...Joshua Ofoeda; Richard Boateng; John Effah Purpose Digital platforms increase their function and scope by leveraging boundary resources and complementary add-on products from third-party developers to interact with external entities and producers. Application Programming Interfaces (APIs...

... the base of the pyramid (henceforth BoP) is a topic of interest for policymakers and developmental organizations alike in emerging economies (GSMA, 2012). BoP refers to a broader segment of people who earn a daily income in the range of $2–$8. Specifically, they survive on an annual per capita income...

... benefit from a fuller understanding of the issues and challenges facing their sub‐Saharan colleagues as an important step towards improving collaboration and knowledge sharing. The field of scientific research is shrinking in many developing countries. Budgets are becoming tighter. As a result...

...Jeremy Rose Soft Systems Methodology (SSM) has long been involved in information systems development through the medium of action research. Its social constructivist paradigm and managerial focus distinguish it from most software engineering development approaches. Checkland’s underlying view...

...Brian Fitzgerald Presents two fundamental arguments. First, it is proposed that most of the currently available systems development methodologies are founded on concepts which emerged in the period from about 1967 to 1977. This argument is presented through the use of literature references...

...Joe Nandhakumar; David E. Avison This paper describes the findings of a field study that explores the process of information systems (IS) development in a large organization. The paper argues that traditional IS development methodologies are treated primarily as a necessary fiction to present...

... in strengthening democratization and development. © MCB UP Limited 1998 Harasim (1994) points out that it is not the CMC tools themselves, but their use that is important in the constitution of networks into networlds. Swerdlow (1995) insists that when people are already familiar with each other, what he...