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Department of Informatics
The "Global Infrastructures" Research Group

Last update:
Thursday March 13 2008
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Sundeep Sahay(Photo)

Professor

Telephone at IFI: (+ 47) 22 84 00 73
E-mail: sundeeps (at) ifi.uio.no


I am a professor at the Department of Informatics at the University of Oslo, Norway. After completing my doctoral studies at Florida International University, I have held research and teaching positions at the Universities of Cambridge and Salford in the UK and at the University of Alberta in Canada. I have been actively involved in researching social, organizational and managerial implications of information systems, both in developed and developing countries. My current research activities include health Information systems, and issues relating to global software organizations I have published extensively both in IS and organization studies. I have done consultancy work in several different countries on the issues of global outsourcing and health information systems. My work in Tajikistan and India are among the ones to be mentioned

My areas of Interests

  • Implementation of computer-based information systems 
  • Applications of IT to natural resources management
  • Applications of IT in developing country governments
  • Utilisation of geographical information systems
  • Organization theoryInterpretive research methods
  • Computers in child education

My education

  • 2001 University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada, MA Philosophy
  • 1993-95 University of Cambridge, Cambridge, England Post-Doctoral Research Fellow, Information Systems
  • 1993 Florida International University, Miami, Florida Phd. Decision Sciences and Information Systems
  • 1983 Birla Institute of Technology and Sciences, Pilani, India Masters Engineering
  • 1981 Birla Institute of Technology and Sciences, Pilani, India.