Universitetet i Agder

Devendra Bahadur Thapa

Professor

Department of Information Systems >

devinder.thapa@uia.no

+47 38 14 14 19

+47 952 56 430

Office:: H1039 ( Universitetsveien 25, Kristiansand )

Office hours:: 8.00-16.00

Devinder Thapa is a Professor at the University of Agder, Norway. He earned his Ph.D. in Industrial Engineering in 2008 from Ajou University, South Korea, and subsequently completed his second Ph.D. in Information Systems in 2012 from the University of Agder, Norway. His research interests include Information and Communication Technology for Development (ICT4D), as well as the Philosophy of Science and Technology. Particularly, he aims to explore the harmony between Eastern and Western philosophies and their applications in ICT4D research. His work has been published in international conferences such as IFIP WG 9.4, IFIP WG 8.2, ICIS, ECIS, AMCIS, PACIS, and HICCS. He has also contributed to international journals like Information Systems Journal (ISJ), International Journal of Information Management (IJIM), Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science, International Journal of Control, Automation, and Systems (IJCAS), Communications of the Associations for Information Systems (CAIS), Electronic Journal of Information Systems in Developing Countries (EJISDC), Information Technology for Development (ITD), Journal of Information Technology and International Development (ITID), and Journal of Pattern Recognition Letters. Currently, he serves on the Editorial Board of ISJ, EJISDC, CAIS, and IJIM Data Insights. His academic memberships include AIS, IFIP 9.4, SIGGlovDev, and SIGPHIL. Additionally, he is a practitioner of the martial art Japan Shorinryu Karatedo Kenshinkai, holding a Black Belt 1st Dan.

Research interests

Informatino and cummunication for technology (ICT4D)

Courses and teaching

IS-201: Data Modelling and Database Systems

IS-214: Information Systems Security

IS-607: Theoretical Foundations of Information Systems

IS-500: IT and Management

Work experience

Research and education since 2009

Academic interests

Data modeling and database systems (Bachelors)

Information Systems Security (Bachelors)

IT and management (Masters)

Theoretical foundations of Information Systems (PhD)

Projects

ICT4D -Information and communication technology for development

Scientific publications

Wu, Sinuo; Stendal, Karen; Thapa, Devinder (2024). Emerging Trends in XR-mediated Virtual Team Collaboration in Digital Workspaces: A Systematic Literature Review. Lecture Notes in Information Systems and Organisation (LNISO). ISSN: 2195-4968. 67s 85 - 108.
Thapa, Pragyan; Thapa, Devinder; Sæbø, Øystein (2023). A CRITICAL PERSPECTIVE ON QUANTIFICATION OF DEVELOPMENT IN ICT4D. Proceedings of the European Conference on Information Systems ECIS 2023. ISBN: 978-1-958200-08-7. Association for Information Systems (AIS). kapittel.
Karki, Yashoda; Thapa, Devinder (2023). Digital Social Enterprise for Sustainable Development: Insights from the Case Study in Nepal. Proceedings of the Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS). ISSN: 1530-1605. 56s 4423 - 4432.
Wu, Sinuo; Stendal, Karen; Thapa, Devinder (2023). Forming Digital Workspace: Current State and Applications of Extended Reality in Virtual Teams. ISD2023 proceedings. ISSN: 2938-5202. 31doi:https://doi.org/10.62036/ISD.2023.30.
Herrera, Lucia Castro; Gjøsæter, Terje; Majchrzak, Tim A.; Thapa, Devinder (2023). Signals of Transition in Crisis Management: Insights from a Study of Social Media Use in Public Service Organizations. Proceedings of the 56thAnnual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences. ISBN: 978-0-9981331-6-4. HICSS Conference Office. Chapter. s 1758 - 1767.
Meske, Christian; Amojo, Ireti; Thapa, Devinder (2022). A conceptual model of feedback mechanisms in adjusted affordances – Insights from usage of a mental mobile health application. International Journal of Information Management. ISSN: 0268-4012. 69doi:10.1016/j.ijinfomgt.2022.102597.
Dini, Alfatika Aunuriella; Hatakka, Mathias; Sæbø, Øystein; Thapa, Devinder (2022). A framework to understand the role of IS artifact in ICT4D. Electronic Journal of Information Systems in Developing Countries. ISSN: 1681-4835. doi:10.1002/isd2.12246.
Osmundsen, Karen S; Meske, Christian; Thapa, Devinder (2022). Familiarity with digital twin totality: Exploring the relation and perception of affordances through a Heideggerian perspective. Information Systems Journal. ISSN: 1350-1917. 32 (5). s 1064 - 1091. doi:10.1111/isj.12383.
Thapa, Pragyan; Thapa, Devinder (2022). What is ‘Smart’ About Smart Village? Emerging Discourses and Future Research Directions. Freedom and Social Inclusion in a Connected World 17th IFIP WG 9.4 International Conference on Implications of Information and Digital Technologies for Development. ISBN: 978-3-031-19429-0. Springer. Konferanseartikkel. s 440 - 454.
Pappas, Ilias; Thapa, Devinder (2021). Big Data Analytics Affordances for Social Innovation: A Theoretical Framework. Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS). ISSN: 0302-9743. 12896s 144 - 149. doi:10.1007/978-3-030-85447-8_13.
Herrera, Lucia Castro; Majchrzak, Tim A.; Thapa, Devinder (2021). Ecosystem of Social Media Listening Practices for Crisis Management. Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS). ISSN: 0302-9743. 12896s 710 - 722. doi:10.1007/978-3-030-85447-8_59.
Karki, Yashoda; Thapa, Devinder (2021). Exploring the Link Between Digitalization and Sustainable Development: Research Agendas. Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS). ISSN: 0302-9743. 12896s 330 - 341. doi:10.1007/978-3-030-85447-8_29.
Watson, Richard T.; Elliot, Steve; Corbett, Jacqueline; Farkas, Dan; Feizabadi, Ali; Gupta, Ashish; Iyer, Lakshmi; Sen, Sagnika; Sharda, Ramesh; Shin, Namchul; Thapa, Devinder; Webster, Jane (2021). How the AIS can Improve its Contributions to the UN’s Sustainability Development Goals: Towards A Framework for Scaling Collaborations and Evaluating Impact. Communications of the Association for Information Systems. ISSN: 1529-3181. 48 (1). s 476 - 502. doi:10.17705/1CAIS.04841.
Hausvik, Geir Inge; Thapa, Devinder; Munkvold, Bjørn Erik (2021). Information quality life cycle in secondary use of EHR data. International Journal of Information Management. ISSN: 0268-4012. 56doi:10.1016/j.ijinfomgt.2020.102227.
Herrera, Lucia Castro; Majchrzak, Tim A.; Thapa, Devinder (2021). Principles for the Arrangement of Social Media Listening Practices in Crisis Management. Proceeding of the 3rd International Conference on Intelligent Technologies and Applications (INTAP). ISBN: 978-3-030-71711-7. Springer. 3.
Henriksen, Helle Zinner; Thapa, Devinder; Elbanna, Amany (2021). Sustainable Development Goals in IS Research Opening the agenda beyond developing countries’ research. Scandinavian Journal of Information Systems (SJIS). ISSN: 0905-0167. 33 (2). s 97 - 102.
Al-Musawi, Ali Saad Jawad; Yang, Erik; Bley, Katja; Thapa, Devinder; Pappas, Ilias (2021). The Role of Citizens’ Familiarity, Privacy Concerns, and Trust on Adoption of Smart Services. NIKT: Norsk IKT-konferanse for forskning og utdanning. ISSN: 1892-0713. 2021 (2).
Hatakka, Mathias; Thapa, Devinder; Sæbø, Øystein (2019). Understanding the role of ICT and study circles in enabling economic opportunities: Lessons learned from an educational project in Kenya. Information Systems Journal. ISSN: 1350-1917. 30 (4). s 664 - 698. doi:10.1111/isj.12277.
Hatakka, Mathias; Sæbø, Øystein; Thapa, Devinder (2019). A Framework to Explain the Relation Between ICT and Development: Combining Affordances and the Capability Approach. IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology. ISSN: 1868-4238. 552s 60 - 71. doi:10.1007/978-3-030-19115-3_6.
Thapa, Devinder; Zheng, Yingqin (2019). Capabilities and Affordances in the ICT4D Context: Similarities, Differences, and Complementarities. IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology. ISSN: 1868-4238. 552s 49 - 59. doi:10.1007/978-3-030-19115-3_5.
Hausvik, Geir Inge; Thapa, Devendra Bahadur; Munkvold, Bjørn Erik (2019). The Role of Mediators in Transforming and Translating Information Quality: A Case of Quality Assurance in a Norwegian Hospital Trust. Proceedings of the Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS). ISSN: 1530-1605. 52 (1). s 4115 - 4124. doi:10.24251/HICSS.2019.499.
Sein, Maung Kyaw; Thapa, Devinder; Hatakka, Mathias; Sæbø, Øystein (2018). A holistic perspective on the theoretical foundations for ICT4D research. Information Technology for Development. ISSN: 0268-1102. s 1 - 20. doi:10.1080/02681102.2018.1503589.
Thapa, Devinder; Sein, Maung Kyaw (2018). An ecological model of bridging the digital divide in education: A case study of OLPC deployment in Nepal. Electronic Journal of Information Systems in Developing Countries. ISSN: 1681-4835. 84 (2). doi:10.1002/isd2.12018.
Omland, Hans Olav; Thapa, Devinder (2018). Competence-as-skilful-coping in Information Systems Development. NOKOBIT: Norsk konferanse for organisasjoners bruk av informasjonsteknologi. ISSN: 1892-0748. 26 (1).
Thapa, Devinder; Omland, Hans Olav (2018). Four steps to identify mechanisms of ICT4D: A critical realism-based methodology. Electronic Journal of Information Systems in Developing Countries. ISSN: 1681-4835. doi:10.1002/isd2.12054.
Sein, Maung Kyaw; Thapa, Devinder (2018). Social capital in enabling quality health care: The case of a telemedicine project in Nepal. Electronic Journal of Information Systems in Developing Countries. ISSN: 1681-4835. 84 (5). doi:10.1002/isd2.12046.
Chakraborty, Narayan Ranjan; Thapa, Devinder; Majchrzak, Tim A. (2018). The Roles of Infomediaries in Crisis Response: The Case of 2017 Bangladesh Flood. PACIS 2018 Proceedings - Opportunities and Challenges for the Digitized Society: Are We Ready? : Pacific Asia Conference on Information Systems (PACIS 2018). ISBN: 978-4-902590-83-8. Association for Information Systems.
Thapa, Devinder; Budhathoki, Nama Raj; Munkvold, Bjørn Erik (2017). Analyzing Crisis Response through Actor-network Theory: The Case of Kathmandu Living Labs. Communications of the Association for Information Systems. ISSN: 1529-3181. 41 (1). s 414 - 428. doi:10.17705/1cais.04119.
Sakurai, Mihoko; Thapa, Devinder (2017). Building Resilience Through Effective Disaster Management: An Information Ecology Perspective. International Journal of Information Systems for Crisis Response and Management (IJISCRAM). ISSN: 1937-9390. 9 (1). s 11 - 26. doi:10.4018/IJISCRAM.2017010102.
Sakurai, Mihoko; Thapa, Devinder (2017). Exploring Effective Ecosystems in Disaster Management: Case studies of Japan and Nepal. Proceedings of the Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS). ISSN: 1530-1605. s 2479 - 2488.
Thapa, Devinder; Sein, Maung Kyaw (2017). Trajectory of Affordances: Insights from a case of telemedicine in Nepal. Information Systems Journal. ISSN: 1350-1917. 28 (5). s 796 - 817. doi:10.1111/isj.12160.
Thapa, Devinder; Hatakka, Mathias (2017). Understanding ICT in ICT4D: An Affordance Perspective. Proceedings of the 50th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, HICSS 2017. ISBN: 978-0-9981331-0-2. AIS Electronic Library. Paper. s 2618 - 2626.
Hausvik, Geir Inge; Thapa, Devinder (2017). “What You See is Not What You Get” - Challenges in Actualization of EHR Affordances. Proceedings of the International Conference on Information Systems - Transforming Society with Digital Innovation, ICIS 2017. ISBN: 9780996683159. Association for Information Systems (AIS). Paper.
Stendal, Karen; Thapa, Devinder; Lanamaki, Arto (2016). Analyzing the concept of affordances in information systems. Proceedings of the Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS). ISSN: 1530-1605. 2016-Marchs 5270 - 5277. doi:10.1109/HICSS.2016.651.
Harnesk, Dan; Thapa, Devinder (2016). Equipment-as-Experience: A Heidegger-Based Position of Information Security. ICIS 2016 PROCEEDINGS : Thirty Seventh International Conference on Information Systems. Dublin 2016. ISBN: 978-0-9966831-3-5. Association for Information Systems. METHODOLOGICAL AND PHILOSOPHICAL FOUNDATIONS OF IS.
Thapa, Devinder; Sæbø, Øystein (2016). Participation in ICT Development Interventions: Who and How?. Electronic Journal of Information Systems in Developing Countries. ISSN: 1681-4835. 75 (3). s 1 - 10.
Lanamäki, Arto; Thapa, Devinder; Stendal, Karen (2016). When is an affordance? Outlining four stances. IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology. ISSN: 1868-4238. 489s 125 - 139. doi:10.1007/978-3-319-49733-4_8.
Andersson, Karl; Hossain, Md. Shahadat; Thapa, Devinder; Zander, Pär-Ola (2015). A Novel Framework of an Expert System by integrating Capability Approach and BRB to Evaluate E-Government Services. eChallenges e-2015 Conference Proceedings. ISBN: 978-1-905824-52-6. International Information Management Corporation Limited. Artikkel.
Thapa, Devinder; Sæbø, Øystein (2015). Participation in ICT Development Interventions: who and how?. Proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Social Implications of Computers in Developing Countries. ISBN: 978-82-7368-465-3. Universitetet i Oslo. Kapittel 2. s 16 - 25.
Lanamaki, Arto; Thapa, Devinder; Stendal, Karen (2015). What Does a Chair Afford? A Heideggerian Perspective of Affordances. IRIS Selected Papers of the Information Systems Research Seminar in Scandinavia. ISSN: 1891-9863. (6).
Sein, Maung Kyaw; Thapa, Devinder (2014). Building educational capabilities through information technology in developing countries: it takes a village. Proceedings of the 52nd ACM conference on Computers and people research. ISBN: 978-1-4503-2625-4. Association for Computing Machinery (ACM). Artikkel.
Thapa, Devinder; Sæbø, Øystein (2014). Exploring the link between ICT and development in the context of developing countries: A literature review. Electronic Journal of Information Systems in Developing Countries. ISSN: 1681-4835. 64doi:10.1002/j.1681-4835.2014.tb00454.x.
Sæbø, Øystein; Sein, Maung Kyaw; Thapa, Devinder (2014). Nepal wireless networking project: Building infrastructure in the mountains from ground up. Communications of the Association for Information Systems. ISSN: 1529-3181. 34 (1). s 241 - 256. doi:10.17705/1cais.03411.
Sein, Maung Kyaw; Thapa, Devinder; Sæbø, Øystein (2012). Bringing the outside world to the remote mountains: The Nepal Wireless Networking Project. Proceedings of the International Conference on Information Systems, ICIS 2012. ISBN: 978-0-615-71843-9. Association for Information Systems. 12. IS Curriculum and Education. s 1 - 13.
Thapa, Devinder; Sein, Maung Kyaw; Sæbø, Øystein (2012). Building collective capabilities through ICT in a mountain region of Nepal: where social capital leads to collective action. Information Technology for Development. ISSN: 0268-1102. 18 (1). s 5 - 22. doi:10.1080/02681102.2011.643205.
Sæbø, Øystein; Thapa, Devinder (2012). Introducing Internet-Based Services in the Mountain Areas of Nepal: An Asset Pentagon Perspective. Information Technologies & International Development. ISSN: 1544-7529. 8 (3). s 85 - 98.
Thapa, Devinder; Sæbø, Øystein (2011). Demystifying the Possibilities of ICT4D in the Mountain Regions of Nepal. Proceedings of the 44th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS-44). ISBN: 978-1-4244-9618-1. IEEE Press. paper. s 1 - 10.
Lanamäki, Arto; Stendal, Karen; Thapa, Devendra Bahadur (2011). Mutual Informing Between IS Academia and Practice: Insights from KIWISR-5. Communications of the Association for Information Systems. ISSN: 1529-3181. 29s 123 - 132. doi:10.17705/1cais.02907.
Thapa, Devendra Bahadur (2011). The role of ICT Actors and Networks in Development: The case study of a mountain region in Nepal. Electronic Journal of Information Systems in Developing Countries. ISSN: 1681-4835. 49 (1). s 1 - 16.
Sæbø, Øystein; Thapa, Devendra Bahadur (2010). A Framework to Analyze the Interaction Process between ICT and Social Capital. Norsk Informatikkonferanse. ISBN: 978-82-519-2703-1. Tapir Akademisk Forlag. kapittel. s 187 - 196.

Jones, Matthew; Mukherjee, Arunima Sehgal; Thapa, Devinder; Zheng, Yingqin (2023). After Latour: Globalisation, Inequity and Climate Change. ISBN: 978-3-031-50153-1. Springer Nature. s 390.
Meske, Christian; Amojo, Ireti; Thapa, Devinder (2020). Understanding the Affordances of Conversational Agents in Mental Mobile Health Services. ISBN: 978-0-9966831-9-7. Association for Information Systems (AIS). s 10.
Omland, Hans Olav; Thapa, Devinder (2017). Methodological Approach for Identifying Mechanisms in ICT4D: A Critical Realism Perspective. ISBN: 978-3-319-59110-0. Springer Publishing Company. s 10.
Thapa, Devinder; Sein, Maung K. (2016). Information Ecology as a holistic lens to understand ICTD initiatives: A case study of OLPC deployment in Nepal. ISBN: 978-1-4503-4306-0. ACM Publications. s 4.

Thapa, Devinder; Haj-Bolouri, Amir (2023). Demystifying Philosophy for Information Systems Researcher.

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