Tuesday 4am, I’m on the road to the Happy Valley[1] community in deep rural KZN. For tomorrow evening Happy Valley Private School has planned a certificate ceremony where I must present some course certificates. This is the final stage of a teacher training course we did during the June 2009 school holidays. This afternoon I […]
Kirstin Krauss
Who am I? An educationalist, academic, PhD student. My interests? ICT for development, intercultural research practice, community development, thinking and knowledge construction, human-computer interaction, emerging and converging ICT and ... well read my blog!
Since 2000 I have been working as an academic in a number of tertiary institutions in South Africa and experienced the spasms of at least two mergers. I have done some work for the Department of Health and more recently a Unesco-funded community development project in rural KZN. Currently I spend my waking hours at the Department of Informatics at the University of Pretoria.
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Sustainable technology: The value of cultural interpreters
In my previous blog I introduced myself through my questioning of typical assumptions people make about ICT for community development. I also advocated the need for a sympathetic meeting of minds in ICT for development (ICT4D) efforts. In this blog I want to illustrate some practicalities of the intercultural meeting of minds in ICT4D policy […]
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The sympathetic meeting of minds in ICT4D efforts
Being a communicator and debating knowledge is probably a central (and mostly subconscious) concern of most skills and traits. Sadly though, it seems that the skill of interpersonal communication or facilitating the “sympathetic meeting of minds” is only briefly fondled by most formal programmes; often only as an “add-on” or an “optional extra”. Most of […]