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2023
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Developing Software for Low Socio-Economic End Users: Lessons Learned from A Case Study of Fisherfolk Communities in Bangladesh
Kanij, T., Anwar, M., Oliver, G., & Hossain, M. K.
45th International Conference on Software Engineering: Software Engineering in Society (ICSE-SEIS) (pp. 96-107). IEEE. (2023)
Potential of Participatory Geographic Information System to Build Environmental Information Ecosystem and Claim Environmental Justice: A Research Agenda for Fisherfolk Community in Bangladesh.
Hossain, M. K., & Anwar, M.
iConference 2023: Normality, Virtuality, Physicality, Inclusivity, LNCS 13972, pp. 491-499
What lies behind a Facebook page? Insights from an action research project in rural Bangladesh
Farinosi, M., Stillman, L., Sarrica, M., Sarker, A., Biswas, M., & Jannat, F.
The Information Society, 39(3), 1–14 (2023)
https://doi.org/10.1080/01972243.2023.2188334
Development of a recordkeeping culture in community-based organisations in Bangladesh
Frings-Hessami, V., Hossain, M.K., Bhowmik, J. and Meem, J.J.
86th Annual Meeting of the Association for Information Science & Technology, October 29-31, 2023, London, United Kingdom (in press).
Role of information and communication technology (ICT) in following global standard for NbS: the Bangladesh perspective.
Hossain, M. K.
In Regional Perspectives of Nature-based Solutions for Water: Benefits and Challenges. Cham: Springer International Publishing. (pp. 225-247) (2023)
Community Voice as Data: Affordances of Participatory Videos for International Program Development
Saha M., Bartindale T., Varghese D., Stephen L., D. Richardson, Ahmed S. I., & Olivier P. (2023).
Proceedings of the 2023 CHI conference on human factors in computing systems.
Investigating end-users’ values in agriculture mobile applications development: An empirical study on Bangladeshi female farmers.
Shams, R. A., Shahin, M., Oliver, G., Perera, H., Whittle, J., Nurwidyantoro, A., & Hussain, W.
Journal of Systems and Software, 200, 111648. (2023)
Collaborators, Intermediaries and Gatekeepers: Doing Research Remotely in Bangladesh.
Frings-Hessami, V.
Mid-Year Conference of the Association for Information Science & Technology, April 11-13, 2023,
https://zenodo.org/record/7714477
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)
2022
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The use of notebooks by Bangladeshi rural women to preserve information
Frings-Hessami, V.
Journal of Documentation, 79(4), 988-1005 (2022)
The Complexities of PAR: A community development project in Bangladesh
Stillman, L., Anwar, M., Oliver, G., Frings-Hessami, V., Sarker, A., & Ahmed, N.
In Stoecker & A. Falcon (Eds.), Handbook On Participatory Action Research And Community Development (pp. 218–237). London: Elgar, Edward. (2022)
Operationalizing human values in software engineering: A survey
Shahin, M., Hussain, W., Nurwidyantoro, A., Perera, H., Shams, R., Grundy, J., & Whittle, J.
Operationalizing human values in software engineering: A survey. IEEE Access, 10, 75269-75295. (2022)
Development, processes and research quality in a development informatics project: impact, outcomes and reflections.
Hossain, M. K., Stillman, L., Biswas, M., & Anwar, M.
First International Symposium on Digital Inequality and Social Change (ISDISC). Canberra, ACT (2022)
How can human values be addressed in agile methods? A case study on SAFe.
Hussain, W., Shahin, M., Hoda, R., Whittle, J., Perera, H., Nurwidyantoro, A., ... & Oliver, G.
IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering, 48(12), 5158-5175. (2022)
The world is in my hand now
Biswas, M., Anwar, M., Saha, M., Ahmed, N., Strengers, Y., Stillman, L., & Oliver, G.
International Conference on Information and Communication Technologies Development (2022)
https://doi.org/10.1145/3572334.3572394
The role of mobile technologies in the sustainability of women-led micro-enterprises and women’s empowerment in rural Bangladesh
Biswas, M. (2022)
PhD thesis, Monash University (2022)
https://doi.org/10.26180/19880605.v1
Understanding information and communication opportunities and challenges for rural women through the sustainable livelihood framework.
Biswas, M., Anwar, M., Stillman, L., & Oliver, G
iConference 2022 Proceedings: Information for a Better World: Shaping the Global Future, LNCS 13193, pp. 175-191(2022)
Information sustainability in marginalized communities
Frings-Hessami, V. and Oliver, G.
Information Matters, 2(8) (2022)
https://informationmatters.org/2022/08/information-sustainability-in-marginalized-communities/
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
Access to information two years after an ICT4D project in Bangladesh: new digital skills and traditional practices
Frings-Hessami, V. and Sarker, A.
iConference 2022 Proceedings: Information for a Better World: Shaping the Global Future, LNCS 13193, pp. 123-135 (2022)
Towards Sustainable ICTD in Bangladesh: Understanding the Program and Policy Landscape and Its Implications for CSCW and HCI
Saha M., Varghese D., Bartindale T., Thilsted S. H., Ahmed S. I., & Olivier P
Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction, 6(CSCW1), 1-31. (2022)
Commissioning Development: Commissioning Development: Grantmaking, Community Voices, and their Implications for ICTD
Saha M., Bartindale T., Sultana S., Olivier G., Thilsted SH., Ahmed SI., Olivier, P.
Proceedings of the 2022 ICTD Conference. (2022)
Pictorial Consent: Fieldwork Reflections. In Proceedings of 20th European Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work
Saha M., Bartindale T., Sultana S., Oliver G., Thilsted S. H., Ahmed S. I., ... & Olivier P.
European Society for Socially Embedded Technologies (EUSSET) (2022)
The World is in My Hand Now: Smartphones for Empowering Rural Women in Developing Countries: Smartphones for Empowering Rural Women in Developing Countries
Biswas, M., Anwar, M., Saha, M., Ahmed, N., Strengers, Y., Stillman, L., & Oliver, G.
2022 International Conference on Information and Communication Technologies and Development (2022)
Collective aspects of information literacy in developing countries: a Bangladeshi case
Anwar, M., Oliver, G., Frings-Hessami, V., Saha, M., and Sarker, A.
Journal of Documentation, 78(6), 1305-1320 (2022)
Creating information and records for development work: Working through the lens of information and records continuum models
Khabar, J., & Oliver, G.
Library & Information Science Research, 44(3), 101174. (2022)
Critically Engaging with Embedded Values through Constrained Technology Design
Richardson D., Cumbo, B. J. Bartindale T., Varghese D., Saha M., Saha P., ... & Olivier P.
Designing Interactive Systems Conference (pp. 643-653) (2022)
2021
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Talk, smartphones, notebooks, and brown paper
Stillman, L., Anwar, M., Sarker, A.
In I. A. Lubin (Ed.), ICT and international learning ecologies representation and sustainability across contexts (pp. 17–41). New York: Routledge (2021)
The Protic Project. Outcomes from a ICT4D Action Research in Rural Bangladesh.
Sarrica, M., Stillman, L., Denision, T., & Matta, M.
In C. G. Cereti & F. Giofrè (Eds.), Sapienza for International Development Cooperation Strategies, Projects, Actions (pp. 117–126). Rome: Sapienza. (2021)
Measuring Bangladeshi Female Farmers’ Values for Agriculture Mobile Applications Development
Shams, R.A., Shahin, M. Oliver, G. Hussain, W., Perera, H., Nurwidyantoro, A., & Whittle, J.
Proceedings of the 54th Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS 2021)
The Complexities of PAR: A community development project in Bangladesh
Stillman, L., Anwar, M., Oliver, G., Frings-Hessami, V., Sarker, A., & Ahmed, N.
In R. Stoecker & Falcón, A. (eds), Handbook on Participatory Action Research, Edward Elgar Publishing (2021)
When people come to me for suggestions, I feel like an expert
Sarker, A., Biswas, M., Anwar, M., Stillman, L., & Oliver, G.
In E. Lechman (Ed.), Technology and Women’s Empowerment (pp. 181–199). (2021)
ICT for Women’s Empowerment in Rural Bangladesh
Sarker, A.
PhD thesis, Monash University (2021)
https://doi.org/10.26180/14538588.v1
2020
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Sociotechnical Transformative Effects of an ICT Project in Rural Bangladesh
Stillman, L., Sarrica, M., Farinosi, M., Anwar, M., & Sarker, A.
American Behavioural Scientist, 64(13), 1871–1888.
Human values in software engineering: Contrasting case studies of practice.
Hussain, W., Perera, H., Whittle, J., Nurwidyantoro, A., Hoda, R., Shams, R. A., & Oliver, G.
IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering, 48(5), 1818-1833. (2020)
After the Smartphone Has Arrived in the Village. How Practices and Proto-Practices Emerged in an ICT4D Project - Evolving Perspectives on ICTs in Global Souths
Stillman, L., Sarrica, M., Denison, T., & Sarker, A.
In D. R. Junio & C. Koopman (Eds.), Evolving Perspectives on ICTs in Global Souths. 11th International Development Informatics Association Conference, IDIA 2020, Macau, China, March 25–27, 2020, Proceedings. CCIS 1236 (pp. 81–94). Cham: Springer International Publishing. (2020)
Recordkeeping for empowerment of disadvantaged communities
Frings-Hessami, V. (2020)
Association of Canadian Archivists 2020 Conference, poster
https://researchmgt.monash.edu/ws/portalfiles/portal/320391938/ACA_2020_poster_Viviane_Frings_Hessami.pdf
Documentation in a community informatics project.
Frings-Hessami, V., Sarker, A., Oliver, G., & Anwar, M.
Journal of Documentation, 76(2), 552-570
Empowering Women Through Access to Information: The Sustainability of a Community Informatics Project in Bangladesh
Anwar, M., & Frings-Hessami, V.
In Sundqvist, A. et al. (eds), iConference 2020 Sustainable Communities, LNCS 12051, pp.4-14 (2020)
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-43687-2_1
Society-oriented applications development: investigating users’ values from Bangladeshi agriculture mobile applications
Shams, R. A., Hussain, W., Oliver, G., Nurwidyantoro, A., Perera, H., Whittle, J.
Proceedings of the ACM/IEEE 42nd International Conference on Software Engineering: Software Engineering in Society, p.53-62;
https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/3377815.3381382?casa_token=GVTyQgGaj3EAAAAA:y3Qt2dCiLfkhTS44njf09LfHmxnu0eH2_azIne-6IYis7T5p_aL4mPh6UJ6EAg1zoqXoY-i2nbeVw_g
Building sustainable digital communities: A five-pronged social-informatics research approach in Bangladesh
Khabar, J., Shams, R. A., Sarker, A., Saha, M., & Biswas, M.
iConference 2020 Poster Abstracts and Visions papers; Illinois Digital Environment for Access to Learning and Scholarship (IDEALS) (2020)
A Study on the Prevalence of Human Values in Software Engineering Publications
Perera, H., Hussain, W., Whittle, J., Nurwidyantoro, A., Mougouei, D., Shams, R. and Oliver, G.
Proceedings of the ACM/IEEE 42nd International Conference on Software Engineering, pp. 409-420;
https://doi.org/10.1145/3377811.3380393
Sociotechnical Transformative Effects of an ICT Project in Rural Bangladesh
Stillman, L., Sarrica, M., Anwar, M., Sarker, A., and Farinosi, M.
American Behavioral Scientist, 64(13), 1871-1888 (2020)
After the Smartphone has arrived in the Village: How practices and proto-practices emerged in an ICT4D project
Stillman, L., Sarrica, M., Denison, T., & Sarker, A. (2020).
In Junio D., Koopman C. (eds), Evolving Perspectives on ICTs in Global South, IDIA 2020,
Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol. 1236, Springer, Cham; (2020)
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-52014-4_6
Context, design and conveyance of information: ICT-enabled agricultural information services for rural women in Bangladesh
Tithi, T. K., Chakraborty, T. R., Akter, P., Islam, H., & Sabah, A. K.
Evolving Perspectives on ICTs in Global South, IDIA 2020, Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol. 1236, Springer, Cham; AI & Society (2020)
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00146-020-01016-9
Continual Human Value Analysis in Software Development: A Goal Model Based Approach
Perera, H., Mussbacher, G., Hussain, W., Shams, R.A., Nurwidyantoro, A. & Whittle, J.
2020 IEEE 28th International Requirements Engineering Conference (RE);
https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/document/9218163?casa_token=0oC0CsOXLsMAAAAA:qupNcSXHXnNzyYmvpbqv1ypZ1K3ZiozUDCq-G4bsKuvQKvHxw38kSySYHBMm_7fWMNpjo2Cp8Y4
2019
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What do others think?” An emic approach to participatory action research in Bangladesh
Sarrica, M., Denison, T., Stillman, L., Chakraborty, T., & Auvi, P.
AI & SOCIETY, 34, 495-508. (2019)
Knowledge-sharing mechanisms in a socio-technical collaborative project in IT-related faculties: Preliminary findings.
Dehqani, M.
Proceedings of the 27th European Conference on Information Systems (ECIS), Stockholm and Uppsala, Sweden, June 8-14, 2019;
https://aisel.aisnet.org/ecis2019_rp/130
2018
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Evaluating a smartphone phone project in Bangladesh though community monthly meeting reports
Jannat, F., Chakraborty, T., Aktar, P., & Stillman, L.
Proceedings of the 16th CIRN Conference, Monash Centre, Prato, Italy, 24-26 October 2018 (pp. 110-124);
https://www.monash.edu/__data/assets/pdf_file/0011/1787519/cirn2018_proc_revised2.pdf
Shared collaborative spaces challenges in inter-organisational collaborative projects.
Dehghani, M., Denison, T., & Stillman, L.
PACIS 2018 Proceedings, paper 199; (2018)
https://aisel.aisnet.org/pacis2018/199
Operationalizing human values in software: a research roadmap
Mougouei, D., Perera, H., Hussain, W., Shams, R., & Whittle, J.
ESEC/FSE 2018: Proceedings of the 2018 26th ACM Joint Meeting on European Software
Engineering Conference and Symposium on the Foundations of Software Engineering, pp. 780-784; (2018)
https://doi.org/10.1145/3236024.3264843