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Rural Connectivity
Drive due south out of Kampala and in 70 kilometers or so you’ll arrive at the town of Kyotera, our research base for the next few days. Continue straight on from there and you’ll soon hit the Uganda...
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Extended Aerial
Extended aerial pokes through the trees – extending network coverage to distant villages.
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Lacking Power
Power cuts are a daily fact of life in Uganda so it’s no surprise that power, or lack of power has affected the field study in subtle and not so subtle ways: power cuts during interviews; trying to...
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Volumes Enabling Volumes II
The physical size and volume of devices waiting to be repaired. Photo above Kampala, Soweto here.
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Shared Phone Use
What happens when people share an object that is inherently designed for personal use? A Nokia Research team set out explore this topic during a July 2006 field study in Uganda with a brief to...
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Village Phone
At the Nokia Technology Media Briefing last November I touched on the Village Phone initiative between Grameen Foundation, Nokia and local micro-finance organisations in Uganda. To recap – the Village...
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Accra Calling
Live in Accra? Our research team will be heading to Accra in November intent on running various design research activities and are looking for a couple of talented locals to assist our ground crew....
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Signed Consent, Social Stigmas
If someone can’t read or write how can they be asked to sign an data consent form? In Uganda 26% of male adults and 46% of female adults meet the UN’s definition of illiterate. During a recent street...
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Night Sky
Walking to the restaurant before dusk, walking back under star light and from the pin pricks of small LED torches making out market stall blankets with mounds of tomatos, onions. A late call patched...
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When the Worst is Good Enough
You’re a road-side vendor offering phone charging services – what are the pre-conditions for investing in a solar panel for your business? A lack of mains electricity or very poor mains electricity;...
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Influencers
Wonder how child naming practices will/have changed with the influx of Chinese business?
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When Cars Tweet
This photo from a learner driver from a driving school car in Kampala. What are the motivations for denoting the competence of any driver? The ways in which the competence of the driver can be...
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The Road Ahead
Heading off to South African and Nigeria shortly for a field study looking into [redacted]. Ping if you’re in the neighbourhood – putting together a crew and considering folks for a fixer and 3 x...
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