Dear Lindsey,
Thanks for the link. Map Kiberia project discusses various interesting
issues related to the subject. I look forward to reading the complete
report. Yea, I have read some papers from Andy Dearden on participatory
design in international development context.
Maybe you would find the the following paper interesting:
*Evaluating and Improving the Usability of Mechanical Turk for Low-Income
Workers in India* (
http://research.microsoft.com/pubs/143361/DEV2010-turk-final.pdf ), research
done by Microsoft Research India.
Thanks & Regards,
Abhigyan
web: http://abhigyan.info/
linkedin: http://nl.linkedin.com/in/agsingh
Design Researcher,
Multimedia Information Retrieval Lab,
Delft University of Technology (TU Delft),
The Netherlands
Web: http://dmirlab.tudelft.nl/
On Tue, Oct 18, 2011 at 11:15 PM, Lindsey Nelson <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Hello Abhigyan,
>
> I just had this conversation today! Andy Dearden has done some substantive
> work in the shift from user-centred design to participatory design in
> international development contexts. Evangelia Berdou has a free project
> report about the Map Kiberia project which is all about crowdsourcing in low
> technology, low literacy contexts. She embeds her analysis in other case
> studies; you can find her paper, "Mediating Voices, Communicating Realities:
> Using Information Crowdsourcing Tools, Open Data Initiatives and Digital
> Media to Support and Protect the Vulnerable" at
> http://ids.ac.uk/go/idspublication/mediating-voices-communicating-realities-using-information-crowdsourcing-tools-open-data-initiatives-and-digital-media-to-support-and-protect-the-vulnerable
>
> Best in your research,
> Lindsey
>
> Lindsey Nelson
> PhD Student
> Engineering Education
> Purdue University
>
> MA Poverty and Development 2010/2011
> Institute of Development Studies
> University of Sussex
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> Subject: research on crowd-sourcing in low-literacy & low-technology
> context?
>
> 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>
>
>
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