Rate My Professor Joy Alatta

Joy Alatta serves as a professor at Southern New Hampshire University, where she instructs courses in data validation and related information technology subjects, including DAT 300: Data Validation: Getting the Right Data and IT 270: Web Site Design. Her academic career includes prior service as a professor in the Computer Science department at Columbia Basin College. Alatta holds a Doctor of Information Technology from Walden University, completed in 2020, with her dissertation titled "User Perception of the U.S. Open Government Data Success Factors." This quantitative correlational study examined the relationship between U.S. federal departments’ open data users’ perceptions of system quality, information quality, service quality, and their intent to use open data, employing the DeLone and McLean information systems success model. Data from 122 users revealed a statistically significant relationship, with the model explaining 99% of the variance in intent to use. Her prior degrees include a Master of Science from Walden University in 2018, a Master of Science from Middlesex University London in the United Kingdom in 2001, and a Master of Business Administration from Lagos State University in Nigeria in 1998.

Alatta possesses over 17 years of professional experience in information technology, specializing in redesigning business processes, specifying systems requirements, optimizing business benefits, and aligning business processes with organizational strategies. Her research interests encompass open data, linked open data, blockchain interoperability, and sensor data semantics interoperability, as reflected in her Google Scholar profile affiliated with Walden University, where her work has been cited five times. These areas align with her contributions to understanding factors influencing the adoption and success of open government data initiatives, potentially impacting sectors such as healthcare, education, energy, research, digitization, and e-government preservation through improved information system design and user requirement gathering.