This dissertation focuses on understanding how families communicate over distance when using technology in Kenya, and how we should think about designing technology to support family communication over distance between rural and urban settings of the country. It is divided in two parts with first part exploring family communication practices […]
2015 • communication • digital divide • families • Kenya • rural • TumaPicha • urbanUbicomp4D: Infrastructure and interaction for international development – the case of urban Indian slums
This paper attempts to re-imagine ubiquitous computing for populations in low-income and information-challenged environments. We examine information infrastructures in mid-sized urban slums of Mumbai and Bangalore in three ways—1) highlighting technologies supporting social networks, 2) examining underlying notions of trust and privacy in building information networks, and 3) discussing protocols […]
2009 • development • ICT4D • India • infrastructure • ubicomp • ubiquitous • urban