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Decolonising Technology Design

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This panel is an extension of a one-day workshop on the same topic. We aim to inspire conversation on how existing asymmetries between former colonised and colonising peoples, affect technology design. With a focus on African technology design, this panel will discuss definitions, implications and experiences that emerge from neo-colonisation, decolonisation and postcolonisation, and how these affect HCI research and design in Africa today. This panel will provide an additional forum for sharing experiences about the uneven socio-economic, political or onto-epistemic relations in technology design and provide alternatives that respond to 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. Anti-colonial Africa
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