerment through ICT: A critical discourse analysis of the Egyptian ICT policy.

Bernd Carsten Stahl

 161-177

Egyptian women artisans: ICTs are not the entry to modern markets.

Leila Hassanin

 179-190

Institutional strategies towards improving health information systems (HIS) in Sub-Saharan Africa.

Solomon B. Bishaw

 191-207

A human environmentalist approach to diffusion in ICT policies.

Elaine Byrne, Lizette Weilbach

 209-222

ICT and socio-economic development: A university's engagement in a rural community in Yola, Nigeria.

Jainaba M. L. Kah, Muhammadou M. O. Kah

 223-239

Lessons from a dropped ICT curriculum design project: A retrospective view.

Roohollah Honarvar

 241-252

The shaping of the institutions of the information society

15 years of ways of Internet governance: Towards a new agenda for action.

Jacques Berleur

 255-274

Governmental policies for ICT diffusion and leadership legitimacy in grassroots movements.

Magda David Hercheui

 275-286

Examining trust in mobile banking transactions: The case of M-PESA in Kenya.

Olga Morawczynski, Gianluca Miscione

 287-298

Social networks within filtered ICT networks: A case study of the growth of internet usage within Iran.

Farid Shirazi

 299-317

A no-IPR model as solution to reuse and understanding of information systems.

Kai Kimppa

 319-325

Measuring information societies: A critical study of the Infostate framework.

Anouk Mukherjee

 327-334

Open access barriers: An action research.

Mathias Klang

 335-348

Panels

Free and Open Source Software in low-income countries: Emergent properties?.

Gianluca Miscione, Dorothy Gordon, Kevin A. Johnston

 351-355

Evaluating "Connecting for Health": Policy implications of a UK mega-programme.

Kathy McGrath, Jane Hendy, Ela Klecun, Leslie P. Willcocks, Terry Young

 357-362

Gender research in Africa into ICTs for empowerment (GRACE).

Ineke Buskens, Gertrudes Macueve, Ibou Sane, Anne Webb

 363-367