Editorial Policies

Focus and Scope

The Electronic Journal of Information Systems in Developing Countries (EJISDC) strives to become the foremost international forum for practitioners, teachers, researchers and policy makers to share their knowledge and experience in the design, development, implementation, management and evaluation of information systems and technologies in developing countries.

The Journal's Rationale

Contemporary Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) pose both risks and opportunities to the process of sustainable global development. Historically, most global ICT investment occurred in the developed countries of the world. That situation is slowly changing, as major transition economies such as China step up their ICT spending. Lenovo Corporation's attempt to buy IBM's PC division (for US$1.75B) is indicative of the spending power of the larger Chinese entities, as well as the scale of domestic Chinese demand for ICTs. Some 94 million people in the PRC now (December 2004) have Internet access. It is also worth noting that while the developed economies achieve significant competitive advantage from their capital expenditure, developing economies can often achieve more for a fraction of the cost. Cuba's ICT developments in healthcare, for instance, are little known, yet are indeed worthy of recognition, not least because of their low absolute costs, as well as high levels of relevance and effectiveness.

EJISDC focuses on the digital divide. Our aim is to situate contemporary trends in ICTs within a fully global context. Outside of North America, Western Europe, Australasia and Japan, diverse societies are making sense of technological advances in ways unique to their cultures and histories. ICT investments can and do contribute to improved quality of life, even where priorities for investments in information systems compete with the provision of the basic necessities of life such as decent housing, clean water and primary healthcare. ICT investments are able to leverage the values of third-world assets in much the same way as they do in the first world, sometimes to a far greater extent because of the lower starting point and lower costs.

In the five years since EJISDC went live, it has published over 120 articles from countries as far dispersed as China, Tanzania, the Solomon Islands, Brazil and Nepal. Many of the authors work in these, and other developing, countries, as too do many of the readers. EJISDC is recognised by organisations such as the UN and its publications are often cited. In the near future, EJISDC will move to a new online publication management system, but our basic premise and philosophy will not change. We will continue to offer a forum for theoretical and empirical contributions to the understanding and promotion of sustainable development.

Section Policies

Articles

Editors

Robert Davison, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
Roger Harris, Roger Harris Associates, Hong Kong
Paul Licker, Oakland University, USA
Peter Mbile, World Agroforestry Centre, Cameroon
Ann Séror, eResearch Collaboratory, Quebec City, PQ, Canada
Gamila Shoib, Griffith University, Australia

Open Submissions

Indexed

Peer Reviewed

Indexed

Peer Reviewed

Book Reviews

Editors

Robert Davison, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
Roger Harris, Roger Harris Associates, Hong Kong
Peter Mbile, World Agroforestry Centre, Cameroon
Ann Séror, eResearch Collaboratory, Quebec City, PQ, Canada
Gamila Shoib, Griffith University, Australia

Open Submissions

Indexed

Peer Reviewed

Introduction

Open Submissions

Indexed

Peer Reviewed

Figures

Open Submissions

Indexed

Peer Reviewed

Summary

Open Submissions

Indexed

Peer Reviewed

Peer Review Process

Publication Policy

EJISDC intends to reach its audience in a manner which is consistent with its mission. It will be published electronically, as the title suggests. There are no subscription fees. Research contributions will be sought, and they will be reviewed and refereed by renowned scholars, but EJISDC is not a journal for academics merely to showcase their research skills to each other. The editors will seek contributions from practitioners, managers, policy makers and writers with a story to tell. We are convinced that there is an abundance of useful knowledge regarding the use of ICTs in developing countries which has not been tapped and which can be usefully and easily shared electronically among interested individuals in the developing world. Existing forums are not doing the job.

If you wish to receive notification of future issues of the journal by email, please send an email to the Editor-in-Chief.

The Journal will focus on information technologies and practices relevant in the context concerned rather than on any accepted norms that might be prevalent in developed countries. In acknowledging that the digital divide is not defined by national borders alone, EJISDC is also interested in issues surrounding information systems among less privileged indigenous communities within otherwise developed countries. Examples are Native Americans, the aboriginal populations of Australia and the Maoris of New Zealand.

Open Access Policy

This journal provides open access to all of its content on the principle that making research freely available to the public supports a greater global exchange of knowledge. Such access is associated with increased readership and increased citation of an author's work. For more information on this approach, see the Public Knowledge Project, which has designed this system to improve the scholarly and public quality of research, and which freely distributes the journal system as well as other software to support the open access publishing of scholarly resources.

Links

The purpose of this page is to provide information about a) other journals in this domain, b) other not-for-profit eJournals, and c) other organisations and/or individuals who have supported the journal in some way. The journals are in no way affiliated with EJISDC, and EJISDC takes no responsibility for any content that may be published on them.

Journals

KACIKE - Journal of Caribbean Amerindian History and Anthropology

ITD - The Journal of IT for Development

JRP - The Journal of Research Practice

FOS - The SPARC Open Access Newsletter (formerly the Free Online Scholarship Newsletter)

Individuals/Organisations

Dept of Information Systems, City University of Hong Kong

University of Malaysia Sarawak

The Electronic Journal of Information Systems in Developing Countries. ISSN: 1681-4835 www.ejisdc.org

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