Chrisanthi Avgerou

FBCS Sir Maurice Wilkes served as the first President of BCS in 1957 BCS, The Chartered Institute for IT, known as the British Computer Society until 2009, is a professional body and a learned society that represents those working in infor ...

FAIS ( el, Χρυσάνθη Αυγέρου; born 1954) is a Greek-born British scholar in the field of the

Social Study of Information Systems The Social Study of Information Systems (SSIS) is interested in people developing and using technology and the "culture" of those people. SSIS studies these phenomena by drawing on and using "lenses" provided by social sciences, including philoso ...

, focusing on

Information Technology Information technology (IT) is the use of computers to create, process, store, retrieve, and exchange all kinds of data . and information. IT forms part of information and communications technology (ICT). An information technology system ...

developing countries A developing country is a sovereign state with a lesser developed Industrial sector, industrial base and a lower Human Development Index (HDI) relative to other countries. However, this definition is not universally agreed upon. There is al ...

. She is currently Professor of Information Systems at the

London School of Economics and Political Science The London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) is a public university, public research university located in London, England and a constituent college of the federal University of London. Founded in 1895 by Fabian Society members Sidn ...

Life

Avgerou is a Fellow of the

British Computer Society Sir Maurice Wilkes served as the first President of BCS in 1957 BCS, The Chartered Institute for IT, known as the British Computer Society until 2009, is a professional body and a learned society that represents those working in infor ...

and of the

Association for Information Systems The Association for Information Systems (AIS) is an international, not-for-profit, professional association for scholars of information systems that was established in 1994. The association publishes journals, organizes conferences, and provides a ...

(AIS), associate editor of ''The Information Society'' journal and ''Information Systems research'' Journal, and has served as chairperson of the IFIP Technical Committee 9, which explores the relationship between computers and society. She has a

BSc A Bachelor of Science (BS, BSc, SB, or ScB; from the Latin ') is a bachelor's degree awarded for programs that generally last three to five years. The first university to admit a student to the degree of Bachelor of Science was the University of ...

in mathematics from

University of Athens The National and Kapodistrian University of Athens (NKUA; el, Εθνικό και Καποδιστριακό Πανεπιστήμιο Αθηνών, ''Ethnikó ke Kapodistriakó Panepistímio Athinón''), usually referred to simply as the Univers ...

, an MSc in computer science from the

Loughborough University Loughborough University (abbreviated as ''Lough'' or ''Lboro'' for post-nominals) is a public research university in the market town of Loughborough, Leicestershire, England. It has been a university since 1966, but it dates back to 1909, whe ...

and a

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in Information Systems from the

London School of Economics , mottoeng = To understand the causes of things , established = , type = Public research university , endowment = £240.8 million (2021) , budget = £391.1 mill ...

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Published books

* Avgerou, C., R. Mansell, D. Quah, and D. Silverstone (2007) ''The Oxford Handbook of Information and Communication Technologies,'' Oxford University Press. * ''Perspectives and Policies on ICT in Society,'' Springer (2005) (co-edited with J. Berleur) . * ''The Social Study of Information and Communication Technology,'' Oxford University Press (2004) (co-edited with C. Ciborra and F. Land) * ''Information systems and the economics of innovation,'' Cheltenham, Edward Elgar (2003) (co-edited with R. Lèbre LaRovere) . * ''Information Systems and Global Diversity'', Oxford, Oxford University Press (2002). * ''Information Technology in Context: studies from the perspective of developing countries'', London, Ashgate (2000) (co-edited with G. Walsham). * Chrisanthi Avgerou and Tony Cornford, ''Developing Information Systems: Concepts, Issues and Practice'', 2nd Edition, Palgrave (1998), .

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* Living people Greek emigrants to England Greek academics Academics of the London School of Economics Alumni of Loughborough University Fellows of the British Computer Society 1954 births Greek women scientists British women scientists National and Kapodistrian University of Athens alumni People from Volos {{UK-academic-stub