Understanding people, culture and context as the basis for ICT development

Summary form only given. In this talk I will discuss ICT interventions that work and fail and the reasons that people accept or reject new technologies. I will draw upon case studies from both marginalized and mainstream communities in developed and developing countries. I will also discuss how we use people centered approaches to define and develop our significant research projects in the area of emerging technologies, many of which are funded by the Australian Research Council Discovery program: (a) Designing the Internet of Things to engage the ageing population (b) Crowd sourcing recreational birdwatchers to analyze big environmental data.