Information Technology for Development

Information Technology for Development

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Publisher: IOS Press

Information Technology for Development is being re-launched with a new
vision that explicitly symbolises the role of IT in development as a prime
enabler of people-centred development across the development triad. This
triad compromises government, civil society and the private sector. ITD
recognises that the field of Information Technology for Development affects
the transition and developed economies of the world across this triad. This
is no longer the exclusive subject of research in developing countries.
Sourcing strategies encompass multiple organizations in countries that may
be developed, in transition or considered developing. There is a need to
establish yardsticks for measuring results, not just for developing
countries but for developed countries that help to fund development programs
and for the multilateral institutions that help countries implement them.

The objective of the Journal of Information Technology for Development is to
honour its fundamental duty to foster research and practice in the
development of scalable Information Technology infrastructures. It will also
foster research in policy and marketing infostructures and infrastructures
to help provide the conditions in which people and organisations in
transition economies can reach out and work with the rest of the world.

In order to honour this duty, the Journal addresses techniques for
researching and measuring the value of Information Technology in the
transition economies, developing world and their relation to the more
advanced economies of the world. It reports on Case Studies, Field Studies
and Action Research that provide insight, evidence and results relating to
the adoption, diffusion and value of Information Technology for Development.

Theory development, concepts and constructs are required to explain and
predict the effect of Information Technology Infrastructures and their
applicability to various global environments. At the same time insight and
experiential knowledge from practioners in the field is just as valuable in
ensuring the important questions are asked and discussed. The Journal aims
to encompass both types of papers to produce an outlet for research and
practice relevant to the global world economy.

This Journal provides a window into the Information Technology developments
in the countries of the world that are on the rise. Leveraging electronic
networks for social and economic development as well as the use of
Information Technology for resource mobilization in developing countries and
transition economies.

The management of intellectual capital and its mobilization from multiple
geographically dispersed locations for key projects is a key consideration
addressed by the Journal. This has implications for Commerce, active sharing
of resources and knowledge, improving the enabling environment for multiple
players, fostering indigenous capacity and research and Improving the status
of key infrastructures and enhancing national, regional and international
co-operation and partnerships.

ISSN: 0268-1102

Editor-in-Chief:

Sajda Qureshi
College of Information Science & Technology
University of Nebraska at Omaha
6001 Dodge Street
Omaha, NE 68182-0116
U.S.A.

Tel.: +1 402 554 2837
Fax: +1 402 554 3400
E-mail:squreshi@ist.unomaha.edu
URL: www.ncst.ernet.in/jitd

Managing Editor:

Henry Alamango
COMNET-IT Foundation
Gattard House, National Rd.
Blata Information-Bajda HMR 02
Malta

Tel: +356 2599 2193
Fax.: +356 2599 2401
E-mail:henry.d.alamango@magnet.mt

Editorial Assistant:

Suzanne Pukall-Smith
E-mail: ITD@ist.unomaha.edu

Content available by subscription. Free sample issue available online.
 
Current Issue: Volume 10, Number 4 / 2003

Date: 8 Nov. 2004