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Establishing relationships for designing rural information systems

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Designing for the developing world presents unique challenges. Establishing rapport with local partners is important to overcome contextual unfamiliarity and ensure the relevance of proposed solutions. In this paper, we discuss our experiences designing a CAM-based mobile data capture system for Asobagri, a rural coffee cooperative in Barillas, Guatemala. CAM is a camera-based mobile application framework designed based on fieldwork with rural microfinance groups in India. Our local partners in India are now using the CAM framework in a real application. We list some practices that have helped us establish and sustain both these design relationships.

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Parikh, T. S., Ghosh, K., Chavan, A., Syal, P., and Arora, S. Design Studies for a Financial Management System for Micro--credit Groups in Rural India, In Proc. CUU 2003. ACM Press (2003).
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Parikh, T. S., Javid, P., Kumar, S., Ghosh, K. and Toyama, K. Mobile Phones and Paper Documents: Evaluating A New Approach for Capturing Microfinance Data in Rural India. In Proc. CHI 2006. ACM Press (2006).
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Parikh, T. S. and Lazowska, E. D. Designing an Architecture for Delivering Mobile Information Services to the Rural Developing World. In Proc. WWW 2006. ACM Press (2006).

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    CHI EA '07: CHI '07 Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems
    April 2007
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    3. rural development

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