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Global Standards and Local Development

Authors : Simon Pettersen Nguyen, Petter Nielsen, Johan Ivar Sæbø

Published in: Locally Relevant ICT Research

Publisher: Springer International Publishing

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Abstract

Substantial investments are made in ICTs to support socioeconomic growth in developing countries. As a side-effect of this, the public health sectors in developing countries are commonly challenged by the proliferation of multiple and parallel information systems. Investments are made, but not in a coordinated manner. Based on a case study of OpenHIE, a global community of practice supporting the development of ICT standards within health, and the implementation of these standards in Tanzania and The Philippines, we discuss the relation between global standards and local development. We do so by conceptualizing the global standards offered by OpenHIE as fluid standards and standards as composed of a package of the different components necessary to make them globally and locally relevant. Theoretically, we contribute to the standardization literature by applying and expanding the concept of fluid standards within this particular context of global initiatives to reduce fragmentation of health information systems locally in developing countries. We also contribute to the development literature by exemplifying and critically discussing how the fluid nature of standards, and the networked nature of standardization processes, promote local development.

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Metadata
Title
Global Standards and Local Development
Authors
Simon Pettersen Nguyen
Petter Nielsen
Johan Ivar Sæbø
Copyright Year
2019
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-11235-6_10

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