Global Infrastructures Globally Scalable Information Infrastructures http www

Global Infrastructures Globally Scalable Information Infrastructures http: //www. mn. uio. no/ifi/forskning/grupper/gi/index. html Kristin Braa

People • Faculty – Sundeep Sahay, Jørn Braa, Ole Hanseth, Margunn Aanestad, Jens Kaasbøl, Kristin Braa, Lars Groth • 20% – Petter Nielsen Telenor, Eric Monteiro (NTNU), Ola Henfridson (Victoria Instituttet (Gøteborg)), Magne Jørgensen (Simula), Bente Anda (Skattedirektoratet), Dietmar Pfahl, Lars Groth(Avenir) • Postdocs/researchers – Miria Grisot, Knut Staring, Lars Helge Ødegård, Ola Titlestad • App. 40 Ph. D. students

Focus • Information infrastructures is a concept describing large scale, complex, and networked technologies such as the Internet (or e. g. DNBNor and OUS with 3500 integrated applications) • Include both the technical components and also the interconnected social and organizational elements such as work practices, organizational arrangements, human resources, politics, and other institutional conditions. • • • Complexity Scaling/growth Integration strategies, architectures Standardization-flexibility Organizing/governance/collaboration • Understanding, knowing how-to, doing • Empirical Studies & Software development

Områder Open source development for Health in the south Mobilt Internet og Cloud Computing Renewable energy for health and com. In dev. countries Pasientjournaler

Cources • INF 5210 Information Infrastructures (H) • INF 5500 - Empiriske metoder og evidensbaserte beslutninger i systemutvikling (H) • INF 5750 Open Source Software development and Java frameworks in global networks (H) • • INF 5780 Open source, open collaboration and innovation (H) INF 5761 - Health Management Information Systems (V) INF 5930 Action Research Workshop (V) INF? ? Master seminar in Information Systems (H)

Meet the GI group! • Thursday August 25 th 6 floor at 3 pm – 5 pm • Pizza together with presentation of projects

Health Information Systems Program • HISP is a global network headed and initiated at the Department of Informatics, University of Oslo since 1994. • Responsible for the development of the open source District Health Information Software (DHIS 2) implemented in 16 African countries and India, Bangladesh and Vietnam • National standard for intra state HMIS in India. Implemented in 21 states • Health Information Software (DHIS) is developed, customized and used for reporting, analysis and presentation of aggregated health data for analysis at all levels catering for the various programs (HIV, ANC, Malaria, EPI etc) • WHO is adopting DHIS as part of their standard

Research strategy Internet ”Complexity theory” Patient record/ Iis for patient care IIs for governance of the health care sector in developing countries Design Theory For IIs