Browsing by Author "Dearden, Andy"

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    Raising Awareness for Potential Sustainability Effects in Uganda: A Survey-based Empirical Study
    (CEUR-WS, 2020) Penzenstadler, Birgit; Duboc, Leticia; Hebig, Regina; Dearden, Andy; Kanagwa, Benjamin; Chaudron, Michel; Bainomugisha, Engineer; Umuhoza, Eric; Okello, Dorothy
    In July 2019, we ran the 3rd International BRIGHT summer school for Software Engineering and Information Systems at the Makerere University in Kampala, Uganda. The participants developed a group project over the course of the week, which included the application of the Sustainability Awareness Framework. The framework promotes discussion on the impact of software systems on sustainability based on a set of questions. In this paper, we present the educational evaluation of the Sustainability Awareness Framework in a country in Sub- Saharan Africa. The results indicate that the framework can provide supportive guidance of the societal and environmental challenges in the given context.
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    Technical ICT research for Development? Getting from research to practice
    (2010) Dearden, Andy; Light, Ann; Kanagwa, Benjamin; Rai, Idris
    In this paper we argue that, if technical ICT research is going to contribute positively to development, the activities of specialized, highly paid ‘researchers’ must be combined with skilled contributions from many other actors. In particular, there is a critical need to develop the capacity available in development organizations, community based organizations, and in local economies, to innovate and to adapt technologies to support their objectives. This suggests that the methods that we adopt in research and in design should be open to local appropriation and contribute to capacity building, and that education programmes are needed in developing countries to support the broader processes of innovation. We describe the Mobile Innovation & Enterprise partnership, which is working to develop the innovation capacity available in Uganda.