| Title | Towards 2 Way Participation |
|---|---|
| Contributor | Prabhas Pokharel(author) |
| Copyright | Prabhas Pokharel |
| Publisher | meson press |
| Published on | 2015-07-01 |
| Page range | pp. 159–171 |
| Language | English (Original) |
Prabhas Pokharel is a practitioner using technology for social development in the developing world, focusing on Nepal. He is currently working as a Product Design Fellow at the Kathmandu Living Labs, responding to the Nepal earthquake with information products utilizing technology and crowd intelligence. He hasworkedin roles ranging from the very technical (software developer) to the the very non-technical (researcher/blogger) in places ranging from Nepal, India, Kenya, Kosovo, Nigeria, Peru and the United States. Some examples of his work include: the development of technology infrastructure to support local-level grant-making in Nigeria, and helping establish the UNICEF Innovations Labs in Kosovo. Prabhas is a native of Nepal. Starting in the fall of 2015, he will be a student at the Product Design program at Stanford University.
Padmini Ray Murray joined the Srishti Institute of Art, Design and Technology, Bangalore in January 2015. Ray Murray is one of the founders of the South Asian Digital Humanities Network and currently serves as vice-chair of Global Outlook::Digital Humanities, as editor-in-chief at SHARP news, and on the editorial board at Technoculture. Her research interests span the history of the book, public history, comics, videogames and literary studies. Ray Murray received her PhD in 2008 from the University of Edinburgh.