Participatory approaches may empower community members toward their development; however, structural and identity-based factors may impede participation. It becomes imperative to critically examine the politics, dynamics, and rhetoric of participation in ...

Communities of practice can improve teachers’ professional development through informal in-person discussions among community members. However, infrastructural challenges pose difficulties in fostering in-person connections, particularly in rural ...

The sex workers in the Global South represent a significant portion of the world sex industry. However, when compared to the relevant HCI literature on sex work and computing, there exists a noticeable gap in comprehending the experiences and ...

AI-driven tools are increasingly deployed to support low-skilled community health workers (CHWs) in hard-to-reach communities in the Global South. This paper examines how CHWs in rural India engage with and perceive AI explanations and how we might ...

Social media platforms have witnessed an unprecedented growth in users from rural communities in India. Many of these users are new to online information environments and are highly susceptible to misinformation. Fact-checking has the potential to reduce ...

Machine intelligence relies on Al (artificial intelligence) trainers, workers who perform labor such as data annotation and algorithm optimization. However, the promise of Al does not often benefit workers equally; instead, it puts them in precarious ...

India produces a large amount of shrimp every year and exports them globally. Yet, concerns have been raised about shrimps produced in India not qualifying the global safety standards. In this paper, we took an ethnographic approach to understand the ...

This paper attempts to (re)theorize the nature and role of hope in collaborative and interventionist CSCW and HCI projects. Building on work in anthropology, STS, CSCW and HCI, and extended reflection on the 3Dprintability project - a multinational ...

The state's attempt to transform agriculture markets into E-Markets highlights a reliance on technology to simplify the complexity of a particular societal situation to impose a uniform change process across diverse regions and social groups. While the ...

Pastoralists in Somaliland are suffering the impacts of climate change, and need relevant, timely, and practical information about water resources and pastures. However, these communities are sparsely distributed and distant from decision-making centres, ...

As community-driven organizations sought to support their constituents through the COVID-19 crisis, many drew on digital volunteers to expand their capacity and reach. However, coordinating the efforts of virtual volunteers is a challenging task with ...

Artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) are quickly becoming pervasive in ways that impact the lives of all humans across the globe. In an effort to make otherwise ”black box” AI/ML systems more understandable, the field of Explainable AI ...

As governments in developing countries race to solve the global learning crisis, a key focus is on novel teaching approaches as taught in pedagogical programs. To scale, these pedagogical programs rely on government teacher training infrastructure. ...

How do we make sense of the promises of digital technologies for safe mobility? Drawing on a case analysis of Safetipin, a mobile app that has garnered much praise in India, this paper examines the assumptions and promises of technologies designed for ...

Social change projects, such as those undertaken under the banner of information & communication technologies for development (ICT4D), frequently address problems using a design-based approach and therefore inherit the values of what could be called “...

Increases in forced migration crises and the digitalization of humanitarian response require ongoing innovation in information management tools and processes. Our research-in-progress examines emergent data aggregation and data quality management ...

The challenge in managing malnutrition lies largely on its multifactorial causation with complexities arising from interactions of multiple systems and their constituents. Based on the experiences gathered from designing and developing an Information ...

We present a qualitative study with 36 diverse social media users in India to critically examine how low-resource communities engage with fake videos, including cheapfakes and AI-generated deepfakes. We find that most users are unaware of digitally ...

Telephone-driven community forums have been a widely proposed solution to address the unreliable internet connectivity and large geographic scope that characterizes many international NGO contexts. Primarily, these applications support asynchronous ...