Here's a link to one of my papers if it be of any help to you, Abhigyan.
My research considered how low-tech tools could create a more participatory model of design brief development for a development project.
http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1640233.1640270&coll=DL&dl=GUIDE&CFID=49421767&CFTOKEN=17703003
Some of the images/work is also housed in this: http://www.ideo.com/work/human-centered-design-toolkit
At the time, I'd hope for more investigation into the ICT potential but the women had no electricity, computers or cell phones to enable it.
Best,
Kara Pecknold, MAA Design
Emily Carr University of Art + Design
Olivelife Creative
Designer and Researcher
@karapecknold
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On Oct 18, 2011, at 1:45 PM, abhigyan singh wrote:
> Dear all,
>
> I am writing my doctoral studies proposal on the theme of interdisciplinary
> research on crowd-sourcing in low-literacy and low-technology contexts in
> emerging markets (India & Sub-Saharan Africa).
>
> I request for pointers to research papers, links, case studies etc which
> discuss aspects related to the subject. Some themes: Community Informatics &
> Crowd-sourcing, Social Design & Actor Network Theory, Cultural dimensions &
> design of ICT-Interfaces, research incorporating both 'real-world' social
> network and 'virtual' social network, Ethics and Economics of
> Crowd-sourcing, Social Capital & ICTD.
>
> Your directions will be very helpful. If you are aware of any research
> lab/university conducting similar research then please share the
> information.
>
> Thanks in advance!
>
> Best Regards,
> Abhigyan Singh
>
> web: http://abhigyan.info/ <http://nl.linkedin.com/in/agsingh>
>
>
> Design Researcher,
>
> Multimedia Information Retrieval Lab,
>
> Delft University of Technology (TU Delft),
>
> HB11.320, Mekelweg 4, 2628 CD, Delft,
>
> The Netherlands
>
> Web: http://dmirlab.tudelft.nl/
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