#5032. Engaging with uncertainty: Information practices in the context of disease surveillance in Burkina Faso

July 2026publication date
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Library and Information Sciences;
Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management;
Management of Technology and Innovation;
Management Information Systems;
Information Systems;
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Abstract:
Uncertainty is inherent to outbreaks of infectious diseases; a topic of global concern. Addressing global outbreaks requires well-functioning systems to produce information. The aim of the paper is to understand uncertainty in the context of information systems (IS) and to analyze the role of formal and informal information practices in identifying and responding to communicable diseases in the context of developing countries. Our empirical focus is on a dengue outbreak in 20XX in Burkina Faso- Dengue was then unknown in the context and formal “techne” based information systems were inadequate in dealing with it. Drawing on work defining uncertainty as a resource, we extend our practice-based theoretical lens with the concepts of “general and specific metis” to describe practices neither established formally or informally, but which evolve as the disease unfolds. Our paper contributes primarily in foregrounding the role of uncertainty in information systems research and how this relates to formal, informal and emerging information practices.
Keywords:
Dengue; Developing countries; Disease surveillance; Health information systems; Information practices; Uncertainty

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