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Mathias Hatakka

Position: Senior Lecturer School/office: Örebro University School of Business

Email: mathias.hatakka@oru.se

Phone: +46 19 302150

Room: N4030

Research subject

Informatics

Research environments

Centre for empirical research on information systems (CERIS)

About Mathias Hatakka

I have been employed at the Örebro University School of Business since 2006. From year 2007 I held a position as a PhD-student and I defended my thesis in June 2013. Currently I have an employment at the Örebro University School of Business as an assistant professor where I mainly work as a lecturer in our different system development courses. I am also the programme manager for our Master’s education in IS.

My major areas of research are Information- and Communication Technologies for Development (ICT4D) and ICT supported education. Since 2006 I have been working in several e-learning projects in Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Kenya and Sweden. The focus of my thesis is on the link between ICT and human development, and more specifically on the use of Amartya Sen’s Capability Approach as a tool to evaluate this link. In the thesis I use the Capability Approach to evaluate the outcomes in the form of capabilities that different ICT supported education projects have enabled for students and teachers. At present I am also involved in several research networks in ICT4D, e.g. The Special Interest Group on Global Development (AIS SIG GlobDev) and IFIP wg9.4 (Social Implications of Computers in Developing Countries). I have acted as a coordinator for IPID (The International Network for Post Graduate Students in the Area of ICT4D) during 2009-2011 and I am also an assigned reviewer for several journals and conferences (e.g. Information Technologies for Development, Learning, Media and Technology and ECIS).

Active projects

Completed projects

Research groups

Publications

Articles in journals | Articles, reviews/surveys | Chapters in books | Conference papers | Doctoral theses, comprehensive summaries | Manuscripts |

Articles in journals

Dini, A. A. , Hatakka, M. , Sæbø, Ø. & Thapa, D. (2023). A framework to understand the role of IS artifact in ICT4D. The Electronic Journal of Information Systems in Developing Countries, 89 (3).
Andersson, A. & Hatakka, M. (2023). ICT4D and the Sustainable Development Goals: a road well-traveled. Information Technology for Development, 29 (1), 1-8.
Hatakka, M. , Thapa, D. & Sæbø, Ø. (2020). Understanding the role of ICT and study circles in enabling economic opportunities: Lessons learned from an educational project in Kenya. Information Systems Journal, 30 (4), 664-698.
Sein, M. K. , Thapa, D. , Hatakka, M. & Sæbø, Ø. (2019). A holistic perspective on the theoretical foundations for ICT4D research. Information Technology for Development, 25 (1), 7-25.
Hatakka, M. , Osman, F. , Erlandsson, K. , Byrskog, U. , Egal, J. & Klingberg-Allvin, M. (2019). "Change-makers in midwifery care": Exploring the Differences Between Expectations and Outcomes – a qualitative study of a Midwifery Net-based Education Programme in the Somali region. Midwifery, 69, 135-142.
Erlandsson, K. , Byrskog, U. , Osman, F. , Pedersen, C. , Hatakka, M. & Klingberg-Allvin, M. (2019). Evaluating a model for the capacity building of midwifery educators in Bangladesh through a blended, web-based master’s programme. Global Health Action, 12 (1).
Yingqin, Z. , Hatakka, M. , Sahay, S. & Andersson, A. (2018). Conceptualizing development in information and communication technology for development (ICT4D). Information Technology for Development, 24 (1), 1-14.
Erlandsson, K. , Osman, F. , Hatakka, M. , Egal, J. A. , Byrskog, U. , Pedersen, C. & Klingberg-Allvin, M. (2017). Evaluation of an online master’s programme in Somaliland: A phenomenographic study on the experience of professional and personal development among midwifery faculty. Nurse Education in Practice, 25, 96-103.
Asiimwe, E. N. , Grönlund, Å. & Hatakka, M. (2017). Practices and challenges in an emerging m-learning environment. ijEDict - International Journal of Education and Development using Information and Communication Technology, 13 (1), 103-122.
Andersson, A. & Hatakka, M. (2017). Victim, mother, or untapped resource? Discourse analysis of the construction of women in ICT policies. Information Technologies and International Development, 13, 72-86.
Andersson, A. , Wiklund, M. & Hatakka, M. (2016). Emerging Collaborative and Cooperative Practices in 1:1 Schools. Technology, Pedagogy and Education, 25 (4), 413-430.
Hatakka, M. , Ater, S. , Obura, D. & Mibei, B. (2014). Capability outcomes from educational and ICT capability inputs: an analysis of ICT use in informal education in Kenya. The Electronic Journal of Information Systems in Developing Countries, 61 (1), 1-17.
Andersson, A. , Hatakka, M. , Grönlund, Å. & Wiklund, M. (2014). Reclaiming the students: coping with social media in 1:1 schools. Learning, Media & Technology, 39, 37-52.
Hatakka, M. , Andersson, A. & Grönlund, Å. (2013). Students’ use of one to one laptops: a capability approach analysis. Information Technology and People, 26 (1), 94-112.
Hatakka, M. & Lagsten, J. (2012). The capability approach as a tool for development evaluation: analyzing students' use of internet resources. Information Technology for Development, 18 (1), 23-41.
Hettiarachchi, E. , Mozelius, P. , Hewagamage, K. P. , Hatakka, M. , Balasooriya, I. & Karunarathne, D. (2010). eNOSHA - the design and development of a learning object repository. The International Journal on Advances in ICT for Emerging Regions, 3 (1).
Andersson, A. & Hatakka, M. (2010). Increasing interactivity in distance educations: Case studies Bangladesh and Sri Lanka. Information Technology for Development, 16 (1), 16-33.
Hatakka, M. (2009). Build it and they will come?: Inhibiting factors for reuse of open content in developing countries. The Electronic Journal of Information Systems in Developing Countries, 37 (1), 1-16.
Ask, A. , Hatakka, M. & Grönlund, Å. (2008). The Örebro City Citizen-Oriented E-Government Strategy. International Journal of Electronic Government Research, 4 (4), 69-88.

Articles, reviews/surveys

Viberg, O. , Hatakka, M. , Bälter, O. & Mavroudi, A. (2018). The current landscape of learning analytics in higher education. Computers in human behavior, 89, 98-110.

Chapters in books

Hatakka, M. (2009). Education for development: realizing the millennium development goals. In: John Sören Pettersson, Defining the "D" in ICT4D: graduate papers on development, globalisation, and ICT (pp. 57-66). Karlstad: Karlstads universitet.
Ask, A. , Hatakka, M. & Grönlund, Å. (2009). The Örebro city citizen-oriented e-Government strategy. In: Vishanth Weerakkody, Social and organizational developments through emerging e-Government applications: new principles and concepts (pp. 233-253). Hershey, PA: IGI Global.
Ask, A. , Hatakka, M. & Grönlund, Å. (2009). The Örebro city citizen-oriented e-Government strategy. In: Christopher G. Reddick, Handbook of research on strategies for local e-government adoption and implementation: comparative studies (pp. 752-772). Hershey, PA: IGI Global.

Conference papers

Masiero, S. & Hatakka, M. (2023). Antifascist ICT4D: The Need for an Agenda of Liberation. In: Matthew R. Jones; Arunima S. Mukherjee; Devinder Thapa; Yingqin Zheng, After Latour: Globalisation, Inequity and Climate Change IFIP WG 8.2 and WG 9.4 Joint Working Conference, IFIPJWC 2023, Hyderabad, India, December 7–8, 2023, Proceedings. Paper presented at IFIP WG 8.2 and WG 9.4 Joint Working Conference (IFIPJWC 2023), Hyderabad, India, December 7–8, 2023. (pp. 356-361). Springer.
Hatakka, M. & Strand, C. (2022). Moving beyond rhetoric - a study of (under-) representation in ICT4D research. In: Fourteenth Annual AIS SIG Global Development Pre-ICIS Workshop. Paper presented at Fourteenth Annual AIS SIG Global Development Pre-ICIS Workshop, Copenhagen, Denmark, December 10, 2022.
Strand, C. & Hatakka, M. (2022). Understanding Evolution and Progress Towards Academic Maturity - A Review of Ten Years of ICT4D Research. In: Yingqin Zheng; Pamela Abbott; Jose Antonio Robles-Flores, Information and Communication Technologies for Development. Freedom and Social Inclusion in a Connected World 17th International Conference on Social Implications of Computers in Developing Countries, ICT4D 2022, Lima, Peru, May 25–27, 2022, Proceedings. Paper presented at IFIP working group 9.4 The Implications of Information and Digital Technologies for Development, (Virtual conference), May 25-27, 2022. Springer.
Andersson, A. , Hatakka, M. , Larsson, H. & Hedström, K. (2021). Citizen Diversity in e-Government Research: Moving the Field Forward. In: Tung X. Bui, Proceedings of the 54th Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences. Paper presented at 54th Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS-54), Kauai, Hawaii, USA, January 4-8, 2021. (pp. 4828-4837). University of Hawai'i at Manoa.
Wistrand, K. , Moll, J. , Hatakka, M. & Andersson, A. (2020). Improving Writing Skills Among Information Systems Students: Guidelines for Incorporating Communication Components in Higher Education. In: 2020 IEEE Frontiers in Education Conference (FIE). Paper presented at 2020 IEEE Frontiers in Education Conference (FIE), Uppsala, Sweden, October 21-24, 2020. IEEE.
Petersson, J. , Hatakka, M. & Chatzipetrou, P. (2020). Students Perception on Group Workshops – A Comparison Between Campus-Based and Online Workshops. In: Carsten Busch, Martin Steinicke and Tilo Wendler, Proceedings of the 19th European Conference on e-Learning ECEL 2020. Paper presented at 19th European Conference on e-Learning (ECEL 2020 - A Virtual Conference), Berlin, Germany, October 28-30, 2020. (pp. 397-405). ACI Academic Conferences International.
Hatakka, M. , Sæbø, Ø. & Thapa, D. (2019). A Framework to Explain the Relation Between ICT and Development: Combining Affordances and the Capability Approach. In: Nielsen P., Kimaro, H., ICT4D 2019 Information and Communication Technologies for Development. Strengthening Southern-Driven Cooperation as a Catalyst for ICT4D. Proceedings, Part II. Paper presented at The 15th International Conference on Social Implications of Computers in Developing Countries (IFIP WG 9.4), Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, May 1-3, 2019. (pp. 60-71). Springer.
Strand, C. & Hatakka, M. (2019). Anti-corruption efforts in national ICT policies: A study of policy environments in Sub-Saharan Africa. In: Nielsen P., Kimaro H., ICT4D 2019 Information and Communication Technologies for Development. Strengthening Southern-Driven Cooperation as a Catalyst for ICT4D. Proceedings, Part I. Paper presented at The 15th International Conference on Social Implications of Computers in Developing Countries (IFIP WG 9.4), Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, May 1-3, 2019. (pp. 520-531). Springer.
Strand, C. & Hatakka, M. (2019). Existing and promising theoretical approaches to understanding ICTs contribution to anti-corruption efforts: A Literature Review. In: Dmitrii Trutnev, Electronic Governance and Open Society Challenges in Eurasia 2019. Paper presented at 6th International Conference “Electronic Governance and Open Society: Challenges in Eurasia”(EGOSE 2019), St. Petersburg, Russia, November 13-15, 2019.
Strand, C. & Hatakka, M. (2017). Mobile phones as a citizen-controlled anti-corruption tool in East Africa: a literature review. In: Islam M.S., Choudrie J., Wahid F., Bass J.M., Priyatma J.E., Information and Communication Technologies for Development 14th IFIP WG 9.4 International Conference on Social Implications of Computers in Developing Countries, ICT4D 2017, Yogyakarta, Indonesia, May 22-24, 2017, Proceedings. Paper presented at 14th IFIP WG 9.4 International Conference on Social Implications of Computers in Developing Countries (ICT4D 2017), Yogyakarta, Indonesia, May 22-24, 2017. (pp. 753-764). Cham: Springer.
Thapa, D. & Hatakka, M. (2017). Understanding ICT in ICT4D: An Affordance Perspective. In: Proceedings of the 50th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS), 2017. Paper presented at 50th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS 2017), University of Hawaii, Manoa, USA, January 4-7, 2017. (pp. 2618-2626).
Hatakka, M. , Devinder, T. & Sæbø, Ø. (2016). A Framework for Understanding the Link Between ICT and Development:: How Affordances Influence Capabilities. In: Proceedings of SIG GlobDev Ninth Annual Workshop, Dublin, Ireland, December 11, 2016. Paper presented at SIG GlobDev, Dublin, December 11 2016. AIS Electronic Library (AISeL).
Avdic, A. , Wissa, U. A. & Hatakka, M. (2016). Socratic Flipped Classroom: What Types of Questions and Tasks Promote Learning?. In: Novotna, J.; Jancarik, A., Proceedings of the 15th European Conference of e-Learning (ECEL 2016). Paper presented at 15th European Conference on E-Learning (ECEL 2016), Prague, Czech Republic, October 27-28, 2016. (pp. 41-48). Academic Conferences and Publishing International Limited.
Sein, M. , Thapa, D. , Hatakka, M. & Sæbø, Ø. (2016). What theories do we need to know to conduct ICT4D research?. In: Proceedings of SIG GlobDev Ninth Annual Workshop, Dublin, Ireland, December 11, 2016. Paper presented at SIG GlobDev, Dublin, December 11 2016. AIS Electronic Library (AISeL).
Hatakka, M. , Ater, S. , Obura, D. & Mibei, B. (2013). Back to basics: Why (some) ICT4D projects still struggle. In: Proceedings of the 12^th International conference on social implications of computers in developing countries. Paper presented at 12th International conference on social implications of computers in developing countries (IFIP WG 9.4), May 19-22, 2013, Ocho Rios, Jamaica.
Andersson, A. & Hatakka, M. (2013). What are we doing? Theories used in ICT4D research. In: Niall Hayes; Renata Lèbre La Rovere, 12th International Conference on Social Implications of Computers in Developing Countries. Paper presented at 12th International conference on social implications of computers in developing countries, Ocho Rios, Jamaica, May 19-22, 2013. (pp. 282-300).
Hatakka, M. & De', R. (2011). Development, capabilities and technology: an evaluative framework. In: Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Social Implications of Computers in Developing Countries Partners for Development - ICT Actors and Actions. Paper presented at IFIP WG9.4: 11th International Conference on Social Implications of Computers in Developing Countries.
Hatakka, M. & Mozelius, P. (2009). A model for a learning object repository metadata set: a case study at UCSC, Sri Lanka. In: e-Asia conference 2009. Paper presented at e-Asia conference 2009, December 2-4, Colombo, Sri Lanka. (pp. 17-17).
Mozelius, P. & Hatakka, M. (2009). Conveyor belt production of course material: a case study in Sri Lanka. In: Proceedings of ECEL 2009 the 8th European conference on e-Learning. Paper presented at 8th European conference on e-Learning, ECEL 2009, 29-30 October, Bari, Italy. (pp. 406-412).
Mozelius, P. , Hettiarachchi, E. , Hewagamage, K. P. , Hatakka, M. , Balasooriya, I. & Karunarathne, D. (2009). eNOSHA: design and development of a learning object repository. In: e-Asia conference 2009. Paper presented at e-Asia conference 2009, December 2-4, Colombo, Sri Lanka. (pp. 35-35).
Hatakka, M. , Avdic, A. & Grönlund, Å. (2009). Open content use in Bangladesh and Sri Lanka: context flexibility as an enabler for reuse. In: Workshop proceedings 2nd Annual SIG GlobDev Workshop. Paper presented at 2nd Annual SIG GlobDev Workshop 2009, Phoenix AZ. (pp. Paper 11-
Grönlund, Å. , Andersson, A. & Hatakka, M. (2008). Mobile technologies for development: a comparative study on challenges. In: Proceedings of Sig GlobDev Workshop Paris 2008. Paper presented at SIG GlobDev’s First Annual Workshop, Paris, France, December 13th 2008. Paris: AIS SIG GLobal Development.
Hatakka, M. (2008). Use of Internet resources to improve education delivery: a case study in Bangladesh. In: Proceedings of ECEL 2008 the 7^th European conference on e-Learning, book 1. Paper presented at 7th European Conference on e-Learning, Ayia Napa, Cyprus, 6-7 November. (pp. 477-483).
Grönlund, Å. , Hatakka, M. & Ask, A. (2007). Inclusion in the e-service society: investigating administrative literacy requirements for using e-services. In: Maria A.Wimmer, Jochen Scholl, Åke Grönlund, Electronic government. Paper presented at 6th international conference on electronic government, EGOV 2007. Regensburg, September 3-7, 2007. (pp. 216-227). Berlin: Springer.
Hatakka, M. , Avdic, A. & Andersson, A. (2007). SCORM: from the perspective of the course designer : a critical review. Paper presented at 6th European Conference on eLearning.

Doctoral theses, comprehensive summaries

Hatakka, M. (2013). The capability approach in ict4d research. (Doctoral dissertation). (Comprehensive summary) Örebro: Örebro universitet.

Manuscripts

Hatakka, M. , Ater, S. , Obura, D. & Mibei, B. Capability outcomes from educational and ICT capability inputs : an analysis of ICT use in informal education in Kenya.
Asiimwe, E. N. , Grönlund, Å. & Hatakka, M. Practices and challenges in an emerging m-learning environment.