A brief introduction to decolonial computing

Ali, Syed Mustafa

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“…In doing so, we were very attentive with the whos and the wheres [5] of the design process and the specificities of the setting.…”

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“…The dualism identified by the postcolonialist perspective ceases to be revealing when structures typical of colonialism emerge that cannot be explained by that very dualism. We believe that looking at postcolonialism as the "persistency of colonial legacy in various cultural forms, practices, histories and knowledge structures" [5] is still a due and honest intellectual exercise. We also believe that the postcolonial discourse alone was not enough to understand the barriers to the advancement of HCI in Egypt and possibly in similar developing contexts.…”

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“…However, several underexplored issues in community engagement and participation should make clear how the route towards the bottom-up approach to ICH is far from straightforward. More specifically, community-based digital heritage projects may suffer from a lack of assessment of users' needs and expectations [5,32]; scattered digital illiteracy [14,40]; an only apparent or partial engagement [17]; the prevalence of individual agendas [31]; and the creation of new divisions with a community [20,21]. Community participation in heritage projects remains, therefore, a complicated achievement.…”

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In the Eye of the Student

Giglitto

Lazem

Preston

2018

Proceedings of the 2018 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems

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We critically engage with CHI communities emerging outside the global North (ArabHCI and AfriCHI) to explore how participation is configured and enacted within sociocultural and political contexts fundamentally different from Western societies. We contribute to recent discussions about postcolonialism and decolonization of HCI by focusing on non-Western future technology designers. Our lens was a course designed to engage Egyptian students with a local yet culturally-distant community to design applications for documenting intangible heritage. Through an action research, the instructors reflect on selected students' activities. Despite deploying a flexible learning curriculum that encourages greater autonomy, the students perceived themselves with less agency than other institutional stakeholders involved in the project. Further, some of them struggled to empathize with the community as the impact of the cultural differences on configuring participation was profound. We discuss the implications of the findings on HCI education and in international cross-cultural design projects.

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“…In doing so, we were very attentive with the whos and the wheres [5] of the design process and the specificities of the setting.…”

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Section: Introductionmentioning

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In the Eye of the Student

Giglitto

Lazem

Preston

2018

Proceedings of the 2018 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems

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“…As technological innovation travels globally, the constructs informing the processes and practice of their production comes into contract with a range of entities. With the unequal flow and exchange of innovation, postcolonial [17,21], decolonial [3,7,33], and Afrocentric [39] positionalities have offered ways of defamiliarizing cultural relations and of analysing the specificity and universality of design practices in HCI. However, such alternatives have often been characterised as analytical sensitivities that signify the unequal dichotomies of 'in here' and 'out there' [30], and which might present a danger of radical misinterpretations of culture.…”

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Adopting an African Standpoint in HCI4D: A Provocation

Adamu

2020

Extended Abstracts of the 2020 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems

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While studies in HCI4D have been advanced by the shift of perspective from developmental studies to a range of other discourses, current analytical concepts for understanding the sociality of society in Africa have arguably led to some misinterpretations of the place of technology. This provocation suggests that an 'African Standpoint' based on a combination of various standpoint positionalities and the Wittgensteinian approach of Winch can offer conceptual and analytical sensitivities for articulating social relations, transnational engagements and the conceptualisation of technological innovation. This provides an approach for seeing and accounting for things as they are-right here, right there and right now-and not some idealised conception of an African reality.

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“…In 'Decolonial AI: Decolonial theory as socio-technical foresight in artificial intelligence research', Shakir Mohammmed, Marie-Therese Png and William Isaac explore the critical role of decolonial and post-colonial theories in understanding and shaping ongoing advances in AI. Building on prior work on decoloniality and information technology by Ali (2016), Irani et al (2010) and Couldry and Mejias (2019), amongst others, they argue that AI communities should embed 'a decolonial critical approach within their technical practice' thereby 'centring (sic) vulnerable peoples who continue to bear the brunt of negative impacts of innovation and scientific progress'.…”

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Introduction to the Special Issue on Intercultural Digital Ethics

Aggarwal

2020

Philos. Technol.

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Recent advances in the capability of digital information technologies—particularly due to advances in artificial intelligence (AI)—have invigorated the debate on the ethical issues surrounding their use. However, this debate has often been dominated by ‘Western’ ethical perspectives, values and interests, to the exclusion of broader ethical and socio-cultural perspectives. This imbalance carries the risk that digital technologies produce ethical harms and lack social acceptance, when the ethical norms and values designed into these technologies collide with those of the communities in which they are delivered and deployed. This special issue takes a step towards broadening the approach of digital ethics, by bringing together a range of cultural, social and structural perspectives on the ethical issues relating to digital information technology. Importantly, it refreshes and reignites the field of Intercultural Digital Ethics for the age of AI and ubiquitous computing.

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A brief introduction to decolonial computing

Cited by 106 publications

References 7 publications

In the Eye of the Student

In the Eye of the Student

Adopting an African Standpoint in HCI4D: A Provocation

Introduction to the Special Issue on Intercultural Digital Ethics

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