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About VeSeL
VeSeL is a research project, part of the Bridging the Global Digital Divide network, sponsored by the EPSRC in the UK. The aim of the VeSeL project is to enable rural communities in Sub-Saharan Africa to use advanced digital technology to improve their agricultural practices and literacy levels.
This project is led by the London Knowledge Lab, and involves UK researchers working with the University of Nairobi, and with rural communities in Kenya.
VeSeL background
Submitted by kevin on 3 June 2009 - 9:26am.VeSeL communities
Background on the Kenyan communities VeSeL works with
VeSeL ethnography
Summar of ethnographic findings from our fieldwork
Dan Orwa
Part of the VeSeL technical team, working on user interface issues and factors that affect adoption of technologies by rural users.
Frequently Asked Questions
Q: What is the technology that VeSeL is testing/developing?
A: VeSeL is a project in e-science and not a development project, technological or otherwise. As such we are not developing or deploying any particular technology. What we are doing is working from the ground up with communities in a participatory design process, to discover which technologies - existing or possible - will support them in agricultural practice and education. We then prototype and test particular technological solutions, with details to follow soon.
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London Knowledge Lab
VeSeL is led by Rose Luckin, Professor of Learner Centred Design at the London Knowledge Lab. Other LKL members on the project include Darren Pearce, Josh Underwood and Kevin Walker.
The London Knowledge Lab is a unique collaboration between two of the UK’s most prominent centres of world-class research – the Institute of Education and Birkbeck. The Lab brings together computer and social scientists from a very broad range of fields, including education, sociology, culture and media, semiotics, data mining, information management, personalisation and ubiquitous technologies.
This means that issues can be tackled from many different perspectives, and this is reflected in our mission, to
