Collaborating with communities in Africa: A hitchhikers guide

Anicia N. Peters; Nicola J. Bidwell; Heike Winschiers-Theophilus; Edwin Blake; Kagonya Awori; Arun Kumar; Shilumbe Chivuno-Kuria

doi:10.1145/2559206.2581313

Collaborating with communities in Africa: A hitchhikers guide

Anicia N. Peters, Nicola J. Bidwell, Heike Winschiers-Theophilus, Edwin Blake, Kagonya Awori, Arun Kumar, Shilumbe Chivuno-Kuria

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Designing, developing and deploying technologies with local African communities involves a rapport and trust beyond predefined and agreed upon project goals. Pursuing an agenda for community-driven development involves prioritizing and recognizing the role of community members as co-designers and co-researchers. Constraints on time, resources and differing protocols often hinder effective and sustainable collaboration with local African communities. This paper presents discussions started at an international workshop and panel about the key factors in building local community collaboration in Africa, as part of an accruing repository of empirically-grounded advice from local researchers, community members and designers with extensive community collaboration experience.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	CHI EA 2014
Subtitle of host publication	One of a ChiNd - Extended Abstracts, 32nd Annual ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Publisher	Association for Computing Machinery
Pages	1969-1974
Number of pages	6
ISBN (Print)	9781450324748
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1145/2559206.2581313
Publication status	Published - 2014
Event	32nd Annual ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, CHI EA 2014 - Toronto, ON, Canada Duration: 26 Apr 2014 → 1 May 2014

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Conference	32nd Annual ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, CHI EA 2014
Country/Territory	Canada
City	Toronto, ON
Period	26/04/14 → 1/05/14

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Peters, A. N., Bidwell, N. J., Winschiers-Theophilus, H., Blake, E., Awori, K., Kumar, A., & Chivuno-Kuria, S. (2014). Collaborating with communities in Africa: A hitchhikers guide. In CHI EA 2014: One of a ChiNd - Extended Abstracts, 32nd Annual ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (pp. 1969-1974). (Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings). Association for Computing Machinery. https://doi.org/10.1145/2559206.2581313

Peters, Anicia N. ; Bidwell, Nicola J. ; Winschiers-Theophilus, Heike et al. / Collaborating with communities in Africa : A hitchhikers guide. CHI EA 2014: One of a ChiNd - Extended Abstracts, 32nd Annual ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. Association for Computing Machinery, 2014. pp. 1969-1974 (Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings).

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Collaborating with communities in Africa: A hitchhikers guide. / Peters, Anicia N.; Bidwell, Nicola J.; Winschiers-Theophilus, Heike et al.
CHI EA 2014: One of a ChiNd - Extended Abstracts, 32nd Annual ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. Association for Computing Machinery, 2014. p. 1969-1974 (Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings).

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