Computing technology in international development

Kam, Matthew; Dray, Susan; Toyama, Kentaro; Marsden, Gary; Parikh, Tapan S.; Cutrell, Ed

doi:10.1145/1753846.1753935

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“…There have also been invited talks and panels led by core members of this community e.g. [4]; [4]. We also find an increasing number of HCI4D related sessions in CHI conferences (2012, 2011 and 2010).…”

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confidence: 78%

“…Prior to the San Jose workshop, there had been a number of papers, keynotes and discussions addressing this topic (e.g. [1] and [4]), but this was the first time diverse members of this community had met in single location with an explicit focus on HCI research for development. Other milestones for this community include establishing a special interest group of the International Federation for Information Processing (IFIP) Technical Committee 13 on Human-Computer Interaction (2008).…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Discussing experiences, through electronic discussion boards, for example, can allow us to learn from them. 4. Strategies for inclusion: we need to devise strategies to ensure that the new community is not dominated by voices coming from the North America, Europe or the 'global North', but is inclusive and attentive to voices from LDCs and low resource environments.…”

Section: Goals and Outcomesmentioning

confidence: 99%

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“…An indication of HCI and, more generally, computing's interest in developing regions is evidenced by the proliferation of related position pieces in computing journals [10,18,32], workshops [34], and conference panels [12,26] all seeking to address the challenges faced. By and large, the depictions painted in these talks and published materials is of a world out there that is complex.…”

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Out there" is increasingly becoming a topic of concern in HCI. Thanks to various clarion calls, researchers in the field are turning their attention to technology-mediated activities that are shaped less by Euro-American sensibilities and defined more by how they are culturally and geographically distinct. Fieldwork and ethnography researchers, for instance, are beginning to investigate ICT use at religious and spiritual sites, by the socially excluded and disenfranchised, and by people in developing regions. In this paper, I concentrate on the latter focus on development to reflect on HCI's disciplinary turn "out there". Specifically, I take the following three themes as common rhetorical devices in such work: (i) the network, (ii) difference and (iii) complexity. Through examples, I discuss how each of these themes has been mobilised. I then use materials from anthropology, science and technology studies, and to a lesser extent geography and postcolonial studies to complicate and in some cases question the interpretative frames that are being applied. Thus, my hope is that this paper is seen as a thought piece that deepens our thinking around HCI's efforts to look "out there" by paying critical attention to what is going on "in here".

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“…The panel is a mix of professionals from both developed and developing regions who have worked on projects that improve social mobility in both types of regions. In CHI 2010, an introductory panel was successfully organized [1] with HCI4D researchers to introduce the space to CHI researchers. In the past, there have also been numerous sessions at HCI and development conferences on the challenges of applying HCI to development [5], contextualize HCI4D as a domain [6] or to explore careers for the ICTD audience [7].…”

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International development and initiatives towards societal impact have been slowly gaining momentum in the HCI forums over the last few years. A subset of HCI researchers and practitioners worldwide have been working to design, build, evaluate and deploy solutions for the 80% of the world which lives on less than $10 a day[2] and broadly for humanitarian efforts that improves people's lives at large. However, a large section of the HCI community is still not directly involved in this space even if they are interested, because of concerns like job uncertainty, lack of awareness of avenues to help, time availability and perhaps some delusions about the space. This panel brings together panelists who are HCI professionals trying to produce social impact from four different domains (non-profit, for-profit social enterprise, academic research and corporate research) and are from different geographies and stages in their careers. . The panel explores how HCI researchers and practitioners can consider HCI-related careers in international development and other societal impact initiatives, introduce the CHI community to different means through which they could make meaningful contributions, discuss why it may be imminent for HCI specialists to apply their expertise to this space, cite Panel CHI 2014, One of a CHInd, Toronto, ON, Canada 1105 and discuss some real world stories and try to answer as many queries from people who would like to get involved either as volunteers or for full-time careers.

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Computing technology in international development

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