Course overview

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Course overview

• Inf5210 information infrastructure
• Miria Grisot
• miriag (at) ifi.uio.no

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1st lecture

• Ole Hanseth
• Information Infrastructure
• basic concept installed base
• Network economics
• Basic concepts lock in, externalities, path
  dependency
• Readings
• Ole Hanseth From systems and tools to networks
  and infrastructures - from design to cultivation.
  Towards a theory of ICT solutions and its design
  methodology implications
• From Control To Drift, Chapter 4 The Economics
  of Standards
• Star, Susan Leigh, and Karen Ruhleder "Steps
  Toward an Ecology of Infrastructure Design and
  Access for Large Information Spaces", 1996.
  Information Systems Research 7 111-134
• James Mahoney (2000) Path dependence in
  historical sociology. Theory and Society,
  Vol.29, pp.507-548

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2nd lecture

• Edoardo Jacucci
• Managerial view on information infrastructures
• Strategic alignment, and its critique
• Debate on IT
• Case example from accenture
• Readings
• From Control To Drift Chapter 1, Introduction
  and Chapter 2, A Critical Review of the
  Literature on the Management of Corporate
  Information Infrastructure.
• Weill Broadbent (1998), Leveraging the new
  infrastructure How market leaders capitalize on
  Information Technology, HBS, Chapters 1 2.
• Carr, N.G.(2003). "IT doesn't matter", Harward
  Business Review.
• Brown, J.S.(2003). "Does IT matter?", Harward
  Business Review.

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3rd Lecture

• Sundeep Sahay
• Theories of Globalization and IT
• Globalization and marginalization
• Local-global relation
• The use of IT is not value free
• Readings
• Giddens Runaway World The Reith Lectures
  revisited
• Giddens Lecture 1 on Globalization. Reith
  Lectures 1999

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4th Lecture

• Sundeep Sahay
• Counter Networks
• Focus on information practices, information
  flow
• Routines of work
• How to make networks work efforts and
  communication
• Readings
• Mosse, E. L., and Sahay, S. (2005) The role of
  communication practices in the strengthening of
  counter networks Case experiences from the
  health care sector of Mozambique, Information
  Technology for Development, Vol.11, Issue 3
• Calhoun, C. (2000).
• Touraine, A. (2000).
• Castells, M. (2000). Globalization and Identity
  in the Network Society a Rejoinder to Calhoun,
  Lyon and Touraine, in Prometheus, 4.

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5th Lecture

• Miria Grisot
• Actor Network Theory
• Main concepts
• ANT and information system research
• ANT and Information Infrastructure (Monteiro)
• Readings
• From Control To Drift, Chapter 5 Actor-Network
  Theory and Information Infrastructure.
• Ole Hanseth and Eric Monteiro (1997). Inscribing
  behavior in information infrastructure
  standards.  Accounting, Management Information
  Technology. Vol. 7, No. 4, pp. 183-211.
• Law, J., and Mol, A. (2002). Complexities. Duke
  University Press. Chapter 1 Introduction. Pages
  1-22.
• Latour, B. (1999) Pandoras Hope. Harvard
  University Press. Chapter 6 A Collective of
  Humans and Nonhumans.

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6th Lecture

• Margunn Aanestad
• Integration and Information Infrastructure
• Technical and social aspects
• Not value free multiple rationalities
• Readings
• Chilundo, B. and Aanestad, M. (2004).
  Negotiating Multiple Rationalities in the Process
  of Integrating the Information Systems of Disease
  Specific Health Programmes. In The Electronic
  Journal of Information Systems in Developing
  Countries, Vol. 20, Issue 2

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7th Lecture

• Petter Nielsen
• Designing Information Infrastructure case
  study from mobile service
• Bootstrapping
• innovation
• Readings
• Nielsen, P. And Hanseth, O. Open Standards for
  Mobile Content Services. A case study of the
  Norwegian CPA platform, Working paper.
• Ole Hanseth and Margunn Aanestad.  Bootstrapping
  networks, infrastructures and communities. 
  (Methods of Information in Medicine).
• Tuomi, I. (2002) Networks of Innovation, Chapter
  3 Inventing the Web.

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8th Lecture

• Edoardo Jacucci
• Standardization and Risk Electronic Patient
  Record at National Hospital
• Large standardization project
• Local-global interplay
• Readings
• Hanseth, O., Jacucci, E., Grisot, M., Aanestad,
  M. (2006). Reflexive Standardization side
  effects and complexity in standard making, MISQ,
  Special issue on Standard Making.

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9th Lecture

• Ole Hanseth
• Technology and Control
• Risk society
• Side effects
• Readings
• From Control To Drift Chapter 8, Whos in
  control? Designers, Managers or Technology?
  Infrastructures at Norsk Hydro.
• From Control To Drift Chapter 3, Globalization
  and Risk Society.
• Ole Hanseth, Claudio Ciborra, and Kristin Braa. 
  The Control Devolution. ERP and the Side Effects
  of Globalization. The Data base for advances in
  information systems. Special issue Critical
  Analysis of ERP systems The Macro Level. Vol.
  32, No. 4, Fall 2001, pp. 34-46.
• Charles Perrow. (1984/1999) Normal Accidents.
  Living with High-Risk Technologies. Princeton
  University Press. Chapter 1, Introduction.

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10th Lecture

• Jorn Braa
• Standardization and Flexibility
• Flexible standards
• Readings
• Ole Hanseth, Eric Monteiro and Morten Hatling. 
  Developing information infrastructure The
  tension between standardization and flexibility.
  Science, Technology and Human Values. Vol. 21 No.
  4, Fall 1996, 407-426.
• David, P.A. (2001) The Beginnings and
  Prospective Ending of End-to-End An
  Evolutionary Perspective On the Internets
  Architecture.
• Ole Hanseth.  Gateways - just as important as
  standards. How the Internet won the religious
  war about standards in Scandinavia.  Knowledge,
  Technology and Policy, Vol. 14 No. 3, Fall 2001,
  pp. 71-89. Special Issue on IT Compatibility. 
• Eric Monteiro. Scaling information
  infrastructure the case of the next generation
  IP in Internet. The Information Society .
  14(3)229 - 245, 1998, (Special issue on the
  history of Internet).

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11th Lecture

• Ole Hanseth
• Beyond Infrastructures
• Readings
• Dosi, G. (1982). Technological paradigms and
  technological trajectories", Research Policy 11,
  pp. 147-162.
• Christensen, C. and Bower, J. (1995) Disruptive
  Technologies Catching the Wave, Harward
  Business Review.
• Hughes, T. P. (1987) The Evolution of Large
  Technological Systems in Bjeker, W., Hughes, T.
  and Pinch T. (eds.), The MIT Press.

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12th Lecture

• Ole Hanseth
• Beyond Infrastructures
• Readings
• Spinosa, Flores Dreyfus Disclosing new worlds,
  February 1999. MIT Press.