Recordkeeping for Empowerment of Rural Communities
This project is investigating how recordkeeping can be used to empower disadvantaged rural communities by helping them to preserve information they need to support their economic and social activities. Focusing on Bangladesh, the project was motivated by findings from PROTIC I, which showed that Bangladeshi rural women were very sensitive to the fragility of digital information and in some cases chose to create analogue back-ups of information provided to them in digital form so as to preserve it for longer. Working with the same communities, the research is investigating how the participants and their communities are accessing and preserving information after the end of the project. The project aims to promote recordkeeping literacy and to co-design a framework for the application of gender-sensitive and culturally sensitive information dissemination and information preservation programs for marginalised rural communities.
Contact: Dr Viviane Hessami
Research publications
Information sustainability in rural Bangladesh: the use of analogue and digital backups Frings-Hessami, V.
iConference 2023: Normality, Virtuality, Physicality, Inclusivity, LNCS 13971, pp. 66-78. (2023)
The use of notebooks by Bangladeshi rural women to preserve information Frings-Hessami, V.
Journal of Documentation, 79(4), 988-1005 (2023)
Accessing and preserving information: combining archival science and ICT4D to empower marginalized communities Frings-Hessami, V. and Oliver, G.
Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology (2022)
https://asistdl.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/asi.24702
Frings-Hessami, V. and Sarker, A.iConference 2022 Proceedings: Information for a Better World: Shaping the Global Future, LNCS 13193, pp. 123-135 (2022)