Terje Aksel Sanner

Associate Professor

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Research Interests

I study the development, governance, and use of digital platforms in the public sector. Through engaged scholarship, I work with ministry partners in the health and education sectors in low and middle-income countries. Digital platforms have transformed the commercial software industry. How should they be governed to enable digital innovation and value co-creation in the public sector?

I work with three interrelated research themes:

Digital platform approaches to public sector information systems
Commons governance in digital platform ecosystems
Governing information systems for openness (open standards, open data, open source, open innovation)

University Teaching

I co-administer and teach two master courses at the Department of Informatics, UiO:

Ph.D. supervision

The following candidates have completed their Ph.D. with my supervision:

Bjørnar Valbø (2024) Towards Re-Calibrating the IS-Notion of Affordances

Wilfred Felix Senyoni (2021), Institutional Work in Strengthening Health Information Systems in Fragmented Settings: An Action Research Study of Information Dashboards in East African Community and Indonesia

Lars Kristian Roland (2018), Designing architectural patterns for distributed flexibility in health information systems

Master student supervision

The following students have completed their Master's Theses with my supervision:

Sainju, Sajan, Assessing Information Flow Impediments in Public Sector Organisations: An Interpretive Case Study in the Context of the Teacher Posting Process in the Gambia (2023)

Yactine, Wissam, The Maslahah Phenomenon in The Gambia: The Impact of Maslahah on Teacher Posting and Data Harmonization (2023)

Hultin, Malin Sofie Adrienne Arnegård, From Workaround to Institutionalization: An Interpretive Case Study of WhatsApp Use for Educational Management in the Gambia (2023)

Dodaj, Gresa, Representing gender equity through dynamic indicators (2022)

Guan, Yue, Opportunities and Challenges of Digitizing the Education Sector in Developing Countries (2022)

Knudsen, Øystein, School Report Cards in The Gambia: Exploring perceived opportunities and challenges of digitization (2021)

Halilaj, Alxhip, Developing and testing for usability
within a low reso urce context: An action case study of the School report card in the Gambia (2021)

Johnson, Lars-August Udnesseter, Developing and testing for usability
within a low resource context: An action case study of the School report card in the Gambia (2021)

Nguyen, Rambi, Identifying usability aspects with digital pupil attendance registration in a low resource context (2021)

Subaschandran, Saru, A case study investigating the usability of an EMIS application in The Gambia (2021)

Henie, Jonas Berg, Developing for usability and user involvement in a low resource contex (2018)

Egede-Nissen, Øyvind , Using Nutrition Clinical Decision Support Systems in low resource settings: A case from Rwanda (2018)

Falch, Vetle Arildsønn , Forbedring av rask og jevn pasientflyt ved bruk av IT verktøy for koordinasjon hos sykehusets støttetjenester En case studie av renholdsprosesser på et norsk sykehus (2018)

Parramore, Anastasia, Computer supported evidence-based decision-making at health facilities in Zambia (2017)

Ogega, Peter Mogaka, Data use challenges and the potential of live visualization tools data - A case study of health data-use workshops in Zambia (2017)

Roa, Julie Hill, Designing mobile instant messaging for collaborative health data management in Rwanda (2017)

Fraschetti, Yrjan Aleksander Frøyland, Designing mobile instant messaging for collaborative health data management in Rwanda (2017)

Ommundsen, Simon Oliver, Designing an Education Management Information System - A case study on the introduction of a digital, mobile-to-web Education Management Information System in Zambia (2017)

Sujatmiko, Nugroho Fitria, Implementing DHIS2 Feedback via Short Message Service: A Case Study for Uganda WEMR Health Workers (2015)

Rein, Torbein, Feedback as Motivation: Case study in Uganda WEMR Program (2015)

Al-Nashy, Safa Ahmed Tahir, Managing scaling of HIS: Implementation of DHIS2 in Sudan (2015)

Tags: health information systems, global health, Sustainable Developments Goals (SDGs), education information systems, education management, public sector, digital platforms

Sanner, Terje Aksel, and Egil Øvrelid. “Informating Hospital Workflow Coordination.” Computer Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW), May 28, 2019. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10606-019-09362-z.

Roland, Lars Kristian; Sanner, Terje Aksel; Sæbø, Johan Ivar & Monteiro, Eric (2017). P for Platform. Architectures of large-scale participatory design. Scandinavian Journal of Information Systems. ISSN 0905-0167. 29(2)

Sanner, Terje Aksel; Manda, Tiwonge Davis; Nielsen, Petter.
Grafting: Balancing Control and Cultivation in Information Infrastructure Innovation. Journal of the AIS 2014 ;Volume 15.(4) p. 220-243

Sanner, Terje Aksel; Sæbø, Johan Ivar.
Paying Per Diems for ICT4D Project Participation: A Sustainability Challenge. Information Technologies and International Development 2014 ;Volume 10.(2) p. 33-47

Sanner, Terje Aksel; Roland, Lars Kristian & Braa, Kristin (2012). From pilot to scale: Towards and mHealth typology for low-resource contexts. Health Policy and Technology. ISSN 2211-8837. 1(1), s 155- 164 . doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.hlpt.2012.07.009

Valbø, Bjørnar & Sanner, Terje Aksel (2023). Informing sustainable development in education: Identification and actualization of layered is affordances. Electronic Journal of Information Systems in Developing Countries. ISSN 1681-4835. doi: 10.1002/isd2.12302. Full text in Research Archive
Øvrelid, Egil & Sanner, Terje Aksel (2020). Sense-able process innovation in digital health infrastructures. Scandinavian Journal of Information Systems (SJIS). ISSN 0905-0167. 32(1), p. 81–116.
Sanner, Terje Aksel & Øvrelid, Egil (2019). Informating Hospital Workflow Coordination. Computer Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW). ISSN 0925-9724. doi: 10.1007/s10606-019-09362-z.
Sanner, Terje Aksel & Nielsen, Petter (2019). Software Platforms for Inclusive Innovation. In Nielsen, Petter & Kimaro, Honest C. (Ed.), Information and Communication Technologies for Development: Strengthening Southern-Driven Cooperation as a Catalyst for ICT4D. 15th IFIP WG 9.4 International Conference on Social Implications of Computers in Developing Countries, ICT4D 2019, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, May 1–3, 2019, Proceedings, Part I. Springer Nature. ISSN 9783030183998. p. 218–230. doi: 10.1007/978-3-030-18400-1_18.
Sanner, Terje Aksel & Øvrelid, Egil (2018). Enabling responsive hospital housekeeping with workflow IT . NOKOBIT: Norsk konferanse for organisasjoners bruk av informasjonsteknologi. ISSN 1892-0748. Full text in Research Archive
Øvrelid, Egil; Sanner, Terje Aksel & Siebenherz, Anette (2018). Creating Coordinative Paths from admission to discharge: The role of lightweight IT in hospital digital process innovation. In Bui, Tung (Eds.), Proceedings of the 51st Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences 2018 (HICSS-51). Association for Information Systems (AIS). ISSN 978-0-9981331-1-9. p. 3160–3169. doi: 10.24251/hicss.2018.399. Full text in Research Archive
Poppe, Olav; Sæbø, Johan Ivar; Nielsen, Petter & Sanner, Terje Aksel (2017). Standardising Through Software. IRIS Selected Papers of the Information Systems Research Seminar in Scandinavia. ISSN 1891-9863. 8, p. 111–119.
Roland, Lars Kristian; Sanner, Terje Aksel; Sæbø, Johan Ivar & Monteiro, Eric (2017). P for platform: Architectures of large-scale participatory design. Scandinavian Journal of Information Systems (SJIS). ISSN 0905-0167. 29(2), p. 3–34. Full text in Research Archive
Roland, Lars Kristian; Sanner, Terje Aksel & Aanestad, Margunn (2017). Flexibility in EHR ecosystems: five integration strategies and their trade-offs. NOKOBIT: Norsk konferanse for organisasjoners bruk av informasjonsteknologi. ISSN 1892-0748. 25(1).
Øvrelid, Egil; Sanner, Terje Aksel & Siebenherz, Anette (2017). From admission to discharge: Informating patient flow with lightweight IT. NOKOBIT: Norsk konferanse for organisasjoners bruk av informasjonsteknologi. ISSN 1892-0748.
Sanner, Terje Aksel (2017). ICT4D sustainability as generativity. IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology. ISSN 1868-4238. 504, p. 498–509. doi: 10.1007/978-3-319-59111-7_41.
Manda, Tiwonge Davis & Sanner, Terje Aksel (2015). The Mobile is Part of a Whole: Implementing and Evaluating mHealth from an Information Infrastructure Perspective. International Journal of User-Driven Healthcare. ISSN 2156-1818. doi: 10.4018/ijudh.2014010101.
Sanner, Terje Aksel & Sæbø, Johan Ivar (2014). Paying Per Diems for ICT4D Project Participation: A Sustainability Challenge. Information Technologies & International Development. ISSN 1544-7529. 10(2), p. 33–47.
Sanner, Terje Aksel; Manda, Tiwonge Davis & Nielsen, Petter (2014). Grafting: Balancing Control and Cultivation in Information Infrastructure Innovation. Journal of the AIS. ISSN 1536-9323. 15(4), p. 220–243. doi: 10.17705/1jais.00356.
Purkayastha, Saptarshi; Manda, Tiwonge Davis & Sanner, Terje Aksel (2013). A Post-development Perspective on mHealth - An Implementation Initiative in Malawi. Proceedings of the Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS). ISSN 1530-1605. p. 4217–4225. doi: 10.1109/HICSS.2013.53. Full text in Research Archive
Sanner, Terje Aksel; Roland, Lars Kristian & Braa, Kristin (2012). From pilot to scale: Towards and mHealth typology for low-resource contexts. Health Policy and Technology. ISSN 2211-8837. 1(1), p. 155–164. doi: 10.1016/j.hlpt.2012.07.009.

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Jallow, Seedy Ahmed & Sanner, Terje Aksel (2022). Education Information System Decentralization: The Introduction of Digital Learner Records in the Gambia.
Valbø, Bjørnar & Sanner, Terje Aksel (2022). Investigating Mid-level IT Affordances as Drivers for Societal Change: Addressing the Education Data Challenge in The Gambia. Show summary
Affordance perspectives have gained traction among information systems (IS) scholars and have seen recent adoption in ICT4D research. Although scholars recognize the need to differentiate between mere technology use and higher-level organizational and societal IT affordances, no clear terminology for the representation of affordance granularity exists. This paper introduces “mid-level IT affordances”, which, we argue, emerge from technology use and serve as prerequisites for the actualization of higher-level affordances. To illustrate, we draw on a case study of education management information systems in The Gambia. International development agendas encourage public sector actors to produce increasingly granular data. Yet, the capacity to utilize the data is not strengthened correspondingly. This introduces a disconnect between policy and practice, whereby investments in technology use affordances fail to translate into IT affordances for monitoring progress towards complex policy goals. A mid-level IT affordance perspective allows for the identification and potential mitigation of such gaps.
Russpatrick, Scott McKee; Sæbø, Johan Ivar; Monteiro, Eric; Nicholson, Brian & Sanner, Terje Aksel (2021). Digital Resilience to Covid-19: A Model for National Digital Health Systems to Bounce Forward From the Shock of a Global Pandemic.
Fossum, Kristoffer; Fossum, Selamawit Molla; Hanseth, Ole & Sanner, Terje Aksel (2019). Adaptive networked governance of e-health standards: The case of a regional health information infrastructure in Norway.
Nielsen, Petter & Sanner, Terje Aksel (2018). Digital Innovation and the Dynamics of ICT4D Projects.
Sæbø, Johan Ivar; Sanner, Terje Aksel & Muhire, Andrew (2014). Better Information, Better Decisions, Better Health.
Roland, Lars Kristian & Sanner, Terje Aksel (2013). Accommodating Multiple Rationalities in Patient Oriented Health Information System Design.
Sanner, Terje Aksel; Sæbø, Johan Ivar & Moyo, Christon M. (2013). Interdependent Institutional Logics: The Case Of Health Information System Restructuring In Malawi. Show summary
The paper aims to identify, through an institutionalist analysis, the interplay between institutional logics pertaining to a prolonged and ongoing HMIS restructuring process in Malawi. In doing so the paper highlights important contestations between interpretations of the HMIS function, efforts aimed at its restructuring, and the meaning of the health data it evolves around. The paper contributes theoretically to the institutionalist perspective by conceptualizing a pair of mutually legitimizing institutional logics, of development (impact) and aid (opportunism), as interdependent institutional logics.
Sanner, Terje Aksel; Braa, Kristin & Roland, Lars Kristian (2012). From Pilot to Scale: Towards a mHealth Typology for Low Resource Contexts.
Sanner, Terje Aksel & Manda, Davis Tiwonge (2012). Bootstrapping Information Technology Innovations Across Organisational and Geographical Boundaries: Lessons from an mHealth Implementation in Malawi.
Sanner, Terje Aksel & Braa, Kristin (2011). Making mHealth happen for Health Information systems in low resource settings.
Sanner, Terje Aksel (2015). Grafting Information Infrastructure: Mobile Phone‐based Health Information System Implementations in India and Malawi. Akademika forlag.

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Published Jan. 19, 2011 2:05 PM - Last modified June 4, 2024 2:17 PM

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