[CC] The Electronic Journal on Information Systems in Developing Countries

[George(s) Lessard]

The Electronic Journal on Information Systems in Developing Countries
EJISDC-ISSN 1681-4835 
http://www.ejisdc.org

A joint publication by:-
City University of Hong Kong
Erasmus University of Rotterdam, the Netherlands
Delft University of Technology, the Netherlands

The Electronic Journal on Information Systems in Developing Countries (EJI=
SDC) 
strives to become the foremost international forum for practitioners, teac=
hers, 
researchers and policy makers to share their knowledge and experience in t=
he 
design, development, implementation, management and evaluation of informat=
ion 
systems and technologies in developing countries. The Journal's Rationale 
Contemporary Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) are a curse=
 and 
at the same time a blessing to developing countries. In 1997, something li=
ke 
84% of global expenditure on ICTs took place in North America, Western Eur=
ope 
and Japan. Such spending confers enormous competitive advantages on econom=
ies 
that are already well-endowed with expertise, intellectual capital and adv=
anced 
know-how. This comparative superiority threatens to perpetuate the imbalan=
ces 
that characterise relationships between developed and developing economies=
, and 
there is a clear association between national well being and expenditure o=
n 
ICTs. However, this fact has not gone unnoticed within developing countrie=
s, so 
that, conversely, the same technologies that endanger efforts at levelling=
 the 
international economic playing field now offer real opportunities to devel=
oping 
nations to catch up with their more prosperous trading partners in the Nor=
th, 
and at a fraction of the cost which the developed nations have invested ov=
er 
many years of ICT evolution. EJISDC targets the digital divide. Our aim is=
 to 
situate contemporary trends in ICTs within a fully global context that mov=
es 
away from the current skewed perspective of developed countries. Outside o=
f 
North America, Western Europe, Australasia and Japan, there exists a wide =
and 
varied world that is struggling to make sense of technological advances in=
 its 
own way. A world in which priorities for investments in information system=
s 
compete with the provision of the basic necessities of life such as decent=
 
housing, clean water and primary healthcare. Yet ICT investments can and d=
o 
contribute to the betterment of the lives of the poor. They are able to 
leverage the values of third-world assets in much the same way as they do =
in 
the first world, sometimes to a far greater extent because of the lower 
starting point. However, developing countries suffer from a number of 
conditions that serve to dampen the effects of ICT implementations, viz.: 
inadequate skills and infrastructures, dependence on imports, scarcity of 
capital, low levels of economic activity, and poor basic  
services.

If you wish to receive notification of future issues of the journal by ema=
il, 
please send  an email to the Editor-in-Chief.
mailto: editor@ejisdc.org

Editor-in-Chief
Robert Davison
Department of Information Systems
City University of Hong Kong
Tat Chee Avenue, Kowloon, Hong Kong
Phone: 852-2788-7534
Fax: 852-2788-8694
Email: robert@ejisdc.org 

Roger Harris
Email: harris38@netvigator.com
 Doug Vogel Email: isdoug@cityu.edu.hk
Department of Information Systems
City University of Hong Kong
Tat Chee Avenue, Kowloon, Hong Kong
Phone: 852-2788-7534
Fax: 852-2788-8694
 

Sajda Qureshi
Faculteit Bedrijfskunde
Rotterdam School of Management
Erasmus University Rotterdam
The Netherlands
Phone: 31-10-408-2032
Fax: 31-10-452-3595
Email: squreshi@fac.fbk.eur.nl
Gert-Jan de Vreede
Faculty of Technology, Policy and Management
Delft University of Technology
Jaffalaan 5, 2600 GA Delft, The Netherlands
Phone: 31-15-278-7170
Fax: 31-15-278-3429
Email: devreede@sepa.tudelft.nl

Advisory Board

A. H. Abdul-Gader
Ann S=E9ror
Anja Mursu
Bo Goransson
Chrisanthi Avgerou
Dietrich Splettstoesser
Edward M. Roche
Geoff Walsham
Jonathan Miller
Ken Kraemer
Larry Press
Michael Gurstein
Mikko Korpela
Noel Jones
Rabson J. Mgaya
Ricardo G=F3mez
Schahram Dustdar
Sherif Kamel
Sy Goodman
Yap Chee Sing


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