Information systems: an approach to discipline

Abstract

There is ambivalence in the meaning of the term “information systems”. On one hand, there is a common meaning, however not exclusive, that links it to technological devices that receive, process, store, and give information in organizations. And on the other hand, an alternate sense considers it as a Computing discipline. Any contribution to the understanding of information systems should have in clear this polysemy, and offer, according to its scope, an explanation of each meaning and its connection.
However, the image of information systems as a discipline is not knownto most academics and practitioners of Informatics from Colombia. When kept away from that perspective, this leads to a situation where these actors do not take part in the field’s direction, an issue that is being discussed in the international context. It offers an approach towards the disciplinary image by means of the exploration of its arise, institutionalization, theory, practice, body of knowledge and state, it expects to promote the reflection about the national participation in the knowledge’s creation of information systems.