Madon, Shirin 
ORCID: 0000-0002-4497-2165, Sahay, Sundeep and Sudan, Randeep
(2007)
E-Government policy and health information systems implementation in Andhra Pradesh, India: Nned for articulation of linkages between the macro and the micro.
Information Society, 23 (5).
pp. 327-344.
ISSN 0197-2243
Abstract
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.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Official URL: | http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/tf/01972243.html |
| Additional Information: | © 2007 Taylor & Francis Group, LLC |
| Divisions: | International Development |
| Subjects: | D History General and Old World > DS Asia Q Science > QA Mathematics > QA75 Electronic computers. Computer science |
| Date Deposited: | 13 Jan 2011 14:40 |
| Last Modified: | 15 Oct 2024 06:03 |
| URI: | http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/31458 |
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