Manika Saha

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"Deprived of support because we're born women": Emerging Socio-Technical Pathways and Evolving Struggles for Women Entrepreneurs in Bangladesh

Women's entrepreneurship is a key driver of socio-economic empowerment in the Global South, yet patriarchal sociocultural contexts limit entrepreneur’s autonomy and, despite increasing attention to gender issues in HCI, shifting digital infrastructures cause privacy, security, and logistical challenges. We conduct 15…

CSCW '255th+ AuthorWorking together (with other people)

Bridging the Technical Gap: A Unified Representation Framework for Voice-based Community Engagement Platforms

HCI practitioners in development contexts utilize collaborative digital technologies for community engagement in international development, often mediated through platforms like social media, tele-conferencing, and Interactive Voice Response (IVR). However, the lack of standardized representation approaches for these…

CHI '243rd AuthorConversational Chatbots +2

Recordkeeping in Voice-based Remote Community Engagement

Driven by pragmatic, cost-related, and environmental factors, voice-based remote community engagement tools (such as Interactive Voice Response) are emerging as a key modality for engaging marginalized communities. These voice-based digital solutions offer new opportunities for distributed community engagement and emp…

CHI '241st AuthorEmpowerment of Marginalized Groups +2

Hearing Community Voices in HCI4D: Establishing Safe Places to Co-Create Counter-Collective Narratives with Women Farmers in Bangladesh

Although listening to community voice is a core value in HCI4D, we have limited methods to capture the community voice of marginalized groups within disadvantaged communities. Working with NGOs and 24 marginalized women farmers in Bangladesh, we promoted psychological safety and empowerment through our configuration o…

CSCW '231st AuthorInclusion

Benefits of Community Voice: A Framework for Understanding Inclusion of Community Voice in HCI4D

Community voice is widely used in Computer-Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW) and Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) work with under-served communities, however, the term is unresolved denoting disparate activities, methods, and phenomena that are at their most useful when combined. We argue for a rethink by setting out…

CHI '231st AuthorCommunity Engagement & Civic Technology +2

Community Voice as Data: Affordances of Participatory Videos for International Program Development

International program development is a complex process involving many stakeholders. Current international practice affords limited, if any, opportunities for direct community-led input into the program commissioning process, resulting in programs that may not meet the specific needs of communities on the ground. Commu…

CSCW '221st AuthorICTD, Rural Environments, and Immigration; ICTD, Rural Environments, and Immigration

Towards Sustainable ICTD in Bangladesh: Understanding the Program and Policy Landscape and Its Implications for CSCW and HCI

Historically, Computer-Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW) and Human-Computer Interaction for Development (HCI4D) researchers in the Global South have advocated for a community-based approach to technology design and development. However, even with this “bottom-up” emphasis, the sustainability and scalability of the res…

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