Analysing information systems evaluation: another look at an old problem
European Journal of Information Systems - Special issue on information systems evaluaiton
Evaluation in a Socio-technical Context
HOIT '00 Proceedings of the IFIP TC9 WG9.3 International Conference on Home Oriented Informatics and Telematics,: Information, Technology and Society
Measuring e-government impact: existing practices and shortcomings
ICEC '04 Proceedings of the 6th international conference on Electronic commerce
Information Technology for Development - Special issue: Information technology for health care in Mozambique
Implementing public information systems in developing countries: learning from a success story
Information Technology for Development
Governance lessons from the experience of telecentres in Kerala
European Journal of Information Systems - Special section: PACIS 2004
Information systems in the public sector: The e-Government enactment framework
The Journal of Strategic Information Systems
A synthesis of research on ICT adoption and use by medical professionals in Sub-Saharan Africa
Proceedings of the 2nd ACM SIGHIT International Health Informatics Symposium
Moderating effects of governance on information infrastructure and e-government development
Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology
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In recent years, many different types of e-government projects have been implemented across the developing world. One important application area, especially following the Millennium Development Goals, is the introduction of health information systems to improve the management of health care for development. Despite significant investments in these projects, experience reveals a disjuncture between macro-level policy priorities and micro-level implementation of these programmes. We use a broad conceptualization of evaluation to synthesize priorities at different levels during the implementation of an e-government project-the Health Information Systems Project (HISP) in Andhra Pradesh, India. This enables us to identify important enabling processes and conditions which serve to connect policy and implementation priorities. Our findings suggest that evaluation does help us to understand the disjuncture between policy at the macro level and implementation at the micro level and to identify linkages between the two. Finally, we discuss some of the key institutional issues that need to be addressed to translate the learning derived from the field into policy actions.