Usability Views Article Details  home | timeline | recent | popular | e-reports | userati | books | about  Technologies for Communities: Managing Information from the Grassroots (27 Jan 2006) In this talk I will discuss my experiences designing, developing and deploying information systems in rural India. I have worked on making information more accessible to rural users (by designing a user interface that was usable by semi-literate users), as well as applications supporting sustainable rural development (such as a distributed multi-media workspace used to share and catalog inventions by rural villagers). My current projects include CAM - a mobile information services framework for the rural developing world; and Mahakalasm MIS - a management and information system for village microfinance cooperatives. Mahakalasm MIS uses a CAMera-equipped mobile phone to link manual paper-based processes in the village to an on-line data processing service. I will present some of the lessons I have learned in this work, and how that has culminated in the CAM toolkit, which is designed to facilitate many important kinds of rural information flows. Add this article to Del.icio.us Article URL: http://hci.stanford.edu/cs547/abstracts/05-06/060210-parikh.html   83.33    (Tapan Parikh, University of Washington)   Read 171 more articles from Stanford HCI Seminars sorted by date, popularity, or title. Next Article: Google Web Authoring Statistics          Books about Usability | Information Architecture | Information Visualisation | Technology History This site is a labour of love built by Chris McEvoy

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