Third Annual ICT4D Postgraduate Symposium (VII). Thematic session 4: impact measurement via ICTlogy
Notes from the IPID ICT4D PG symposium 2008, Mekrijärvi Research Station, Joensuu University, Finland. 8 and 9 September, 2008.
Raimo Haapakorpi, Tumaini University: Directing the IT department at Tumaini University in Tanzania
SWOT methodology to analyse the work of an ICT director in a Tanzanian university.
Some of the strengths/weaknesses are based on cultural issue. Sometimes highest (personal) commitment is not liked to the sufficient knowledge to achieve some specific goals. And while strong opportunities seem to be coming in the horizon because of the deployment of ITs and IT training, loss of key staff and the cost of management are threats to be seriously taken into account.
How to motivate IT professionals… and retain skilled ones in the country, avoiding them to get...
Notes from the IPID ICT4D PG symposium 2008, Mekrijärvi Research Station, Joensuu University, Finland. 8 and 9 September, 2008.
Pieter Joubert, University of Pretoria: Socio-Technical Assumptions and Sustainability in ICT4D
High rate of failure or information systems in developing countries (Heeks, 2002). Due to several reasons: skills, infrastructure management, etc. What makes a project sustainable?
Several projects in South Africa were evaluated to find major trends. Methodology: semi-structured interviews, document analysis, direct observation. Some findings:
Assumed the technology would work
Assumed only technical skills were required
Reported to have patience with digitally illiterate users
Assumed there would be technical support
Level of technical maturity model:
assumed... 
Notes from the IPID ICT4D PG symposium 2008, Mekrijärvi Research Station, Joensuu University, Finland. 8 and 9 September, 2008.
Nelson Godfried Agyemang, University of Pretoria: A Sustainability Framework for Advanced ICT Education in a Developing country
Nelson Godfried Agyemang
How to make sustainable Postgraduate in ICT education programmes in developing countries.
Action research methodology.
Kurt Lewin’s iterative process: diagnose, action planning, action taking, evaluating, specifying learning.
Important point: not to take research for consultancy.
Different sustainability stages: outcomes, processes, context, etc.
In the digitizing sustainability, not everything can be digitized.
Tersia Gowases, University of Joensuu: Impacts of Higher Education Institutions of an...