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Busha! Free just got more expensive…

I’ve been looking at information technologies and how they are changing here in Southwest Uganda, as well as how people are assimilating these changes.  Not surprisingly, a lot of these changes are promoted through the marketing campaigns of the mobile service providers.
The most popular campaign over the past year is Warid’s Pakalast promotion, in which [...]

Young Researchers in ITID

I’ve just had two papers published in the Journal of Information Technology & International Development’s special issue on Human Computer Interaction for Development (HCI4D) (Vol 5, Issue 4, Winter 2009).
The first is a lit review and historical overview of the area:
Ho, M., Smyth, T., Kam, M., & Dearden, A. (2009). Human-Computer Interaction for Development: The [...]