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Public lecture about designing IT with rural communities in Namibia, Southern Africa.
Current mainstream technology paradigms do not address fundamental challenges of cross-cultural design and local technology needs and usages in rural African settings.
We need to reconsider many assumptions that guide design and evaluation decisions, within local contexts and pursue a more critical research agenda within an indigenous epistemology.
Professor Heike Winschiers-Theophilus will share her experiences of community-based co-design in rural Namibia and particularly insights gained as part of the design and development of an indigenous knowledge management system.
She and her team are currently exploring rural communities' crowd sourcing involvements, which in itself represents an interesting cross-cultural communication challenge. Their design expeditions have revealed a number of specific constraints in developing appropriate digital tools.
They have also established a set of successful interaction methods as part of long term collaboration with rural communities.
The lessons learned uncover implicit consequences and opportunities for the use and design of ICTs in cross-cultural and rural southern-African contexts.
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4 June 2014 at 5:30 pm |
Duration: | 1 hour 30 minutes |
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University of West London - Paragon |
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Media, University of West London |
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Free |
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