IS & Anthropology… (cont…) - Bansler (1987) describes Høyer’s theory in these terms:
- “It is insufficient to look at an enterprise as a technical system, as humans play a key role in the enterprise’s function, and because humans have certain needs and behaviour, that must be taken into account… The system engineer has to consider these needs when he designs and implements a computer system.”
- -- Bansler 1987 (p. 90, translated from Norwegian by Ole and Johan)
IS & Anthropology: Walsham explains the concept of Web Models - ‘’.. draw broad boundaries around the focal computer system and examine how its use depends upon a social context of complex social actions. The models define this social context by taking into account the social relations between the information system, the infrastructure available for its support, and the previous history within the organisation of commitments made in developing and operating related computer-based technologies.”
- -- Walsham 1993 (p.55)
IS & Anthropology: Walsham (cont…) - “ ”With respect to the social relations as considered in web models, it is important to note that participants include users, system developers, the senior management of the company, and any other individuals or groups who are affected by the computer-based information system.”
- -- Walsham 1993 (p.55).
Information Systems & Anthropology… - The social systems perspective helps to understand the importance of the context and particularly IS in developing countries must be context sensitive, for example, participation, may not be regarded the same in a developing country context as in a developed country.
- In India, participation needs to be approached more critically and more strategically.
Case studies that will be discussed in the course - Case studies of HISP in India and Mozambique: Process, Challenges, Implications -- Zubeeda
- Theorizing Information Infrastructure & Case Study – Managing the Gradual Transition from Paper to Electronic Patient Record (Nina Boulous MSC. Thesis) --Zubeeda
- An Extended Ethnographic study of Electronic Health Record Prototyping: Methods, Theory & Interpretation -- Judith
What does it mean to be human? - While the question may never be fully answered, the study of anthropology titled as "immense journey" by Loren Eiseley has attracted some of the world's greatest thinkers, whose discoveries forever changed our understanding of ourselves.
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