[AISWorld] Nixon Muganda Ochara - SIGPhil's Philosophical dialogues: the story behind the work with Nixon Muganda Ochara

[SANTA, Mijalche]

"SIGPhil's Philosophical dialogues: the story behind the work" is an AIS SIGPhil's activity to promote the philosophical discourse in IS field.

The purpose of the SIGPhil's podcasts "Philosophical dialogues: the story behind the work" is to go behind the published work and seek answers to why philosophy, how philosophy, when philosophy and with whom. Together with the quests talking about their experience we will explore the history, the ideas, the reasoning, the process, the challenges and the funny things that happened and made contribution to what they did and published. We will also discuss what did not got published and the future of their philosophical work. All that in 45 to 60 minutes.

If you want to engage or just explore the philosophy of science in information systems you should listen these podcasts.

Today I talk with prof. Nixon Muganda Ochara. He is a Research Professor at the University of Venda, South Africa. He is also a Visiting Professor at the University of Witwatersrand, South Africa. He has held visiting positions at Southern University A & M, USA, Mandume ya Ndemufayo University, Angola, ICT University, Flensburg University of Applied Sciences, Germany among others. Prof. Ochara has a PhD in Information Systems from University of Cape Town, South Africa. Prior to joining academia, he held various positions in the private sector like Africa Online, a Pan-African Internet Service Provider and Symphony, an IBM Distributor. He has forged research programs in Open Development Innovations, Business Analytics, Digital Government, Digital Governance, National Information Infrastructures, ICT Governance and E-Business. He has published in leading Information Systems journals such as Government Information Quarterly, Information Technology & People, Information Technology for Development, among others. He has also published a paper on the logic of theoretical argument in research.


Today with prof. Ochara we talk about how in philosophy you start from the social problem,  how you express your beliefs through philosophy, the need for IS emancipation (contextual, scientific, philosophical), that each voice needs to be heard and much more. With this it is my pleasure to bring you prof. Muganda Ochara.

You can listen the podcast on the following link https://anchor.fm/mijalche-santa/episodes/Nixon-Muganda-Ochara---SIGPhils-Philosophical-dialogues-e1cs9ba

If you missed you can also listen the podcasts with Leona Chandra Kruse, Nik Hassan, Devinder Bahadur Thapa, Mikko Siponen, Amir Haj-Bolouri, Dubravka Cecez-Kecmanovic, John Mingers, Jan Recker, Shirley Gregor, Bo Dahlbom, Brian Butler and Allen S Lee at

https://anchor.fm/mijalche-santa
https://open.spotify.com/show/6lfVSrrVBS3F2kBbN4LRgK
https://pcr.apple.com/id1554436795

Stay tuned

Mijalche Santa
on behalf of AIS SIGPhil team


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Mijalche Santa, Ph.D. (he/him/his)
Vice-Dean for Science and International Cooperation and Associate Professor
Faculty of Economics - Skopje
Ss. Cyril and Methodius University in Skopje
mijalche.santa at eccf.ukim.edu.mk
mijalche at santa.mk
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