Indra's Net: HCI in the developing world
interactions - Winds of change
Assessing attractiveness in online dating profiles
Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
The fortune at the bottom of the pyramid
The fortune at the bottom of the pyramid
txteagle: Mobile Crowdsourcing
IDGD '09 Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Internationalization, Design and Global Development: Held as Part of HCI International 2009
Proceedings of the 11th international conference on Ubiquitous computing
Deliberate interactions: characterizing technology use in Nairobi, Kenya
Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
With a little help from my friends: Self-interested and prosocial behavior on MySpace Music
Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology
Anthropology, development and ICTs: slums, youth and the mobile internet in urban India
Proceedings of the Fifth International Conference on Information and Communication Technologies and Development
mClerk: enabling mobile crowdsourcing in developing regions
Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Namibian and american cultural orientations toward facebook
CHI '12 Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Proceedings of the 2012 ACM Conference on Ubiquitous Computing
"Facebook is a luxury": an exploratory study of social media use in rural Kenya
Proceedings of the 2013 conference on Computer supported cooperative work
TroTro: web browsing and user interfaces in rural Ghana
Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference on Information and Communication Technologies and Development: Full Papers - Volume 1
Enriching the distressing reality: social media use by chinese migrant workers
Proceedings of the 17th ACM conference on Computer supported cooperative work & social computing
Behavior analysis of low-literate users of a viral speech-based telephone service
Proceedings of the 4th Annual Symposium on Computing for Development
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Facebook is a global phenomenon, yet little is known about use of the site in urban parts of the developing world where the social network's users are increasingly located. We qualitatively studied Facebook use among 28 young adults living in Viwandani, an informal settlement, or slum, in Nairobi, Kenya. We find that to overcome the costs associated with Internet use, participants consolidated diverse online activities onto Facebook; here we focus on the most common practice--using Facebook to support income generation. Viwandani residents used the site to look for employment opportunities, market themselves, and seek remittances from friends and family abroad. We use our findings to motivate a design agenda for the urban poor built on an understanding that Facebook is used, with mixed-success, to support income generation. A key part of this agenda calls for developing ICT interventions grounded in users' existing practices rather than introducing new and unfamiliar ones.