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
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
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
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
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
Farid Shirazi
299-317
Measuring information societies: A critical study of the Infostate framework.
Anouk Mukherjee
327-334
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