Designing An Education Management Information System: A Case Study on the Introduction of A Digital, Mobile-To-Web Education Management Information System in Zambia

TARGET GROUP: EDUCATION SECTOR

OBJECTIVES

·        To address the research question of how a digital EMIS can be designed to support timely and decentralized decision making in the Zambian education sector.

·        To support multiple user objectives and needs, and be flexible enough to fit various work processes and tasks, while the TECHNOLOGY IN EDUCATION needs to overcome infrastructural challenges and fit with staff skills.              

SUMMARY

Measuring the quality of education in a timely and reliable manner is at the core of social development of any country. To solve this pressing issue, the Ministry of General Education in Zambia has initiated a pilot project to strengthen their Education Management Information System (EMIS) by implementing a digital report structure to complement their annual, paper-based system. As is well documented in the literature of Information Systems and Health Management Information Systems, contextual conditions in low resource countries often challenge best practice approaches for implementing functioning, large-scale management information systems. Using the case from Zambia, this study shows how centralized approaches to EMIS-implementation can be used to simultaneously assess multiple implementation models, but also how this might increase the gap between local and national data needs

REFERENCE

https://www.duo.uio.no/bitstream/handle/10852/56898/1/master_simonoo.pdf