"We present a case study of a community media project development Alert4You and describe the process of fostering a local community information platform through socio-technical innovation in 4 rural and remote island communities of Santo Antão in Republic of Cabo Verde. A mix of analogous and digit ... al technologies, their affordability and accessibility open up a new space for collaboration in the community, as well as between people, researchers and engineers, that is based on ethnography and participatory design techniques. We describe the process of community information platform co-creation and appropriation in the first stages of research and deployment of community radio stations that foster participation. Participation is an ongoing interaction involving decisions concerning technologies, the actors involved, the production of the content and the institutional framework. We argue that this is influenced by several unpredictable factors and challenges which we aim to describe. The contribution this paper makes is in highlighting challenges in the design and deployment of ICT in rural and remote island communities in Africa." (Abstract) more

"This paper describes findings from a qualitative research study that examines practices and perceptions of privacy in Cambodia as the population rapidly moves into an online environment (specifically Facebook, the most popular Internet tool in Cambodia today). We empirically demonstrate how the con ... cept of privacy differs across cultures and show how the Facebook platform, as it becomes popular worldwide, catalyzes change in norms of information regulation. We discuss how the localization of transnational technology platforms provides a key site in which to investigate changing cultural ideas about privacy, and to discover misalignments between different expectations for information flow. Finally, we explore ways that insufficient localization effort by transnational technology companies puts some of the most marginalized users at disproportionate information disclosure risk when using new Internet tools, and offer some pragmatic suggestions for how such companies could improve privacy tools for users who are far - geographically or culturally - from where the tools are designed." (Abstract) more