More than an Interface: Using ICT to connect the people of Fiankoma and Brighton

Light, A. and members of the Fiankoma Project (2003) More than an Interface: Using ICT to connect the people of Fiankoma and Brighton, at the HCI 2003 Workshop on Designing for Civil Society, Bath, Sept 2003

The Fiankoma Project used video and other media to stimulate communication and enhance cultural awareness. We encouraged local communities in the village of Fiankoma in Ghana (whose day-to-day lives are agricultural, without electricity or running water) and in Brighton, UK, to create representations of themselves, their society and their experience, which could then form the basis of a dialogue between the two groups and also be circulated more broadly to educate and involve others in development awareness work.