With its rapid proliferation in the developing world, information and communication
technology (ICT) has been accepted as an opportunity to assist disadvantaged people …

Software engineering for 'social good'is an area receiving growing interest in recent years.
Software is increasingly seen as a way to promote positive social change: this includes …

Despite an urgent need for social and technological innovation to improve wellbeing of
people and communities in poor regions of the world, information and communications …

Social Software Engineering (Social SE), that is SE aiming to promote positive social
change, is a rapidly emerging area. Here, software and digital artefacts are seen as tools for …

In this paper we examine challenges identified with participatory design research in the
developing world and develop the postcolonial notion of cultural hybridity as a sensitizing …

Persona is a tool broadly used in technology design to support communicational interactions
between designers and users. Different Persona types and methods have evolved mostly in …

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to provide insights about the approaches and
techniques of professionals that nowadays are designing Digital Products and Services …

There is little reporting of micro-dynamics in design research, even though it is an
acknowledged part of inspiring participation. This paper focuses particularly on the rising …

As efforts to promote Participatory Design (PD) outside of the Nordic region have grown,
how to deal with culture has been perceived as an increasingly pressing issue. This paper …

Over the past decades information system developers and knowledge engineers in ICT
projects in wealthy regions of the world have come to realize that technical work can only be …