TY - GEN
T1 - From alley to landfill
T2 - 8th International Conference on Information and Communication Technologies and Development, ICTD 2016
AU - Rifat, Md Rashidujjaman
AU - Siddique, Aysha
AU - Abouzied, Azza
AU - Chen, Jay
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© Copyright 2016 ACM.
PY - 2016/6/3
Y1 - 2016/6/3
N2 - Garbage is an endemic problem in developing cities due to the continual inux of migrants from rural areas coupled with deficient municipal capacity planning. In cities like Dhaka, open waste dumps contribute to the prevalence of disease, environmental contamination, catastrophic ooding, and deadly fires. Recent interest in the garbage problem has prompted cursory proposals to introduce technology solutions for mapping and fundraising. Yet, the role of technology and its potential benefits are unexplored in this large-scale problem. In this paper, we contribute to the understanding of the waste ecology in Dhaka and how the various actors acquire, perform, negotiate, and coordinate their roles. Within this context, we explore design opportunities for using computing technologies to support collaboration between waste pickers and residents of these communities. We find opportunities in the presence of technology and the absence of mechanisms to facilitate coordination of community funding and crowd work.
AB - Garbage is an endemic problem in developing cities due to the continual inux of migrants from rural areas coupled with deficient municipal capacity planning. In cities like Dhaka, open waste dumps contribute to the prevalence of disease, environmental contamination, catastrophic ooding, and deadly fires. Recent interest in the garbage problem has prompted cursory proposals to introduce technology solutions for mapping and fundraising. Yet, the role of technology and its potential benefits are unexplored in this large-scale problem. In this paper, we contribute to the understanding of the waste ecology in Dhaka and how the various actors acquire, perform, negotiate, and coordinate their roles. Within this context, we explore design opportunities for using computing technologies to support collaboration between waste pickers and residents of these communities. We find opportunities in the presence of technology and the absence of mechanisms to facilitate coordination of community funding and crowd work.
KW - Collective action
KW - Crowdfunding
KW - Crowdsourcing
KW - Garbage
KW - ICTD
KW - Information communication technology for development
KW - Waste management
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U2 - 10.1145/2909609.2909648
DO - 10.1145/2909609.2909648
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:84977097980
T3 - ACM International Conference Proceeding Series
BT - Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Information and Communication Technologies and Development, ICTD 2016
PB - Association for Computing Machinery
Y2 - 3 June 2016 through 6 June 2016
ER -