2021/03/07 by Alan F. Blackwell · 2 citations
Computer Science · #ICT in Developing Communities #Innovative Human-Technology Interaction #Mobile Crowdsensing and Crowdsourcing
paper · doi:10.1080/03080188.2020.1840226
openalex publication_date 2021/03/07 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/30
Artificial intelligence research is seldom conducted ethnographically. Nevertheless, the field itself has a distinctive culture – an engineering imaginary within which ‘general intelligence’ is considered to be a phenomenon that can be both defined and tested by reference to some universal (probably mathematical) standard. This paper describes a research agenda that sets out to question those assumptions, through a programme of ethnographic field work, collaborating with computer scientists and educators in several countries of sub-Saharan Africa.