Investigating emergent data use innovations: An affordance perspective on Education Management Information Systems in sub-Saharan Africa

This PhD project seeks to investigate the data use innovations afforded by the platformization of the EMIS in The Gambia. In particular, I want to understand how the adoption of DHIS2 as the EMIS backbone enables, or possibly constrains, information use by education managers at all administrative levels of the education system in the country. To do so, I zoom in on the teacher attendance registration practice and look at how this practice has changed because of the implementation and use of DHIS2-EMIS in the educational sector.