Presentation prepared for 2011 IFIP WG 9.4 conference in Kathmandu/Nepal

Paper presented at the 2011 IFIP WG 9.4 conference in Kathmandu/Nepal

Title of the paper:
The impact of stakeholders' relation of the sustainability and scalability of mHealth projects in developing countries.

Abstract:
Various innovative mobile phone-based applications have already been developed to address some of the many health care service delivery challenges faced by developing countries. These innovative solutions have proven the potential mobile technologies and mobile health (mHealth) have in enabling and enhancing health care service delivery in such countries. However, the majority of these applications are not sustained and/or scalable. The interrelations between the various stakeholders involved in mHealth projects in developing countries can have an impact on the project’s dynamics and the extent to which the project becomes sustainable and scalable. Using stakeholder theory and Orlikowski’s technologies-in-practice model, this paper explores four mobile phone-based applications for HIV/AIDS care in three developing countries. The aim of the exploration has been to form an understanding of the impact of stakeholders’ relations on the sustainability and scalability of these initiatives. The findings indicate that there is a connection between stakeholders’ relations and a project’s sustainability and scalability objectives. The findings also indicate that stakeholders’ relations influence resource availability, the project’s dynamics and the extent to which a project becomes sustainable and scalable.

My IFIP WG 9.4 conference (Nepal/Kathmandu 2011)

I haven't been able to update my blog or post anything new for the past one year and an half because I was kind of busy reflecting on my PhD research topic. I have been a little stressed up.

But now after presenting my conference paper at the IFIP WG 9.4 conference this this May 2011, I feel much more at ease and confident about the PhD experience.
The conference was great and it was good to get some feedback from the participants.

It was also great meeting new people and having a different perspective on what is required of a PhD student.

I presented the paper "The impact of stakeholders' relations on the sustainability and scalability of mHealth projects in developing countries."

I will post more about this very soon.

Short biography

Boroto Hwabamungu short biography

A Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) born, BOROTO HWABAMUNGU is presently a  post doctorate fellow at the school of public health (SoPH) of the University of the Western Cape. He holds a PhD in Information Systems from the University of Cape Town and specialises in Health Information Systems.

 

Born on the family farm in Kalole in the city of Walungu in the Eastern DRC, he is the eleventh born of fourteen siblings on his mother’s side and the twenty-first born of twenty-four siblings of the big loving Boroto family. His farther, the late Inspecteur Cesaire Boroto Karhamikire, an education pioneer of the late 1970 in the Eastern DRCongo, has been the inspiration for the value of education particularly through his famous saying: ”Kalamu ka Boroto kasoma” emphasising the value of education. His Mother the late Celine Nankafu M’Mbavu, has been not only a loving a caring mother but also a great partner and source of support for the attainment of the family’s vision for education, integrity, love and togetherness. Boroto Hwabamungu is married to his dear wife Patricia Namwezi Ndeko.

 

He interrupted his fourth year of medical studies in the DRC in 1998 due to the political unrest in the DRC and came to South Africa in 2000 with the hope of completing his medical studies and becoming a medical doctor.  He struggled to get admitted in most South African medical schools/universities to pursue his medical studies. He then decided to enrol for the BCom Information Systems degree at the University of the Western Cape (UWC) in 2002. After completing his BCOM and Honours degrees in Information Systems at UWC in 2005 and 2006 respectively), he enrolled for a Masters degree in Informatics at the University of Pretoria in 2007. Having completed his Masters degree with a distinction for his Masters’ dissertation in 2009 and wishing to further his research interest, he enrolled for the 2010 PhD programme in Information Systems at the University of Cape Town. He successfully completed his PhD program in 2014. His PhD research topic was “The influence of stakeholders’ relations on the implementation of Information Systems strategy in public hospitals in South Africa: an activity theory perspective”. His research interests are: health information systems, strategic information systems planning (SISP), mHealth and Information and Communication Technology (ICT) for development (ICT4D).

He has been a candidate/student researcher at the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) within the CSIR Meraka Institute in Pretoria from October 2006 to March 2014. He also worked as a SAP Junior consultant at the City of Cape Town’s SAP R/3 ERP project between February 2006 and September 2006.

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