Research and Creative Projects

Tanzanian Trader (Spring 2010 - Spring 2011)

Tanzanian Trader is a game designed for Standard 7 students in Tanzania, Africa. The game helps students prepare for the standardized national exam students must take to receive their primary school certificate. The game also helps... read more

Climate Change & Food Production in East Africa (Started Spring 2010)

How those with limited agricultural resources prepare for and adapt to climate change? This is the question posed by MSU researchers, including TISM's own Jennifer Olson. Drought has affected areas of East Africa for many years, causing the... read more

ICT Development in Tanzania, Africa (Fall 2009-Summer 2012)

Faculty and students in the ICT4D Global Corps began their service-learning project in 2008 to build a sustainable broadband network in Tanzania. They teamed up with the University of Dar es Salaam and the University of Dodoma to design and... read more

Improving Governance of Next-generation ICT Infrastructure (Fall 2009 to Fall 2012)

Information and communication technologies (ICT) have become an integral part of work and social relations. They enhance the quality of life and are prerequisites for continued economic growth and international competitiveness. Next-generation ICT... read more

Cognitive Games For Rehabilitation in Malawi, Africa (Summer 2009)

The summer of 2009, TISM faculty member Brian Winn spent several weeks in Malawi, Africa with a MSU team of medical doctors and psychiatrists doing research on using game technology to assist with the rehabilitation of children with cerebral... read more

AgShare Project: Improving Agricultural Education in Africa (Started Spring 2009)

TISM’s own Cliff Lampe, along with the director of MSU Global, Chris Geith, are involved in an exciting international collaboration to bring “open education” to African universities. These institutions have long struggled to find... read more

Connecting Rural Youth and Rural Enterprise to the Information Economy (Fall 2008 to Fall 2010)

Linking youth programs and rural enterprises will benefit both communities by improving youth ties to the community and proving computer technologies to build small business entrepreneurship. To thrive in the information economy rural areas must... read more

ICT Use of Small-Micro Enterprises (SMEs) in Mumbai, India (Spring 2008)

The project seeks to investigate the relationship of ICTs, including mobile phones, PCs, and cybercafés, and urban micro-enterprises in developing countries. The research examines empirically the current and potential patterns of ICT use... read more

Community Ties: Developing social ties in rural Michigan counties (Fall 2007)

Community Ties was a multi-year program that aims to forge new social ties among youth, local entrepreneurs and other professionals through online social networking and community development activities. This project was... read more

VISTA - Vertical Industry Standards & Technology Adoption (Fall 2007)

This project involves a comparative empirical analysis of the development, adoption, implementation, and diffusion of vertical (or industry-wide) information system standards in different industries. We aim to contribute to knowledge about IT-... read more

Collaborative Research: Interorganizational Information Systems Integration (Fall 2007 to Fall 2010)

One way industries harmonize the actions of individual organizations is via formal agreements on process and specification standards. Little is known about the mechanisms that drive this critical coordination so foundational to our national... read more

Cybersecurity and Botnet Mitigation (Fall 2006 - Fall 2011)

This collaborative endeavor with Professor Michel van Eeten and other researchers at the Delft University of Technology studies theoretically and empirically the economics of cybercrime and cybersecurity. The research has been funded by the... read more

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