Ovahimba community in Namibia ventures into crowdsourcing design

Colin Stanley, Heike Winschiers-Theophilus, Edwin Blake, Kasper Rodil

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Abstract

Mobile crowdsourcing presents a new avenue for remote communities to participate in socio-economic activities. We are co-designing a mobile crowdsourcing platform to support rural indigenous communities in formulating their own tasks to be crowdsourced rather than completing tasks for others. We present one full simulated cycle of task formulation and evaluation by a pilot community in Northern Namibia. Observations and interactions led to a set of requirements and design implications to support the inclusion of OvaHimba communities into crowdsourcing activities.
OriginalsprogEngelsk
TitelIFIP WG 9.4: Social Implications of Computers in Developing Countries : 13th International Conference on Social Implications of Computers in Developing Countries
ForlagDepartment of Informatics, University of Oslo
Publikationsdato2016
Sider277-287
ISBN (Trykt)978-82-7368-465-3
StatusUdgivet - 2016
Begivenhed13th International Conference on Social Implications of Computers in Developing Countries - Negombo, Sri Lanka
Varighed: 20 maj 201522 maj 2015
http://www.ifipwg94.org/ifip-wg94-conference-2015

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Konference13th International Conference on Social Implications of Computers in Developing Countries
Land/OmrådeSri Lanka
ByNegombo
Periode20/05/201522/05/2015
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