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Papers
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Domesticating the Desktop
Although ICTs are being experimentally deployed at a number of locations in South Asia, more successful interventions appear to involve certain deformations and adaptations of modular ICTs to suit the needs of new rural users. This paper suggests that alternative audio-visual forms must be invented by project planners, personnel and users through the transcendence of existing ideologies of technology,literacy and social hierarchy. |
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How to Wire Rural India
In South Asia, where most rural populations lack basic resources like running water and sanitation systems, and where electricity, roads and even education are scarce and intermittent resources, high technologies truly appear to be far removed from the everyday concerns of the poorest sections of the countryside. This article critically examines the problems and possibilities of digital development in order to reveal the larger impact that ICTs could have on rural economies and societies. |
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Presentations
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Design Research for Contextual Invention
(From the conference proceedings of "Contextual Invention" held in Bangalore in November 2003. )This presentation cum paper offers a brief examination of the problem and process of designing products and
services for non-traditional users in emerging economy regions of the world. Using the example of the field research conducted by CKS among auto rickshaw drivers in Bangalore, this paper argues that the creation of new technologies for such user groups must proceed from a careful and engaged analysis of existing communicative and interactional patterns, from which new ideas and opportunities may emerge
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Social Research, Design and Technology in India
(From the conference proceedings of "Doors of Perception 7: Flow" held in Amsterdam in November 2002) This presentation talks about the importance of social research, design and technology in finding ways to use information and communication technologies for the use of under-served populations and non-elite rural populations in developing countries. Citing examples of projects conducted in India, the presentation elucidates the design problems faced in a top-down bureaucratic ICT4D project model, and suggests new ideas to address the extraordinary complexity of the life flows and work flows that rural groups are engaged in everyday.
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