Juan Erasmo Gómez-Morantes

• PhD in development policy and management
• Professor (Associate) at Pontifical Xavierian University

This study examines the impact of digital rehabilitation on stroke survivors and their families. It proposes a platform leveraging family resilience as a framework to provide resources and community building opportunities. Addressing issues identified in the literature and by stroke survivors, the platform aims to improve recovery and well-being by...

The HIV/AIDS pandemic is a global issue that has unequally affected several countries. Due to the complexity of this condition and the human drama it represents to those most affected by it, several fields have contributed to solving or at least alleviating this situation, and the information systems (IS) field has not been absent from these effort...

La pandemia del VIH/sida es un problema mundial que ha afectado de manera desigual a varios países. Debido a la complejidad de esta condición y al drama humano que representa para aquellos afectados por ésta, múltiples disciplinas han contribuido a solucionar o al menos aliviar esta situación, y el campo de los sistemas de información (SI) no ha es...

Geometry teaching in elementary schools in Colombia is a challenging task. Students’ problems with this topic have led to below-average performances in the Program of International Student Assessment. To face this challenge, this paper presents Akasha, a personalized software application to reinforce geometry teaching to elementary school children...

Institutional voids – shortcomings in the institutional functions required by markets – have particularly hampered developing countries. Filling those voids has been widely identified as a strategy for businesses and in this paper we analyse the institutional actions of digital platform companies. Specifically and through primary research, we analy...

Digital platforms play an increasing role across socio-economic sectors in developing countries yet development research to date on this topic has been limited and under-conceptualised. To help facilitate such research in future, this paper presents and applies the “multi-level perspective” as a framework to understand platforms in development as s...

The persistence of innovation is a topic that has been used in recent years. Companies must be in continuous production of innovations to achieve a competitive advantage in the market and for this, it is necessary to have elements that positively influence the persistence of innovating. The objective of the article is to describe the elements that...

The impact of platforms in the global South is under-researched. This paper analyses the role of platforms in relation to “institutional voids”: absences or shortcomings of formal institutions that can create shortfalls in the operation of markets. Through a mix of primary and secondary research, this paper studies gig economy platforms like Uber a...

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to present Zeuss, a software-based tool designed to improve grammar learning process in elementary school children. Despite efforts by the Colombian Government, the results of the final high school test indicate that students have major deficiencies with language, grammar and reading comprehension. Several diffi...

The use of serious games, virtual patients, and other forms of digital learning technologies are starting to emerge in dentistry schools around the world. However, because of their novelty, there is still a need for literature discussing the different challenges of computer-supported education in this field. This paper presents the design, developm...

Growth of digital platforms in developing countries has yet to see equivalent growth in research. This paper presents one of the first conceptualised analyses of platform implementation and impact. Using the “multi-level perspective”, it analyses a successful ride-hailing platform: EasyTaxi in Bogotá, Colombia. This was originally a niche innovatio...

Nowadays, Information Technology (IT) governance is a core activity either adopted or at least expected by most organizations, to control the behavior of IT assets. However, this discipline faces a growing gap between the views, priorities and practices of academics and practitioners. This paper presents a consolidated view of capabilities for impl...

Nowadays, Information Technology (IT) governance is a core activity adopted or expected by most organizations to control the behaviour of IT assets. However, this discipline faces a growing gap between the views, priorities and practices of academics and practitioners. This paper presents a consolidated view of capabilities for implementing IT gove...

There is growing evidence about organizational need of aligning business and IT (Gartner, Inc., 2009). This alignment requires special IT managerial skills for understanding business and identifying core processes. Results show that IT governance frameworks can improve the alignment of IT and business. Companies aligning IT with the business and go...

Colombian pharmaceutical industry has been growing since 2000; in 2006 net utilities increased by 15%, and ROA was 7.72% [1]. Furthermore, enterprises with IT governance focus on organizational objectives have yielded superior results than their competitors [2], [3]. We performed a research project to find out if there are similarities amongst Colo...

The specification for an information system can be clear from the beginning: it must acquire, display, query and modify data, using a database. The main issue is to decide which information to manage. In the case originating this work, information was always evolving, even up to the end of the project. This implies the construction of a new system...

Dados sus ámbitos de aplicación, la educación en diseño y gestión de sistemas de información orientados a las organizaciones plantea retos interesantes. Uno de estos retos es el diseño de proyecto de aplicación real del conocimiento adquirido, debido al tiempo que estos tomarían. Adicionalmente, dificultades en la relación con las organizaciones en...

La especificacion de un sistema de informacion puede estar clara desde el principio: debe adquirir, desplegar, consultar y modificar datos, usando una base de datos. El asunto es decidir cual informacion manejar. En el caso que origina este trabajo, la informacion evoluciona permanentemente, incluso hasta el final del proyecto. Esto implica la cons...