Matches in SemOpenAlex for { <https://semopenalex.org/work/W2087790345> ?p ?o ?g. }
- W2087790345 endingPage "323" @default.
- W2087790345 startingPage "294" @default.
- W2087790345 abstract "Scaling of information systems is a field of research with growing importance. This paper presents the story of scaling of an artifact (called District Health Information Software — DHIS) and associated principles and practices around a health information system that has taken place over 15 years, both within and between multiple developing countries. Through the lens of the story of the artifact over its trajectory of development and implementation in multiple contexts and time, we develop insights that challenge traditional thinking around scaling. Scaling is not about constant gains and expansion, as is often assumed, but involves a dichotomy of losses and gains, associated with each step or translation in its process of movement. We draw upon Latour's insights on circulating references to analyze this dichotomy of loss and gains, conceptualizing the process as circulating translations. We contribute to the technology transfer literature in arguing that the process of transfer is not about a “parachuting” from point A to B, or a “design from nowhere” but something which occurs in a series of small steps, where with each step new socio-technical configurations are created which not only shape subsequent steps, but also redefine the content of the artifact. In this way, we are in line with findings from the social studies of technology, but differ in that our artifact of study – software – is more “virtually immaterial” than machines which had been primarily earlier objects of study. This property of software, coupled with growth of web-based and mobile infrastructure, allows relative ease of circulation across contexts, where it gets redefined and embedded at the same time at the interconnected levels of the global and local. We conceptualize this process of global scaling as being “same, same, but different”. We discuss both the characteristics of this process of global scaling, and the channels and mechanisms through which it takes place. Four overlapping conditions that shape this process include the software itself, the infrastructure, institutional practices, and ideas — these form the basis for a general framework to understand global scaling of health information systems. Empirically, the story of DHIS is told from its birth in the mid-nineties in South Africa developed on a Microsoft platform to its transformation to a web-based platform, built using Java based open-source frameworks, and now moving through multiple countries. We focus on these dynamics primarily within three countries namely India, Sierra Leone and Kenya." @default.
- W2087790345 created "2016-06-24" @default.
- W2087790345 creator A5070780599 @default.
- W2087790345 creator A5088038382 @default.
- W2087790345 creator A5089820135 @default.
- W2087790345 date "2013-10-01" @default.
- W2087790345 modified "2023-09-27" @default.
- W2087790345 title "Scaling of HIS in a global context: Same, same, but different" @default.
- W2087790345 cites W1518284543 @default.
- W2087790345 cites W1562297848 @default.
- W2087790345 cites W1607930791 @default.
- W2087790345 cites W1791587663 @default.
- W2087790345 cites W1972246405 @default.
- W2087790345 cites W1974687278 @default.
- W2087790345 cites W1999161797 @default.
- W2087790345 cites W1999306877 @default.
- W2087790345 cites W2017349284 @default.
- W2087790345 cites W2029751781 @default.
- W2087790345 cites W2043413253 @default.
- W2087790345 cites W2057400909 @default.
- W2087790345 cites W2058845358 @default.
- W2087790345 cites W2081633174 @default.
- W2087790345 cites W2095697330 @default.
- W2087790345 cites W2100379340 @default.
- W2087790345 cites W2101419153 @default.
- W2087790345 cites W2109696181 @default.
- W2087790345 cites W2114148277 @default.
- W2087790345 cites W2122686617 @default.
- W2087790345 cites W2123601949 @default.
- W2087790345 cites W2127148641 @default.
- W2087790345 cites W2127305651 @default.
- W2087790345 cites W2135519107 @default.
- W2087790345 cites W2157746366 @default.
- W2087790345 cites W2160591517 @default.
- W2087790345 cites W2168569455 @default.
- W2087790345 cites W2169534465 @default.
- W2087790345 cites W2169686953 @default.
- W2087790345 cites W2339106955 @default.
- W2087790345 cites W3121175530 @default.
- W2087790345 cites W3125145264 @default.
- W2087790345 cites W3145178692 @default.
- W2087790345 cites W3183765052 @default.
- W2087790345 cites W4320009379 @default.
- W2087790345 doi "https://doi.org/10.1016/j.infoandorg.2013.08.002" @default.
- W2087790345 hasPublicationYear "2013" @default.
- W2087790345 type Work @default.
- W2087790345 sameAs 2087790345 @default.
- W2087790345 citedByCount "22" @default.
- W2087790345 countsByYear W20877903452014 @default.
- W2087790345 countsByYear W20877903452015 @default.
- W2087790345 countsByYear W20877903452016 @default.
- W2087790345 countsByYear W20877903452017 @default.
- W2087790345 countsByYear W20877903452018 @default.
- W2087790345 countsByYear W20877903452019 @default.
- W2087790345 countsByYear W20877903452020 @default.
- W2087790345 countsByYear W20877903452021 @default.
- W2087790345 countsByYear W20877903452022 @default.
- W2087790345 countsByYear W20877903452023 @default.
- W2087790345 crossrefType "journal-article" @default.
- W2087790345 hasAuthorship W2087790345A5070780599 @default.
- W2087790345 hasAuthorship W2087790345A5088038382 @default.
- W2087790345 hasAuthorship W2087790345A5089820135 @default.
- W2087790345 hasConcept C107457646 @default.
- W2087790345 hasConcept C111919701 @default.
- W2087790345 hasConcept C127413603 @default.
- W2087790345 hasConcept C154945302 @default.
- W2087790345 hasConcept C166957645 @default.
- W2087790345 hasConcept C199360897 @default.
- W2087790345 hasConcept C202444582 @default.
- W2087790345 hasConcept C21547014 @default.
- W2087790345 hasConcept C2522767166 @default.
- W2087790345 hasConcept C2524010 @default.
- W2087790345 hasConcept C2775922551 @default.
- W2087790345 hasConcept C2777904410 @default.
- W2087790345 hasConcept C2779010991 @default.
- W2087790345 hasConcept C2779343474 @default.
- W2087790345 hasConcept C28719098 @default.
- W2087790345 hasConcept C33923547 @default.
- W2087790345 hasConcept C41008148 @default.
- W2087790345 hasConcept C95457728 @default.
- W2087790345 hasConcept C9652623 @default.
- W2087790345 hasConcept C98045186 @default.
- W2087790345 hasConcept C99844830 @default.
- W2087790345 hasConceptScore W2087790345C107457646 @default.
- W2087790345 hasConceptScore W2087790345C111919701 @default.
- W2087790345 hasConceptScore W2087790345C127413603 @default.
- W2087790345 hasConceptScore W2087790345C154945302 @default.
- W2087790345 hasConceptScore W2087790345C166957645 @default.
- W2087790345 hasConceptScore W2087790345C199360897 @default.
- W2087790345 hasConceptScore W2087790345C202444582 @default.
- W2087790345 hasConceptScore W2087790345C21547014 @default.
- W2087790345 hasConceptScore W2087790345C2522767166 @default.
- W2087790345 hasConceptScore W2087790345C2524010 @default.
- W2087790345 hasConceptScore W2087790345C2775922551 @default.
- W2087790345 hasConceptScore W2087790345C2777904410 @default.
- W2087790345 hasConceptScore W2087790345C2779010991 @default.
- W2087790345 hasConceptScore W2087790345C2779343474 @default.
- W2087790345 hasConceptScore W2087790345C28719098 @default.