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About

Welcome to the Department of Information Systems and Innovation.

Our Vision
To be the centre of excellent research and teaching in Information Systems in Africa, based on innovation and dissemination of knowledge and technology, through studies of public and private sector issues and practices.

Our Mission
We educate people to think and practice Information Systems at individual, organisational, national, and global levels; to effectively develop, manage, and enhance Information Systems for better decision making; and to address the needs of Information Systems knowledge and innovation in Ghana, Africa, and beyond.

Our Core Values
1. Quality challenges us to pursue the highest standards of innovation and dissemination of knowledge and technology pertaining to Information Systems.

2. Excellence challenges us to apply rigour, imagination, and creativity in our Information Systems teaching and research programmes.

3. Connectedness challenges us to be relevant and valuable to GIMPA and all our stakeholders by collaborating with diverse entities in Ghana, Africa and beyond.

Based its vision, mission and core values, the department offers a wide range of Management Information Systems (MIS) degree programmes from Bachelor to Master of Philosophy. MIS as an academic discipline and profession is a hybrid of information, technology and non-technology resources viewed as a system.

The thinking and practice of MIS manifest in the analysis, design, management,implementation and maintenance of information technologies such as software applications,databases, devices, and networks. Our faculty members are dedicated to high-quality teaching for high-quality student-centred learning.

The high-quality teaching by our faculty members derives from the high-quality research we undertake. We have diverse research interests in the areas of digital infrastructures, multi-sided platforms, identity systems, financial technologies, digital service innovation, and mobile informatics.
It is our pleasure to provide our students many opportunities to gain academic and professional competence and excellence. Welcome again to the Department of Information Systems and Innovation.

Dr. Joseph Budu
Head of Department

Research

Thematically, research among the Information Systems and Innovation faculty members falls in three broad themes:

1. Digital Platforms in the Private and Public Sectors, including

  • Core platform infrastructure and IT service innovation
  • Platform systems and organizational learning
  • Multi-sided platform applications and socio-economic development
  • Software frameworks and the learning of programming

2. Information Technology and Society, including

  • Disruptive technologies
  • Financial technologies and inclusion
  • Sharing economy technologies
  • Digital identity management systems
  • Information privacy in social media
  • Social media and attitudes

3. Mobile Technologies and Ubiquitous Computing, including

  • Mobile money and interoperability
  • Mobile technologies and higher education
  • Ubiquitous computing and software engineering

Specific IT variables being studied in the above-listed themes include:

  • Digital Infrastructure
  • Multi-sided Platforms
  • Mobile Applications
  • Web Applications
  • Short Messaging Protocols
  • Social Media

Specific non-IT variables being studied in these above-listed themes include:

  • Adoption
  • Implementation
  • Usability
  • Design
  • Development
  • Administration
  • Inclusion
  • Privacy

Faculty

  • Joseph Budu, PhD
    Joseph Budu, PhD
    Senior Lecturer/HOD, Department of Information Systems and Innovation
  • Gamel O. Wiredu, PhD
    Gamel O. Wiredu, PhD
    Associate Professor
  • Joseph K. Adjei, PhD
    Joseph K. Adjei, PhD
    Senior Lecturer
  • Daniel Adomako Asamoah,PhD
    Daniel Adomako Asamoah,PhD
    Associate Professor of Information Systems
  • Daniel N. Treku
    Daniel N. Treku
    Lecturer
  • Kofi Arhin
    Kofi Arhin
    Lecturer
  • Solomon Odei-Appiah
    Solomon Odei-Appiah
    Assistant Lecturer
  • Raphael Amponsah
    Raphael Amponsah
    Assistant Lecturer
Joseph Budu, PhD
Senior Lecturer/HOD, Department of Information Systems and Innovation

    josbudu@gimpa.edu.gh

PhD Information Systems, UG, Ghana 2020
MPhil Management Information Systems, UG, Ghana, 2013
BEd Information Technology, UEW, Ghana, 2009

Research Interests
Digital platforms, ICT for development, IS education

Teaching
Organisational Study of IS, IT Research Methods, Systems Thinking and Practice, IT Project Management, Information and Knowledge Society, Systems Analysis and Design, Object-oriented Analysis and Design, Software Engineering

Selected Publications
Budu, J. (2019). Higher-order Learning Outcomes in an Undergraduate IT Project Management Course. International Journal of Information and Communication Technology Education, 15(4), 54–60.

Budu J., Seneadza J., Entee E., Fosu M., Asare B.T., Mensah C. (2019) Explaining Technology Adoption with Financial Motivation. In: Dwivedi Y., Ayaburi E., Boateng R., Effah J. (eds) ICT Unbounded, Social Impact of Bright ICT Adoption. TDIT 2019. IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology, vol 558. Springer, Cham.

Budu, J. (2018). What makes learners share feedback or not in an online community for education. International Journal of Information and Communication Technology Education, 14(2), 48-59.

Budu, J. (2018). Applying agile principles in teaching IT Project Management. International Journal of Information and Communication Technology Education, 14(3), 29–40.

Budu, J., and Boateng, R. (2015). Mobile Service Capabilities: evidence from a Ghanaian Mobile Service Provider. International Journal of E-Services and Mobile Applications, 7(3), 1-17.

Budu, J., and Boateng, R. (2014) Dominant Issues and Conceptual Approaches to Mobile Business Research from 2005 – 2013 (Chapter 2). In J. Wei (Ed.), Mobile Electronic Commerce: Foundations, Development and Applications, Taylor and Francis.

Boateng. R., Longe, O., Isabalija, R.S. and Budu, J. (2011). ‘SAKAWA’ – The Forms of Cyber Crime in Ghana, Journal of Information Technology Impact, 11(2), 85-100.

Gamel O. Wiredu, PhD
Associate Professor

    gwiredu@gimpa.edu.gh

PhD Information Systems, LSE, UK, 2005
MSc Information Systems, LSE, UK, 2002
BSc Planning, KNUST, Ghana, 2000

Research Interests
Virtual teamwork, digital platforms, digital service innovation, ubiquitous computing, and e-
government

Teaching
Systems Analysis & Design, Organisational Study of IS, Research Seminar, Qualitative Research,
Information & Knowledge Society, Management Information Systems, Electronic
Commerce, and Electronic Business.

Selected Publications
Wiredu, G. O., Boateng, K, A., & Effah J. K. (2021) “The Platform Executive: Technology Shaping of Executive Cognition during Digital Service Innovation.” Information & Management, 58(4). DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.im.2021.103469

Wiredu, G. O. (2020) “The Form, Function and Materiality of Portable IT in Inter-Organizational Control.” African Journal of Information Systems. 12(2), 166-194.

Wiredu, G. O. (2019) Global Software Engineering: Virtualization and Coordination. CRC Press, Taylor & Francis: New York.

Arhin, K. & Wiredu, G. O. (2018) “An Organizational Communication Approach to Information Security.” African Journal of Information Systems, 10(4), 261-279.

Wiredu, G. O. (2014) Mobile Computer Usability: An Organizational Personality Perspective. Springer: Berlin.

Wiredu, G. O. (2012) “Information Systems Innovation in Public Organisations: An Institutional Perspective.” Information Technology & People, 25(2), 188-206.

Wiredu, G. O. (2011) “Understanding the Functions of Teleconferences for Coordinating Global Software Development Projects.” Information Systems Journal, 21(2), 175-194.

Wiredu, G. O. (2007) “User Appropriation of Mobile Technologies: Motives, Conditions and Design Properties.” Information & Organization, 17(2), 110-129.

Wiredu, G. O. & Sørensen, C. (2006) “The Dynamics of Control and Mobile Computing in Distributed Activities.” European Journal of Information Systems, 15(3), 307-319.

Joseph K. Adjei, PhD
Senior Lecturer

    jadjei@gimpa.edu.gh

PhD Information Systems, Aalborg University, Denmark, 2013
MSc Advanced Information Technology, LSBU, UK, 2002
BSc Accounting & Finance, LSBU, UK, 2000

Research Interests
Digital Identity Management Systems, Mobile Financial Services, Information Privacy Issues on Adoption, Social Media

Teaching
IS Management, IT Auditing, IT Project Management, Organisational Study of IS, Business Process Reengineering, Electronic Business, Accounting Information Systems

Selected Publications
Adjei, J. K., Adams, S., Mensah, I. K., Tobbin, P. E. & Odei-Appiah, S. (2020) “Digital Identity Management on Social Media: Exploring the Factors That Influence Personal Information Disclosure on Social Media.” Sustainability, 12. DOI: https://doi.org/10.3390/su12239994

Adjei, J., Odei-Appiah, S., & Tobbin, P. (2019). Explaining the Determinants of
Continual Use of Mobile Financial Services. Digital Policy, Regulation and Governance, 22(1), 15-31.

Adjei, J., Odei-Appiah, S. (2018). Mobile Financial Services in Emerging Countries:
Technology, Adoption, and Regulatory Issues, In Mobile Technologies and Socio-
Economic Development in Emerging Nations, IGI Global.

Daniel Adomako Asamoah,PhD
Associate Professor of Information Systems

    dasamoah@gimpa.edu.gh
    daniel.asamoah@wright.edu
https://people.wright.edu/daniel.asamoah
Professor Daniel Adomako Asamoah is an Associate Professor of Information Systems in the Raj Soin College of Business at the Wright State University. He is also a fellow of the Carnegie African Diaspora Fellowship Program (CADFP). He holds a PhD in Management Information Systems from the Spears School of Business at the Oklahoma State University.
His research activities focus on business analytics and intelligence, big data applications, decision support systems in health care and operations management. He has published in multiple journals, including the Journal of Business Research, Decision Support Systems, Communications of the Association of Information Systems, Journal of Computing Information Systems, and Health Care Management Science. Conferences such as the annual meetings of the Americas Conference on Information Systems (AMCIS), the Decision Sciences Institute (DSI), the Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences Healthcare (INFORMS Healthcare) and the Pre-ICIS Business Analytics Congress have accepted his papers for presentations.
For his research, Dr. Asamoah has won multiple awards including the prestigious Phoenix Doctoral Award (Oklahoma State University). He was also nominated for the Raj Soin College of Business Research Award at the Wright State University. He played a vital role in the establishment of the Data Analytics and Visualization Environment (DAVE) Lab in the Raj Soin College of Business at the Wright State University.
Dr. Asamoah is passionate about mentorship and teaching. He has developed and taught multiple courses in data science, big data applications, business intelligence and systems design and analysis. His pedagogical work, “Teaching the Foundations of Data Science: An Interdisciplinary Approach”, was the runner-up for the Best Teaching Paper Award at the 2015 Pre-ICIS Business Analytics Congress.
Dr. Asamoah is an associate editor for the Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence journal and an editorial board member for the Journal of Business Analytics. He also has multiple backgrounds in wireless telecommunications and digital forensics.

Daniel N. Treku
Lecturer

    dtreku@gimpa.edu.gh

MPhil Management Information Systems, GIMPA, Ghana, 2015
BSc Physics, KNUST, Ghana, 2009

Research Interests
Blockchain Application, Technology Adoption and Continuous Use, Information Systems Security and Privacy, Economics of IS Use, Impact of Health Information Exchange

Teaching
Systems Analysis & Design, Calculus

Selected Publications
Ayaburi, E. W. & Treku, D. N. (2020) “Effect of penitence on social media trust and privacy concerns: The case of Facebook.” International Journal of Information Management. 50, 171-181.

Treku, D. N. & Liao, Q. (2019) “P2P Collaborative Consumption: Towards Sustainability in the Virtualization Processes of Knowledge Sharing Firms.” Americas Conference on Information Systems, Cancún, México.

Treku, D. N. & Sun, J. (2019) “Understanding the Effects of Temporal Differences in User-Centered Workflows on Solution Satisfaction.” Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences. Grand Wailea, Hawaii, USA.

Treku, D.N. & Sun, J. (2019) Adaptive Workflow Design Based on Blockchain. In: Tulu B., Djamasbi S., Leroy G. (eds) Extending the Boundaries of Design Science Theory and Practice. DESRIST 2019. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol. 11491. Springer. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-19504-5_19

Treku, D. N. & Wiredu, G. O. (2018) “Information Systems Implementation and Structural Adaptation in Government-Business Inter-organization” in Network, Smart and Open: Three Keywords for Information Systems Innovation, Lamboglia, R., Cardoni, A., Dameri, R. P., & Mancini, D. (eds.). Springer: Berlin. (pages 21-41).

Kofi Arhin
Lecturer

    karhin@gimpa.edu.gh

MPhil Management Information Systems, GIMPA, Ghana, 2015
MSc Management Information Systems, GIMPA, Ghana, 2014
BSc Planning, KNUST, Ghana, 2009

Research Interests:
Information Security, Web Technologies, Human-Computer Interaction, Computing Ethics

Publication
Arhin, K. & Wiredu, G. O. (2018) “An Organizational Communication Approach to Information Security.” African Journal of Information Systems, 10(4), 261-279.

Solomon Odei-Appiah
Assistant Lecturer

    sodei-appiah@gimpa.edu.gh

MPhil Management Information Systems, GIMPA, Ghana, 2016
BEd Computer Science, UCC, Ghana, 2008

Research Interests
Smart Devices and Mobile Ecosystems, ICT and Social Inclusion/Exclusion, ICT
Curriculum and Education, Computing Ethics.

Publications
Adjei, J. K., Adams, S., Mensah, I. K., Tobbin, P. E. & Odei-Appiah, S. (2020) “Digital Identity Management on Social Media: Exploring the Factors That Influence Personal Information Disclosure on Social Media.” Sustainability, 12. DOI: https://doi.org/10.3390/su12239994

Adjei, J., Odei-Appiah, S. & Tobbin, P. (2019). Explaining the Determinants of
Continual Use of Mobile Financial Services. Digital Policy, Regulation and Governance, 22(1), 15-31.

Adjei, J. & Odei-Appiah, S. (2018). Mobile Financial Services in Emerging Countries:
Technology, Adoption, and Regulatory Issues, In Mobile Technologies and Socio-
Economic Development in Emerging Nations, IGI Global.

Raphael Amponsah
Assistant Lecturer

    raamponsah@gimpa.edu.gh

MPhil Management Information Systems, GIMPA, Ghana, 2017
BSc Chemistry, UG, Ghana, 2008

Research Interests
Digital Learning, Digital Transformation, Information Security

Teaching
Business Intelligence & Data Mining, Management Information systems

Publications
Kolog, E. A. Egala, S. B., Amponsah, R., Devine, S. N. O. & Sutinen, E. (2021) “Covid-19 Pandemic: How can the Lessons Learnt Contribute to the Digital Transformation of Schools of Tomorrow?” International Journal of Technology Enhanced Learning. In press.

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