Design and Determination: Authors and Afiliations

In addition to the main author, two colleagues collaborated on chapters in Part II and Part III


Dr Stephen Little is Head of the Centre for Innovation, Knowledge and Enterprise in the Open University Business School Milton Keynes, U.K.

From 1999 to 2004 he chaired Managing Knowledge, an MBA elective delivered to students across the European Union and Central and Eastern Europe and by OUBS partners in Africa and Asia. Before joining the Open University Business School (OUBS) in 1999 he held posts at several British and Australian universities.

He left architectural practice in 1981 to pursue a PhD on the organisational impact of computer aided design at the Department of Design Research, Royal College of Art, London and returned to the U.K. in 1996 following eleven years teaching and researching information systems in Australia, based at Griffith University, Brisbane, and the University of Wollongong, NSW.

He has also held visiting appointments in Australia, Europe, North America and Asia.



Dr Perry Morrison is a management and I.T. consultant and Director of Morrison Associates Pty Ltd, Darwin, Australia.

His recent consultancies include projects for Centrelink, an Australian Federal Government Department providing income support and welfare services, the implementation of digital archives in ten remote communities for the Local Government Association of the Northern Territory and the evaluation a service delivery program to three remote communities in the Northern Territory for the Darwin Community Legal Service.

He has held academic appointments with the Centre for Social Research, Northern Territory University, Darwin, Australia, the National University of Singapore, the Department of Mathematics, Statistics and Computer Science, University of New England, Armidale, NSW, and the School of Computing and Information Studies, Griffith University, Brisbane.

He is co-author of Chapter 9: Culture, Design and Design Cultures: achieving transferability and sustainability in development processes.



Dr Melih Kirlidog is an assistant professor in the Department of Computer Engineering at Marmara University, Turkey.

He holds a BSc from Middle East Technical University, Turkey, and an MBA and PhD from the University of Wollongong, Australia.

He has worked as an ICT analyst and consultant for over twenty years both in Turkey and Australia. His current research interests include Decision Support Systems, intercultural ICT development and implementation, ICT in developing countries, and community informatics.

He is co-author of Chapter 10: Development by Design: two national development paths and Chapter 11: Designing Development: cultural consonances in post-Cold War development.


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