143. Toward reunion: Conversations, criticisms, reconfigurations of ICTD
Lucy Pei, University of California, Irvine; Philip Garrison, University of Washington; Yvette Iribe Ramirez, University of Washington
Posted: February 28, 2022 Accepted Languages: English/Inglés/Inglês, Spanish/Español/Espanhol
This panel approaches the theme of knowledges and technosciences for living together through the lens of Information and Communication Technologies for Development (ICTD). ICTD is a contested and multidisciplinary field and banner for projects that try to address systemic and societal issues (infrastructure, connectivity, socio-economics, education, etc.) through innovation and reconfiguration of information and communication technologies.
The description of the joint meeting states that “Reunion indicates there has been a break in relations, providing an opportunity to engage differently, this time.” ICTD can include novel forms of neocolonial extraction but also enacting relationality and the responsibility of living well together. We invite papers from/about ICTD, or those that disavow that ICTD/development, on the theme of reunion. Reunion, perhaps, between technosciences, internationalism, and critique of development.
We welcome submissions in both the social studies of technologies in development and the social studies of ICTD-the-field. We invite papers from a variety of contexts, including but not limited to:
Decolonial and postcolonial computing
Indigenous knowledges in design/production of technologies
Tools of knowledge production in development and ICTD
Critique and analysis of development paradigm; alternatives to development
Transnational flows of computing materials
Ethical practices and moral reasoning of development practitioners
Community-centered work, perspectives, and relationships between a communities and researcher/practitioner collaborators
Transfers, translations, and lifecycles of ICTD collaborations and technologies
