IT Implementation in a Developing Country Municipality

2010 ◽  
pp. 399-418
Author(s):  
Clive Sanford ◽  
Anol Bhattacherjee
Keyword(s):  
Developing Countries ◽  
Technology Implementation ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Developed Countries ◽  
Management Support ◽  
Technological Frames ◽  
Key Stakeholders ◽  
Project Failures ◽  
Fishbone Diagram ◽  
High Level

This article presents an interpretive analysis of the key problems and challenges to technology implementation in developing countries, based on a three-year case analysis of an IT project in a city government in Ukraine. We employ the concept of technological frames of reference as an analytical tool for articulating the group-level structures related to the implementation context from the perspectives of key stakeholders and examine the degree of conflict between these frames using a Fishbone diagram. We report that conflict between technological frames held by key stakeholders in large-scale system implementation projects often create an unexpected, dysfunctional, and politically charged implementation environment, ultimately leading to project failures, even if the project enjoys a high level of financial and management support. This, in turn, creates unique challenges for technology implementation projects in developing countries that are often overlooked in the traditional academic and practitioner literatures based on experiences from developed countries.

IT Implementation in a Developing Country Municipality

2011 ◽  
pp. 400-419
Author(s):  
Clive Sanford ◽  
Anol Bhattacherjee
Keyword(s):  
Developing Countries ◽  
Technology Implementation ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Developed Countries ◽  
Management Support ◽  
Technological Frames ◽  
Key Stakeholders ◽  
Project Failures ◽  
Fishbone Diagram ◽  
High Level

This article presents an interpretive analysis of the key problems and challenges to technology implementation in developing countries, based on a three-year case analysis of an IT project in a city government in Ukraine. We employ the concept of technological frames of reference as an analytical tool for articulating the group-level structures related to the implementation context from the perspectives of key stakeholders and examine the degree of conflict between these frames using a Fishbone diagram. We report that conflict between technological frames held by key stakeholders in large-scale system implementation projects often create an unexpected, dysfunctional, and politically charged implementation environment, ultimately leading to project failures, even if the project enjoys a high level of financial and management support. This, in turn, creates unique challenges for technology implementation projects in developing countries that are often overlooked in the traditional academic and practitioner literatures based on experiences from developed countries.

IT Implementation in a Developing Country Municipality

2009 ◽  
pp. 1608-1628
Author(s):  
Clive Sanford ◽  
Anol Bhattacherjee
Keyword(s):  
Developing Countries ◽  
Technology Implementation ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Developed Countries ◽  
Management Support ◽  
Technological Frames ◽  
Key Stakeholders ◽  
Project Failures ◽  
Fishbone Diagram ◽  
High Level

This article presents an interpretive analysis of the key problems and challenges to technology implementation in developing countries, based on a three-year case analysis of an IT project in a city government in Ukraine. We employ the concept of technological frames of reference as an analytical tool for articulating the group-level structures related to the implementation context from the perspectives of key stakeholders and examine the degree of conflict between these frames using a Fishbone diagram. We report that conflict between technological frames held by key stakeholders in large-scale system implementation projects often create an unexpected, dysfunctional, and politically charged implementation environment, ultimately leading to project failures, even if the project enjoys a high level of financial and management support. This, in turn, creates unique challenges for technology implementation projects in developing countries that are often overlooked in the traditional academic and practitioner literatures based on experiences from developed countries.

scholarly journals Gender and feminist considerations in Artificial Intelligence from a developing-world perspective, with India as a case study

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
SANGHAMITRA CHOUDHURY ◽  
Shailendra Kumar
Keyword(s):  
Artificial Intelligence ◽  
Developing Countries ◽  
Developing World ◽  
Developed Countries ◽  
High Level ◽  
The Impact ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Precarious Situation ◽  
And Robotics

<p>The relationship between women, technology manifestation, and likely prospects in the developing world is discussed in this manuscript. Using India as a case study, the paper goes on to discuss how ontology and epistemology views utilised in AI (Artificial Intelligence) and robotics will affect women's prospects in developing countries. Women in developing countries, notably in South Asia, are perceived as doing domestic work and are underrepresented in high-level professions. They are disproportionately underemployed and face prejudice in the workplace. The purpose of this study is to determine if the introduction of AI would exacerbate the already precarious situation of women in the developing world or if it would serve as a liberating force. While studies on the impact of AI on women have been undertaken in developed countries, there has been less research in developing countries. This manuscript attempts to fill that need.</p>

A Process Model for Successful E-Government Adoption in the Least Developed Countries

2012 ◽  
pp. 341-369
Author(s):  
Ahmed Imran ◽  
Shirley Gregor
Keyword(s):  
Public Sector ◽  
Process Model ◽  
Developed Countries ◽  
Theoretical Development ◽  
Least Developed Countries ◽  
Developed Country ◽  
The Public ◽  
Key Stakeholders ◽  
Information And Communication ◽  
High Level

Least developed countries (LDCs), have been struggling to find a workable strategy to adopt information and communication technology (ICT) and e-government in their public sector organizations. Despite a number of high-level initiatives at national and international levels, the progress is still unsatisfactory in this area. Consequently, the countries are failing to keep pace in the global e-government race, further increasing the digital divide. This chapter reports on an exploratory study in a least developed country, Bangladesh, involving a series of focus groups and interviews with key stakeholders. A lack of knowledge and entrenched attitudes and mindsets are seen as the key underlying contributors to the lack of progress. The analysis of the relationships among the major barriers to progress led to a process model, which suggests a pathway for e-government adoption in an LDC such as Bangladesh. The chapter introduces important directions for the formulation of long-term strategies for the successful adoption of ICT in the public sector of LDCs and provides a basis for further theoretical development.

scholarly journals The Impact of Non-Accounting Ownership and Top Management Support on (ABC) Adoption among Service Companies in Jordan: Proposed Conceptual Framework

2015 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 234
Author(s):  
Mohammad Farouq Hussein Jebreel
Keyword(s):  
Developing Countries ◽  
Conceptual Framework ◽  
Developed Countries ◽  
Strategic Decision ◽  
Top Management ◽  
Management Support ◽  
Information Distortion ◽  
Service Companies ◽  
Costing System ◽  
The Impact

Accurate costing information is crucial for services businesses and information for strategic decision, to maintain a competitive advantage over its competitor's Traditional costing system leads to cost information distortion ,therefor the management of these businesses to Activity Based Costing (ABC) was introduced to address the shortcomings of traditional volume-based costing system. Prior research in developed countries showed impact adoption of ABC for many of companies for different sectors However in developing countries there are shortage in these studies. In order to achieve the high degree of adopting ABC in developing countries. This paper proposes a conceptual framework to investigate the factors influences on the success of ABC through non-accounting ownership, top management and ABC adoption among Service Companies listed on the Amman Stock   Exchange (ASE). 

scholarly journals Calibration of HDM4 for Use in Pavement Management Systems (PMS)

2009 ◽  
Vol 32 (2) ◽  
pp. 103-113
Author(s):  
N.K. Mushule
Keyword(s):  
Developing Countries ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Field Experiments ◽  
Developed Countries ◽  
Pavement Management ◽  
Pavement Performance ◽  
Management Systems ◽  
Local Conditions ◽  
Road Management ◽  
Pavement Management Systems

One of major problems of road management in developing countries is the lack of decision making toolsfor preparing road maintenance programmes. This results in poor resource allocation and poor utilisationof existing assets. Pavement management systems (PMS) have been developed around the world in order to assist with the pavement management process in a co-ordinated and systematic manner. Some developed countries have derived pavement performance models that are suited to local conditions by setting up long term pavement performance studies. Conversely, most developing countries do not have the resources required to set up similar large-scale field experiments. However, validation and calibration of models developed from comprehensive studies elsewhere offers a viable lternative for such countries. This paper evaluates the feasibility of using HDM-4 as a support software and determines level 1 calibration factors for PMS in Tanzania. The paper demonstrates the use of a calibrated HDM-4 to determine the required road management information in developing countries.

A Process Model for Successful E-Government Adoption in the Least Developed Countries

2011 ◽  
pp. 321-350
Author(s):  
Ahmed Imran ◽  
Shirley Gregor
Keyword(s):  
Public Sector ◽  
Process Model ◽  
Developed Countries ◽  
Theoretical Development ◽  
Least Developed Countries ◽  
Developed Country ◽  
The Public ◽  
Key Stakeholders ◽  
Information And Communication ◽  
High Level

Least developed countries (LDCs), have been struggling to find a workable strategy to adopt information and communication technology (ICT) and e-government in their public sector organizations. Despite a number of high-level initiatives at national and international levels, the progress is still unsatisfactory in this area. Consequently, the countries are failing to keep pace in the global e-government race, further increasing the digital divide. This chapter reports on an exploratory study in a least developed country, Bangladesh, involving a series of focus groups and interviews with key stakeholders. A lack of knowledge and entrenched attitudes and mindsets are seen as the key underlying contributors to the lack of progress. The analysis of the relationships among the major barriers to progress led to a process model, which suggests a pathway for e-government adoption in an LDC such as Bangladesh. The chapter introduces important directions for the formulation of long-term strategies for the successful adoption of ICT in the public sector of LDCs and provides a basis for further theoretical development.

Commercial approach to rivers

2020 ◽  
pp. 21-59
Author(s):  
S. Nazrul Islam
Keyword(s):  
Developing Countries ◽  
Latin America ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Industrial Revolution ◽  
Developed Countries ◽  
The World ◽  
The Developed Countries ◽  
Statistical Summary

Chapter 2 reviews the origin and spread of the Commercial approach to rivers. It explains the origin of this approach in the first Industrial Revolution, which provided human societies both the commercial motive and the machine power required to undertake large-scale frontal and lateral interventions in rivers. The chapter catalogues various types of frontal intervening structures—including dams, barrages, and weirs—that the Commercial approach deploys to achieve its purpose. The chapter then follows the spread of the frontal version of the Commercial approach across the world, beginning with the developed countries and then the developing countries in Asia, Africa, and Latin America. The chapter ends by providing a statistical summary of the global picture regarding dams and barrages, which are the main instruments of the Commercial approach to rivers.

Analysis of debt burden and credit of corporate sector: Estimates for Russia and cross-country cases

2018 ◽  
pp. 25-48 ◽  
Author(s):  
S. V. Sheremeta ◽  
A. N. Mogilat
Keyword(s):  
Developing Countries ◽  
Monetary Policy ◽  
Interest Rates ◽  
Economic Activity ◽  
Currency Crises ◽  
Inflation Targeting ◽  
Foreign Currency ◽  
Significant Risk ◽  
Developed Countries ◽  
High Level

The paper discusses dynamics of private sector debt-to-GDP ratio and debt service ratio (DSR). We show that the level of DSR for developing countries is less than that of DSR for developed countries, and has a more volatile dynamics. Developing countries face significant risk from external sector of the economy due to high level of their dependence on external debt - through currency revaluation, on the one hand, and reciprocal growth of interest rates, on the other hand. This is illustrated, for example, by the situation in Russia in 2014-2016. We also show that countries with monetary policy based on inflation targeting face much more downplayed response of DSR shocks on their economic activity than countries with different regimes of monetary policy. That is why currency crises in several regions including South-East Asia and Russia, have led to significant growth in DSR and forwarded shift to inflation targeting in these countries. Along with shocks of DSR related to volatility of foreign currency, we explore those related to inflation and monetary conditions, abrupt changes in economic activity, etc. The paper also focuses on factors of DSR dynamics, including interest rates, terms, volumes, foreign currency revaluation, and its decomposition on the long period of time.

scholarly journals Evaluating the threat to national information security

2020 ◽  
Vol 18 (3) ◽  
pp. 195-210 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hanna Yarovenko
Keyword(s):  
Developing Countries ◽  
Information Security ◽  
Developed Countries ◽  
Economic Security ◽  
Security Level ◽  
Security Threat ◽  
Development Indicators ◽  
Threat Index ◽  
High Level ◽  
National Information

An effective strategy for managing the national information security with capabilities to resist information threats significantly impacts its further development. This study aims to assess the level of threat to the information security of countries based on the integral index. It is proposed to use five indicators characterizing individual areas of information security and 37 world development indicators, selected from the World Bank database. Correlation analysis selected 12 out of 37 development indicators relevant to security indicators for which the correlation coefficient exceeded 0.5 or –0.5. The Harrington-Mencher function is proposed to determine the information security threat index. Nonlinear normalization was carried out to bring the initial data to a comparable measurement. Canonical analysis was performed to determine the indicator weights. The data from 159 countries were taken for 2018 to assess the index. The result was presented on the map showing countries’ distribution by the information security threat index, thus forming five groups. The group with a “very well” resistance to threats includes economically developed countries with a high level of information security. The “well” group was formed by new industrial and developing countries with economic potential sufficient to prevent information threats and combat their consequences. The information security level in developing countries, where the results of overcoming information threats will affect the economic sphere, is defined as “acceptable”. Countries with a low level of development and information security formed groups designated as “bad” and “very bad”, which indicates a high level of threats to their information security. AcknowledgmentThis work is carried out with in the tax payer – funded researches: No. 0118U003574 “Cybersecurity in the banking fraud enforcement: protection of financial service consumers and the financial and economic security growth in Ukraine”.

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