Participatory approaches to ICT in development - eLL seminar
On May 31st, we had a seminar on participatory approaches to ICT in development. My olleague PO Zander and I were in charge of putting together the programme, and we were fortunate enough to have visiting professor Judith Gregory from Institute of Design in Chicago to give an opening speech. Among other things, Judith presented five principles for succesful international and inter-cultural collaborations, based on her work in the health sector in Africa:
- Smart capability-building is required for richer and sustained collaboration
- Participation is essential; the context of participation must first be constituted
- Mutual learning and reciprocity among design collaboration partners
- Participatory design is a culture of principled argument, in the most positive meaning that critique always offers a proposal
- Respectful dialogue in which difference is valued
- Formal scientific contributions and social commitments in which participatory relations in design are essential
Read more here: Gregory, J. (2010): A Complex Model for International and Intercultural Collaboration in Health Information Systems, Gregory.
Chapter in: S. Poggenpohl & K. Sato (editors), Design Integrations: Research & Collaboration. Chicago: Intellect/University of Chicago, 2010, pp 247-273.
At the seminar it was decided to etablish a research group on ‘ICT in development’ (final title to be decided later).
