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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 ________________________________________ From: PhD-Design - This list is for discussion of PhD studies and related research in Design [[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of abhigyan singh [[log in to unmask]] Sent: Tuesday, October 18, 2011 9:45 PM To: [log in to unmask] 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> 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/ This message is for the addressee only and may contain privileged or confidential information. If you have received it in error, please notify the sender immediately and delete the original. Any views or opinions expressed are solely those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of IDS. Institute of Development Studies at the University of Sussex, Brighton BN1 9RE Tel: +44 (0)1273 606261; Fax: +44 (0)1273 621202 IDS, a charitable company limited by guarantee: Registered Charity No. 306371; Registered in England 877338; VAT No. GB 350 899914