Mobile phone-based healthcare delivery in a Sami area: Reflections on technology and culture

This paper analyses the redesign of psychiatric services for children and
adolescents in a Sami area in the county of Finnmark in Norway. The project
included the introduction of a new technology in support of a decentralized model
for healthcare service delivery. We focus specifically on the role of culture in the
development and implementation of a mobile phone application during the pilot
phase of the project. In our analysis we draw on information infrastructure theory.
We are in particular interested in the concept of generativity and critically assess
its role of in the analysis of technology in a culturally diverse context.