Master thesis projects in Information Systems
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Master thesis projects in Information Systems Informatics: Design, Use, Interaction Informatics: Programming and System Architecture Information Systems Research Group Petter Nielsen ([email protected] ) 06.10.2020 https://uio.zoom.us/j/67868296296
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Master thesis projects in
Information Systems
Informatics: Design, Use, Interaction
Informatics: Programming and System Architecture
Information Systems Research Group
Petter Nielsen ([email protected]) 06.10.2020
https://uio.zoom.us/j/67868296296
20+ PhD candidates
30+ HISP scientific
programmers/engineers/c
oordinators/etc.
Information Systems Research Group
Olav Poppe
Kristin Braa Sundeep Sahay Jørn Braa Jens Kaasbøll Petter Nielsen Johan Sæbø Silvia Masiero
Terje SannerErnst Rødland Eric Monteiro Brian Nicholson
Magnus Li Ragnhild B. Gundersen
Arunima Mukherjee
https://www.mn.uio.no/ifi/english/research/groups/is/
Research, Innovation & Implementation
http://dhis2.org
HISP NetworkHealth Information Systems Program –
Global Network of Partners initiated 1994
DHIS2 SoftwareOpen source software platform for reporting, analysis and
dissemination of health data, developed, maintained and
supported by UiO
Research Focus:Strengthening Health Information Systems in low-
and middle-income countries
http://hisp.uio.no
Education Management
Information Systems (EMIS)
Logistics Management
Information Systems (LMIS)
Covid-19 contact
tracing in Norway
Typical themes for master theses
Architecture
Integration
Socio-Technical Platforms
Standards
Open Source
Mobile & Web technology
Participatory & User-Oriented Design
Information Infrastructures
Governance
ICT for Development
Digital Global Public Goods
http://www.mn.uio.no/ifi/studier/masteroppgaver/is/
InnovationUsability & Utility
Complexity
Health Information Systems Program - DHIS 2
• HISP a global action research network initiated
in collaboration with University of Western Cape
in1994 funded by Norad.
• DHIS 2 is an open source software for
reporting, analysis and dissemination of data for
all health programs
• Shared and integrated data warehouse for
essential health data: information for action
• Aggregate, events, and patient data
• Generic and generative platform - supports a
wide range of uses also beyond the health sector
• Financed and endorsed by all Global Health
agencies, WHO, Norad, Global Fund, PEPFAR
Unicef, Gates Foundation, GAVI, CDC
• WHO collaborative center
• DHIS2 used by MoH in 68 countries in the Global
South
DHIS2 adoption around the world (MoH implementations)
Supported as a Global
Public Good
Open source, entirely
free of licensing fees
Generic- supporting all
use cases
Global footprint: used
by 72 countries
Scalability: national
scale in 59 countries
In-country ownership
Community-driven
software roadmap
Read more on
dhis2.org/inaction
and
facebook.com/dhis2
Global «footprint»
2.4 billion people
+ 60 NGO’s, 58 PEPFAR countries, 60+
PSI countries, 10 global organizations
2020 Digital Annual
Conference
Global deployment of DHIS2 for COVID-19
51 countries total
31 using Tracker
20 using Android
Supported by global
HISP network
Rapid innovation to
meet local needs
dhis2.org/covid-19
25 January 2020
WHO issues public
statement urging
governments to be
ready to support testing;
tracing; clinical
management
12 February 2020
WHO published
Operational Planning
Guidelines to Support
Country Preparedness
and Response
29 January 2020
Sri Lanka deploys
DHIS2 for COVID-19
11 Mar 2020
Univ of Oslo publishes
pre-configured COVID-
19 packages for case-
based and aggregate
surveillance and Port of
Entry screening
21 Sep 2020
36 countries using
DHIS2 for their COVID-
19 response, with 15
more countries in testing
or development
Action research: Capacity building through innovation
• Strengthening national health information systems– Collaborating with Ministries of Health
– Participatory design (Scandinavian tradition) - creating ownership
• Action Research: Building knowledge on implementing HIS
while building systems on the ground through partnerships.
• HISP PhD school at University of Oslo: 65 PhDs graduated, 25 active
• International Masters programs in South Africa, Mozambique, Malawi,
Tanzania, Ethiopia, Sri Lanka (400 graduated)
• Regional DHIS 2 Academies, 121 Academies since 2011, 5600 graduated
• Online Academy: Fundamentals 10500 enrolled, PEPFAR, In country Data Use
Sustainability
goals
The projects …
• More about the projects:– https://www.mn.uio.no/ifi/studier/masteroppgaver/is/
• More about the supervisors:– https://www.mn.uio.no/ifi/english/research/groups/is/
DHIS2 Design Lab
- Group of researchers and master students collaborating with DHIS2 practitioners
- Overall interest in how we better can support and promote user-oriented design
and innovation with DHIS2.
- To make DHIS2 useful to the work of the many different end-users across
implementations
GENERICImplementation-level design
Adaption: configuration, custom apps
Specific user
organization
• Designed for many • Designed to work according to
specific needs• Used by end-users
Magnus Li
To support user-oriented design and innovation, we primarily focus on two aspects
1. Understanding current implementation-level design practices, and exploring how user-oriented approaches to design and innovation can be used in this context of design
2. Exploring resources that support the design and development of ‘apps’ for DHIS2.
Magnus Li
[email protected] Design Lab
DHIS2 Design Lab
Master students working together on projects and supporting each other in thesis writing
process
Contributing to research on generic enterprise software platforms, and participatory, user-
oriented design and innovation
Contributing practically to the DHIS2 software community
Magnus Li
Four concrete master projects related to the design lab this year
1. Exploring and promoting methods and approaches to participatory and/or user-oriented design and innovation for DHIS2 implementation (1 - 4 students)
2. Building capacity for app development in platform ecosystems (1 - 3 students)
3. Online collaborative design and development of apps for DHIS2 to support the use of health data (1 – 4 students)
4. Design and development of DHIS2-apps to support COVID-19 contact tracing ++ in Norway (1– 2 students)
Magnus Li
[email protected] Design Lab
1. Exploring and promoting methods and approaches to participatory and/or user-oriented design and innovation for DHIS2 implementation (1 - 4 students)
- Understand the current implementation and design practices to identify ‘best practice’ and challenges
- Identify appropriate methods for user-oriented design and innovation that can be included in existing practices (e.g., participatory design, activity-oriented design, etc)
- Develop material (e.g., guidelines, method toolkits) that can help strengthen awareness, motivation, and competence in user-oriented design and innovation for the community.
Magnus Li
[email protected] Design Lab
2. Building capacity for app development in platform ecosystems (1 - 3 students)
- Resources that help build capacity for web app development in the community
- Based on the newly developed IN5320 online course
- Explore, develop, and test form and content
- For use globally and in the IN5320-course
- Supervised by Magnus Li and Petter Nielsen (and collaboration with Wahed in DHIS2 dev team)
Magnus Li
[email protected] Design Lab
3. Online collaborative design and development of apps for DHIS2 to support the use of health data
- A persistent challenge in DHIS2: provide usable & relevant user interfaces
- The project: working together with DHIS2 teams in Rwanda and Mozambique, to design and develop new apps for the DHIS2 software
- Aim: develop features that can support users with relevant data and information in their work
- In the process: learnings about design approaches and/or use of platform resources
- Supervisors: Jørn Braa, Silvia Masiero, Scott Russpatrick, Brian Nicholson, Magnus Li
From dhis2.org
Magnus Li
[email protected] Design Lab
4. Design and development of DHIS2-apps to support COVID-19 contact tracing in Norway (1– 2 students)
- Design and develop apps for DHIS2 to be used to support COVID-19 contact tracing++ in Norway
- Strengthen user-interfaces and build useful functionality to support health workers
- In the process: learnings about design approaches and/or use of platform resources
- Supervisors: Magnus Li and Petter Nielsen
Illustrasjonsbilde fra
Smittevernkontoret.
Bilde: Endre Hovland
Magnus Li
[email protected] Design Lab
Covid-19
• A number of theses available related to contact tracing and information systems in Norway
• Field work expected in the central Oslo region
• Many possible topics online:– Information needs of various actors
– Confidentiality, integrity, accessibility challenges, especially related to the need for cross-municipality contact tracing
– Design and develop new apps for contact tracing
– Comparative study of several contact tracing systems
– Integration in the wider infectious disease information ecosystem
– Patient-centred contact tracing
– ++
Johan I. Sæbø
Picture by PIRO4D @pixaby
Digital Labour PlatformsSupervisors: Silvia Masiero, Brian Nicholson - Digital platforms for physical (e.g. Uber, Deliveroo) and digital work
(e.g. Upwork, Freelancer, Amazon Mechanical Turk) are widely seenas economic opportunities for clients, workers and platform owners
- But: what effects does digital labour really have? What economic, redistributional (global North-South), and gender effects can weobserve on workers?
- The project: a first phase (desk research), and a second phase of data collection including survey methods and/or interviews with workers and/or policymakers
- Potential third phase: participatory design of risk-mitigation systems with workers
Silvia Masiero
Teaching configuration of a software platform
• Goal
– Improve training
• Method
– Study learners,
teachers and training
material
– Test changes?
• Contact
Jens Kaasbøll
Repository for multi-lingual learning material
• Course material– Videos
– Documents
– Quizzes
– Assignments
• Versioning– Languages
– Cases
– DHIS2 versions
• Contact– [email protected]
Jens Kaasbøll
Education Management Information
System using DHIS2
61 million primary school-age children were not enrolled in school in 2010. There are 31 million girls of primary school age not in school. Seventeen million of these girls will probably never attend school.Help us develop, implement and study Education Management Information Systems to facilitate better utilization of scarce education resources in low income countries!
Terje Sanner
What is EMIS?
Education management information systems
(EMIS) provide quality data that facilitate better
education system management and planning
Terje Sanner
Tests, exams and grades A few teachers use computers to write
tests, store test results and grades.
Pupils’ performance aggregated through national tests.
School administration manage subjects and grading (lack of standards)
Terje Sanner
Education Data Yearbook
Published on Ministry web pages Usually not adapted to different
audiences Full of tables, but limited
interpretation/ analysis No or little grouping of indicators
that should be considered together (i.e. Dashboards)
Terje Sanner
School “scorecard” in DHIS2
To communicate school resources and school performance to community, PTA, etc.
Currently a Master thesis project with 3 IFI students on this topic
Terje Sanner
A few EMIS Master thesis projects
District / cluster monitor dashboards (UNESCO standard & locally relevant
data)
Attendance (pupil & teacher)
Integration of education data sources (Exam data, HR data, Census data)
Digital Curriculum (how can we levergae the Digitized EMIS to also support
dissemiantion and update of digital curriculum at school level?)
Terje Sanner
Evaluating Processes of Technical, Functional &
Geographical Scaling of DHIS2 Based HMIS in Indian states
1. To understand how and why DHIS2 based
HMIS has been scaled in states for 10-years
2. What can we say about the process of scaling
across geographical and functional domains
3. What are the sustainability qualifiers that have
led to institutionalisation of HMIS
Arunima Mukherjee
Understanding how the context of conflict & instability
influence the provisioning on healthcare services in India
1. What data is collected, shared and used within the institutional context which shape processes of access to care and information, continuity of care, and quality of care and their implications on human rights, gender equity, data governance and their interactions?
2. What are the existing regulatory and legal frameworks around the use of digital technologies and personal data within RMNCH? How are these enforced? Are they effective at protecting individuals – their data and human rights?
Arunima Mukherjee
