Papers

Monday 8.30 – 10.00
Paper Session #1

• Diagnosing Data from ICTs to Provide Focused Assistance in Agricultural Adoptions by A. Singh, M. Subramanian, A. Agarwal, P. Priyadarshi, S. Gupta, K. Garimella, P. Kumaraguru, S. Kumar, R. Kumar, L. Garg, E. Arya
• The World is in My Hand Now: Smartphones for Empowering Rural Women in Developing Countries by M. Biswas, M. Anwar, M. Saha, N. Ahmed, Y. Strengers, L. Stillman, G. Oliver
• Closed Ranks: The Discursive Value of Military Support for Indian Politicians on Social Media by A. Seth, S. De, A. Arya, S. Wilkinson, S. Singh, J. Pal

Monday 10.30 – 12.00
Paper Session #2

• Toleration Factors: The Expectations of Decorum, Civility, and Certainty on Rural Social Media by S. Sultana, R. Akter, Z. Sultana, S. Ahmed
• The Use of Mobile Phones by Women Livestock Keepers in Zimbabwe by P. Nyajeka, R. Duncombe
  Tackling Hate Speech in Low-resource Languages with Context Experts by D. Nkemelu, H. Shah, M. Best, I. Essa
• Socio-economic and Technological Assumptions Influencing Financial Inclusion among Indigenous Peoples in Bauchi State, Nigeria by A. Hassan, S. Utulu
• Unpacking Tensions in Designing Annotation System for Public Toilets to Support Menstrual Mobilities by G. Bhatnagar, P. Singh, N. Kumar, A. Tuli

Tuesday 8.30 – 10.00
Paper Session #3

• Complexity Demands Agility: Operationalizing Agile Principles To Address Complex Public Health Challenge Of Malnutrition Management by D. Austin, A. Prakash, S. Bhushan
• Driven to the brink: Understanding digital labor platform precarity among UberGo drivers in South Africa by D. Ribbans, P. Tsibolane, J. van Belle, T. Nkohla-Ramuneyiwa
• Son Mis Datos: Building Personal Data Literacies through Citizen Data Audits by K. Reilly
  Inheriting Discrimination: Datafication Encounters of Marginalized Workers by A. Meena, R. Veeraraghavan, S. Kapania, V. Prabhakaran, V. Srinivasan, N. Sambasivan
• The Reordering of Everyday Life through Digital technologies During the Covid-19 Pandemic by H. Ahsan, L. Christensen

Tuesday 10.30 – 12.00
Paper Session #4

• On Inclusion: Video Analysis of Older Adult Interactions with a Multi-Modal Voice Assistant in a Public Setting by A. Cuadra, H. Baek, D. Estrin, M. Jung, N. Dell
• Understanding Farmers’ Response to SMS-Based Agri-Met Information by P. Chetri, U. Sharma, P. Ilavarasan
• A Qualitative Difference: Integrating Qualitative Data into Humanitarian Response Operations by C. Maitland, J. Martin, M. Bravo, A. Bertram
• Long-Range Low-Cost Networking for Real-Time Monitoring of Rail Tracks in Developing Countries by S. Salim, U. Kamal, A. Quaium, M. Yaad, M. Rahaman, N. Sakib, M. Tahmid, A. Islam
• To Block or Not to Block: Accelerating Mobile Web Pages On-The-Fly Through JavaScript Classification by M. Chaqfeh, M. Haseeb, W. Hashmi, P. Inshuti, M. Ramesh, M. Varvello, L. Subramanian, F. Zaffar, Y. Zaki

Tuesday 15.45 – 16.30
Paper Session #5

• Coyotes, Caravans, and Connectivity: Digital Practices among Honduran Irregular Migrants by S. Darling, K. Toyama
• Commissioning Development: Grantmaking, Community Voices, and their Implications for ICTD by M. Saha, T. Bartindale, S. Sultana, G. Oliver, D. Richardson, S. Thilsted, S. Ahmed, P. Olivier

Wednesday 10.30 – 12.00
ICTD/COMPASS Joint Paper Session

• 6 Years Later: Examining Long-term Project Outcomes by E. Greisz, P. Garrison
• The Six Conundrums of Building and Deploying Language Technologies for Social Good by H. Diddee, K. Bali, M. Choudhury, N. Mukhija
• Portrayals of Race and Gender: Sentiment in 100 Years of Children’s Literature by A. Adukia, C. Christ, A. Das, A. Raj
• On a Mismatch Between Design for Social Change by K. Toyama
• Understanding the Strategies and Practices of Facebook Microcelebrities for Engaging in Sociopolitical Discourses by D. Das, A. Islam, S Haque, J. Vuorinen, S. Ahmed

Open Sessions

Monday 13.30 – 15.15

Gender and Intersectional Research in ICT4D: Current Challenges (CSE2 001)
Dorothea Kleine (University of Sheffield), Chisenga Muyoya (Asikana Network of Women in IT), Fiona Ssozi (Makerere University), Ulrike Rivett (University of Cape Town), Suvodeep Mazumdar (University of Sheffield), Margaret Nyambura Ndung’u (INIIT Kenya)
Gender and Intersectionality are important themes in ICT4D/ICTD Research. Key aspects include the gender gap in access, in digital literacy and design, in STEM subjects, the paucity of gender data in some countries, as well as the discursive framing of women (and non-binary people) and frequently the omission of boys and men in equality processes. In this Open Session we will review key areas of work and invite participants to share ongoing research and explore intersections.

Attending to Affect and Attuning to Affect in Qualitative Research and Design in ICTD (CSE2 010)
Margaret Jack (Syracuse University), Dina Sabie (University of Toronto), Sachin Pendse (Georgia Tech), Catherine Wieczorek (Penn State University)
There is a greater interest in attending to affective experiences of participants in ICTD research. Yet, we suggest that attending to affect also requires a greater attunement to subjects’ well-being. We will engage in activities to practice safe and affect-aware research and design strategies, including: (1) empathetic language/active listening, (2) embodiment practices, and (3) contextual awareness. We close with exercises exploring the positionality and wellbeing of the researcher.

Practitioner Perspectives on Humanitarian Tech – Part 1: Understanding the Socio-Technical Gap in Humanitarian Tech (CSE2 371)
Robin Mays (University of Washington and American Red Cross), Jessica Port Robbins (American Red Cross), Bas Lijnse (Netherlands Defence Academy)
This workshop will consider practitioners’ perspectives of what they want every tech creator to know when designing for humanitarian accountability. We will grapple with the breakdowns and breakthroughs shared by Red Cross practitioners’ to design & develop technology appropriate and accountable to a moral work mission. Please join us to share your own experiences in an interactive session tackling unintended consequences of well-intended software.

Monday 15.45 – 17.30

Gender and Intersectional Research in ICT4D: Current Challenges (CSE2 001)
Dorothea Kleine (University of Sheffield), Chisenga Muyoya (Asikana Network of Women in IT), Fiona Ssozi (Makerere University), Ulrike Rivett (University of Cape Town), Suvodeep Mazumdar (University of Sheffield), Margaret Nyambura Ndung’u (INIIT Kenya)
Gender and Intersectionality are important themes in ICT4D/ICTD Research. Key aspects include the gender gap in access, in digital literacy and design, in STEM subjects, the paucity of gender data in some countries, as well as the discursive framing of women (and non-binary people) and frequently the omission of boys and men in equality processes. In this Open Session we will review key areas of work and invite participants to share ongoing research and explore intersections.

Attending to Affect and Attuning to Affect in Qualitative Research and Design in ICTD (CSE2 010)
Margaret Jack (Syracuse University), Dina Sabie (University of Toronto), Sachin Pendse (Georgia Tech), Catherine Wieczorek (Penn State University)
There is a greater interest in attending to affective experiences of participants in ICTD research. Yet, we suggest that attending to affect also requires a greater attunement to subjects’ well-being. We will engage in activities to practice safe and affect-aware research and design strategies, including: (1) empathetic language/active listening, (2) embodiment practices, and (3) contextual awareness. We close with exercises exploring the positionality and wellbeing of the researcher.

Monday 18.00 – 19.45

Ipid-Asia Women Forum 2022: Structural Challenges and ICT4D Research in Asia (Virtual)
Ezmieralda Melissa (Swiss German University Indonesia), Sarbani Banerjee Belur (Association of Progressive Communications), Ghazala Tabassum (University of Technology Sarawak), Tariq Zaman (University of Technology Sarawak), Cheng Haw Yih (University of Technology Sarawak)
Through interactive discussion, this panel brings Asian perspectives on institutional and structural challenges related to the development of the field of ICT4D, particularly those experienced by women. As there will be an interactive activity during the session, please answer the short questionnaire available on this website if you plan to attend this panel.

Tuesday 13.30 – 15.00

n-way Teaching and Learning of ICTD (CSE2 287)
Bill Tucker (Stellenbosch University), Semande Tovide (Stellenbosch University)
Many in ICTD associate teaching and learning with academia, as techniques can easily be incrementally iterated each time a course is given. Similar T&L processes are at work for all types of ICTD stakeholders, and methodological and pedagogical learnings can be shared, including fruitful processes and mistakes, too. The purpose of this participatory workshop, then, is to explore n-way T&L amongst all types of ICTD stakeholders by actually doing it via the workshop.

Reconfiguring ICTD Research in the Wake of Covid-19 (CSE2 001)
Chris Coward (University of Washington), Maria Garrido (University of Washington)
This workshop explores the enduring effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on ICTD research. It invites participants to reflect on research experiences over the past two years, predict long-term implications of the pandemic, and discuss how we might reconfigure research and collaboration practices moving forward. The workshop provides opportunities to reflect on how changing practices intersect with lessons from anti-colonial movements within and outside of academia, which encourage critical examination of relationships with communities and fieldwork.

Challenges and Opportunities in Automating Low Resource Language Content Moderation (CSE2 010)
Aliya Bhatia (Center for Democracy & Technology), Gabriel Nicholas (Center for Democracy & Technology and New York University Information Law Institute)
Social media companies use algorithms to moderate content at scale and at speed. However, companies struggle to develop sound automated methods for evaluating content in non-English, “low resource” languages. We propose three twenty-minute lightning talks and thirty minutes of collaborative discussion to look at the low resource language problem at each stage of the algorithm development lifecycle — data collection, model development, and post-hoc evaluation.

Practitioner Perspectives on Humanitarian Tech – Part 2: Exploring a Future Research Agenda for Humanitarian Tech Invited Panel (CSE2 371)
Robin Mays (University of Washington and American Red Cross), Jessica Port Robbins (American Red Cross), Bas Lijnse (Netherlands Defence Academy)
With a focus on “ethics,” humanitarians have gained traction with tech creators for addressing issues around vulnerability of information and privacy of data. Yet, this still doesn’t reach the heart of humanitarian accountability that is pursued within their core work. We invite passionate researchers & tech creators to join us to consider where we go from here? What do we need to do IOT raise technical design and development to the next level: from ethical approaches to social accountability?

Tuesday 16.30 – 18.00

Gary Marsden ICTD Town Hall (CSE2 020)
Kentaro Toyama (University of Michigan), Richard Anderson (University of Washington)
This session is intended for the conference organizers (steering committee + 2022 organizers) to listen to the participants about how they feel the conference went, how the community is going overall, and what they seek for the future of the ICTD community.

Wednesday 13.30 – 15.00

Using Familiar Tools in an Unfamiliar Context: Sharing Co-designing Experiences in a Cross-Cultural Context (CSE2 371)
Sarah Dsane (University of Cape Town, Koforidua Technical University), Melissa Densmore (University of Cape Town), Yaseen Joolay (University of Cape Town)
Stickies, sharpies, and color pencils have long been recognized as essential tools for ideation and brainstorming during co-designing. Using these seemingly simple tools in other contexts, however, can present some complexities particularly with rural women. The goal of this session is to provide a forum for designers and researchers to discuss how we contextualize co-designing tools/toolkits, especially when working in contexts where our users are unfamiliar with these tools.

Researching Misinformation in ICTD (CSE2 001)
Chris Coward (University of Washington), Araba Sey (University of Washington/Research ICT Africa), Katy Pearce (University of Washington), Pranav Malhotra (University of Washington), Charles Bugre (University of Washington), Morgan Wack (University of Washington)
This workshop will convene researchers studying misinformation, along with those interested in how misinformation might impact other research programs. To date, most misinformation research has been situated in the Global North. What is known about misinformation in the Global South? What countermeasures are useful when digital flows occur on WhatsApp and other closed platforms, and non-digital media are still powerful? What assumptions about technology, policy, access, and inclusion need to be rethought in Global South contexts?

Multistakeholder Data Governance for Development (CSE2 387)
Benjamin Akinmoyeje (Namibia University of Science and Technology)
This session anticipates a session anticipates to introduce the ICTD community to concept of multi stakeholder data governance approach contrary to the popular regional, siloed regulations, and frameworks. These current approaches limit the impact of data , especially for ICTD projects for developing region with need for data driven innovation.

Books in ICTD: Reflections from Two Recent Authors (CSE2 010)
David Nemer (University of Virginia), Rajesh Veeraraghavan (Georgetown University)
David Nemer is the author of Technology of the Oppressed (MIT Press, 2022) where he analyzes how Brazilian favela residents engage with appropriate technologies, both to fight the oppression in their lives and to represent themselves in the world. Rajesh Veeraraghavan is the author of Patching Development (Oxford University Press, 2021) where he critically examines the contestations of public officials, local politicians, social movements and workers as bureaucrats use technology and localized information to implement one of the largest public employment program in India. They both will discuss their reflections.