Health Information Systems Project in Andhra Pradesh-Experiences from phcs in Kuppam

Anthropological Perspectives on Gender

• Examines the cultural constructions of femininities and masculinities from a cross-cultural perspective.
• For discussion: how individuals and societies imagine, negotiate, perform and contest dominant gender ideologies, roles, relations and identities. (share our own experiences & personal backgrounds)

Information Systems from Anthropology & Social Sciences

• “While technological determinism can be applicable and useful in situations that are characterized by high degree of control and short time frames, it has limited value in dynamic and complex situations that unfold over longer periods of time. ..
• Technological determinism cannot adequately account for the interactions between ICT, the people who design, implement and use them, and the social and organisational contexts in which the technologies and people are embedded.“
• -- Kling et al. 2000, Relation-ship between technical and social factors in working processes (pp. 49-50)