Greg Wolff, Phil Solk, Scott Klemmer, with help from
Matthew Kam, Xiao Dong Jiang, John Canny
Thanks to Adelaide Dawes and the folks at Wallenberg for generously providing a great space.
Disclaimer: Notes contributed by workshop participants do not necessarily reflect what presenters said. Their notes are posted here to provide a more complete account of the workshop, as interpreted by the respective note-takers.
Phil Solk's notes: solk-01202005.TXT (with some edits from Matthew Kam)
Matthew Kam's random notes: kam-01202005.TXT
Discussion
Everyone expressed a desire to translate lessons from the discussions into some tangible output. To that end, a participant suggested creating a "Working Papers" repository. This repository would publish papers produced by subsequent workshops that bring different groups (designers, developers, researchers, social entrepreneurs, etc.) to the table. Each paper would hopefully discuss (and hopefully demonstrate) practical solutions and issues for a particular, narrowly defined problem common to many underserved contexts. For example, the best way to do authentication that supports community identity. Hopefully, such a repository could spur other workshops and become the place for people developing systems to go to get good starting points for the issues they face.
January 20, 2005 8:45AM - 1PM
Wallenberg Hall Learning Theater (1st floor), Stanford University
Agenda
8:45 Refreshments and introductions
9:00 Workshop goals and process
9:15 Supporting community identities --
concrete descriptions of design challenges
Brief interactive descriptions of 'identity problem' in ongoing projects:
Helping Tsunami survivors rebuild their lives (Greg: http://www.sages.com/workshops/images/)
Creating Community Volunteer banks (Jose: jose-01202005.PPT)
Connecting primary school students across international borders (Phil)
Increasing capacity of Micro-finance and social service
organizations (Mei Lin, others)
9:45 Discussion: Design approaches to bridge the gap between
technical definitions and community notions of identity
Focus issues:
Interfaces for semi-literate users
Creating processes that are owned/trusted by community itself
10:30 Discussion: Key issues in community-based design
What are the common problems faced by social entrepreneurs and
others when trying to create systems used by groups of people?
Which processes have delivered proven themselves?
What failures should we avoid repeating? What needs to
be invented?
11:00 Working sessions: Taking a practical step forward
Self organizing groups that produce a tangible result as
determined by the group. Potential outcomes:
Summary of "identity" issues and solution approaches
Starting a research agenda wiki for community-based design
Action plan for future workshops/broader engagement of
design community
11:50 Workshop summary: Results and feedback
12:00 - Lunch and space will be available for continuation of working
sessions and other topics.
Identities Lost at Sea. In New York Times, January 14, 2005. (Available at: http://www.nytimes.com/2005/01/14/opinion/14ghosh.html)
I can be
contacted at mattkam@cs.berkeley.edu
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