Software engineering in developing communities

Authors:
Edwin Blake
Affiliations:
University of Cape Town, Rondebosch, South Africa
Venue:
Proceedings of the 2010 ICSE Workshop on Cooperative and Human Aspects of Software Engineering
Year:
2010

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Abstract

This paper reflects on our work in deriving targeted methodologies to develop IT applications and content in a developing world environment. This paper argues that a common thread over more than a decade of experience in building Information and Communication Technology systems has been a community centred approach. We relate this to the African philosophy of ubuntu. These approaches are wrapped into an iterative Action Research paradigm to include the communities of users directly.