Poster: Lessons from Doing Fieldwork with Bandwidth-constrained communities Online

Till, Sarina and Coleman, Toshka Lauren and Densmore, Melissa and Dias, Nervo Verdezoto (2021) Poster: Lessons from Doing Fieldwork with Bandwidth-constrained communities Online, Proceedings of ACM SIGCAS Conference on Computing and Sustainable Societies, 3-5 June 2021, 445-448, ACM.

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Abstract

We initially kicked off the study by conducting a literature and practice review which involved online interviews with the academic co-investigators and NGOs partners involved in the project. The review was then followed up with online interviews conducted with members from vulnerable communities in low resource settings to gain a better understanding of everyday challenges of these communities and what resources they have and needed, as well as how these communities prioritised these resources. We report on the methods our partners shared with us during the online interviews as well as the methods we used to conduct online interviews with communities based in Cape Town, Limpopo and Sweetwaters in Kwa-Zulu Natal, South Africa. The project and online research activities received ethical approval from four local institutions and one from abroad (Blinded for review).

Item Type:	Conference poster
Subjects:	Applied computing
Alternate Locations:	https://doi.org/10.1145/3460112.3471979
Date Deposited:	02 Nov 2023 15:25
Last Modified:	02 Nov 2023 15:25
URI:	https://pubs.cs.uct.ac.za/id/eprint/1574

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