TY - JOUR
T1 - Geographic information technology usage in developing countries
T2 - a case study in Mozambique
AU - Amade, Nelson
AU - Painho, Marco
AU - Oliveira, Tiago
N1 - Amade, N., Painho, M., & Oliveira, T. (2018). Geographic information technology usage in developing countries: a case study in Mozambique. Geo-Spatial Information Science, 21(4), 331-345. DOI: 10.1080/10095020.2018.1523995
PY - 2018/10/2
Y1 - 2018/10/2
N2 - Geographic information technologies (GIT) have matured, have become pervasive throughout many types of organizations over recent decades and gained a wide range of attention in diverse sectors of society. The goal of this paper is to identify the main drivers and uses of GIT in organizations and to give an overview of GIT uses in developing countries with a focus on a case study developed for Mozambique by analyzing the results of a survey of 123 Mozambican organizations that are current GIT users. The results show that the main drivers behind are compatibility, complexity, competitive pressure, donor pressure, government policy, intention to adopt, innovation, relative advantage, security, and technology competence. Organizations of the public and private sectors use GIT for customer/resource/risk management, decision support, education, research, monitoring, prediction, simulation, suitability analysis, sustainability, use and access.
AB - Geographic information technologies (GIT) have matured, have become pervasive throughout many types of organizations over recent decades and gained a wide range of attention in diverse sectors of society. The goal of this paper is to identify the main drivers and uses of GIT in organizations and to give an overview of GIT uses in developing countries with a focus on a case study developed for Mozambique by analyzing the results of a survey of 123 Mozambican organizations that are current GIT users. The results show that the main drivers behind are compatibility, complexity, competitive pressure, donor pressure, government policy, intention to adopt, innovation, relative advantage, security, and technology competence. Organizations of the public and private sectors use GIT for customer/resource/risk management, decision support, education, research, monitoring, prediction, simulation, suitability analysis, sustainability, use and access.
KW - geographic information systems
KW - Geographic information technologies
KW - GPS
KW - Mozambique
KW - organizations
KW - remote sensing
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U2 - 10.1080/10095020.2018.1523995
DO - 10.1080/10095020.2018.1523995
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85057132359
VL - 21
SP - 331
EP - 345
JO - Journal of Spatial Information Science
JF - Journal of Spatial Information Science
SN - 1948-660X
IS - 4
ER -