Community technology design has been deeply affected by paradigm shifts and dominant
discourses of its seminal disciplines, such as Human Computer Interaction, Cultural and …

Sustained participation is critical to the success of digital citizen-science initiatives, yet much
of the current literature focuses on map** people's motives to engage without considering …

Persona is a tool broadly used in technology design to support communicational interactions
between designers and users. Different Persona types and methods have evolved mostly in …

Indigenous Knowledge (IK) preservation and management has been taken up as a serious
endeavor by various governments who have realized the value of IK as well as the …

A threat to indigenous communities living in north-west Namibia has been the growing
human wildlife conflict. Established practices of patrolling and incident reporting have not …

There is no doubt that the Intangible Cultural Heritage (hereafter ICH) of indigenous
communities across the globe is threatened by a multitude of factors. One of these factors …

Participatory Design (PD) and service design have shown great potential in co-designing
feasible solutions with marginalised societies. This study is part of a research project where …

This chapter presents developments within the ongoing digitisation of cultural heritage of
ovaHerero and ovaHimba indigenous communities in rural Namibia. It describes …

In working with novel communities there is an imperative need to finding what triggers initial
interests and sustains engagement in the co-design of useful, respectful and enriching …

Namibia has successfully implemented a community-based natural resource management
approach since independence. Considering the increasing number of conservation …