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Decolonising Technology Design

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This one-day workshop considers responses and creates alternatives to practices that produce asymmetries between colonised and colonising peoples and imagines a decolonised technology design. It introduces post-colonial and anti-colonial approaches to the legacies of colonialism and imperialism that frame contemporary technology design, with a special emphasis on African theory and practice. Equally, it is a forum for sharing experiences about uneven socio-economic, political or onto-epistemic relations in technology design and actions that respond to, or resist, these.

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    AfriCHI '16: Proceedings of the First African Conference on Human Computer Interaction
    November 2016
    279 pages
    ISBN:9781450348300
    DOI:10.1145/2998581
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    1. Africa
    2. Anti-colonial
    3. Decolonising
    4. Post-colonialism

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