Use and design of information technology in third world contexts with a focus on the health sector

This is a reprint of a thesis for the degree pf Doctor Philosophiae submitted to the Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences at the University of Oslo. The thesis contains a main contribution, eight articles and for appendices. The articles provide empirical material which is discussed and summarized in the main contribution.

The thesis is based on fieldwork in Mongolia and South Africa. The theme of the thesis is use and design of information technologies in disadvantage areas, the "third world part" of the third world. The focus is on the health sector an ways to use IT to support a decentralised primary health structure.

The adjudicating committee consisted of professor Geoff Walsham, associate professor Mikko Korpela associate professor Kim Halskov Madsen