Designing an SMS-based application for seaweed farmers in Zanzibar (and why it failed for now)

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INTERACT 2009 Workshop: Ethics, Roles & Relationships in Interaction Design in Developing Regions

Designing an SMS-based application for seaweed farmers in Zanzibar

(and why it failed for now)

Martin Konzett, martin.konzett@inso.tuwien.ac.at Research Group for Industrial Software (INSO), Vienna University of Technology, Austria

Martin Tomitsch, martin.tomitsch@arch.usyd.edu.auFaculty of Architecture, Design and Planning, The University of Sydney, Australia

Thomas Grechenig, thomas.grechenig@inso.tuwien.ac.at Research Group for Industrial Software (INSO), Vienna University of Technology, Austria

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